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Volume 25, Number 31
Thursday, August 3, 2023
Afro-Latina owned lash bar and spa is thriving By David Matos Record-Journal staff
Berlin High School’s Teacher of the Year Nicole Carrasquillo. Nicole Zappone, The Citizen
Teacher of the Year: ‘small successes’ are a big deal By Nicole Zappone The Citizen
Special education teacher Nicole Carrasquillo is Berlin High School’s 2022-23 Teacher of the Year. Carrasquillo has been an educator for 18 years, five of them in Berlin. “My favorite part about being a special education teacher is seeing the small successes mount into something great over time,” the Teacher of the Year stated. See Teacher, A12
Kaitlyn Green turned her love for makeup into a lash bar and spa, Intoxikated, in 2021. Her business, at 1204 Farmington Ave. in Berlin, specializes in personalized services, including facials, lash extensions, brow, body and Brazilian waxing and makeup. Green said she named her business Intoxikated, spelled with a “k” instead of a “c,” not only because it’s a unique way to incorporate her first name into her shop’s branding, but it’s the “perfect” way to describe how she feels when doing her services. “I feel totally consumed by what I’m doing where I really focus on the client first so that they can relax, and I put my all into it,” Green said. “And that’s what I felt like is the only way to describe it. So that’s how the name came about. It is pretty much like the exhilaration that you get from, you know, taking care of your clients.” Green, who is Black and Puerto Rican, was born and raised in New Britain. She prides herself in her biracial identity despite growing up in an environment without many biracial children. See Intoxikated, A10
Intoxikated owner Kaitlyn Green, left, and her coworker, licensed esthetician and lash technician Maritza Camerl, pose for a photo. Intoxikated was founded by Green in 2021 and specializes in personalized services, including facials, lash extensions, brow, body and Brazilian waxing and makeup. Photo contributed by Kaitlyn Green
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