Fay­ola K J Fras­er

Mrs Glam­our In­ter­na­tion­al, Trinidad and To­ba­go, Sarah In­der­lall, de­scribes her­self as “a proud Trin­bag­on­ian, com­ing from hum­ble be­gin­nings.”

Mrs Glam­our In­ter­na­tion­al is a beau­ty pageant that cel­e­brates mar­ried women world­wide. It pro­vides a plat­form for par­tic­i­pants to show­case their in­ner and out­er beau­ty, as well as their tal­ents and in­tel­li­gence. The com­pe­ti­tion aims to em­pow­er women by en­cour­ag­ing them to em­brace their unique qual­i­ties and ca­pa­bil­i­ties.

The event in­cludes var­i­ous seg­ments such as evening gown pre­sen­ta­tions, in­ter­views, and tal­ent show­cas­es. The next in­ter­na­tion­al fi­nal will be held in Bali from Oc­to­ber 28 to No­vem­ber 3.

Born and raised in En­ter­prise, Trinidad’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive In­der­lall re­mem­bers be­ing taught the im­por­tance of hard work, ed­u­ca­tion, and re­silience from an ear­ly age.

Cred­it­ing her par­ents with not on­ly in­still­ing those val­ues in her, she says that she al­so “has been for­tu­nate to have par­ents who gave me the free­dom to choose my own path, al­low­ing me to stay true to my­self while pur­su­ing my pas­sions and dreams.”

In­der­lall’s love for sci­ence led her to earn a Bach­e­lor’s de­gree in Bi­ol­o­gy, spe­cial­is­ing in Mi­cro­bi­ol­o­gy and Biotech­nol­o­gy, fol­lowed by a Mas­ter’s in Food Sci­ence & Tech­nol­o­gy from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine.

Over the last decade, she has built a re­ward­ing ca­reer in sales and mar­ket­ing, work­ing across di­verse in­dus­tries such as phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, FM­CG, man­u­fac­tur­ing, and home ap­pli­ances. How does In­der­lall float be­tween the two seem­ing­ly dis­tant ca­reers of sci­ence and beau­ty pageantry?

Ac­cord­ing to her, “mod­el­ling has been a pas­sion of mine be­cause it al­lows me to ex­press my­self cre­ative­ly and con­fi­dent­ly. I en­joy step­ping in front of the cam­era, telling a sto­ry through fash­ion and move­ment, and con­nect­ing with peo­ple in a unique way. It’s about em­brac­ing my in­di­vid­u­al­i­ty and us­ing it to in­spire oth­ers to feel beau­ti­ful and con­fi­dent in their own skin.”

This love for mod­el­ling led her to rep­re­sent T&T on the world stage in the Mrs Glam­our In­ter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tion. Crowned Mrs Glam­our In­ter­na­tion­al af­ter com­pet­ing in the Mrs Uni­verse Trinidad and To­ba­go pageant and plac­ing as the run­ner up, she felt ho­n­oured for the op­por­tu­ni­ty to rep­re­sent T&T and de­scribes the jour­ney “as one of per­son­al growth, self-dis­cov­ery, and mak­ing a pos­i­tive im­pact,” and she feels in­cred­i­bly proud to be part of it.

Not on­ly does the com­pe­ti­tion al­low her to pur­sue this love for mod­el­ling, but it al­so al­lows her to raise aware­ness for a cause that she is pas­sion­ate about—an­i­mals. Her plat­form for Mrs Glam­our In­ter­na­tion­al is fo­cused on rais­ing aware­ness for shel­ter an­i­mal adop­tion.

In­der­lall says, “An­i­mal wel­fare has al­ways been a cause very close to my heart. As some­one who be­lieves all crea­tures de­serve kind­ness and com­pas­sion, I knew I want­ed to use my plat­form to raise aware­ness about the im­por­tance of adopt­ing shel­ter an­i­mals.”

That’s how she cre­at­ed the “Adopt the Love” cam­paign, which was spear­head­ed in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Su­per­Dog. This cam­paign fo­cus­es on pro­mot­ing the adop­tion of shel­ter an­i­mals at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Pre­ven­tion of Cru­el­ty of An­i­mals (TTSP­CA) high­light­ing the joy and love these an­i­mals can bring in­to peo­ple’s lives.

To help this cause, fi­nan­cial do­na­tions and a ham­per were do­nat­ed to the TTSP­CA. She al­so launched a so­cial me­dia cam­paign fea­tur­ing a se­ries of videos that en­cour­aged oth­ers to adopt. So far, the cam­paign has reached over 140,000 views, which has been an in­cred­i­ble mile­stone in spread­ing aware­ness.

In­der­lall al­so har­ness­es her con­fi­dence and smile as in­te­gral to her beau­ty regime. She en­cour­ages women to take care of them­selves “both in­side and out,” mus­ing that her “beau­ty reg­i­men is all about bal­ance and fo­cus­ing on main­tain­ing a healthy di­et, reg­u­lar ex­er­cise, and pri­ori­tis­ing self-care.”

She in­di­cates that stay­ing hy­drat­ed through­out the day, stick­ing to a good skin­care rou­tine, and sleep­ing are vi­tal parts of her reg­i­men. She al­ways makes time to un­wind and man­age stress be­cause “when you feel good men­tal­ly and emo­tion­al­ly, it ra­di­ates out­ward.”

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, she stress­es that ed­u­ca­tion is the key to suc­cess, whether through tra­di­tion­al aca­d­e­mics or learn­ing a trade. En­cour­ag­ing young women to strive for in­de­pen­dence, she be­lieves that good ed­u­ca­tion breeds self-suf­fi­cien­cy.

In­der­lall her­self bal­ances her many hats, both in her de­mand­ing ca­reer and prepa­ra­tion for the pageant. De­scrib­ing it as “men­tal­ly and phys­i­cal­ly ex­haust­ing at times,” she counts learn­ing to man­age her time and en­er­gy as “a huge per­son­al vic­to­ry.”

A wife, mod­el, mar­ket­ing man­ag­er, and con­tent cre­ator, Sarah In­der­lall is the de­f­i­n­i­tion of do­ing it all. The un­der­ly­ing ethos of Mrs Glam­our In­ter­na­tion­al is a cel­e­bra­tion of mar­ried women, who are mul­ti­fac­eted and strike the bal­ance.

Em­body­ing that very ethos, In­der­lall is well-poised to rep­re­sent T&T beau­ti­ful­ly on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage.