This past Saturday I attended the My Black is Beautiful event in New York at the Metropolitan Pavillion. It was sponsored by Proctor and Gamble and it was just an event that celebrated black beauty. The product sponsors were Cover Girl Queen Collection, Pantene ProV Relaxed and Natural, Olay Quench, Secret, Always, and Jones Magazine.
This was my first time attending this event and I did not know what to expect. We were encouraged to register online and arrive early because entry into the event was on a first come, first serve basis. I went to the event with my friends Erica and Shelly. We arrived around 10:30am and were at the back of the line in the middle of the block. Some women were online at 7:00am! They then had to wait 4hrs to be let in for the event.
When we first got inside, we went to the various stations and booked our appointments. There were stations for hair, makeup, facials, manicures, massages, dental hygiene, and rhythm and relaxation. My first appointment was with hair. The pony tail wasn’t working for me and I wanted to have a hair consultation anyway so that was my first stop.
My hair stylist’s name was Noel and she was so nice! She gave me pointers about how to strengthen my hair. I cut my hair last August and it is taking the very back of my hair the longest to grow back. She noticed some breakage and just advised me to deep condition my hair at least twice a week. She also showed my the proper way to comb my hair when it gets a little rough and tangled. Noel also said I should trim my ends more often then I do to a cleaner look.
I loved my hair! I love the curly look. She did an excellent job. Thanks Noel.
The massage was ok. It was good until she started to do the Karate chop which I absolutely hate. Once it was over I felt like I had more knots.
Erica did the facial and makeup. She was lucky and went to the lead makeup artist Jeremi Dervon. Unlike some of the makeup artist there, he took his time, no matter how long the line got. He has a special highlighting technique that he uses, that I was not allowed to take pictures of lol. He was kind enough to write down the products from the Cover Girl Queen Collection that was the perfect match for all three of our skintones.
Here are photos of different accessories that I liked. I loved Alicia’s Africa earrings. The lady standing on line in front of me wore those bangles and her friend had on a pair of grey booties perfect for the fall.
I ran into Tiffin from MEO Total Body Beauty
This display was very interesting. They had the original versions of hair tools like the flat iron in the bottom left corner to the old school hot comb my mom used to use to straighten my hair when I was younger.
Overall, it was a really great experience to be in the presence of so many beautiful women for such a positive event. Be sure to visit the My Black is Beautiful website for information on future events.