Bali Getaway

Okay guys, since I'll be flying to Bali today Im afraid I wont be able to update this blog while I'm there, becuz I will not bring my laptop with me. But I promise I'll take whole lotta pictures so I can share it with u guys. Just wish me a happy holiday, and I will be back soon (on Monday).

Sunday Nite Fever

This is what I wore on Sunday Nite, to a friend's wedding, wearing my newly revamped shoes.

Dress: Elbidi
Black Tights: Marks & Spencer
Purse: My mom's
Shoes: Revamped VNC
Pearl Necklace worn as a Bracelet: Gift from mommy
Hairpin: Brandless

I think I should collect more hair accessories to style my hair cuz I dont have much options of styling my hair since my hair is short now.

The Taggy Taggy Thing

Chekka and James tagged me, and I think I should do this just to uhmm.. respect them. And having fun of course! Hehe. So here I go:

*what is your current obsession?
To get at least 20 fashion shows per month, just Like Advina Ratnaningsih. *sigh*

*what is your job?
Model.

*what are you wearing today?
High waisted jeans skirt and yellow tee.

*what’s for dinner today?
Meatball.

*why is today special?
Because today is my hibernating day. Yay!

*what would you like to learn to do?
Photography, so I can put some HQ pictures to this blog.

*what’s the last thing you bought?
Gasoline.

*what are you listening to right now?
The sound of sprinkling water from my mom's fish pond.

*what is your favorite weather?
Cloudy but not rainy.

*what is your most challenging goal right now?
Get lotsa job and make lotsa money out of it haha.

*what do you think about the person who tagged you?
Chekka is a good writer and thrift hunter, while James is a genious Fashion Persona.

*if you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
London.

*what would you like to have in your hands right now?
Food.

*what would you like to get rid of?
My stretch mark. Haha.

*if you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
Mykonos, greece.

*which language do you want to learn?
French and Japanese. And re-learn my Dutch.

*what do you look for in a friend?
Loyalty.

*who do you want to meet in person?
Britney Spears. (Im serious).

*what’s your favorite type of music?
For me, there are only 2 types of music. The good one, and the bad one. My favorite is of course, the good one.

*what’s the favorite piece of clothing in your own closet?
My shoes.

*what is your dream job?
My current job is my dream job.

*any favorite models?
The legendary Linda Evangelista, of course. And then Sasha Pivovarova for her amazing editorials, Irina Lazareanu for her coolness, Iekeline Stange for her quirkiness, and Tanya Dziahileva as the best catwalker ever.

*if you had £100 now what would you spend it on?
Shoes, bags, clothes, easy right? :P

*favorite designer?
Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano, Phoebe Philo, Derek Lam, Alexander Wang.

*fashion pet peeve?
Someone who doesnt dress (and act) their age.

*do you admire anyone’s style?
Agathe from Stylebytes. I wish she continues her blog.

*describe your personal style!
Ecletic.

the rules:
1. respond and rework: answer the questions on your blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your own invention, add one more question of your own.
2. tag eight other people:
- Stain On My Red Shoes
- ♥The crème de la crop♥
- Freddy Style
- Judith Kaori
- Ngelzz
- Sashia Samira
- Tje2p
- Woro

My First D-I-Y Project

Went to Pasar Mayestik with my mom a couple of days ago and at first, I only wanted to buy some fabrics to make one or two dresses. But when we passed through a beads and studs stall, it reminded me of Diana Rikasari's D-I-Y project (she uses lotsa studs for her projects) so I can't help to take a look around the stall.

It turned out that they didnt have the usual studs (the square one), but I found these:


And I think they would be perfect to spice up my boring VNC peep-toed mary jane that I almost throw into the garbage can since they look so shabby after all of my abuse:


I sewed them into the strap and.. Voila!

Will post the picture of me wearing it later, kei? ;)

In Quest For Flats

Shoes have always been important pieces of my "comprehensive" look. I have a strong reason for this. I'm extremely tall for an asian girl (178 cm), so everyone who's surprised with how tall I am will automatically direct their eyes to my feet to check out my heels. So it is very very important for me to wear nice shoes everyday since they're the center of people's attention.

Up till now, I always fall in love with the shoes with whimsical design. But most of whimsical shoes are high heeled! Can you imagine? Im standing 178 cm tall + 10 cm of the shoes' heels = 188 cm?!?!? Therefore, I'm getting a little bit tired of my heels (because everyone at the mall staring at me like I'm an alien, LOL) and I'm now looking for pretty and whimsical flats for those days when I don't want some extra attention from all the people at the mall.

So this is the result of my online browsing for pretty, unusual flats:

Pretty Ballerinas Flats: Rosario in Flower Garden and Dancing the Night Away

Pretty Ballerinas Flats: Marilyn in Be My Valentine and Rosario in Bunch of Flowers

The infamous Marc by Marc Jacobs Mouse Flats in Black and White

The patent leather version of MJ's Mouse Flats

And last but not least, Marc by Marc Jacobs Miss Marc Flats!

Aren't they the cutest?

As long as my shoes are good, I feel good

I dont know why but I'm having this lazy-to-dress-up syndrome lately. I just picked anything that I encounter first in my closet. But but but eventhough my clothes are blah, my shoes have to be pretty, or else I'll feel so ugly. Just like couple of days ago, these "Dorothy from Wizard of Oz shoes" and my white tights are the only things I wore that I consider fashionable.

White tights: Brandless

Flats: Wimo

Oh and I just did a photosession for my Composite Card (its like a model's portfolio) for B-Management and I'm so excited to see the result. Okay actually I've seen the result already, but I cannot wait to see it on their website (they will launch their new website on April 29 btw). I did 4 frames that day, 1 is beauty shot, 1 is full body shot, and the other 2 is fashion shots. My beauty shot is quite shocking because I look exactly like a man, LOL. And here's the sneak peek of the shoes I wore for the first fashion shot. These shoes is to die for so I cant resist to take pictures of it. If you are curious, these babies are from Deden Siswanto.

Presents From Makassar

It turned out that I wasn't able to take many pictures when I'm in Makassar because the outdoor photoshoot was very time and energy consuming (not to mention that most of the pictures I took were blurry). We did the photoshoot at several tourism sites in Makassar including Fort Rotterdam and Losari Beach. We finished the photoshoot when the sun was set. It was very beautiful.

During the photo session.

The fashion stylist and the models.

One funny thing. I think Makassarese are very confident and bold. It showed when we did the photoshoot in crowded area, while people in Jakarta mostly would only sit and watch, these Makassarese wants to be in the frame too. It's so funny that the stylist and photographer has to shoo off some people that want to be photographed with the models including kids and grannies LOL.

On the second day, the models' task was to present a fashion show wearing batik from Allure. Both clothes we wore for the photoshoot and fashion show was somewhat casual and ready to wear kind of clothing so there isn't much to tell about the clothes (well I guess everyone in Indonesia already knows how pretty Allure batik is right?).

Before the show

Since we only got 2 days in our hands, we didn't do much sight seeing around the city but we still got the chance to eat seafood there which was so yum yum. Oh and they had one of the coolest airports in Indonesia too.

Ola!

Hi fellas! I'm so sorry for the lack of updates because I was very busy this week preparing some stuffs for my magisterate degree and babysitting my nephew and niece. Anyway, I will be flying to Makassar (South Celebes) tomorrow to do a photoshoot and fashion show for Femina Magazine. I will be back soon with some stories and (hopefully) nice pictures. So, adios people!