Song of Style

One of the blogs I subscribe to lately is Aimee Song's Song of Style (thanks to Sam's influence!). I love her blog because she's effortlessly elegant even though she wears plain clothes. To me, when someone wears basic separates and still manages to look elegant, then she's got IT. She's classy. She's stylish and she knows it which is why she doesn't have to prove anything through wild prints and loud colors. It's the kind of style I'm hoping I achieve and wishing I actually can pull off! Sometimes though I feel a tad insecure of myself so I compensate with wearing too much brights, something my mom and sister noticed.

Inspirafriday: Nadia Aboulhosn

(photos from Nadia's blog)

I noticed that I've been featuring mostly skinny fashion bloggers on my blog.

However, I realized I should also show you that there is also a world and a space on the internet big enough for us voluptuous, fashion-loving ladies, that there are people like Nadia who inspire in-the-closet people like me.

Usually, people (me included) associate fashion with having to be skinny to wear beautiful clothes. Why not? I mean, most clothing companies make the beautiful clothes in small sizes. However, even if this may be a downer on us plump girls, it inspires us to get creative. It inspires us to hold up, stop listening to people who talk about us and just express ourselves the way WE want to.

Nadia uses color. Nadia bares her belly. She wears heels. She breaks all the don'ts in fashion that plump women impose on themselves. She takes risks and looks beautiful at it. That's why she inspires me.

Visit her blog www.nadiaaboulhosn.com

Wildfox Couture Spring 2012

Ever since Aidx showed me his peg for the Pickled and Peppered Young Blood shoot (By the way, billboard's out! See it at Gaisano Mall--going up the car park), I have been obsessed with Wildfox Couture. Their shoots are so creatively styled and fun! Plus, the videos are wild! I wanna style for a shoot like that someday.

Anyway, here are a few photos of Wildfox Couture's Spring 2012 collection. Believe me when I say I literally had to stop myself from screenshot-ing everything! (Yep, these pictures are just screenshots from the website)

Theme for Spring 2012: Wild, Wild West!

So Grateful

I started this blog as an outlet to voice out what I feel, as well as share to an audience what I feel and how I feel about certain things. I'm really quiet in person but pretty noisy on paper or on the internet because I feel like no one listens to me live. So, blogging has been a pretty great medium for expression--it really fit me like a glove.

Aside from that, it allowed me to get to know myself better, help better myself, help me appreciate the things going on in my life at the moment. It also served as something to do and focus on during the idle time I had resting, while everyone was at school. I never really expected to be able to inspire someone.

My friend Heidi recently wrote a blog entry on how she is now embracing her curves after years of insecurity. I'm really proud of her, as I know of her struggles with the weight issues that have hounded us for years. She cited me and The Plump Pinay for 'proudly embracing her (our) curves'

Just wanted you to know that I'm really touched that I was able to inspire you in a way or two, woman. Thank you for "featuring" me in an entry. Cheers to being fab and confident in our own bodies! :)

Well now, that makes one more happy woman in the world.

Sometimes, it really is tempting to want to change who we are even though we were born this way. But, it really is easier and more fulfilling to just accept who we are. If we can't learn to love ourselves, who will? :)