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Celebrating Cultural Diversity in Fashion and Beauty
Whereas fashion and beauty might be universal languages, the expressions thereof vary from culture to culture.
The Curls-Preneur Part I
Arlene Rivera— stylist, owner and founder of “Maxine’s Shears and Wigs, Salon and Barbershop” in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA is a controversial natural curl entrepreneur. Her professional philosophy on how to grow and maintain beautiful natural curls and waves is that race or ethnicity does not matter…
The Universal Language of YouTube
Over the past decade, social media applications and websites have soared due to the growing rate of technology. It’s weird to think that just ten years ago flip phones existed. The time of having to type a number three times […]
Trini Girl In London – Fear
Fear is an emotion induced by a threat perceived by living entities, which causes a change in brain and organ function and ultimately a change in behavior, such as running away, hiding or freezing from traumatic events. (Wikipedia) Forget […]
Style Accessories with Arabic Fusion
The perfect little accessory can take your outfit from average to spectacular in a matter of seconds. My latest cultural fashion find happens to be from Australia-born, Bahraini artist Amina Al Abbasi. This woman is personally transforming the Arab Culture […]
COLUMN: Trini Girl In London – The Big Day!!! NHC 2014
My head feels as if there is an elephant tap dancing on it. I’m tired. The room is dark and I can hear the rain outside my window. I groan and head to the shower. We sit around wondering what […]
Trini Girl In London…Carnival Sunday – Chocolate Mas
I’m excited! I am up even before my alarm. I’m excited even though I have a cold. I’m all showered and ready to go. Doing some cutting and customising of my t-shirt. For this type of mas, it customary to […]
Trini Girl In London… Suits UK – The NHC Cruise
An infuriating buzzing noise dragged me out of my deep sleep. So irritating. I cracked my eyes open wearily. What could it be? Straining my ears but still trying to hang on to the sweet surrender of sleep, I lift […]