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P&G - Have You Tried This Yet? Miami event

Stacie from The Divine Miss Mommy, Desiree from Bottles To Britches, flew to Miami yesterday to experience P&G’s temporary ‘pop-up’ store here where shoppers can try and experience dozens of P&G products. In a continued effort to make consumers aware fo their innovative product offeringsProcter & Gamble Company is once again undertaking the Have You Tried This Yet? campaign, a multi-faceted program designed to showcase high-performing products with benefits that help consumers (and busy moms!) meet everyday needs.

Moms.. be on the lookout because this coming Sunday, February 27, P&G will distribute a brandSAVER, a complimentary coupon booklet that features more than$131 in savings on the campaign’s featured innovative products, in local newspapers throughout the country. I love brandSaver coupon booklets.. they are the first one I browse through and the one that I clip the most coupons from, and actually use!

Do you live in Miami?

From February 18 – 27, a free, interactive Have You Tried This Yet? Pop-Up experience will be open to the public in Miami. Located at 843 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Florida, the Pop-Up will be open Sunday – Thursday, 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. and Friday – Saturday, 11:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. and will offer free demonstrations and product samples from brands such as Pantene®, Oral-B®, Gillette®, Downy®, Swiffer®,COVERGIRL®, and Puffs®, allowing consumers to experience first-hand the innovations each product offers.

For the four days that we’re here in Miami, we are staying at the the beautiful beachfront The Raleigh Hotel and let me tell you.. despite the fact that our room is not very large and we don’t have an ocean view, I think my blood pressure is significantly lower than it was before arriving in Miami. Between the plush greenery and the beautiful warm pool, the atmosphere is gorgeous and provides a much needed break for busy moms. Everywhere you turn in The Raleigh, there is a place to sit and relax and just breathe.. which doesn’t happen at my house.

P&G Have Your Tried This Yet event in Miami

What we did at the P&G event last night

The P&G Pop-up experience we attended last night in Miami offered free, interactive product experiences including a skin test by Olay and makeup and hair sessions. I was lucky enough to have Marsha Chilko, National Product Training Manager at Procter&Gamble, do my make up. How excited was I? Very! After applying my makeup, Marsha spent a few minutes with me to give me some much needed make up application tips tailored just for busy moms including:

Every mom needs two make up application brushes. A medium thick brush for applying powder, blush, and even eye shadow and a thin brush for applying lip stick and/or eye shadow/liner.
You can use one CoverGirl pallet for all areas of your face. Yes, ALL areas, even your lips! Marsha used one pallet of four colors on my face. She used what would normally be eyeshadow as a blush on my cheeks, and two other colors from the pallet on and around my eyes. Sounds weird doesn’t it? Just take a look at the photo of me below (with Marsha) and you’ll see that I don’t look as strange as it sounds.
Marsha said that you can even use one color in the pallet as a lip color and just apply a gloss or light lotion over the shadow. That way your colors are all tied in together and there’s no need to worry if your colors match. Great idea!

Darned if I didn’t get to try the Charmin Ultra Soft while we were there.. I’ll save that for when we get home. But I did get a demonstration of the newest Swiffer WetJet and I learned just how damaged (or not damaged in my case.. surprisingly enough!) my skin is from the girls at the Olay ‘experience’. I am having such a great time here in Miami, thanks to P&G and Stacie and will post more about our trip here soon!

Is there anything I need to check out while I’m here in Miami? I’ve never been before so I don’t know where to begin exploring. I think I’ll just walk down the street and see where I end up.. or maybe that’s a bad idea? 🙂

Disclosure: My trip was paid for by Proctor & Gamble. Thoughts expressed in this post are my own and were not influenced in any way.

36 years ago, I was brought home from the hospital at two days old in an orange Porsche 911. Ever since then, well maybe not until I was about 8, I have loved cars. I thought Jaguars were the coolest car for the longest time and I can tell you what just about any car (make) is just from a side view. I can even out-do my husband in that game! My dad used to take my sister and I to the Daytona International Speedeay and I loved watching the races but was scared of the loud noise.

I loved cars up until about ten years ago when I had a car accident which left me fearful of driving and of being a passenger in a car, for a long time. My son (1.5 years old at the time) was in the back seat of my parked SUV when the SUV started rolling down my steep driveway. I had already gotten out of the car and had opened his door when it started rolling down the driveway. I tried to get back in the front seat to push on the break but I didn’t make it and instead was trapped under the car rolling down the steep driveway for about 100 feet after which the car landed on top of me. I was later told that I suffered a mild stroke during the accident which may be why I’m so crazy these days. I was pinned under the front wheel of the SUV for some time until Firemen got to me and were able to get me out from under the car. I was in physical therapy (and regular therapy) for some time after the accident due to nerve and muscle damage and have some residual issues but for the most part, I’m fine now.. physically at least.

Just in the last couple of years I’ve become more comfortable with driving and with being a passenger again. In fact, I took a big step by attending a Honda Ride and Drive event in San Diego last Fall, where besides driving the Odyssey through the hills of San Diego myself, I got to ride on a closed course at Qualcomm Stadium with a professional driver. Riding on the closed course at Qualcomm Stadium, going 60 mph around sharp turns (safely) gave me an adrenaline rush that I hadn’t felt in a long time and helped me get over some of my fear of being a passenger and of driving in risky situations.

I want to drive a race car

Since realizing that driving isn’t all that bad, I want to try something.. I want to drive a race car on a real race track! This would be a huge step for me mentally. Like I said earlier, I am more comfortable with driving now but am not all the way there yet. I still look at cars as accidents waiting to happen and have got to get over that completely which I think a race car driving experience will do for me. I may have to wear some Pampers (yes, a P&G plug!) while driving the race car but darned it I’m not going to make it happen! I’m not sure how I can make that happen but now that I’ve realized that I CAN DO IT, I am going to look into how I can accomplish this, this year. Maybe I’ll even have a special pink and purple slip on a firesuit made just for me to wear during my race car driving experience!

I was inspired to write this post in response to The Divine Miss Mommy‘s article about a P&G Media Event in Miami. P&G products are part of our every day lives here in the Hagan household. We use the Swiffter WetJet, Gillett razores, Pantene shampoo and conditioner, Charmin toilet paper (too personal?), and will ONLY use Cascade dishwasher detergant.. all P&G brands, but there are several P&G brand products that I haven’t tried yet but would love to try including Lacoste Fragrances and Cover Girl’s Eye Enhancers 4 Shadow Kit (drama eyes) because I need to learn that it’s OK to stand out a little sometimes.. with purple eye shadow!