City Girl Beauty Project Hosts Cocktail Fundraiser To Empower Survivors Of Domestic Violence

NEW YORK - April 25, 2013 - PRLog -- NEW YORK, NY (April 24, 2013) – City Girl Beauty Project, a nonprofit organization that empowers young women who struggle with low self-esteem, loss of self-worth and uncertainty as a result of domestic violence (http://www.citygirlbeautyproject.org/) and human trafficking (http://www.givingisglamorous.org/), will host an annual fundraiser benefit at Pepela NY Gallery, 104 East 30th Street @ Park Avenue South, NYC on Thursday, May 2 from 6:15 until 10 p.m.

The cocktail event premieres a silent and LIVE auction in efforts to raise more than $100,000 to benefit the organization’s Heroic Beauty Workshop to commence in September in New York City.

Generously hosting the event is Emmy award-winning journalist Cathleen Trigg-Jones and TV Personality & Activist Jamie Otis from Hollywood Life.

Tickets (http://citygirlbeautyproject.eventbrite.com/) range from $90 to $150 for VIP options. Guests will enjoy complimentary cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, swag bags and mini-makeovers compliments of the City Girl Beauty Bar and more. In addition, there will be a special performance by electric violinist Larenzo Laroc and music by VH1’s DJ Amanda Seales.

The Heroic Beauty Workshop uses beauty and leadership to empower survivors – young women between the ages of 18 and 30 - and reconnect them with their inner beauty, self-worth and natural ability to become leaders. The workshop is facilitated by using the power of colors, makeup artistry, beauty, character building, leadership and self-development skills and challenges.

Supporters of this charity benefit (http://www.citygirlbeautyproject.org/) and cocktail event includes: Lexington Plastic Surgeons, Bidtech Event Technology, Bioxidea Cosmetics, Equinox, Crunch, Coty Cosmetics, Benefit, Warren Tricomi, Kahina Giving Beauty, Liftlab, Next Vanity, Lia Schorr, Soul Cycle, Tarte, H.Wood Beauty, and Dr.  Hauschka Skincare, VMH Hypoallergenic, Sugar Flower Cake Shop, myShobha

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Event Details:

Official Launch & Annual Fundraiser

May 2, 2013, 6:15 – 10 p.m.

Pepela New York

104 East 30th street @Park Avenue South,

New York, NY 10016

About City Girl Beauty Project

City Girl Beauty Project was founded by makeup artist Andrea D. Charles in 2010. Andrea has painted the faces of entertainment personalities such as Star Jones, Gelila Bekele, Gabriel Union, Tyra Banks, Sean Combs, Bill Cosby, Tanika Ray, and Demi Moore. As a not-for-profit organization, CGBP aids and impacts lives through beauty & leadership workshops that begins with beauty, self-image, leadership, character building and development skills to empower the lives of girls and young women (ages 18 - 30) who struggle with uncertainty and low self-worth as they transition into a life after domestic violence and human trafficking.