Kristina: A February Bride

It was a beautiful Saturday morning on the 8th of February this year 🙂

(I know, super late post… Hehe!)

It was Kristina’s big day!  Her wedding preps were in Acua Verde Beach Resort in Batangas 🙂

Special thanks to my wonderful assistant makeup artist that day, Ham! I miss you!!!

You were such a big help, thank you, Ham! 🙂

The bride all dressed up and ready to go…  I made the makeup very fresh and natural with some bronzer on the cheeks, perfect for a beach wedding 🙂

I love beach weddings.

Congratulations once again to one of my beautiful February brides, Kristina! 🙂

Mycel

My very first bride for the year 2014, Mycel 🙂

How gorgeous are these flowers?!

Choices, choices 🙂  The sketch at the back was drawn by the bride herself.  Awesome 🙂

My work station for the day 🙂

Hairstyling by one of my favorite hairstylists ever.  RJ Dela Cruz, my sissy 🙂

Hair and makeup, check!

The mother of the bride is glowing, too 🙂

Stunning and glowing bride, Mycel 🙂 #nofilter.  Hehe 🙂

Mycel’s bouquet 🙂

Almost ready…

Mycel, opening a gift from her fiance 🙂  How sweet! 🙂

Big hugs to my super beautiful bride, Mycel! 🙂

Thank you for the opportunity to be part of your big day! 🙂

Hope all is well with you guys! 🙂

Rica

Here are some photos of one of my December brides last 2013, Rica Yulo 🙂

Check out her beautiful wedding gown by the one and only Rajo Laurel 🙂  Some of the details of Rica’s gown were taken from her mom’s wedding gown.  Soooo beautiful 🙂

Rica’s super cool hat was made by Mich Dulce 🙂

I loved Rica’s bouquet…

The beautiful bride 🙂

The beautiful mother of the bride… Love her 🙂

And the beautiful maid of honor 🙂

Congratulations again, Rica and JC 🙂  Thank you for making part of your big day!  Was truly happy to be part of it! 🙂

Wishing you all the best! 🙂

Style Weekend: Year of the Horse

Here are some behind-the-scenes photos of one of my favorite cover shoots for the year so far! 🙂

These photos were shot in a beautiful house in Makiling.

Styling by the one and only, Liza Ilarde 🙂  Thank you for making me part of this shoot!

Our beautiful and flawless model, Karen Pamintuan 🙂

Makeup by yours truly using Shu Uemura 🙂

Hairstyling by the very talented, Helen Egan for L’oreal Professionel 🙂

How cute are these ponies?!?!  But they’re very naughty! Haha!

Our photographer was none other than Shaira Luna 🙂  She’s so awesome.  And I love her OOTD 🙂

It was a beautiful and windy day…  I can imagine myself living here… Seriously.  Haha!

It’s Liza and Lisa 🙂

So far the Year of the Horse has been good to me 🙂

How’s your year so far? 🙂

 

Love Summer Weddings

It was one hot and sunny day in the summer of 2013 in Nasugbu, Batangas.

Ga, one of my cutest brides ever, was getting prepped for her lovely beach wedding! 🙂

Hairstyling by Miss Helen Egan from L’oreal Professionel 🙂

Here are some snapshots during her wedding preps in this beautiful beach home! 🙂  I just love Ga’s pre-wedding outfit!

Ga and her huge glass of Coke.  Haha!  I am so jealous of Ga’s gorgeous tan!!!  Such a beach babe 🙂

Ga’s beautiful wedding gown designed by the one and only Kate Torralba 🙂

Hair and makeup… CHECK! 🙂

Such a beautiful bride! 🙂

Super talented and gorgeous designer, Kate, now attaching Ga’s veil 🙂  So nice to see you again, girl!!! 🙂

Congrats again, to you and Patrick, Ga!!!  Thank you so much for trusting me on your wedding day! 🙂

Wishing you both all the happiness in the world!  Hope all is well in sunny California 🙂

Eva

Another beautiful bride of mine who said “I Do” last March 31, 2013.  Her name is Eva 🙂

She wanted the simplest makeup on her big day, that “no makeup and barely there”  look 🙂 It truly did make her natural beauty shine through 🙂

Hairstyling by the talented, RJ Dela Cruz 🙂

Congratulations again to my dearest Eva! 🙂  It was a pleasure being a part of this memorable day! You looked radiant!!! 🙂

Mehn, I look so fat in this photo. Haha!

I Love Happy Weddings

One thing I love about weddings is the happiness and love I feel all around 🙂

Meet my beautiful bride, Eleonor 🙂

A lovely, braided updo. Super love this hairstyle for weddings 🙂 Hairstyling by the one and only, RJ Dela Cruz 🙂

Eleonor’s wedding day was just one of those days when I couldn’t stop laughing! I love happy weddings!

Today was all smiles, as you can see in the photo below captured by the talented Oly Ruiz of Metrophoto 🙂 Thanks for this awesome photo, Oly 🙂

 The atmosphere was just wonderful.  Everyone was just so excited for Eleonor’s big day! 🙂

Hair and makeup for the entourage was done by the fab stylists of Belle & Cat Studio 🙂

Final touch-up before Eleonor leaves for the Church.

Blooming bride, Eleonor 🙂

Congratulations, Eleonor and Steve!!!

A second look for the reception 🙂

Hanging out with the ladies at the couple’s holding room in Le Pavilion before the program starts 🙂

A million thanks, Eleonor and Steve!  It was really such a pleasure spending this special day with you guys!

You’re a perfect pair and I wish only all the best for you both!  Til we meet again 🙂

Cassie’s Big Day

One beautiful Sunday last March 3, 2013, I was so excited to head over to Intramuros, one of my favorite places in Manila, to do makeup on another lovely bride, Casini 🙂

She was checked in at The Bayleaf Intramuros, a new hotel that just opened late last year.  It was a really nice hotel and the staff was very helpful.  I bring around five bags whenever I do weddings and you can tell when the staff is more than willing to help you.  At Bayleaf, they were happy to help 🙂

Casini’s beautiful gown 🙂

Casini’s hair was done by my talented sistah, RJ Dela Cruz 🙂 Cas just wanted to have her down with loose waves 🙂

Fresh makeup done! 🙂

Almost done with hair 🙂

Beautiful Cas with her gorgeous bouquet.

Awwww, look who was waiting for Cas outside the hotel??? 🙂

Casini ready to ride her carriage to the Church! I love it 🙂 So perfect!

Congratulations again, Cas!  You looked stunning, just like a princess on her way to marry her prince!  Haha!

I had so much fun being a part of your wedding team 🙂  Thank you for that opportunity, Lovi! 🙂

Uchiide in Manila

I never thought this day would come when I would finally meet the Artistic Director of Shu Uemura, Kakuyasu Uchiide-San.  He was here for a few days last week to celebrate with us the 10th year of Shu Uemura, Philippines! 🙂

Here are some snapshots that I took with my Iphone.

During our training/makeup check for the big night! 🙂

Uchiide-San demonstrates one of Shu Uemura’s most difficult mode makeup looks called “Peacock”. Amazing.  Amazing.  Amazing.

Uchiide-San also showed us how to do the “Flaggy”. Wooooow. That’s all I can say.

Special dinner with Uchiide-San and Team Shu Philippines at Bistro Filipino by Chef Laudico.

Food was fantastic!!! My personal favorite… the Sinigang Martini 🙂 I did not expect that! 🙂

The next day, (the big day), our call time was 9am at Mango Tree, Bonifacio High Street.  And what is the first thing we all need???

Spot the artists.

With my good friend and super talented makeup artist, John Pagaduan 🙂

This was my assigned mode makeup look for the big night… Masquerade 🙂 A million thanks to my beautiful model, Michelle Panemanglor 🙂

All set 🙂

Michelle, ready to rock n’ roll!

Here are more of the mode makeup looks for the big night done by my amazing teammates and dearest friends 🙂 That’s Angelique Dinglasan doing her thang (top left), makeup by Omar Ermita (top middle), makeup up by Angelique (top right), makeup by Angie Cruz (bottom left), makeup by Sharon Soledad (bottom middle) and makeup by Patrick Alcober (bottom right). Amazing job, guys!!! I failed to take photos of the other models because it was crazy backstage but you should have seen the works of art that Claire Diokno, John Pagaduan and Hannah Pechon did!!! 🙂  Congratulations to all of us.  We survived.  LOL!

More backstage snapshots 🙂

With my gorgeous gals, Claire and Angelique 🙂 The show will begin in 15 minutes 🙂

I didn’t get to take photos of the show itself.  Haha! But it was awesome!!! Trust me! 🙂

Dinner is served.  YUM.

I really feel so blessed that I was given the chance to meet Uchiide-San.  He is an inspiration and a true artist.  And even though he was so tired from all his photo shoots and events, he would always have a smile on his face!  (And wouldn’t turn down a photo with his biggest fans! Hehe!)  This is definitely one of the highlights of my makeup career and I will never forget these two days!  It brought our team closer, it challenged us to do more than our best and most of all, made a fan girl like me sooooooo happy to be in the presence of one of the greatest makeup artists, Uchiide-San! Thank you 🙂

Special thanks to Nina, Nadia and Karen of Shu Uemura, Philippines!!! You girls made it all happen 🙂

Fan girl mode!!! 🙂

Oh Happy Day!

It was the 5th of January, 2013.  My very first wedding of the year.

In one of my favorite hotels, Manila Hotel.

I met Trisha exactly a year before her wedding and I couldn’t believe how a year can go by so quickly.  Trisha wanted something simple, very clean and natural for her bridal hair and makeup.  She was already beautiful without makeup and I didn’t want her to feel uncomfortable by doing anything smoky or too dramatic that will change her features 🙂

Chicken Nuggets before leaving for the Church 🙂 hehe!

I also had the privilege of doing makeup on Trisha’s equally gorgeous sisters, Felicity and Valerie 🙂

My partner for the wedding was the talented RJ Dela Cruz 🙂  I super loved what he did to Felicity’s hair.  Check out the loose braids in an updo! Perfect hairstyle for the Maid of Honor 🙂

Such a pleasure meeting this wonderful family, the Tans.  They’re just like one big barkada, what a family should really be.  Congratulations again, Trisha!  This was truly a very happy day! 🙂