Uptown Magazine Presents The Colgate Optic White "Beauty and Style" Beauty Bar Hosted by Cynthia Bailey

Uptown Magazine Presented The Colgate Optic White "Beauty and Style" Beauty Bar in Atlanta on May 21st, 2013 at Bar One. This unique beauty bar was hosted by supermodel/ TV personality Cynthia Bailey. This celebrity studded VIP pampering experience offered guest makeup consultations by celebrity makeup artist Sophie West, a Colgate Optic White "Find You Best Smile" lipstick station to learn about the perfect shade of color to enhance one's pearly whites, massages & manicures, a "Winning Smile' Photobooth, signature cocktails courtesy of Svedka Vodka and passed hors d'ouevers courtesy of Bar One. 

Notable Attendees Included: Cynthia Bailey & Peter Thomas, Toya Bush-Harris (Married to Medicine), Kari Wells (Married to Medicine), Derek J (Celebrity Stylist), Mimi Faust (Love and Hip Hop Atlanta), Benzino (Love and Hip Hop Atlanta) Dondria (So So Def Recording Artist), Jazzy McBee (Radio Personality Streetz 94.5), Victor Jackson (The Kandi Factory), D. Woods (Recording Artist/Actress)

::Courtesy of The Garner Circle PR::

Please send all press coverage to: pr@thegarnercircle.com

::Special Thanks::

Vixen by Kimber Lashes 

Shea Moisture

The Lip Bar

Svedka Voka

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@uptownmagazine

@opticwhite

::Photo Credit::

Paras Griffin 

Cynthia Bailey host of the Uptown Magazine Presents Colgate Optic White "Beauty and Style" Beauty Bar.

Cynthia Bailey (host/supermodel/T personality) and Peter Thomas At Uptown Magazine Presents Colgate Optic White "Beauty and Style" Beauty Bar hosted by Cynthia Bailey.

Cynthia Bailey (host/supermodel/TV personality), Kari Wells (Married to Medicine), and Mimi Faust (Love and Hip Hop Atlanta) At Uptown Magazine Presents Colgate Optic White "Beauty and Style" Beauty Bar hosted by Cynthia Bailey. 

(Left to Right) Derek J (celebrity stylist), Cynthia Bailey (host/supermodel/TV personality), Kari Wells (Married to Medicine), and Mimi Faust (Love and Hip Hop Atlanta) at the Uptowm Magazine Presents Colgate Optic White "Beauty and Style" Beauty Bar hosted by Cynthia Bailey.

(Left to Right) Derek J (celebrity stylist), Cynthia Bailey (host/supermodel/TV personality), Brandon Delesline, Kari Wells (Married to Medicine), Mimi Faust (Love and Hip Hop Atlanta), Camille Gray and the Colgate Team at the Uptown Magazine Colgate Optic White Presents "Beauty and Style" Beauty Bar hosted by Cynthia Bailey. 

 

Mimi Faust (Love and Hip Hop Atlanta)  at the Uptown Magazine Presents Colgate Optic White "Beauty and Style" Beauty Bar hosted by Cynthia Bailey.

 

Cynthia Bailey (host/supermodel/TV personality) and Len Burnett (Co-Founder of Uptown Magazine) at the Uptown Magazine Presents Colgate Optic White "Beauty and Style' Beauty Bar hosted by Cynthia Bailey.

 

      

(Left to Right) Toya Bush-Harris (Married to Medicine), Cynthia Bailey (Host/supermodel/TV personality), and Kari Wells (Married to Medicine) at the Uptown Magazine Presents Colgate Optic White "Beauty and Style' Bar hosted by Cynthia Bailey.

 

 

           

Dondria (So So Def Recording Artist) at the Uptown Magazine Presents Colgate Optic White "Beauty and Style" Beauty Bar hosted by Cynthia Bailey.

 

The Garner Circle PR Celebrates 8 Years!

Join our clients and media partners in celebrating The Garner Circle turning 8!

Client, Strength of Nature Global

 Client, MillerCoors

Media Partner, Juicy Magazine

[Media Alert] Toya Wright Serves as Ambassador for BlackCelebrityGiving.Com's National Cause Campaign

BlackCelebrityGiving.Com Launches National Cause Campaign To Benefit Homeless Children With Celebrity Ambassador Toya Wright

PRLog (Press Release) - Apr. 22, 2013 - ATLANTA -- April 22, 2013 Atlanta, Ga  - BlackCelebrityGiving.com announces there 2013 Spring Cause Campaign titled The Giving Boutique. With a mission of servicing  homeless teens, tween, and in betweens - BlackCelebrityGivining.com (BCG) aims to raise enough exposure and resources to service homeless families on a national scale. Tying in Toya Wright (mother-wife-philanthopist) as the 2013 ambassador, BCG will launch a sixty day used clothing drive that will lead up toThe Giving Boutique pop up store experience which will service homeless families.

BlackCelebrityGiving.Com (BCG) is frontier in providing news, videos and photos of celebrity philanthropy, nonprofit organizations and causes that directly correlate with the black community. BCG's goal is to enrich the lives of others through good news on black celebrity philanthropy, nonprofits, causes, grants and inform people on issues affecting the black community including: spotlights of black and missing people, available grants and tips on giving back.

"At BCG, we have dedicated months to developing our Spring Cause Campaign The Giving Boutique which focuses efforts on raising needed resources for homeless youth. We interviewed several homeless families specifically with teens and learned that receiving donations in garbage bags or grocery bags made them feel hopeless and unwanted. Upon this realization, The Giving Boutique was born. We thought how cool would it be if BCG could give these families and teens a real shopping experience, where items were not thrown on tables or in trash bags, but actually hung up, color coordinated, washed and even new," stated BGC Founder Jasmine Crowe.

The Giving Boutique 's national initiative will be to collect new and gently used clothes at partnering on-site activation to support thousands of homeless youth that go without basic necessities on a daily basis. According to the National Center on Family Homelessness - One in 45 children experience homelessness in America each year.  That's over 1.6 million children. 42 percent are under the age of six, and a third of them are living with single mothers with chronic illnesses. Every night more than 200,000 children have no place to live and lack basic necessities such as food and clothing. Homeless children and youth face a number of problems. These include developmental problems, abuse and neglect, lack of effective education, food and clothing among others.

BCG's Giving Boutique will provide a shopping experience that is unparalleled to anything these families have ever experienced before. Homeless families will be able to shop in a boutique pop-up shop with amenities including: food and beverage, friendly staff, fitting rooms, furniture and the overall boutique shopping aesthetic. The Giving Boutique will also feature an accessories counter, and a soap shop filled with donated items from beauty and hair brands. While the youth and their families shop, The Giving Boutique will play live music and provide tons of goodies creating an atmosphere filled with happiness as they shop to their hearts desire. All items will be completely free of charge. For more information on drop off locations or how to donate please visit http://www.blackcelebritygiving.com/Giving-Boutique/. To join the conversation the twitter handle is @blkcelebgiving and the hashtag is #TheGivingBoutique

Media Contact:
The Garner Circle PR
PR@TheGarnerCircle.com
via PRLog: http://bit.ly/15BwUv9 

African Pride Ultimate Beauty Social Tour Visits Houston

African Pride Hair Care continued their national "Ultimate Beauty Social"  Tour in Houston, Texas on Saturday, April 6th, at the Royal Sonesta Hotel. A transparent conversation on beauty over brunch was hosted by beauty bloggers Shalanda Turner (LiveLifeinStyle.com), Tamara Floyd (NaturalHairRules.com), special guest author Audrey Sivasothy (The Science of Black Hair) and African Pride's Content Director - Camila Crews. The conversation opened the floor for discussion topics including: hair style choice in the workplace, writing your own rules when it comes to your hair, how women are no longer monolithic and how to celebrate individual beauty. The event showcased new products from the African Pride Family Brands' Collections including Olive Miracle, Shea Butter Miracle and DreamKids. All products are affordably priced under $7.99 and sold at local beauty retailers and stores such as Sallys Beauty Supply, Family Dollar and Walmart. For more information visit www.African-Pride.com, to see the national tour schedule visit www.Facebook.com/MyAfricanPride and to join in this nationally charged viral conversation follow @MyAfricanPride #UltimateBeautySocial.

*Courtesy of The Garner Circle PR*

NOTE: Please Send All Event Coverage to pr@thegarnercircle.com

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F: facebook.com/myafricanpride

::Video Credit::

Reggie Dominique

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5_psPqxQUU

::Photo Credit::

Tiffany Kowalski

For more photos visit,

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Hosts of The Ultimate Beauty Social in Houston, (L-R) Tamara (NaturalHairRules.com), 

Audrey Sivasothy (The Science of Black Hair) and Shalanda Turner (LiveLifeinStyle.com)

African Pride Ultimate Beauty Social Hair Models

Guests enjoy brunch at The Ultimate Beauty Social

African Pride's Content Specialist, Camila Crews educates guests on achieving healthy hair 

Guests at the African Pride Ultimate Beauty Social 

Guests at the African Pride Ultimate Beauty Social 

Guests get social at the African Pride Ultimate Beauty Social

African Pride Ultimate Beauty Social guest

The Science of Black Hair by Audrey Sivasothy

The Royal Sonesta Hotel

African Pride Hair Care Presents A Mother's Love: Beauty & Conversation With Grammy Award Winning Gospel Duo Mary Mary

African Pride Hair Care Presents A Mother's Love: Beauty & Conversation With Grammy Award Winning Gospel Duo Mary Mary

 

Chicago, IL (PRlog.com) April 2013 - In celebration of Mother's Day, African Pride Hair Care Presents A Mother's Love: Beauty & Conversation. This unique beauty suite and panel discussion will be hosted by My Block/Columbia Recording artists and WE tv star duo- Erica & Tina Campbell of Mary Mary.  The sisters-mothers-wives have joined forces with African Pride Hair Care to bring mother/daughter pairs together for intimate conversation and pampering celebrating the beauty of a mother's love.  This invitation only affair will take place on May 17th from 7:00pm - 10:00pm at the beautiful Art Revolution Gallery located in the heart of the city of Chicago.

  

African Pride Hair Care will welcome multi-generational mothers and daughters to celebrate in an evening filled with complimentary beauty services and food-by-the-bite while conducting transparent conversations on the beauty of motherhood with Multi-Grammy® Award Winning gospel duo Mary Mary. The conversation will be moderated by Chicago's very own gospel station personality Sonya Blakey of Inspiration 1390 AM.  

"At African Pride we want to present a campaign that promotes uplifting conversation surrounding the real aspects of balancing motherhood. We believe that Erica & Tina Campbell (Mary Mary) are the perfect fit for this campaign as they are very open in regards to how they juggle motherhood, global touring and a self-titled hit show Mary Mary (WE tv)", states Charlene Bastien (Strength of Nature National Marketing Director).  

Maintaining its mission of providing affordable beauty products for women of color, A Mother's Love complimentary beauty suite will feature African Pride Hair Care's newest products in the Olive Miracle, Shea Butter Miracle and DreamKids collections.  African Pride social media followers will also have the chance to win an all expense trip to attend this event and the Touching the Generation Awards hosted by Stellar Award Winning Gospel artist Kierra Sheard and Bold Right Life Chicago by going on Facebook.com/MyAfricanPride.  To join African Pride Hair Care and Mary Mary for A Mother's Love: Beauty and Conversation Affair on May 17th from 7:00pm -10:00pm to RSVP at www.thegarnercircle.com/africanpride.

To join in the conversation the twitter hashtag is #AMothersLove, the twitter handler is @MyAfricanPride  and for continuous updates on African Pride Hair Care's upcoming events, logon to Facebook.com/MyAfricanPride. For more information on African Pride Hair Care visit www.African-Pride.com

Mary Mary Contact:

Plan A Media LLC

Patti Conte

212 337 1406 ext. 16

patticonte@planamedia.com

African Pride Media Contact:

The Garner Circle PR

Nicole Garner

E: pr@thegarnercircle.com

or

Daniel Dickey

E: daniel@thegarnercirle.com

About Mary Mary:

My Block/Columbia Records Inspirational Duo, Mary Mary has quickly become one of the most successful artists in the urban/inspirational/crossover markets. Since their 2000 debut release, Thankful, they have garnered four Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, three NAACP Awards, a BET Award, a Soul Train Award, an ASCAP Golden Note Award, and several Dove & Stellar Awards. The chart-topping duo has sold more than 5 million career albums. Their highly successful original scripted television series was ranked the #1 show for African American women in their time slot on cable. Their self-titled series on WEtv is currently in its 3rd Season.

About African Pride Family of Brands:

African Pride Hair Care helps provides moisture and nutrients the hair & scalp desires, because it helps replace the moisture and elasticity lost to styling and environmental factors. Naturally rich in vitamin E and other powerful antioxidants,African Pride Deep Conditioning Hair Care products helps restore and retain hair and scalp's health, vitality and natural luster. African Pride's Family of Brands consist of: African Pride Olive and Shea Miracle formulas, Dream Kids Olive Hair Care and Back to Natural Hair Care Products. Each brand in the African Pride family of brands will put you on the right path to healthy tresses with a silkening, feather-light formula containing the finest oils and African herbal extracts used to strengthen and protect.  www.african-pride.com

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Skirt!.com Takes You Behind The Scenes of a Day in the Life of Nicole Garner

Nicole Garner, CEO of Garner Circle PR, goes behind the scenes of RHOA

Link: http://skirt.com/blew/blog/nicole-garner-ceo-garner-circle-pr-goes-behind-scenes-rhoa-0

Nicole Garner, CEO of the Garner Circle PR, makes a living working with high end clients such as JaguarLuxury Brand, Ciara, Estelle, Porsche, Adidas, and more with her work appearing on MTV, BET, E! and VH1. Garner, whose events are some of the most sought after in Atlanta, recently penned a book“Are You In Inc: PR’s Alter Ego,” as a guide to working in PR.  The book is part of a series and will be available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and on AreYouInInc.com. She was recently featured on an episode of Real Housewives of Atlanta as the publicist in charge of producing Kenya Moore’s Forever Relevant Charity Gala. Take a behind the scenes look at a day in the life of one of the most high profile publicist in Atlanta.

6:00AM Finalizing media and guest lists, going over final logistics - hopping on the phone with Daniel Dickey (TGC PR Vice President) and Eugenia Johnson (TGC PR Senior Account Executive) to discuss our plan of dividing and conquering for today’s events. Since The Garner Circle was brought in to handle the PR and event activation, there are a lot of moving parts to today’s series of events surrounding Kenya Moore’s Forever Relevant Costume Charity Gala.

7:00AM - Client calls and changes her mind on wanting additional seating as some of her high profile friends have alerted last minute that they will be attending. Trying to find an event furniture rental company that is open and will deliver on a SUNDAY! Lol #LifeOfApublicist

8:00AM - Events company (RAI Events) arrives on site to start event build out. Our team arrives to the venue to set up our mobile office. For events of this level, we are working all the way up to the event begins.

Nicole Garner up early for work

8:30AM -The venue forgets to alert us in advance that there is a wedding on the same day as our event (aaggghhh parking!). Daniel, heads out the door with the facilities team to figure out plan B, C, and D

9:00AM - I beging working to accommodate national media with pre - interviews with Kenya. She is very hands on with the event and pays close attention to detail as she wants the event to go off with a hitch, so the pre-interviews are not the easiest to schedule.

11:00AM - In today’s event, Kenya has NeNe Leakes coming into the crowd on a chariot. The chariot has just arrived and we can not get it through the door of the event space. Putting all of our brains together, the chariot had to be diseasembled and reconstructed inside of the space. Special thank you to our patient events team.

Nene Leakes arrives as Nicole Garner looks on

12:00PM - Caterer (Imperial Soiree), the Production Team (PA Universal) and our spirit sponsor for the evening - Grey Goose have all arrived1:00PM - This event will be taped and nationally televised , the camera crew has arrived for set up

2:00PM - proper lighting becomes a concern for this event, the event production team and the camera crew are at odds and have to come to a happy place for what will make the event look nice but will still look nice on camera

4:00PM - Sound Check with Miss Brie and the Band and Mr. Daniel Moore along with all the performance actors from the Green Room Actor’s Lounge and our hosts for the evening Mr. Tommy Ford and Ms. Eboni Elektra Live

6:00PM - OMG booth arrives for our picture room and the step and repeat is being set up with the red carpet being rolled out

7:00PM - event begins and our team is in place, time to work our magic. Eugenia goes around and makes sure all sponsors are accommodated (African Pride Hair Care, Upscale Magazine, 4 Natural, Rai, Uber and more) with photo opps, proper seating etc. Daniel handles event flow and oversees the run of show. I handle the red carpet, handling celebrity arrivals and interviews for our client for the evening Kenya Moore.

There is limited media access for this event, so I have to properly manage the press’ expectations.

8:00PM - parking issues transpire, plan B and C are put into effect immediately. So glad we talked these issues out this morning

8:30PM - quick Red Bull break!

9:00PM - the program begins, client is visibly upset by a guest and our team tries to assist in diffusing the situation - the goal is to make sure the client always stays happy.

Kenya Moore and Nicole Garner take an OMG photo

9:30PM - making sure we stay on time with the flow of the event, we usher Kenya on stage so she can discuss the purpose of the Forever Relevant Gala and honoring women of color in film who opened doors for those to follow such as herself

11:00PM - event ends and we are all dreadfully tired but our job is not over yet

1:00AM - working with the Wire photographer to tag and identify pictures of guests to go on the Wire in the morning, volunteers disperse gift bags as guests are leaving and assist with event shut down

1:00AM - another quick red bull break!

1:15AM - sitting down with the wire image photographer to identify notable guests in his pictures before he puts on the wire, drafting a media recap to send to media and bloggers and preparing to post pitch tomorrow

3:00AM - a goodnight “nap”

6:00AM - Back up and at it

The Epsiode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta aired on March 31 at 8pm. For more info go to www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-atlanta