{"id":750,"date":"2012-08-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingwithcake.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2012-11-19T20:49:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T02:49:20","slug":"needle-in-a-haystack-my-quest-for-maybelline-great-lash-limited-edition-shades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.walkingwithcake.com\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"Needle in a Haystack: My Quest for Maybelline Great Lash Limited Edition Shades"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I became a stay-at-home mother, I’ve found ways to indulge my love for beauty and fashion while still saving money.\u00a0 I shop online sales often, and you already know about how I maximize my beauty purchases<\/a>.\u00a0 If I find a drugstore brand that works as well (or better) than a department store brand, I will gladly switch products.\u00a0 That’s how I fell in love with Maybelline Great Lash Mascara<\/a>, and why I was so excited when I first saw this ad in magazines this summer.<\/p>\n

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For the month of August, Maybelline has released four fun, colored shades of their best-selling mascara.\u00a0 You can see the advertisements in all the magazines and read about the colors online<\/a>.\u00a0 There are even makeup tutorials featuring the colors (Pop of Purple<\/em>, Blink of Blue<\/em>, Go Go Green<\/em>, and Totally Teal<\/em>) on YouTube.\u00a0 I particularly like this lesson<\/a>.\u00a0 Colored eyelashes have been seen on the runways<\/a> at Fashion Week and are becoming a little more mainstream, so I thought it would be fun to try a bit of purple for myself, just to see if I could pull it off.<\/p>\n

Well, easier said than done!\u00a0 I guess I blinked, because, while it seems Maybelline has gone to great lengths to publicize their well-timed, limited edition mascara campaign, they overlooked the beauty junkies of Austin, Texas and its surrounding areas.\u00a0 After a thorough search of my local drug and grocery stores that left me empty-handed, I began a one-woman phone campaign that caused the annoyance of all the cosmetic managers in Central Texas, a few Maybelline customer representatives, and one very patient young man at some store in New Jersey who calmly entered the colors’ names into his computer while trying not to laugh.\u00a0 Over the course of two days’ worth of naptimes, I spent hours on the phone trying to locate these limited-edition colors,\u00a0 all to no avail!<\/p>\n

Most of my interactions with cosmetic counter managers went a little something like this. (Warning: Not appropriate for children or the workplace.)<\/p>\n