Mary J. Blige to Debut New Fragrance and Perform on HSN

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Nov 222011
 

Singer/songwriter Mary J. Blige will perform on HSN at 12:30 am and 10 pm EST, next Wednesday, November 30,  in celebration of her upcoming album My Life II … The Journey Continues (Act 1).  This will be the first time Ms. Blige sings — as well as sells — on the TV shopping network.  But she will still sell and those efforts will support the debut of My Life Blossom, which is a follow-up to her initial foray into the fragrance business.  That first offering, called simply My Life, made a successful debut on HSN last year and was developed in cooperation with health and beauty marketer Carol’s Daughter.  My Life Blossom — billed as “a continuation of the My Life spirit in a softer, white floral accord with a warm vanilla heart” — will be sold in Fragrance Holiday Gift Sets as a part of HSN’s 24 Hour Beauty Gift Event.

HSN’s 24 Hour Beauty Event will feature beauty gifts from brands such as: Benefit, Phillip B, Wei East, Korres, Deborah Lippmann, Lancome and others.  HSN Press Release  Nov. 21, 2011

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ShopNBC Airing its First-Ever “Beauty Day” Today

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Oct 192010
 

ShopNBC has cast all of today’s programming under a “Beauty Day” theme — reportedly for the first time at the multi-channel retailer.  The greatest variety of beauty products ever on offer in a single day will include: a Pacifica Beauty Discovery 6-Piece Set of fragrances (C47224), a Cosmedicine Best Skin Ever Kit with Bonus (C70114), a Plantogen Manuka Body Oil (C56106), and a clickR Skincare Diamonds and Pearls Duo skin care set (C45903).

In an announcement about the event released late yesterday, Donna Tarantino-Loyle, ShopNBC’s Director of Beauty, Health & Fitness, said, “We have assembled the top beauty products and experts from the industry to share their insider tips, beauty secrets, and inspirations during this exciting event … Our viewers will be able to discover new beauty innovations being offered for the first time on ShopNBC.”  Additional information about the featured products mentioned above appears in the retailers unedited press release, which can be found after the jump. Continue reading »

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Mary J. Blige Fragrance Premiere on HSN Sells 60,000 Units in Six Hours of Airtime

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Aug 042010
 

HSN CEO Mindy Grossman in a press release said that the “groundbreaking success of My Life on HSN changes the existing business model for a prestige fragrance launch and reinforces [HSN's] role as a retail innovator.”  Grossman expanded on this remark during HSN’s second quarter earnings call this morning, describing the launch as the kind of “appointment-to-view event” that helps the retailer acquire new viewers and maintain interest among its existing customer base.  Rochelle Bloom, president of The Fragrance Foundation, also found significance in the launch, according to the same news release.  She said, “the success of Mary J. Blige’s fragrance and her personal message proves their power to reach out and entice a vast, broad consumer who loves and wants fragrance.  Bravo HSN and Mary J.!”

The launch of My Life shattered the previous record for fragrance units sold on HSN, and 20% of purchasers were new customers.  The launch also resulted in a dollar-per-unit, $60,000 contribution to the Foundation of the Advancement of Women Now (FFAWN), a non-profit co-created by Ms. Blige to assist women in need.  FFAWN’s co-founder is Steve Stoute, chairman & lead investor of Carol’s Daughter, the beauty company that partnered with Blige to create the My Life fragrance.  HSN Inc. Press Release Aug. 3, 2010

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Mary J. Blige Casts New Fragrance as Part of Grand “Movement”

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Jun 232010
 

Grammy-award-winning singer/songwriter Mary J. Blige is doing a little advance publicity for her new My Life fragrance, which was named after her celebrated 1994 album and will be sold exclusively on HSN, beginning July 31st.  The Total Beauty website writes that the fragrance will contain fruity floral notes including gardenia, pear, freesia, a blended floral heart with tuberose, jasmine, lily and a woodsy, candied drydown with a base of incense.  But Blige is advance-pitching it in a more transcendent, aspirational way.  She says, “The title, the album, and my entire movement in my career has everything to do with why this perfume is called ‘My Life.’ My entire movement has been about women rising up from the ashes like phoenixes and giving their life, giving themselves a shot and not beating themselves up.”  [Emphasis added.]  TotalBeauty.com Jun. 22, 2010

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The Atlantic Magazine Lauds, Vilifies and is Awed by QVC

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May 122010
 

Sure, the reporter looks down her nose at TV shopping — but admits she’s a fan.  It’s one of the innocuous, low-brow pastimes that sophisticates don’t mind owing up to in the service of trying not to seem full of themselves.  Of course, she thinks QVC may bear some guilt for the spell it casts on true shopaholics.  In the end, this reporter (Megan McArdle) can’t quite determine whether the biggest DRTV network is a cause or effect of the nation”s profligacy.  No matter, the piece is a tribute to the merchandising skill of the staff — particularly the hosts.  And the source link contains a video link featuring a virtuouso performance of Patti Reilly selling perfume.  She riffs on its contributions to one’s striving to become the kind of “centered, grounded person” we all want to be.  Bravo!  The Atlantic Magazine May 11, 2010

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