Lifestyle
Cocktails With — Canise 'CJ' Jackson
Sunday, November 07, 2010
Leggy Saint model Canise 'CJ' Jackson is enjoying life between The Rock and The Big Apple. Styled to perfection and looking like she just stepped off the pages of a glossy, CJ is sharing cocktails with us at her fave Kingston watering hole — Carlos Café.
What cocktail are you sipping?
3/3 
An apple martini.
What kind of day are you having?
It's been a good day; ran some errands.
Socialite or homebody?
A mixture of both...about 60 per cent of the time I'm home. The New York club scene every night is for those girls who are just starting out in the industry.
Flats or stilettos?
Oh, stilettos...always.
Jeans or LBD?
Little Black Dress, although I wish I could fit my long legs in jeans all the time.
What's your style?
Sophisticated with an edge.
Who does your hair?
Kenya Henry at Kenya's House of Beauty, 23 Dunrobin Avenue.
Who does your nails?
Keisha at 3 North Lane in Montego Bay.
What perfume are you spraying?
Burberry Weekend.
What's in your handbag?
My purse, given to me by Donovan DePass, who showed at last year's Style Week Jamaica; my Gucci shades, iPhone, Burberry Weekend, my Chanel coin purse, Pompei mirror and my emery board.
What's your idea of the perfect date?
One where I'd be laughing from start to finish... not wanting to leave because the conversation is so enthralling.
What's your idea of the perfect man?
If there were such a thing, he would have to be tall, handsome, intelligent, funny, a great conversationalist and communicator, genuine and romantic.
What's the best thing about being a model?
The opportunity to travel, see the world. I have been to lots of places, I'm truly blessed and I'm not done yet!
What projects are you currently working on?
I've just wrapped shooting an amazing coffee table book with photographer Thiery Le Geous, an absolutely amazing photographer.
What's next for CJ?
Paris in January for the couture shows. I haven't been to Paris in two years.
You sound excited, who are you hoping to walk for there?
All of them ... I hope to lock it down.
What's the best piece of advice you've been given?
"Learn to really, truly see who you are." It's important to take a step back, look at how you present yourself and try to see yourself through someone else's eyes.
What advice do you have for aspiring models?
Stay humble ... don't watch what anyone else is doing, and be true to yourself. That has a lot to do with who we turn out to be.
And 10 years from now?
Married with children, at least two or three businesses, including my own swimsuit line ... alive and happy!
