Carnival Glam Hub is the Caribbean's premium Carnival beauty concierge, founded by Gabrielle Waite in 2017. Trusted by 15,000+ masqueraders across Trinidad, Jamaica and beyond.
Started in Port of Spain to solve one problem: masqueraders piecing together makeup, hair, dressing and transport across five appointments on Carnival morning. 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.
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.
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. The full list, with dates and links, is on our press page.
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