Mpumalanga Finishing Schools

My name is Lenise. I am fortunate to live in the beautiful Lowveld Town, Nelspruit. A large part of my Career I have spent in the Hospitality Industry with my main focus on Financial Management, but quickly I got the opportunity to turn my focus on the more exciting Entertainment Industry, and got to interact with the famous in the form of organising music festivals; the Loskop Ultra Marathon, as well as Development Races for the less fortunate in the Rural areas. I left the Hospitality Industry 3 years ago taking a leap of faith to being self-employed. It worked out great. I now own a Promotional and a Bookkeeping business.

I have now added Bella Donna Finishing Classes to my business Profile and I feel that this will give me the opportunity to pass on the knowledge that I have acquired over the years in the different industries. We as women need so many skills to succeed these days, as we are now competing with our male counterparts in the world of employment on equal grounds. With Bella Donna Classes every girl will be equipped to take a confident step into the ‘big world’ and not stand back for anyone.

My name is Marzaan. I live in breath-taking Nelspruit with my two children Elishua and Rhodè. Over the past 20 yrs I’ve gained a variety of valuable experience being involved in Modelling, photography, dancing, acting & finishing since 1992.

My passion has always been to help and assist young girls/ ladies, by removing some stumbling blocks on their road on becoming strong, beautiful & well-rounded individuals. To be able to witness the transformation in the way a girl conduct herself with more self-confidence & better communication skills is what makes doing this addictive.

To help give teens a better understanding and new meaning to the concepts; self-respect, dignity & a positive attitude , crucial attributes needed in a world that has become increasingly challenging and competitive is my heart beat & what Bella Donna is all about. This I believe………” Until you yourself believe it’s true……… no one else will ever find the beauty and potential that lies in you!” I strive to help each and every girl and women I get in touch with to get to believe in them self and their unique talents and God given abilities…..

Each little girl wants to be a princess and I was no different.  In order to fulfill a little girl’s dream to become a princess, mothers send their little princesses to take part in beauty pageants,  modelling competitions and finishing schools to assist in the process to be transformed into a swan.

As a child, I took part in local beauty pageants in Piet Retief.  Sometimes with good results and sometimes with not so pleasant results.  I never took it personally when I was not the princess of the event and accepted it as part of life.  I think that this attitude made me a winner.

Being a teenager is very difficult with all its challenges.  To assist me in facing these challenges, I attended the Cleopatra International Finishing School, where I was taught how a princess would handle challenges in life.

After school I had the privilege to teach young aspirant princesses what I had acquired from my experience at 4U Modelling School with my sister in law, Younay.  As time passed I met my prince and we rode of in the sunset.  I decided that it was time for me to have my own princesses and prince and sit on the side line for a while.

Now that my princesses and prince are bigger, I decided to come out from “retirement” and joined the Bella Donna Group.  Once that desire of becoming a princesses is in you, you will not let go until your dream is fulfilled or you can assist it making another girls dream a reality.

I am a honest and driven woman that can’t sit still for too long and believe most people miss out on amazing blessings because of routines that has become their day to day life. I once heard this saying: “Life is routine, and routine is resistance to wonders.”  Wonders can’t take place if we are afraid to take chances, and that’s why I make the most of every opportunity to fulfil my destiny and purpose! I am a real woman driven by my values and beliefs, with a mission and purpose to influence those around me and leave a lasting legacy for South Africa and the world.

I give of myself to touch people’s hearts and to let them realize what it means to be rooted in pure love! To teach and develop woman to be strong on the inside and to use their inner strength to became women of true beauty.

I want to leave a legacy. My purpose and dream is to reach out to young South Africans and provide them with possibilities. We all have true greatness inside and by unleashing the potential in our youth, there will be no end to what the individuals and our country can achieve.

A Motto I live by: “We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”  Snippet from Marianne Williamson