[ PLEASE SHARE ] SPREAD THE WORD!!!!! NATURAL HAIR FEST COMES TO CHICAGO FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Mark David Carter Phone: 312.254.5009 Fax: 312.888.3091 Email: chicago@metrosalonpro.com Tickets: www.naturalhairfest.eventbrite.com CHICAGO'S BIGGEST NATURAL HAIR FEST TAKES SHAPE DOWNTOWN CHICAGO, IL-Mark David Carter announced today thatWePrint4Less.net and Georgia Doty HIV & Hepatitis Community Outreach proudly presents the MetroSalonPro NATURAL HAIR & BEAUTY FEST Chicago 2015, themed: "METAMORPHOSIS. This event includes: PAID Advanced Professional Classes (Earn 3 CEU Hours), FREE Professional Classes, FREE Consumer Classes, Panel Discussions, Main Stage Performances ALL DAY LONG, Hair Competitions, Fashion Presentations, and an Exhibit Hall with over 50 Exhibitors and Table Vendors. The excitement takes place Sunday, July 19th fourteen stories high at Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza located at 350 North Orleans Street downtown adjacent to Merchandise Mart in River North. This will be one of Chicago's BIGGEST Natural Hair productions designed for Naturals all over the Mid-West! Natural Hair & Beauty Fest Chicago 2015 is a ground breaking event representative of the local, national and global Natural Hair Movement. This event specifically caters towards Naturals (Consumers), Natural Hair Care Professionals, Students interested in nurturing careers in a growing Natural Hair Care Industry, and individuals, who desire to adopt a Natural way of life. Our anticipated attendance is 600-2,500 attendees with flow throughout the day. We invite professionals, students, and consumers (OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) to come look, learn, explore and network within the natural hair side of the beauty industry with "THE REAL NATURAL HAIR EDUCATORS OF CHICAGO" featuring: Chatto Wright, Amazon Smiley, Christopher Fields, Darya Johnson, Frances Ellis, Yonni Red, Reeta Baker and Donta Rice with more educators to be announced. Our Panel also includes Special Guests: National Educator Chris Nobles (HairCology Products & Hair Prophecy International) and Dr. Wendy Johnson (Let's Talk with Dr. Wendy on Blog Talk Radio) PHENOM (Teh'ray Hale), who's interactive performance of spoken word and hip-hop vocals stirs up applause and genuine laughter from any audience, was recently given recognition as one of Chicago's top Artists by the RedEye newspaper. He will serve as Host for this gathering of naturalistas. He is a phenomena with urban roots, fearless emcee/poet from Chi’ Town with a blazing spoken word rhyme pattern that has rocked stages throughout America. Fine arts exhibition by: Osei Agyeman - Badu of Art by Badu (www.artbybadu.com). Badu is the Artist that designer the artwork on our official flyer, entitled: "Shade". More artists to be announced. LIVE MAIN STAGE ENTERTAINMENTwith performances by Gizzae Reggae Band, PHENOM, KALA RA, Khalidah Egyptian Belly Dance, Sherrie Yvette Withers (Whitney Huston), Thomas Stone (Michael Jackson), Cedric Nunley, Marcus East, The Original Sixty Fourth Street Beach Drummers and many more. METAMORPHOSIS: The Summer Festival of Fashions, our Main Event takes place in the evening with VIP Reception at 5pm, doors opening at 6pm for general admission seating, and Showtime promptly at 7pm on the Main Stage. Fashion designs by Yasika Mode (Mamie Kapend), Akese StyleLines (Jennifer Koranteng Akese), Debra Davis Fashion Designs (Deb Davis), Hidden Treasure's Boutique (Bobbi Fisher), Zav's Tresure Chest (Christian Fears), Fibre (Rae Hurst) and Afro Funk Wear (Aluna Faye) . Natural Hair & Beauty Fest is sponsored by Bronner Bros. makers of BB Products and African Royale, Chatto's Natural Hair & Skin Products, All Naturale Beauty From Inside Out, Art by Badu (Osei Agyeman-Badu), Carol Dunbar's Queen Diva Productions and MetroSalonPro Chicago Resource Guide. The following Table Vendors will also be present at the event: HandBagsULike by Sarah Herring, Remy Man Products, It Works Wraps by Laura Mathais, I'm Unique by Dorien Humphrey, Nubian Princess Products, State Farm Dwayne Jackson Insurance Agency, Inc., Gordon Family Chropractic, Amazon Natural Essentials, KayVel Products, The Original Edge Stick, Natural Girl Hair Imports, Diva's Beauty Essentials, Isagenix "World Leader in Nutritional Cleansing", Younique Makeup, Elite Mind Management, Darya's Natural Hair Care, Forever Cakes by Michelle James, Tracie Jacob's Tracie Lynn Jewelry, Crysana Inc. Hair Extensions, Shirley McLaurin's Tempo Wireless, Special K Consultants, Younique by Lash Lady Brodi, It's Yours Hair Company, Regiment, LLC., Lock Journey, Print Lounge, Inc., Everette's Natural Hair & Beauty School, Sarai Photography, Nature's SkinLuv Bath & Beauty Essentials, Fanta Celah Creations, Lina Luve' Beauty Essentials, Ari Lash, Nicole Designs All, Organo Gold by Kadija Stallings, Chicago Matah Natural Products, Yonni's Loctician Academy, Denise Americus Cosmetics and a few more to be announced. Chicago Street Journal and GCA Newsletter are official media partners for this engagement. Opportunities are now available for natural hair professionals and businesses who desire to join the process for the upcoming MetroSalonPro Natural Hair & Beauty Fest on July 19th, themed: “METAMORPHOSIS”. To become sponsors, advertisers, fashion designers, vendors, performers, models, hair stylists, makeup artists, competitors, volunteers and/or attendees call 312.254.5009 or write to: fest@metrosalonpro.com. Press and media registration is now open and available atwww.MetroSalonPro.com. ### About MetroSalonPro MetroSalonPro, now headquartered in Chicago at 1647 South Blue Island Avenue in the Pilsen Community, was founded in 2010 by Mark David Carter while residing in the DMV area (Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia). Serving as the professional beauty and barber industry consumer resource guide, this hyper local publication is steadily gaining wider recognition in key markets across the country. Having set the spotlight on hair care, barbering, nail care, makeup and skincare as art and science, it is a concept which supplies true followers with remarkable photographic event coverage and highlights on topics of interest. Today, MetroSalonPro maintains its course towards a ten year nationwide vision Metropolis 2020, where distinct cities and states unify to construct one dynamic economic umbrella. With solid commitment towards continuing education and pushing creativity beyond limits, MetroSalonPro will nurture greater understanding of the boundless possibilities of professions within the global beauty industry. Natural Hair & Beauty Expo https://naturalhairfest.eventbrite.com/ http://www.metrosalonpro.com/ 312.254.5009 fest@metrosalonpro.com ABOUT NATURAL HAIR FEST CHICAGO The purpose of the MetroSalonPro Natural Hair Fest & Educational Summit Chicago is: to expose the root culprits of hair loss, hair damage, balding, scalp irritation and various forms of alopecia that plague our communities (primarily adult women, teens and young girls) resulting from excessive chemical treatment, overuse of heated accoutrements, lack of proper sanitation, bad habits, poor nutrition, miseducation, incorrect hair care, improper techniques and heredity/genetics; to create an aesthetic atmosphere where leadership, instructors, professionals, freelancers, students, businesses and consumers (members of the general public) can convene, network, interact, dialogue, showcase, give experiences, and free pinned up emotions under the auspicies of natural beauty and barber culture across the urban landscape of metropolitan Chicago; to influence the growth, maintenance and adaptation of a change in lifestyle that prompts naturally healthy hair and unique natural hairstyles in a manner that uplifts our youth, motivates the people, encourages unity within families at large and reinforces the self esteem, self image, self love and advancement of our "natural" brothers and sisters on a local, national and global level, and to demonstrate and quantify the advancement of the worldwide dynamic, the Urban Natural Hair Movement, by soliciting community participation and preservation of what has the potential to be one of the largest gathering of Naturals, Naturalistas, Culturals, Transitionals and Natural Hair Care Industry Professionals in the Chicagoland area. - Mark David Carter, Executive Producer for MetroSalonPro
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