Curly Girl Collective Celebrates the Love of Kinks and Coils at a Speed "Dating" Event with a Twist

Online, November 28, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Imagine having the opportunity to unplug from the internet overload and meet face-to-face with dozens of women embracing their natural hair in an effort to obtain all the information you desire. On Tuesday, December 6th from 7p.m.-10 p.m., the ladies of Curly Girl Collective (CGC) will produce such an experience at a mixer entitled, Curl Crush: A Speed Hair Event For Your Kinks And Coils.

Executed at popular nightclub, Taj Lounge in New York City, a matchmaker will connect dozens of natural-haired women, as well as celebrity stylists, bloggers and vloggers, in a series of quick playful "dates" designed to inspire. Confirmed guests and participants include Karen Tappin-Saunderson, founder of luxury natural beauty brand Karen's Body Beautiful, Anthony Dickey, founder and celebrity stylist of Hair Rules Salon and Christina Brown, popular blogger of Love Brown Sugar.

There will be opportunities to exchange styling ideas, products and information. Upon completion participants will walk away with a "little black book" full of new ideas, a sampler gift bag and plenty of encouragement.

"Curly Girl Collective will deliver a unique affair full of creativity, top notch giveaways and highly interactive fun activities for attendees to enjoy," said Michelle Breyer NaturallyCurly co-founder, "As media sponsor, we can assure you that this speed dating mixer will change your idea of a casual natural hair meet up and guests will leave in anticipation of the next CGC event."

CGC's launch event, Collective Expressions: A Celebration of Textured Beauty drew over 300 attendees and captured more than 6,000 views on Vimeo and YouTube. Event recaps were featured in various blogs and publications-including Centric TV, Black Enterprise and Black Girl Long Hair.

ABOUT NATURALLYCURLY
Founded by Michelle Breyer and Gretchen Heber, NaturallyCurly informs, empowers and unites a community of people brought together by a common interest - curly hair. The flagship brand, NaturallyCurly.com, attracts 450,000 monthly engaged, influential consumers creating user-generated content on a daily basis. The network includes CurlyNikki.com, the leading natural hair blog with a growing community of 120,000 uniques, CurlStylist.com, a professional community especially for stylists servicing their curly clientele, and CurlMart.com, a boutique e-commerce site showcasing more than 50 brands and 500 community-vetted products. The entire network logs 1.2 million monthly visits from an average of more than 200 countries worldwide, all finding the common thread - a curl, kink or wave - that bonds them together.

ABOUT CURLY GIRL COLLECTIVE
The Curly Girl Collective (CGC) acts as a tangible resource of information for women within the natural hair movement, and strives to create innovative events that foster acceptance and celebration of natural hair. Through targeted events, strategic public relations campaigns, an innovative web portal and a streamlined digital marketing database, the CGC is also able to connect with women internationally and create a platform ripe for conversation and exchange of ideas. These worldwide influencers and tastemakers affect more than just the hair choices of fellow members, but address a wide variety of social topics and issues pertaining to women. For more information visit www.curlygirlcollective.com

Media Contact:
Charisse Higgins
Curly Girl Collective
914-882-7710
[email protected]

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