Black Market No. 2

“Let our rebel yell resonate. We are Blackmarket.”

The day we arrived in Singapore, Dante and I were excited to visit Blackmarket.  This will be the future home of 13 Lucky Monkey in Singapore.

It’s a super cool store that carries a lot of different brands from various designers in Southeast Asia and more 🙂

So chic and hip.  It’s the perfect boutique for the Lucky Monkeys!

We first found out about this boutique through our very good friend and super talented Filipino designer, Gian Romano.  I was one of the lucky ones because Gian designed my beautiful wedding gown.  I just had to share… Below is me wearing my Gian Roman gown. Memories… 🙂

This photo was taken for a wedding feature in Preview Magazine 🙂 Photographed by the very talented, Wawi Navarroza. Makeup by Jigs Mayuga and hair by Ney Guese, very dear friends of mine 🙂

Blackmarket sells accessories, bags, eyewear, shoes, books and other things I’ve never seen anywhere else 🙂

While exploring the store, I spotted this section and I knew right away this was Gian Romano’s collection 🙂

I was so happy to see a familiar name on the labels of these super cool and edgy tops and dresses! 🙂

To all our friends living in Singapore and to those who will be flying there anytime soon, be sure to visit Blackmarket No. 2 at #02-10 Orchard Central, 181 Orchard Road, Singapore 🙂

Also watch out for 13 Lucky Monkey! Coming soon! 🙂

Chapeau Show

This photo shoot was one of my favorite shoots for the year 2011 🙂 It was Preview Magazine’s tribute to PMAP (Professional Models Association of the Philippines) on their 25th year called “Chapeau Show” (Chapeau is French for hat.) Photographed by the amazing, Pat Dy 🙂

I was assigned to do makeup on these three stunning ladies… Rissa Mananquil-Trillo, Girlie Benitez…

… and Phoemela Baranda. They all joined PMAP sometime in the year 2000 🙂

Phoem and Girlie getting ready for the shoot! 🙂 Aren’t they beautiful? 🙂

This shoot was a few weeks before Rissa’s Wedding 🙂 I could just imagine how radiant she looked on her wedding! Congrats, Rissa! 🙂 Loved the soft, furry coat 🙂

I was sooo happy to see my dear friend, Jigs Mayuga, the Great 🙂 You’re soooo thin. I’m so jealous. Missed you, Mads!!!

And here’s the super talented Ogie Rayel from Kiehl’s, who did the hairstyling for Phoem, Rissa and Girlie 🙂

Another person I love working with is Sidney Yap. He was our fabulous stylist for this shoot 🙂

The look for makeup was smokey gold eyelids 🙂

Here is the spread that came out in Preview Magazine September 2011 issue 🙂