i'm a girl

this debutant thing made the whole family grrazy..! my mom just bought a "brown" skirt with some shining-shimmering splendid inside. my sister (this was a sunday incident) spent 2000 pesos for clothes (she bought me a sailor uniform), shoes, skirts and caps for us. my other sister wore a "romantic sweater" (you know the one like a turtle neck with alot of ruffles) and heels on a hot lazy sunday. my dad's been so busy with the songs thing. i took my mom's make-up kit and started polishing my face. make-up-over-make-up-over-make-up and i was scary. i was looking for the right mix of make-up so after one mixture, i wash my face with a cleanser and mix another mixture. but, believe it or not, i look good on make-up. but i'm a bad make-up artist. firstly, my face looked brutally red. secondly, my face looked brutally white. and then lastly, i don't have a face anymore.

here are my faces:

as show-off as it may get, i got the good set of teeth. i snagged a lip gloss and a lip shimmer from my mom (and it tasted orange) and i used it today. here's my lip:

the make-up kit came from my mom's friend who's leaving the country soon. she's a great friend to my mom and it's very great of her to give us the kit. haha. here are the make-up spoils:

this is an artistic snapshot of our collection of nailpolishes. we have more if you think that shouldn't be called a collection. i just made a nice shot to recreate my skill. (what?)

A video of my "make0ver interview" is coming up. just waiting for the upload to process.

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the weekenders

Last Friday was my other sister's Prom night and my sister came home from Quezon ave. It was fun because she's home and we always wanted to bond during weekends. She had a surprise. It was Tess' (from Roswell) armadillo dance and we laughed. We had hot chocolate the one Carolyne gave from Australia. We sprinkled it with chocolate too. Then we watched other videos from her iBook such as The Weekenders, Veronica Mars, Roswell, other interviews and music videos. I slept early. bummer.

The next day, i watched Roswell early in the morning. Then we do the laundry and other chores. After than we sing songs and recorded it with my phone and uploaded it on the iBook. Then we watched the "our concert" at around 8.00 and then watched The Weekenders and laughed. Then, we recorded ourselves fooling around. At around 1.00, we decided to call for pizza and my parents were asleep already. But, unfortunately, the pizza huts are already closed. Around 3.00, our tummies began to grumble that we decided to call for Chinese food. We ordered miki, siomai, siopao, shangai and hot chocolate. I even took a video of it.





After that, we watched more The Weekenders and sadly i was the first one to crawl to bed. It was Sunday after Saturday and we went to church. We wore something conventional. I wore suspenders, top, pants and flats, my sister wore an army skirt, top and shoes and my other sister wore a Korean-inspired shirt, pants and flats and it was grool. Then we ate at Pancake House after conversation-over-conversation with our relatives. Here's a video of the Pancake House brunch.





After that we went flea market shopping. It was fun dressing up in weird clothes, shoes, hats and skirts. My sister payed for all which made her broke. It cost 1,950 pesos all in all and she's officially broke. Then we went meat marketing and bought ice cream and we had a little "dress-up" with the parents and they were in awe. It was something to use for our friend's debutant party. We were asked to sing too so we practiced with our cousins songs like Birthday Song by Don McLean and One Friend by Dan Seals.

Here's a pair of Japanese shoes from my shopping spoils yesterday:



it's like for tap dancing. (Sorry for the picture. Sad to say, i did not edit the options of my camera..)


Everything's back to normal when our cousin left. The day ended too.

Fin.

cool!

This is the moment when i blackout due to some amazement of some sort, my back twitches, i melt and my eyes twitch too.

By the way. This photo was taken from supermodels.nl plus i did not hotlink anything.

Fin.

Make your style happy

Happy Andrada, fashion designer/student from La Salle College International Manila, is passionate about fashion. "It's a medium of self-expression. and it's freedom!" She designs based on the uniqueness of things. Her usual fashion genre are rock n roll, spikes, and other weird stuff. She adds funky touches to her designs.




Her designs, such as the picture above, inspired me. It's funny that her designs matched the way i want my compilation of portfolio would look like. I found her article in the youngpinoyfashion.com where i took some other contact details of hers.

Yesterday, February 12, i sent her a text message and asked if i can be some kind of a freelance designer. she replied, and said that that would be a great idea. the purpose of sending my works to her is for reference. In that case, if she can't complete a single finishing touch, then she can browse on small parts of my design.

It's great that she accepted such suggestion. I was expecting that she would stay independent with her designs and ignore open-mindedness. Visit her website by clicking here.

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the leggings continue

i'm not capable of leggings since i have beanpoll thighs (i was made to be a model) but leggings are "in" in the Philippines today. even the vegetable-looking people are riding on the trend.



i saw this picture on the Milan Daily Blog. it's so cool that i want to grab it from the computer. i'm done.

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Milan On-Line Fashion School

The Milan Fashion Campus is offering an on-line course worldwide to those who wants to learn the Italian method of fashion designing. They offer a downloadable lessons on how to create faces, body figures, colours, et al. For a 5-month course (or depending on your dedication) you will learn how to draw red carpet dresses.

The course is composed of 7 sections, 27 chapters, 200 pages, and more than 150 excercises. It cost cheaper than ordinary fashion schools and there is a big difference after those 5-months. Payment is thru credit card (Paypal). This is worth buying. (..and the credit card issue talks again.) The official website fashioncampus.it says it all!

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belle and bunty

26-year-old designers Alice-Louise Shreeve and Hannah Coniam coined their label after their childhood epithets. Belle and Bunty.
is a label for too-much-feminine girls.
is distuinguished by their good print and embroidery.



beautyandthedirt.com said that we should keep an eye out for their new designs.
someday, i will design like that. and i will be big. like the Titanic.*

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funky vintage 60s fabric

drop-dead gorgeous people (or girls) will look good when they slip on this funky vintage 60s fabric.
is an item from eBay.
no holes. *phew*
in a good condition.



there's a label, "skinnyminks" on the picture.
it is dedicated to people who like to wear vintage as the owner explained. grool.

i especially love the fabric. a comfortable pattern for a good beach. and the figure of the dress is so lady-like.
good for those who wants to show off their curves.

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S L I M S: fashion and arts school

the Yahoo! search engine introduced me to a school worth envying: SLIMS.
is a Philippine Fashion and art school.
offers great courses such as fashion design, dressmaking and special course in fine arts.
is a 3-minute jeep ride from MRT to LRT stations as described by Young Pinoy Fashion website article on SLIMS.

They have "fashion Friday." what kind of lesson is that? are they trying to kill me?
i want in mother!!! i promise i'll be good for the rest of my life. i will never ask you for another thing for the next 5 months... make that 7 if you can make an exception!!! i beg of you. Just a shred of your humanity means alot!! i am serious.

The word SLIMS came from the name of the socialite, Madame Salvacion Lim. The school specializes education in fashion designing and so on.

One thrilling news:
artist - Johnny Otilano
greatest couturiers - Joe Salazar
dean of the Philippine fashion - Ben Farrales

offer scholarships for students who wants to enroll at the school! *there's hope*

it's all just pray and work. boring but what the hell...

Fin.

la french tunic

Nathy from France introduced to me a tunic.
is a white fabric, embroidered in veil double cotton.
is a blouse with a hang.



though i never receive it yet, i am much more excited.
Fin.

i am still hip

i'm still hip.
my sister welcomed me to "teenhood" on my 13th birthday. after that, i started changing my lifestyle and behaviour.

yes, ladies and gentlemen. i am still hip. most people here (mostly the hellhole) are ignorants and their wide eyes kept looking at you from head to toe when you wear something out of ordinary. i say, matching.

matching
n.
One that is exactly like another; a counterpart.
One that is like another in one or more specified qualities: He is John's match for bravery.
One that closely resembles or harmonizes with another: The napkins were a nice match for the tablecloth.
A pair, each one of which resembles or harmonizes with the other: The colors were a close match.

me: matching is fashion. just think of black to pink. red to white.
people: a stick of juicy fruit is fashion. just think of yellow top, yellow undergarment, yellow pants, yellow shoes. people are sick.


i am still hip.
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socks and all its contents

me and Jessica Thompson from California have an ongoing swap. and surprisingly, i asked her for knee-high socks.

yesterday, february 4, 2007; we went to Meat Plus and i ordered Penne Pomodoro con crema and mango shake (too much details), Jessica told me that she found two knee-high socks and asked me what colour i wanted: fuschia? or yellow with an "ink" lining?

today, february 5, 2007; drastic memory why i'm in an internet cafe, Jessica e-mailed me and i found out that she crawled her way into a website of socks.

is a sock online shop.
sells stuffs other than socks which are (some are) cooler.
they sell stuffs from socks to leg warmers to petticoats to leggings to scarves to arm warmers to pedicures to t-shirts to garters to miscellaneous.
i am green with envy for not having access to online credit card functions.

only 4 years more so i can get my credit card. (and to think mom and dad doesn't have a credit card in the age of 45). story of my life.

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nerd glasses

our shop offers a variety of nerd glasses. i thought that maybe it would be a great swap. alot of people love to act nerdy-smarty people. only act. as most people hate the windowless hellhole or generally called school. it cost 80-120 pesos or 2-3 dollars but i hate selling stuffs thru internet.

some of our nerd glasses look like this:



but there are some older other styles like a pair of blue nerd glasses or a pair of nerd glasses with red edges. whatever.

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milk and honey

i found an article about "Milk and Honey" at pulp (pop culture) site.

is one of the cutest-hottest young labels in Australia.

is, said to be, all about bold colours and quirky prints for flirty females.

the milk and honey offers a variety of retro-60s frenzy clothing for every seasons. their official site ilovemilkandhoney.com explains it all. they show off their inner vixen with their latest summer collection, "Rapture".

Their is a real milk and honey band which plays music ranging from 60s to 80s.

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stargirl: irina lazareanu

my sister introduced to me, Irina Lazareanu.
is a Canadian supermodel.
is formerly the drummer of the UK band Babyshambles.
was discovered by Kate Moss.



according to answers.com, Irina transcends fashion and music, specifically rock n roll, which contributed to the rise of her modelling career. she is known for her distinctive vintage-inspired style. her semblance developed the status of "it-girl". she composed a song for the band "Babyshambles" where she was also the band's former drummer. The song was entitled, "La Belle et la Bête" (which, i agree, is a good song for one supermodel). Irina also took ballet.

Irina was born on the 8th of June 1982 and had modeled for top designers such as Anna Sui, Balenciaga, Chanel, Versace, et al.

Fin.