10 QUESTIONS WITH MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG

Michelle Trachtenberg photo credit: Greg Gorman/The WB

QUESTION: What's the one makeup or product that you can't live without?

Michelle Trachtenberg: (Giggles) "I have a product and a makeup.

There's this cream called Origin's Nite-A-Mins. As you sleep, it builds your skin. It relaxes you and builds stronger skin while you sleep. You breathe in all these relaxing aromas you drop into a nice sleep.

The makeup product I can't live without, I love, I just found this new lipstick. Well, a lip lacquer. Nard's "Sweet Charity." It's really, really beautiful. It's the perfect combo of like, sparkly pink and brown and everything, and I've always been partial to MAC actually. MAC is the only thing that doesn't dry up my skin. It reacts very well with my skin. It doesn't irritate it and, um, MAC is only used on the show. I only use MAC stuff because it's just really beautiful and it's great quality."

Q:: What snack do you always give in to when you go to the movies?

MT: "I usually get the average popcorn, but I'll get water instead of the soda because water is just very healthy for you. I love Doritos Nacho Cheesier. They're very good!"

Q:: What's your idea of the perfect Sunday?

MT: "Sleep very late. Then get up and relax the whole day. Maybe go shopping, which is always fun. I think Sundays are meant to be relaxing days. You have your good meal, have your 3 meals a day, which you don't get to have during the week. Just relax and spend time with your family."

Q:: In the car, do you go the CD/ cassette route, or do you listen to the radio?

MT: "A little bit of both. I usually go for the radio to get a little bit of everything, but sometimes there's absolutely no song on any of my favorite stations, then I'll switch to CDs."

Q:: Do you sing along?

MT: "Oh yeah. I sing along and my mom has to grin and bear it."

Q: To tattoo or not to tattoo?

MT: "No tattoo. I don't enjoy needles. So, people won't ever have to worry about me getting a big 'ol tattoo across the back, no."

Q: That's a good thing. Online shopping, or mall or boutique shopping?

MT: "Well, I normally would have said mall or boutique shopping, but I'm getting into this online shopping thing. It's kind of convenient. You click click, and oh look, you purchased it. But I still go to the mall. What I'll usually do is I'll go on to the online company and I'll see what's new. Then when I know what I want I can go directly to the store and see it."

Q: What was your best ever Christmas present?

MT: "My best ever Christmas present? Um, oh I know, my cat! My cat was my best ever Christmas present. My mom got a kitty for me and my sister in '93. And I love my kitty. That and also my sister, a while ago when she was leaving for college, she, it wasn't a Christmas gift, it was just like an I'll be thinking of you gift; she got me, she made me this big collage of all, like, the inside jokes that we had. Things that I loved, things that she loved, things that we loved together. Just little comments like, "what shoes go with this outfit." Just some like little silly things like that and little icons for all the stuff that we love. So, I have it framed and hanging over my room."

Q: Do you go online, and if so, what's your favorite site to visit?

MT: "I do go online and when my friends are on I instant message, I do the whole thing, but I, I love eBay. It's really fun. I'm into the whole Harry Potter series. Sarah and Joss totally got me hooked on Harry Potter."

Q: Last, but not least, aisle or window?

MT: "Oh, window. Window! I have to see everything that's going on."

With a future that bright, who could blame her?