Cocoa and Chanel

You only have one face so you better take damn good care of it. I obviously came a long way from my eyeliner & petroleum jelly days, expanding my cosmetics terrain with the use of BB cream and highly-pigmented, industrial strength eye shadow palettes. Ha Ha!

Inarte overkill. I'm a huge smokey eyes-fan but my lids can only take so much black make up, and with the risky nature of this style, overdoing can look horribly wrong. Until I plan on being the adopted Kardashian sister, I'm keeping my smokey eyes intensity level to a minimum, thank you. Besides, don't you just hate the feeling of burying your skin under layers and layers of make up? Because I do. One or two is simply enough.That is me in an early morning beauty product testing, completely ditching breakfast. 

Thanks Nanay for the Chanel & MAC loot and Tita Joy for the Bobbi Brown and assorted Korean goodies! I'm a happy girl for receiving pasalubongs whenever my mom's friends would go abroad! :D

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Grand Central Station and step on it dah-ling! 

Mom’s day at Dad’s plus Ascott for the night for majority of my family. Sucks I had to go home in the wee hours of the night to get enough rest for Monday’s hustle. Vintage on vintage feel hence the Breakfast at Tiffany’s spiel earlier. If you haven’t seen this classic, I strongly suggest you do. If you don’t get it the first time, it’s fine; I had to watch it five times before I understood Holly was a happy-go-lucky social butterfly who sort of gold-dug her way around NYC. Anyway, I absolutely adore this black vintage lace dress I got from Looking for Lola at half the price. Added a final classic touch with this vintage Chanel classic flap of my grandmum.

Looking for Lola lace dress | Coach monogram flats | Vintage Chanel bag

That is our suite and below is a cheap thrill of mine. My favorite lengua estofado from Cucina. (Only in Glorietta food court.)

I haven’t fully regained my blogging mojo and I’m not into publishing anything half-baked but this should do it for now. I’m a very busy woman and I haven’t got all day to blab. Ta ta! 

Punch Drunk

As the calendar sheds a new leaf, I am stunned, dazed and confused as to how I got through the last 10 months in one piece. Everything went by so crazy-fast I must be racing down in a neat sports car all along. At New Year’s Eve, I was gazing upon the firework-lit sky, imagining how the New Year will come by. Guess what? It was nowhere near what I imagined it to be. After ten months, truckloads of disappointments coupled with unpleasantries and hurricanes of blessings later, here I am, 9 days away from turning a year older. Dear God, if you’re reading this, I pray my work schedule next week will permit me to finally go out and have fun :( an extra rest day won't hurt too. Or is it too much to ask? Yours truly.

With writing being my only escape, It feels extremely frustrating not to be able to produce quality blog posts for weeks. My job has taken me to different cities throughout the country for consecutive weekends, from Bacolod to Davao just recently, then Cagayan de Oro this coming one. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy travelling but I also miss spending weekends bumming and writing. Kids, if you’re still in school, enjoy.every.second.of.itttt!

I curtsied the entry of November in a very simple yet colorful ensemble I put together in less than 5 minutes. I completely fell in love with the colors of this top that I got last Friday en route to the airport. You see,I felt the need to take a breather. Consecutive weekends ambush-travelling weaned me from my usual R&R at the mall, I miss it terribly! Where were we? Oh yeah, the outfit. I’m not too crazy with how this top fits but I can't say no to the colors either. The price tag became the clincher as it was on sale at about 75% off. I despise how I keep on using sales as an excuse to buy. Never gets old, does it?

From fishing from shopping bags to unearthing from my closet; I used this strapless chiffon top with uneven hem as a skirt which totally disguised the two separates as a tunic. Finished the look off with my zebra-print peep-toes to give my outfit extra pizzazz. I over-siesta’d earlier so I was in a rush to have my outfit photos taken. I didn’t have the luxury of time to dab make-up on my face hence the sunglasses. Kept everything else in gold tone to match the hardware of my purse; being of legal age became my access pass to my grandmum’s purse collection. (I know I look awful in the next photo, but I love how the movement was captured beautifully. That's as candid as it can get!)

 

Running running as fast as we can I really hope we'll make it

Do you think we'll make it?

Topshop color block tank | Bought from the US top used as skirt | The Ramp zebra-print peep-toes | H&M Gold bangle | Forever21 gold chain fringe necklace | Vintage Chanel classic flap from my Grandmum

It has reached my radar that iheartmatilda recently wrote a short feature about my blog. Now, I still squint my eye in confusion as to how they were able to follow the narrow trail to my blog. I cringe in delight at this little feat as I am not one to claim a spot on the limelight. Neither am I the type to link people to my blog and ask them to “check it out”-- not that there's anything wrong with it, it's just not me. As much as I feel tempted to send in photos of myself wearing their clothes, I am overdriven by my shrinking violet-self and this pesky voice in my head telling me not to. But anyway, to the beautiful Gallegos sisters, thank you, thank you :) I’m really looking forward to meeting you. (..and I still want to get my hands on your houndstooth dress!). And to everyone who's reached the bottom of this entry, thank you so much as well. If you've been hanging around my blog, you'd notice how I'd get so into writing and I can't do with just a paragraph or two. 

P.S. It's not just you, I am deeply annoyed by the strand of hair caught by my lip smackers! Told ya' I was in a hurry, didn't had the time to brush it off my face.