Caribbean Carnival morning concierge, co-founded in 2017 by Kibwe McGann and Gabrielle Waite. More than 15,000 masqueraders served since 2017.
Carnival Glam Hub was co-founded in 2017 by Kibwe McGann and Gabrielle Waite. Gabrielle is a Jamaican makeup artist and entrepreneur, founder of Gabby Glam Cosmetics and Glam Haus by Gabby Glam, a studio in Kingston, and was named a Distinguished Awardee in Beauty at the Jamaica Gleaner's Flair Distinguished Awards in 2023, as reported by the Gleaner.
Carnival Glam Hub started in Jamaica in 2017 and opened in Trinidad in 2020, to solve one problem: masqueraders piecing together makeup, hair, dressing and transport across five appointments on Carnival morning. It is now delivered from one air-conditioned lounge with a senior Caribbean team.
Sweat-resistant makeup, headpiece-ready hair, costume dressing, photoshoot and shuttle, from one location, on the morning of the parade.
Every Carnival Glam Hub is a temporary lounge, taken over for the Carnival weekend, staffed by a local team and run to a schedule. Masqueraders check in, move through hair and makeup, get dressed with a seamstress on hand, are photographed in full costume and then leave for their band. The point is that it all happens in one air-conditioned building, before dawn, at the pace the road demands.
We run a Full Service Glam Hub where the demand and the venue allow the complete lounge, and a Glam Hub Lite everywhere else. The tier decides what is on offer, never the quality of the work.
A Glam Hub Lite does not offer getting dressed, seamstress, overnight bag check, shuttle, hair, bronzing, reels, alcohol, breakfast. Grenada is the one exception: it offers dressing assistance, and still no seamstress.
Our Full Service Glam Hubs run in Jamaica, Trinidad and Miami. We also operate as Glam Hub Lite in Saint Lucia, Grenada, Antigua, Barbados, Toronto, Guyana, Tobago and Atlanta, following the regional Carnival calendar.
Pricing is tiered. Carnival morning access, meaning getting dressed, the lounge, refreshments and shuttle where it runs, is US$35. Makeup only is US$120 to US$210 for a single day, and US$380 for both Trinidad days. Named and celebrity artists run US$200 to US$580. Photoshoot only is US$100 to US$160, hair is US$120 to US$220 and Full Glam is US$440 to US$680. A deposit of US$50 per masquerader confirms the booking and comes off the balance.
Add-ons are priced separately. Reels are US$80 per masquerader in Trinidad and Jamaica, the barber is US$35 in Trinidad and Jamaica, and overnight bag check is US$35 in Trinidad, Jamaica and Miami.
Co-founded in 2017 by Kibwe McGann and Gabrielle Waite, Carnival Glam Hub employs Caribbean makeup artists, hair stylists, photographers, seamstresses, dressers and front of house crew, hundreds of them across a season, and the great majority are women working in their own territory. Artists who want to work a season can apply to join the team, and independent professionals can rent a station and bring their own clients.
Carnival Glam Hub has been covered by Teen Vogue, theGrio, Jamaica Observer, Jamaica Gleaner, Our Today, CaribVoxx, Haute People. Gabrielle Waite received the Distinguished Award in Beauty at the Jamaica Gleaner's Flair Distinguished Awards in 2023. The full list, with dates and links, is on our press page.
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