what an eventful and glamorous weekend!

Besides honoring the man that changed all of our lives, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, I partied my tail feather off this past weekend. It was my good friend/model, Shana Barnes's and also my other good friend/extraordinary artist, Jane Trieu's (check out trieubeauty.com) birthday weekend!!!! And on top of all of this, my bestfriend, Lorena Abenojar flew into town to get away from the sad mood of Seattle, WA

I started the weekend by finishing up Shana's dress for her party. Which she killed!!!!!! I sewed a new weave in for her as well. I redid some cheap shoes for my cousin Daeng Boonmanee because it needed that BAHTOH touch. And Then I cut and dyed Lorena's hair and then found a few items in my closet to style her with for the night.

We went to 3 different parties and chased cabs throughout the whole city, but I made sure that they all looked fierce while doing it.

Make sure to look out for Lorena's modeling debut in a few days...

Hairstyle:

Shana is an addict now and can not be with out her weaves!!!! LOL!!! So the challenge was to figure out how to convert her everyday weave into something that would compliment her bday look. I decided that the dress being a bit extreme with the print and the flower on her should, I should leave her hair sleek. I sewed in her usual weave, leaving the top and edges out. I glued in a bang so that she can remove it later because she normally wears her hair parted in the center. I then pulled everything to the opposite side of her flower and created large bun by teasing and doing pin curls. I finished it off by spraying the bad-boy down with Regis Extreme Hold Hairspray.

thinking back

After a weekend of partying with my bestfriend, Lorena Abenojar, I am just getting over a hangover (jk!!!! or maybe just a tinnnyyy little one). We did a lot of walking down memory lane and ran into many old friends from our childhood while she was here in New York.

It made me think back about the journey that led me to New York, to become who I am today, and also this blog. It has been an amazing adventure and I would say that I have had so much fun, and in some eyes, success. Which was a funny concept to me, because alot of the time we measure success by money and fame, but with time, I have learned that success is finding happy moments in your life.

It has a been a ridiculously amazing life so far... and I see that there is more to come. Thank you to everyone for the support and love.

the faces we wear

Photos By: Tony Lapid
Make-up: Jeralen Mascarinas and Bobbie Yanoupeth

I spent New Year's Eve with my girl Josie Mascarinas. Just us two girls stuffing our faces with finger foods and sipping on Lychee Mojitos and red wine, which led us to the topic of relationships...

It is incredible how much pressure we put on ourselves to wear these different masks to make a relationship work. No matter how wrong someone can be for us, sometimes we want it so bad that we comprise ourselves... to the point that we loose our own identity and our needs.

Sometimes the changes are just little physical things. Maybe make-up, a style of clothing, hair length, weight... and then there are times when the changes are mental things. Regardless of how big or small these changes are, you shouldn't have to do it to please anybody. You shouldn't have to sacrifice your own sense of self, to create this facade that they want you to be, because at the end of the day, they aren't really seeing you for who you are and they aren't loving you for you!

So after a few drinks too many, we decided once that we woke up(and after our hangover wore off), we would do a shoot based on this!

Hairstyle:
I just went crazy on her. Lol! I tied 2 pony tails toward the front of her face. Anchoring them on opposite corners of her crown with elastic hair-ties. I literally wrapped a pack of tracks around each ponytail and secured them with Large Bobby pins. I sprayed everything with Regis Extreme Hold Hairspray and started teasing everything like a maniac! I then brushed the hair into chaotic buns and smoothed it out in certain parts and secured the whole thing with bobby pins. I clipped on ornamental butterflies onto the bun as well.