On Tuesday night, at what seemed to be a Manhattan loft, Ashanti and her friends sat on a sofa having a laugh and slathering on lotion from a new skin line by Johnson’s Body Care. (All while several cameras flashed away at them.) Why? The launch of Johnson’s Body Care’s new charitable party program, that’s why.
Having Ashanti invite friends to a girls’ night, the fabulous apartment goes in line with Johnson’s idea on how we all can find a way to give back, even in these challenging times. Through a Johnson’s party for your girlfriends, with the purpose of raising awareness and donations for the charity of your choice. So, you decide together what charity you want to contribute to and you don’t have to feel the pressure of having to bring the big bucks. You are among friends and any dollar you can spare is enough. The charity of Ashanti’s choice this evening, to which Johnson’s Body Care made the generous donation of $10,000 was The Boys and Girls Club of Harlem, the organization where Ashanti herself feels she got her start. “My mother was a dance teacher there, so I just hung out there a lot. It keeps the kids off the streets, and it feels wonderful to give back” says the singer who was wearing an orange tube dress by Reem Acra (looking very NON-five months pregnant, despite what rumors have suggested), jewelry by Lorraine Schwartz metallic platforms for the occasion.
Reeking from all the lotion she just got smeared in, “I just love scented lotions, my favorite from this collection is definitely the ’24-hours’!”. Ashanti has not been a stranger to charity throughout her career, amongst many other causes she became engaged in the fight against domestic violence after releasing the video for her hit song “Rain on me” in 2003. R ‘n’ B singer, domestic violence … it’s hard not to wonder her feelings on the Chrihanna situation … “It’s very unfortunate. No one knows exactly what happened except the two of them, but my prayers go out to them, I hope they overcome this. They’re very young, so they have to live and learn”.
As told to Hannah Arnhog
