Founder & Executive Director

 

Caroline MacGillivray is best known as the Executive Director and founder of Beauty Night Society. In 14 years, Beauty Night has given more than 48,000 life-makeovers to women who live in poverty. Her efforts have not gone unnoticed: she is honored to be a 2002 Flare Volunteer Award (national) recipient, Shakti Public Service 2012 recipient, 2010 Spirit of the Crane Gold Community Award recipient, MetoWe Finalist(National), 2 time Woman of Worth finalist and a five-time YWCA Woman of Distinction Nominee. Caroline is also a speaker, writer, dance instructor, yoga instructor and a medical qi gong therapist in training. She was thrilled to be the recipient of full scholarships for medical qi gong practitioner and yoga teacher training certifications. She is also known as the host and producer of Sexy in Vancity Radio on 101.9FM CITR (Wednesday Nights at 10pm).

 

Caroline & Beauty Night

Caroline MacGillivray discovered the plith of survival sex trade workers in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in 2000. She volunteering at WISH Drop in Centre to do research for a short film she was acting in. One night a woman came in. She didn’t want to eat, speak, or for the staff to call 911. When Caroline asked what she wanted, she said she wanted to, “Feel clean.” When a shower came available, the woman was given a towel. Afterwards when searching through the donations of clean clothes, she found a curling iron and plugged it in. When it heated up, the woman realized she wasn’t able to raise her arms to curl her hair. Caroline offered to do it for her. Afterwards, the woman hugged and left with an extra bounce in her step. Every time Caroline came to volunteer, the woman asked her to do her hair and makeup. Within a few weeks, Caroline became very popular with the other women and proposed a “beauty night” at WISH to better meet the needs of the women.

Since then Beauty Night became a registered charity and serves 300 women each week. 14 years, 48, 000 makeovers thanks to 500+ volunteers.