All the best events happen in New York don't they....Nothing exciting ever happens here.  

My heart is breaking and I'm crying tears of blood as I read this.  WHY OH WHY don't I live in NYC!!!!   I WANNNA GO.   WWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

I will have to go for you all.  Grand Central is two blocks from my office -- now if I can only figure out where the deuce Rite-Aid is!  Never seen it in 6 years....

Oooh they are lucky..I like little promo events like this and you think that the soulth florida area would have lot of these but they don't because unlike New York there aren't alot of public places where people gather like the subway station or sidewalks going to work and waiting for taxis. People here stay to themselves aren't friendly and drive themselves everywhere.

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Sigh If only DC could be more trendy then historicalHave fun all you NY gals! I'm super jealous!

Oh Meg I wish you could travel the globe and report on all of the beauty happenings in all of our cities and countries.  Ah, a girl can dream can't she?  ;]PS - I think you'd love Brisbane [where I live] - we're on the East coast of Australia and have the most amazing beaches within an hour or two's drive.  I promise you would have the *time of your life*.  Perhaps a working holiday is in order?  :D

Okay, how dumb am I? After reading that "it's always NYC or LA..." I see "Camp Hill, PA" and get all excited, because that is actually a suburb of the city I live in, but after reading the post about 5 times, I realized that the news release is out of Camp Hill, because that is where Rite Aid has their corporate headquarters. See, it really IS always NYC or LA! For good reason, though, I was wondering what the cast of a Broadway musical would do with themselves there. Going to Rite Aid to shop for beauty products is about as exciting as it gets here.

Oh, I am majorly *jealous* :)BUT they are playing music from Chicago (Chi-town represent!) so that makes me happy :)Hopefully someone here can make it and tell us non-new yorkers about it!tantejoan: I'd love to hear about it! :) :) :)

You Americans always get to attend the exciting events. It sounds like it'd be lots of fun!!Let us know how it turns out if any of you are lucky enough to go!! :)

OK, here is my report:  I arrived at the Grand Central Rite Aid at 8:05 A.M. to find several women already lining up for their color consultations.  When it was my turn I introduced myself to Maybelline Color Consultant Chuck Hezekiah, who could not have been nicer or more helpful.  I was careful to tell him I was there representing hundreds of Meg's loyal readers, so he was very generous with his time and expertise.  Basically, this promotion is for Maybelline's COLORsensational range of lipsticks, lip glosses and liners.  They range in price from $5.19 to $7.19, and include 48 lipsticks, 12 glosses and 10 liners -- a really generous array of shades organized into four groups: Pinks, Naturals, Plums and Reds.When I met Chuck, almost the first thing he said to me was, "You are very, very lucky."  Naturally I responded, "Don't I know it!" but then inquired why.  According to Chuck, because my eye color is changeable -- Gigi will insist it is true-blue, but depending on what I wear it can veer toward green or gray -- I can wear almost any lipcolor in the collection.  People with brown eyes, on the other hand, tend to stay within one or two color palettes.  Since I was wearing a light salmon color sweater over a white camisole, Chuck showed me shades from both the pink and red groups.  Why red?  Because that's where the peachy-corals live in MaybellineLand.  Eventually we settled on a shade called "Born With It."  Chuck explained that whatever the color palette is each year, there is always a shade called "Born With It," because it's part of the company's slogan: "Maybe She's Born With It; Maybe It's Maybelline."  Sure enough, the lip gloss we chose also was called "Born With It," so that is apparently my signature shade.  As long as I'm wearing salmon, that is.  Tomorrow, it could be "Get Nutty."  He also provided an important piece of information when I innocently asked if these formulas were "long-lasting."  Maybelline has done extensive consumer research, it seems, and long-wearing is not what their customers want.  (Take THAT, Revlon, with you 8-hour makeup!)  What the Maybelline Woman wants is a color that stays true, goes on creamy and doesn't smear all over her Starbucks cup.  And in the glosses, what matters is that the color remains, not just the glossy feel.  I have noticed this tendency myself, when I check my makeup and see no color, only shine.  These glosses have no sticky feel, but do keep delivery the goods throughout the morning.  And Chuck says his ladies don't mind touching up their lips to maintain that colorful glow.  So there.Later in the day, all of 42nd Street around Grand Central would be bursting with vibrancy and the sounds of "Chicago," but my visit was coming to an end.  Chuck pressed a card with $1 and $2-off coupons into my hand and told me that discounts to Chicago were mine of the asking.  Having seen it 4 times, I demurred, but I am sure he will be selling other participants, with his winning ways and good customer service.  I'm sticking with my "Born With It" for sure.  Thanks, Maybelline!

Sounds like you had a lot of fun! Yes, everything happens in NY but we are always the first to get destroyed in movies by aliens, big foot, godzilla ect. So I guess it's a trade off. -Just Kidding.Rere-that's awesome you did makeup for EyeKandy, how did you like their products? 

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