Khadeisha Stew­art is a blos­som­ing Trinidad-based make­up artist. Af­ter com­plet­ing her dou­ble ma­jor in In­ter­na­tion­al Re­la­tions and Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies she merged her loves for in­ter­na­tion­al af­fairs, busi­ness and art to form her com­pa­ny JAC in 2017. In 2018 Jacque­line Arneaud Cos­met­ics’ Caribbean Car­ni­val Tour earned her rapid as­cen­sion with­in the beau­ty in­dus­try both lo­cal­ly and re­gion­al­ly. Khadeisha has worked with en­ter­tain­ers, fel­low in­flu­encers, beau­ty queens and brides across the is­lands, politi­cians and cor­po­rate pro­fes­sion­als.

RisAnne Mar­tin is a Fash­ion and Cos­tume De­sign­er, Pub­lished Styl­ist and Youth Men­tor. Her fash­ion brand Brown Cot­ton Caribbean has been mak­ing waves in the re­gion­al Fash­ion In­dus­try specif­i­cal­ly for her work in Vi­su­al Di­rec­tion in the En­ter­tain­ment and Ad­ver­tis­ing In­dus­try. Brown Cot­ton Caribbean thrives on cre­ative col­lab­o­ra­tions and youth men­tor­ship, as the team fa­cil­i­tates Con­fi­dence Build­ing and Styling work­shops through­out the Caribbean re­gion and Mar­tin is cur­rent­ly fea­tured fa­cil­i­ta­tor at First Cit­i­zens Sec­ondary School Tour : Girls First Fes­ti­val 2019.

Have you ever heard of ‘en­clothed cog­ni­tion’? The text­book de­f­i­n­i­tion of this term is it “de­scribes the sys­tem­at­ic in­flu­ence that clothes have on the wear­er’s psy­cho­log­i­cal process­es” (Ha­jo & Galin­sky, 2012) and fur­ther sug­gests that it “in­volves the co-oc­cur­rence of two in­de­pen­dent fac­tors—the sym­bol­ic mean­ing of the clothes and the phys­i­cal ex­pe­ri­ence of wear­ing them.” In lay­man’s terms, what you wear cer­tain­ly makes you feel some type of way.

When we talk about bul­lies, the first thing that comes to mind is in­di­vid­u­als in a school or a work­place that en­joy be­lit­tling oth­ers for some sort of thrill. How­ev­er, the most hurt­ful form of bul­ly­ing hap­pens when the peo­ple we love bul­ly us. The com­mon signs that your part­ner is a bul­ly are quite clear yet many re­main blind­ed be­cause it is hard to be­lieve the per­son you care about is tak­ing ad­van­tage of you in this de­struc­tive man­ner.

The launch of Movie Night Sun­days will be held on June 16th at 6.30 pm at AKIM­BO, 56 Sad­dle Road, Mar­aval, Port-of­S­pain. The month­ly film screen­ings will show­case kweliTV’s cat­a­logue of award win­ning films every oth­er Sun­day each month.

The world of pageants has al­ways been a talk­ing point for de­bate. Whether beau­ty is ‘skin deep’ or ‘in the eyes of the be­hold­er,’ pageants have be­come a bone of con­tention as to whether their val­ues are kosher or even ben­e­fi­cial, in the long run.

Twen­ty-one-year-old writer, spo­ken word po­et and teach­ing artist Alexan­dra Stew­art, is the cur­rent First Cit­i­zens Na­tion­al Po­et­ry Slam Cham­pi­on. A four-time fi­nal­ist of the same com­pe­ti­tion and the sec­ond-place con­tes­tant of the pop­u­lar po­et­ry com­pe­ti­tion in 2017, Alexan­dra has per­formed both lo­cal­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly (USA and UK).

Af­ter spend­ing five years with your class­mates, the type of bonds formed are al­most un­for­get­table. For this rea­son grad­u­a­tion night has be­come so im­por­tant and spe­cial. It is a time when sec­ondary school stu­dents get a win­dow to learn to how be adults. For all the fun it en­tails, it can be de­scribed as a learn­ing ex­pe­ri­ence and the at­ten­dees are the un­wit­ting stu­dents. Learn­ing how to be­have in a for­mal set­ting, us­ing good man­ners, act­ing like ladies and gen­tle­men, are just a few of the lessons they learn with­out even know­ing it. There are the love­ly clothes, the nice din­ner and un­der­stand­ing the cost your par­ents are will­ing to pay for you to have great ex­pe­ri­ence with your friends on this spe­cial night. Many of us rem­i­nisce on our own grad­u­a­tion night, the ex­cite­ment to get your hair and make­up done, pick­ing out the per­fect dress and of course show­ing up with your date at a for­mal event for this first time ever. Imag­ine, such a mile­stone and cel­e­bra­to­ry night isn’t ex­pe­ri­enced by many be­cause they’re forced to make a choice be­tween get­ting mon­ey to pay for an ex­trav­a­gant night or us­ing same mon­ey from their par­ents for ‘far more im­por­tant’ ex­pens­es at the time. It’s no se­cret that this is an ex­pen­sive ex­pe­ri­ence but won’t it be amaz­ing for all high school­ers to be grant­ed the chance to feel like roy­al­ty for a night?

The dif­fer­ence be­tween hap­pi­ness and joy. Isn’t it the same thing? No, girl — not at all. Feel­ing “hap­py” and “joy­ous” are some­times used in con­ver­sa­tion in­ter­change­ably but re­al­ly, one shouldn’t be con­fused with the oth­er. If some­one asks you how you are, your an­swer can pos­si­bly de­ter­mine if it’s based on feel­ing hap­py or joy­ous. Facts. So what is the dif­fer­ence?

Love comes in many forms and love for your girls, the ones that have been there for you through thick and thin even be­fore you found Mr. Right is sim­ply in­de­scrib­able.
I re­mem­ber be­ing ten years old and get­ting my dolls mar­ried to each oth­er. Bar­bie had to have the per­fect hai­wrstyle, shoes, dress and of course the per­fect brides­maids next to her. Strange­ly, I must ad­mit not much fo­cus was on poor ken at that time. I guess I was part of her bride tribe with­out even know­ing it. Fast for­ward to present day and I have hap­pi­ly ac­cept­ed to be in six bridal par­ties so far!

Let me just say, it is an ab­solute hon­or to be a maid/ma­tron of hon­or or a brides­maid. The bride tribe is the per­fect ex­am­ple of women sup­port­ing women through­out the ages. It is one of the few oc­ca­sions that you can suc­cess­ful­ly find women com­ing to­geth­er no mat­ter dif­fer­ences in back­ground, age, race, fi­nan­cial sta­tus, mar­i­tal sta­tus, re­li­gion to of­fer gen­uine sup­port to the bride on her big day.

Most women cry when they wit­ness the bride say­ing yes to the dress, say­ing I do to the groom, that spe­cial first dance and of course the tear jerk­ing speech­es can not be for­got­ten. It is so emo­tion­al and touch­ing for the women in the fam­i­ly, the moth­er, grand­moth­er, sis­ters and even aun­ties of the bride seem to of­fer the most heart­felt ad­vice to the cou­ple. We as women want this day to be mem­o­rable in all the right ways. From the mo­ment the bride ac­cepts her pro­pos­al, oth­er pro­pos­als hap­pen ! Be it a call to her best girl­friends over the phone and squeals of ex­cite­ment whilst ask­ing them to be a brides­maid or care­ful­ly thought out per­son­al­ized bride tribe pro­pos­als, every­thing should be spe­cial in its own way. Per­son­al­ized “Will you be my maid of hon­or/brides­maid ?!” mugs, cards, tea sets, tee shirts are all on trend and get the ex­cite­ment build­ing to cre­ate mo­ments and keep­sakes that will last a life­time.

These mo­ments you are go­ing to share will be passed down through pic­tures, videos and sto­ries to fu­ture gen­er­a­tions, so in­deed it needs to be tak­en se­ri­ous­ly by all. When the bride tribe feels ap­pre­ci­at­ed they give their best ef­fort in­to mak­ing the wed­ding ex­pe­ri­ence as mag­i­cal as they can. Plan­ning events such as a bridal show­er and bach­e­lorette par­ty to help­ing choose the right cake, venue, dec­o­ra­tions and dress­es are all so in­cred­i­bly im­por­tant and no­body wants it to be a stress­ful ex­pe­ri­ence. It is al­ways a plus when brides have pic­tures at hand about their par­tic­u­lar wants and needs so her tribe can be best pre­pared to help keep her sat­is­fied and pleased. At­tend­ing bridal ex­pos al­ways keep every­one up to date, whilst show­ing as many op­tions as pos­si­ble.
I have fan­tas­tic news for you if you are in­ter­est­ed in ed­u­cat­ing your­self about the wed­ding in­dus­try in a busi­ness re­lat­ed fo­rum. It should be not­ed that the Wed­ding Con­ven­tion is pleased to host the 2019 Wed­ding Con­ven­tion Busi­ness Con­fer­ence on Fri­day 7th June at the Carousel Room, Ban­quet & Con­fer­ence Cen­tre 3rd Floor, Fi­es­ta Plaza Movie Towne Port of Spain.

Won­der­ful guest speak­ers will be present to share their knowl­edge such as In­di­ra Couch, CEO of Ac­tion Coach, Judette Cow­ard CEO of For­ward­Forty.com, Nigel Wall of ASK Lead­er­ship and Jil­lian Christ­mas own­er of Shoea­cholics. There will al­so be a Morn­ing Shake Up with Guest Mo­ti­va­tion­al speak­er Arnold Best. Tick­ets are TT$425.00 and you can reg­is­ter on­line and pay at the event. The price in­cludes lunch, re­fresh­ments and learn­ing ma­te­ri­als so it’s a steal of a deal. Re­serve your spot at : thewed­ding­con­ven­tion.com/Busi­ness-Con­fer­ence.

Kathryn Nurse is a cos­met­ic chemist who has been in the busi­ness of prod­uct for­mu­la­tion since 2010 through her bath and body com­pa­ny, Im­mortelle Beau­ty. She is con­fi­dent that her cus­tomers can al­ways count on her prod­ucts and brand to pro­vide beau­ty not just in terms of what’s in­side the bot­tle, but in every oth­er as­pect of the prod­uct line as well. With many women be­com­ing more con­cerned with the types of prod­ucts that they use on their skin, the WE Mag­a­zine Team took some time to chat with Kathryn about her lo­cal line and her love for skin­care.

I do not know about you, but when my space is a mess, I’m a mess. Hav­ing a messy house, room or even car can make you feel like every­thing is hec­tic, rushed and out of place. You will find if you clean up your act, you will ap­proach every­day life with a clear­er head and a bet­ter ap­proach to the day. No more has­sle to get around; you start your day with clear in­ten­tions and come home to a clean space to un­wind and rest.