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.