Spotlight on Jamie: La Belle Fille

Style At Sixes And Sevens

Work by the magnificent Paul Echano.

The video alone is enough to showcase the outfit, but I'm still gonna talk about it anyway! ..with amazing photos by the one and only Paully again.

My style has been confused as ever since I bid goodbye to my tutus and skater skirts. It lacked definition and I think that's okay. Like finding your own personality in real life IS OKAY.

See, fashion is an expression - to show who you are and what you like. Be free to wear whatever you want, and let others be like that too. And the world would be a much better place...

..and I bet I'm totally not making sense to you right now. HAHAHA. Effects of blogging this at 3AM? Life reflections, life it is... Oh, just let me proceed with the outfit details! :p

Based my outfit on this top from La Belle Fille. Love that you can still feel the summer vibe even though I'm pairing this with other confusing items..

..like this leather shorts! I've been meaning to wear this shorts for like forever. So yeah, that's the reason behind it.

It's the season of running shoes! I'll admit it, I'm such a fraud. I don't really run, just having this for fashion purposes. Well, admit it! Lot's of you guys had been buying running shoes as well but had worn it just one time for its main purpose!! Admit ittt~ ..no? It's just me? Oh, okay then.....

Battle of cuteness and edginess. Thrifted Cap and Cross Ring from F21.

It's been a while since I last blogged an outfit post! I hope you did enjoy this one.

News! You can now catch La Belle Fille at Classy La Belle Boutique located at Arana St., Corner J. Hernandez Ave, Sta. Cruz, Naga City (Near UNC & Police station). Open every Monday-Saturday. Shopping hours at 10:00 AM until 8:00 PM.

Also cehck out www.howtobedapper.com - it helps men to learn how to dress better so they can reap the life-changing benefits!

VIDEO AND PHOTOS BY PAUL ECHANO

WHAT I AM WEARING
Top: La Belle Fille
Shorts: H&M
Socks: Copo Japan
Shoes: Thrifted
Cap: Thrifted
Ring: Forever 21
Lipstick: Wet&Wild

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CaLee Shoppe Boutique Showroom

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basic

Bæsic

Who would’ve thought that basics would be such a big trend someday? I wasn’t really able to anticipate it! Few years back, fashion was all about over-the-top dressing, unexpected color blocking, excessive accessorizing and prints-on-prints!

But now, it’s all about that blacks and whites and everything in between!

This outfit’s one of the few monochromatic outfits here in my blog. I got really inspired by what I am mostly seeing in Instagram now. Baesics. I mean, basics.

It’s amazing how these two colors can shout simplicity and classiness at the same time. Pairing it with red lips can go a long way too!

Another big trend right now also, is pairing sneakers with everything. With everything, I mean everything! Even dresses and long skirts like what I am wearing here.

I got inspired from the outfits I’ve seen in Tokyo last autumn. It looked weird to me at first because it doesn’t really look balanced to me as a whole outfit. They also opt to wear crumpled mid-leg socks to their midi skirts + sneakers combo.

But what’s amazing about Japanese fashionistas is that they look always put up in whatever that they’re wearing. Be it over-sized top + over-sized bottoms and countless layerings. *slightly exaggerating* I’ll forever be amazed... *u*

On the other note, I'll be attending the CaLee Shoppe Boutique Showroom Opening today, March 14 at 10am. And one of the brands that will be selling in that showroom is La Belle Fille! The same brand of the top I am wearing here. *wink*

If my blog post is on time on sharing this news to you, you can come with me to the opening of the CaLee Shoppe Boutique Showroom later at 10am! If not, well.. you can always go there on business hours and grab every chic items you'd like! They're located at Door 2 Pavilion 6, Panganiban Drive, Naga City. Hope to get to bump into you there! ^_^

WHAT I AM WEARING:

Sheer Top: La Belle Fille

Midi Skirt: Thrifted

Sneakers: Nike Air

Eyewear: Tokyo Bay

On My Lip: Mac Ruby Woo

Rings: Forever 21

PHOTOGRAPHY:

Paul Echano

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food

Osaka Japan April 2014 (Part 1)

It’s finally here! My first blog post about my trip to Japan last spring! ^_^

Sweaters from La Belle Fille

But I’m warning you guys, it’s more like a photo dump rather than a decent travel post! Haha. That’s what happens when you don’t actually have your proper itinerary and you don’t have the basic knowledge on where you’re specifically going. It’s my first out-of-the-country trip guys, so forgive me! :3 And my Canon Kiss X2 actually gave up on me a month before our Japan trip, so the photos were taken by my Olympus EPM-1. I'm not satisfied with some of the photos, but it's better than nothing!

So yes, today’s blog post is all about our first day in Osaka! I’ve been to Japan for the first time last April with my family and relatives. It’s a one week in Osaka and another week in Tokyo trip. It’s really expensive to book a hotel in Japan, so we’re really lucky to have our sponsors in both prefectures, a.k.a. relatives and family friends!

We've got to experience living in a typical Japanese house for a week. And it was an amazing experience. We ate with chopsticks in a kotatsu, a Japanese table, and sit or kneel on a square cushion called zabuton. We slept on the tatami floor with our comforters. Typical Japanese houses are small but are amazingly structured in a very functional way that there isn't any wasted space. The photo above is a picture of our neighborhood!

Living in Japan would consist of a lot of biking, or in my case, I don't have a bike with me there, it's gonna be walking. Unlike in the Philippines where you can just call a taxi/jeep/tricycle anywhere, in Japan, there are no public transportation roaming around the area. You have to personally call a cab driver to fetch you from where you are exactly, and it's not really cheap. So yeah, walking will be your very first choice if you don't want to spend that much on your trip. But I enjoyed it anyway! Every corner of Japan is clean, organized and beautiful.

Look how clean their streets are.

A building they call the Lego Building because of its exterior!

And I spotted a legit daisy outside a random house while we're walking! My eyes literally sparkled. *o*

And our first stop was, of course, Japanese food! I'd personally recommend Tenkaippin Ramen house for a very 'sulit' ramen! Their serving was big and can actually be shared by two persons who eat lightly, like me and my mom! Haha. And their karage has become my instant favorite Japanese side dish!

On our first day, we decided to spend our time in a near park full of cherry blossoms, because that's why we basically went to Japan. To experience sakura flowers!

There are different colors of blossom of sakura. There are light pink, dark pink, I've read that there's even yellow and green. Here's the white version of sakura.

Unfortunately, we weren't able to catch them on full bloom. They started to fall off because it was the second week of April already. You can see that the leaves are already started growing. But we were still lucky to catch a sight of them! And thanks to Ojīchan at the back for photobombing. Heehee~

Japanese people also tend to have picnics whenever spring comes, and the sakura trees started to bloom. It's a celebration for them. Here are some elders having a good time under a sakura tree with their bikes parked on the side! One of my favorite photo in our Osaka trip.

Don't you think this looks like a scene from a telenovela? A woman reminiscing her past love, the one that got away when she was younger, and they used to date under this very tree? /haha my imagination

Thought this was a rose, but this beautiful flower is called Camelia. Well, still a family of the rose flower. But I think it's more beautiful! Too bad, you can't really pick flowers in Japan. Would you believe that you can actually spend a night in jail just for picking flowers? But yea, I think that's just right!

Next stop was to Rinku Town! /shoppinggg

A ferris wheel that no one actually rides...

A rad houndstooth motorcycle! Let me have this please.

Rinku Premium Outlets is at Izumisano-Shi, Osaka, Japan. It includes a wide range of well-known foreign brands and has a resort atmosphere. It was like heavennn~ well, for people who has the money. For me, I just enjoyed window shopping while waiting for my parents. Haha

Almost all the stores in Japan have a strict no photo policy. But yeah..

But really, my ultimate heaven was Seria! A yaku yen (¥100) shop, where everything is for 100yen only! (duh) They have everything from house to kitchen needs, kawaii school stuff, accessories, DIYs, and more stuff that you didn't know that you need until you see it! My mom and I totally went crazy on that store that we didn't realize 2hrs or so had passed already! I felt really sorry for my dad and cousin because we kept them waiting. :3