Mustard Loving

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Dress: Loalde

For Valentines day, I opted to stay away from the typical pinks and reds which were bound to be everywhere. Instead, I chose something of another color yet equally as romantic. This dress it made out from   some sort of caftan, chiffon and embroidered details on it. Not so sure on the materials but, I think that’s about right.
Since I had work, I had my trusty blazer with me to beat the office “winter”, as I like to call it.
Always does the trick. Plus, I can always get away with wearing sleeveless tops to work, too!
Happy Valentines, love birds!
And Happy Singles Awareness Day to everyone else!
To find out how my day went, check out this blog entry.
xx,
Issa

私は素晴らしいですし、少しうぬぼれ

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Let’s play a game! Translate my blog title and first to comment gets 15% off at The Chillage!
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Kimono Cover-up: Weekender| Silk top: Thirfted| Necklace: Mom| Nude slacks: United Colors of Beneton| Shades: Bazaar
I’m really bored with life right now and I’ve been entertaining myself with endless episodes of The Big Bang Theory and chicken. I’ve been eating chicken for 6 days straight now! Breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner. Chicken is gooooood.
Monochrome. Nuff said.
*Props to Jake Laude for these pictures*
-Issa

edit: Got the blog title wrong the first time. I changed it as of 11:56 pm

Bloody Valentines

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Cropped cover-up: Bayo| Top: Thrifted| Pants: Ayala Department Store| Oxfords: Artwork| Watch: Geneva| Necklace: c/o Niña Madera
My jacket really does look like I’ve got blood splattered all over it, doesn’t it? Haha.

Thought I’d give this post title a gore-y vibe since it’s February and everyone’s pretty much hyped up about Valentines. Since very recently, I was never really into Valentines but my mind’s been changed since then… Hmmm… I wonder how this year will go. ^_^

Fashion wise, I’m in love with these shoes. I haven’t really been able to use them to their full potential yet because I’ve only been using them to work. I love how the whole oxford and penny loafers trend is coming back and I’m kind of hoping that bowling shoes (ala grease) will soon make a comeback.

What trends do you miss?

Sometimes You Find Yourself In The Middle Of Nowhere. And Sometimes, In The Middle Of Nowhere, You Find Yourself

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First of all, I sincerely apologize for the crappy number of posts I made in the past week. It’s too late to edit them now but do know that I am aware of the cyber garbage I have contributed to this site in that span of time. In light of this, I would like to clarify that I am in no way grammatically challenged nor am I incoherent in any way. Sometimes I suffer from really bad graphospasm/ writers’ block and it usually takes a week or so to shake it off so if I have jumbled words and sentences, I apologize.
I had a really rough week after Sinulog and I don’t know why I pushed myself to blog so much despite the lack of drive to do so. Meh. I’m not too bummed about it- I’m only human, after all. I don’t think it was very smart of me to compromise the quality of my posts for the sake of blogging, though. My bad. Next time I fall into a state of depression, I’m just not going to blog altogether. So heads up to everyone, yes? 🙂 Yes.
Here’s what I wore:
Dress: Loalde| Bag: Bally| Falts: SM Departmet Store
Coincidentally I made this blog entry on a Tuesday, the day I found out that I passed my board exams. Funny how life does that, eh? I guess it’s true what they say, when you hit rock bottom, there really isn’t anywhere else to go but up.
To looking up!
So what’s next?
I’m going to take over the world!
What’ll you be doing?
-Issa

Black Metal

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[Top: Christian Ferre; Metallic Pants: July; Blach heels: Follie; Bag: Gift from Christine Inocencio]


Have you ever had such a hard time dressing up for work that the only things you had left in your closet were metallic pants, jeans and/ or slacks that required 6 inch heels? Yeah, this was one of those days for me. Ultimately, it was a choice between the jeans (which was an obvious no) and the metallic jeans since my toe was still healing (read 8 ironies) so 6 inch heels were a definite “no-no”.

I know there’s a paper bag in this picture that I forgot to keep. SORRY!!

In all honesty, wearing these pants are always a bold fashion choice to make but they make for good pictures…  wearing them to work however, was just plain stupid. The obvious dress code violation aside, I was mistaken as an “inter-galactic” space creature and people literally put on shades or weird faces when I passed by. I know it wasn’t the best thing to put on considering the fact that I work in a very laid back environment and anything other than winter coats and scarves are frowned upon but desperate times leads to desperate measures!

 

To tone down the attention that seemed to gravitate [funny because there is no gravity in space] towards my pants, I opted to wear a plain black shirt and black heels. I thought it would make a good balance while still making a good “corporate” look. Then I went all out on this awesome bag of mine! Haha.

Overall, I pretty much loved this look. It just wasn’t the best idea to wear to the office. But, we are all entitled to our own mistakes and to days where there’s nothing to wear because your maid was being lazy and you still haven’t learned how to wash your own clothes!

I need a better job that allows me to wear cute clothes. Is anyone hiring? I resign in June!-Issa

I Swear, There Are No “Orange” Puns In This Post

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[Coat: Loalde; Scarf Top: Loalde; Pants: Ayala Department Store; Flats: Old Navy; Watch: Fossil]

ORANGE YOU GLAD? Hahahahaha. Ok, stop. I apologize.

I decided not to get a haircut and to just let my hair grow out. Blogwise, I’d like to believe that I’m making the right choice by giving myself the benefit of endless styling possibilities. On the other hand, I’ll just be another blogger with long straightuncombed hair- but then again, I’d be a blogger with long hair I can use to cover my armpits when I’m in sleeveless tops. AHA! Silver lining, I believe I have found you! [I crack myself up sometimes]

One more rant about my hair problems and I promise, this’ll be the end of it

 
I NEED TO FIX THIS ANNOYING STRAND- it’s always finding its way into my outfit posts. So annoying.. grrr!
On a not-hair-related-note, there’s an interesting story behind my top. Wearing it made me feel so much like a kite and crazy as I am, I spent most of my day running around the office with my arms stretched out pretending to be one! I know I’m too fond of wearing white, even for my own good, but owning pretty tops like this with pretty details makes me feel like a million bucks. Plus, I had a good reason to run around the office which was great (the main reason why I love it)! And not to mention, the cut made me wish I was at the beach- I should’ve considered that before coming in to work.
 
BTW, How’s everyone doing with the SIN TAX bill coming into full blow? I know it’s for a good cause and my lungs will thank the government in the future but I started the week with 10 perfectly shaped nails and by Wednesday, I’ve already bit through 7 of them. Running around the office isn’t something I’m accustomed to, I promise, but it’s better than me battling how many sticks I have to cut in order to eventually quit. TO QUITTING! (I don’t know how many times I’ve said this in my lifetime)
-Issa

With A Clear Mind and a Hopeful Heart

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August – December 2012 – Studied for the board exams

December 16- 17, 2012 – Took the board exams

December 18- January 1 – Christmas vacation [I deserved a break, didn’t I?”]

December 20 – Opened www.issaplease.blogspot.com

January 2 – got in touch with Kaz for Rhip Stop, Cebu

January 3- Conceptualized “When Food and Fashion Meet” with food blogger and close friend, Justinne Go

January 5 – Found clients for Sinulog

Found other clients

January 7 – Conceptualized “pants” business

January 10 – Won Preview Magazine’s Haute Holiday Contest [overnight stay at Marriot Hotel for 2]

January 12 – Did make up and co-styled for iFeet, Cebu

January 13 – Reached 1,200++ views on my blog site

January 13 – Took a job offer from SugboTV as part time researcher/ writer

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Upcoming plans:

Pay my phone bill

Pay my rent

Pay Paolo for his shoes

Buy Paolo a birthday gift

Use my Forever 21 gift card on a long skirt and a sweater

Get money for pants business

Get more photo shoots -> eventually get PAID.

 

In case you thought I was just working a 9:00 – 7:30 shift.

Of Flowers, Being Girly and Trying To Find My Place

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Take a good hard look at me, I’m a girl AFTERALL, I swear! Har. Is it hard to believe?

Interesting turn of events which led to me deciding to go all out FLOWER TO THE HIGHEST POWER on this day. Initially, I started out with a long black skirt and an over sized sweater but later on decided that I would ditch the hobo boy and go head on girl.

Eventually I decided to be experimental and give print-on-print a much deserved try. I was terrified that I would over-do it or that I would look stupid but, mostly because I couldn’t get the zipper of these pants to close. -.- WORE THEM ANYWAYS! I AM BADASS OR WHAT? Lol

Perfect example of my fashion insanity. Case closed.

See, I couldn’t even take a decent picture of myself. I look constipated in each one. My body is not used to so much girly-ness. But change is always good and experiment

[Blazer: Bread and Butter Deluxe (given); Floral Top: Daisy Fuentes Petites; Floral Pants: IT Park Bazaar; Flats: SM Kids Department]

Even the buttons on the jacket are flowers. Goodness.

What do you think of my floral ensemble?

-Issa

When It Rains, Dress Like It’s Snowing

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[Brown sweater: Thrifted; Necklace: Gift; Leggings: ISIS; Leg warmers: H&M; Beanie: H&M]

[Apple green sweater: Thirfted; Scarf: WAGW; Boots: Leaveland; Bag: Thrifted]

Took the day off from work cuz my Mitral Valve Prolapse was acting up again and I was having a bad headache. Luckily, it was raining and I’ve been dying to take my leg warmers out again. So, what do you do when you’re home and sick and it’s raining outside? HAVE A BEDROOM SHOOT. Of course, I used my laptop camera cuz I’m low tech like that.

Hello, from my feet and my legwarmers that I wasn’t wearing properly. lol

I swear I was born on the wrong side of the earth. I need snow!

-Issa

B[l]ack to B[l]ack

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First and foremost, let us all take a moment of silence to grieve over the loss of my favorite shades. (sniff*sniff) Shortly after this picture was taken, it took a dive out of my hands and well, wearing it is now completely out of the question. But, I must give it due credit, they have served me well in the past year considering that I got them for only P85.00 downtown. I love Cebu!