Remember that fashion show I told you guys about? Well, it's over and boy was it an exciting, tiring and fulfilling experience.
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| The gnarly truck bar at the events hall. |
The Ateneo CoSA's Limelight was held at the Ford Autohaus in Fort Bonifacio last Saturday evening. I've never worked a show that was held in a car dealership before so it was a bit of a surprise walking in and out of the venue and seeing all these gorgeous cars. I have to admit, I wondered once or twice if it was smart to have the party there. People could get drunk and damage could have been done to the cars. Lucky, there were no problems.
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| Perhaps the only photo of me that evening since I was too busy to talk to anyone else. |
This was actually a show that I did pro-bono as a favor to a good friend of mine, Martha Ignacio. Originally, the deal was that I, along with two other makeup artists, would work on nine models meaning three models per makeup artist. Josh Orbeta, I've mentioned him a fair amount of times now, also came to the event as the hair stylist. In the beginning, I felt bad for Josh because he would be working on nine girls and I only had to worry about three.
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| The modest kit I took with me. Didn't want to bring the whole thing and didn't think I would need to. |
The tables were turned when the organizers informed me that the one of the makeup artists had backed out and the other makeup artist didn't have anything with her, only her hairstyling kit. Imagine my panic when it was past 6:00 call time, there were no models and I was the only one around to get nine of them made up by 9:30. To top it all off, I made the stupid mistake of wearing heeled boots thinking I would only be on my feet for a short while since I only had to worry about three girls.
Luckily, the number of models I had to worry about was cut down to seven since one girl didn't show up and the other already had her makeup done. However, I was asked by the host to do her makeup (I didn't have the heart to say no despite the pain in my feet) and Martha did ask me to fix her eyeliner (haha, thanks for the extra hassle dude). I didn't have my camera with me and everything was so rushed that I didn't get a chance to take the kind of close up photos that I wanted to, but the event organizers were kind enough to provide me with photos of some of the girls.
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| Gai Pardilla |
Gai was one of my favorite girls of the night. Gorgeous personality, gorgeous skin, gorgeous face, gorgeous hair, gorgeous everything. I also finally got to use the lightest shade of foundation I had in the kit I brought for her (that was really what got me excited over her actually because I hadn't had the chance to use that shade on ANYONE yet - I've had delusions of using it on my own skin but it doesn't turn out pretty...at all.)
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| Andrea Wong |
Andrea Wong was another sweetheart in the bunch. She even went to my facebook page to thank me the day after the event which I really appreciated. I had worked with Andrea before when I asked her to model for the Ateneo Women's Week (AWW) culminating event: The V-Show. I wasn't doing makeup back then because I was too busy running the whole event, but I did wish I did makeup instead because the makeup team we had then trashed the ready rooms and totally overcharged for their poor quality services (never AGAIN!).
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| Alayne Maxino |
Alayne was the first girl to show up at the venue and possibly the sweetest. I enjoyed talking to her while I treated her as my guinea pig since I didn't have a clear peg for the event other than bright lips. Perhaps the most stand-out thing about her was the way she ate awkwardly (poor girl was starving) just to avoid messing her lipstick up.
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| Kolleen Feria |
I have to admit, when I first saw Kolleen walk through the curtain and into the room, I was a little worried because I knew for a fact that I didn't have a foundation for her skin tone in my kit. I was fresh out of the shade for her skin. Luckily, she told me she was anticipating the problem and brought her own foundation (Laura Mercier no less!), so thank you Kolleen, for being the most prepared girl in the room. We even used her lipstick from MAC.
I didn't stick around for the actual fashion show because I was dead tired, but I was happy with what I saw when the pictures from the event came out.
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| Model Maiqui Pineda |
Thanks again to the Ateneo de Manila CoSA for having me at the event and to Martha Ignacio for inviting me to do the makeup. Thanks also to Matthew Lee for providing the photos and to the girls for being so nice and fun to talk to.
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