Can we talk about how excited I am for Caribbean Tales Film Festival?! They planning to shut tings down this year…literally!! Continue Reading…
Like many of you I’ve been on a hair journey. I’ve had relaxed hair for a long time, dealt with the usual breakage. I stopped relaxing fully and moved to a kind of texturizing (called wash and wear from Jazma) I then started wearing clip ins and weave and had some great hair growth. I’m now about 85% natural. So I’m always looking for natural hair products that can give me real curl definition and minimize frizz. Enter Up North Naturals!
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Love And Nudes: Intimates For Women Of Colour
August 15, 2017
To be honest, I never really realized the full scale of this issue until Chantal Carter Taylor brought it to my attention. The fact that women of colour have had to make do with beige lingerie. She said “Beige is not nude. It’s not my nude. Is it your nude?”
Sci-Fi series Orphan Black ends for good on August 12th. Actor Kevin Hanchard stars as detective Art Bell on the award winning show. Continue Reading…
The party is officially done for another year. This was my first full Toronto carnival in a while. I put together pictures of my favourite moments of Caribana 2017.
My father Walter Elliott travelled to Montreal in 1967, he came as part of a contingent from Trinidad and Tobago during Canada’s centennial year. The year carnival came to Canada. He was a dancer and moved here a year later for good on his own. Even though he was a dancer and actor, his real passion was art…particularly the art of carnival. Continue Reading…
Had a random idea to get together with some bloggers, youtubers etc of Caribbean descent. I feel like it’s always good to connect with like minded individuals from time to time and do a check in. It’s difficult for people who are not in this world to understand what creators like me deal with. I was craving convos with people who can relate. So I emailed a few dope peeps who are doing the damn thing in the digital world and said “Let’s meet up!” Continue Reading…
Model Nadelle Lewis has a deep love for mas and Caribbean culture, and for the past three years she has been encouraging full figured women to register and play mas. The #EveryBodyPlayAhMas movement helps to boost confidence and reminds women that their body shape doesn’t have to get in the way of anything they want to do. Continue Reading…
Toronto Caribbean community comes alive during the city’s Caribbean carnival…formerly known as Caribana. Festivities and official events have been taking place for weeks now, but things really heat up this week. Here’s a rundown of some of the not-to-miss Toronto Carnival events. Continue Reading…
