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Tonight’s a great night to tune in to Home Shopping Network if you love Mary J. Blige and some good beauty products.
The Grammy-winning R&B singer, a spokeswoman for black-owned beauty company Carol’s Daughter, will be selling her perfume, “My Life,” live on the air, starting at midnight tonight. She will be on throughout the day on Friday at 1 a.m., 12 p.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m., 9 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Blige partnered on the fragrance with Carol’s Daughter founder Lisa Price and named it after “My Life,” one of her most personal CDs. She debuted the fragrance on July 31, 2010 on HSN, and it sold a record 60,000 bottles in six hours.
A dollar from each bottle sold goes to Blige’s organization FFAWN (Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now), formed with partner Steve Stoute in 2007 to empower and inspire women.
“Most of my life was centered around living for the moment. I had very few resources and very little real life education to make good decisions,” Blige says in her FFAWN mission statement. “What I did have was a voice and that ultimately became my vehicle of growth. I, with Steve Stoute, created FFAWN because I believe every young woman, if given encouragement and a helping hand (a hand filled with resources), can reach her greatest potential. It is my great hope that FFAWN will be a vehicle to help other women reach greater heights, despite their environment, despite low self esteem, despite their immediate circumstances.”
So far, FFAWN has offered scholarships and special programs, and in 2009, opened the Mary J. Blige Center for Women in her hometown of Yonkers, N.Y. The center offers programs for girls and women that offer parenting education, advocacy, a variety of job and life training programs and more. This year, FFAWN is sending 25 young women to college through its Scholarship Fund.
Since its inception in Price’s kitchen in 1990, Carol’s Daughter has developed a reputation for rich, fragrant, all-natural beauty products for both men and women. They make everything from shaving cream and specialty potions for natural hair to soaps, oils and fragrances. Carol’s Daughter developed a cult via flea market sales and following word of mouth, then was sold from its original Brooklyn boutique.
Once Oprah Winfrey featured Price and her products on her show in 2002, the brand began to take off nationally.
Blige, Stoute, Jay-Z, music executive Tommy Mottola and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith became investors in 2005, and the line started to be sold in major retail stores like Sephora and Macy’s.
