First aid kits for a friend. (OOTD)

 By friend I mean you Bless. Yes, you. I know you're gonna be reading this once I link it to you.


Ehem.


Anyway, as the title implies, this post is dedicated to a lovely friend of mine named Bless, an amazing and beautiful individual (and by now i bet you guys are thinking that "amazing" and "beautiful" are the only words in my descriptive vocabulary. well they are, okay?) who constantly inspires me to get out of my comfort zone and think out of the box.


I've gone through a TON of tribulations with this girl that sometimes I look back and replay all the drama we've caused and found ourselves in (i'm not sharing anything). Despite that, I have no qualms about meeting her and she has proved to become someone who I can trust wholeheartedly.


I'm a bit dramatic am I not? :)


Aside from being such an inspiring person, she also has a very excellent taste in art and music. So a normal thing that we do is send one another links of music videos and songs that we like or see on YouTube and most of the videos she sends me all have this ethereal feeling to them.

















Aren't they all such visual and musical candy?


Yes they are.


So what I did to piece this together was to get the general mood of the videos and try to project that in my outfit. The general atmosphere is definitely "dreamy" as my friend would say so as well as floaty and whimsical. The colour palette mainly consists of neutral colors as well pale and light ones with a touch of warm colors here and there.

Blouse, BAYO| Shoes, Steve Madden| 

And what's funny is that I bought that skirt with my friend so I decided that exhibiting it for the first time in a blog post dedicated to her was just the right time to show it to you guys. 

I bought this in this sale that the college part of the school I go to was having. I was actually planning to buy this pale pink blouse that I had my eye on the day before I bought this skirt but then someone had purchased it ahead of me. DON'T YOU GUYS JUST FIND THAT FRUSTRATING?

So out of my unbridled shopping frustration, I bought this skirt which was 200 pesos more expensive than the blouse I had wanted to purchase. The lesson? It's healthy to go rage shopping only if you want your whole week's allowance to go down the drain.

So Bless, here's meddling with the supernatural, breaking the status quo and rolling in grass and dirt as well as watering it. Happy almost one year of friendship! :)

I Want You Back? (OOTD)

Yes, I'll admit it, I'm a "brat". But no not a spoiled brat or anything. I'm a Cher kind of brat. Simply put, I'm a Cher Lloyd fan which I find totally weird because I grew up listening to 'The Marvelettes' and 'Swing Out Sisters' and Tony Bennet. To simply find myself taking a liking to a rising mainstream pop icon, it's weird for me (but yes I also do like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and One Direction but that's about it). But Cher is absolutely different from the popstars we have now in the music industry. She takes her music up to a whole new level and her album is just, amazing. Recommended songs? Over The Moon, Superhero and Dub On Track (she sings along to dubstep. how nifty is that?)

But it's not just Cher's music that attracted me to her, it's also her fashion sense. It's un-bee-lee-vah-ble. 

So this outfit post is pretty much inspired by her recent music video: 'Want U Back' (US Version).

I love-love-love the music video. It's such a beautiful homage to the 80's and it's so colorful and loud and visually appealing that it leaves me so inspired. I swearsz. After watching the music video, I started looking for retro-themed pieces and orange blouses.

  
For my outfit, I took the key elements from Cher's outfit, mainly the orange printed blouse and the vibrant blue as well as her leather shorts and her undercut styled hair, her pinkish-red lips and came up with a more formal and classic looking outfit.

 

 Blouse: BAYO| Shoes: Steve Madden| Skirt: Made by my aunt| Makeup: Lipstick- Estee Lauder (Rosewood); Eyeshadow- Fashion 21 Color Set; Blush-on- Maybelline|

I got my blouse while I was shopping with my mom, sister and grandma (a girls' day out I suppose.) and we stopped by one of my favorite local stores, BAYO, and on one of the mannequins I saw the beautiful orange blouse that had such a beautiful cream collar. It's print contrasted the base color of the fabric so amazingly that I knew it was the staple piece I was looking for. Nonetheless, I bought it. Sometimes I swear these things happen by fate. (trust and pixie dust? no? okay.)

All-in-all I really love this outfit and I'm looking forward to an occasion when I can use it. (maybe a Cher Lloyd concert? who knows?)

But that's all for now! Please comment, follow and share my blog! ;) Peace out!

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Viscaria: Junior Prom 2012

Sorry for not posting so much! School's been really hectic but it's summer now so I'm freeeee!

Anyway, I just had my prom last February and it's honestly a unique experience. It wasn't really THAT amazing and it's really not as awesome as it's worked up to be but it was pretty  fine. I don't know, maybe that's just me. But I mostly blame the fact that I am a socially constipated fifteen year old whose love life has died over and over again from pining after British pop stars... okay, maybe I'm overreacting. I'd like to clarify that my social life is normal, thank you very much. I'm not letting you guys think I'm gonna grow up becoming a lonely cat lady. That ain't how I roooll. But what I can say about my very first and probably only prom experience is that it was fun... I guess?

So anyway my date and me were set up by my mom and her best friend because my mom insisted that I needed to bring a date seeing that it was "a once in a lifetime experience", which is true actually but I like pretending that it isn't cause I really wanted to go stag. That and all the guys I know are douches and live far far away from me. But my date, named Gio, turned out to be a really cool guy who's into basketball and really nice music and is really, really tall. HI, GIO.  (lol he'll never read this blog. i'll never let hiiiiim.)

The prom itself was okay. The food was good, the music was horrible, I don't get why they made us have a grand entrance that played tacky game show music at the background, BUT THE DESERT WAS AMAZAZING. AMAY-ZA-ZING.

If you're wondering if I slow danced, I did. No more questions.

So after the prom I was so tired that my date just brought me home. Haha, sorry, Gio. I MUST BE SO LAME. But he gave me this beautiful bouquet of carnations.

So me being the fashion illustration obsessed freak I am, I designed my prom gown. It was actually very easy to come up with designs for my gown because the theme was something that I had ample knowledge about. What was the theme of our lovely-lovely prom, you may ask? VINTAGE VICTORIAN! So I Googled Victorian gowns as well as 1920's dresses and Audrey Hepburn gowns. After doing so much research, I came up with this design that was basically a full peach colored sheer gown (with a beige lining underneath) with a short trail and a beaded collar as well a thin beaded belt. The bottom part of the dress was very reminiscent of a waterfall skirt; something that's really in now, so the gown sort of gives off a "vintage meets 21st century" kind of vibe.

The design:

Then I sent the design to my aunt, Emmy Garcia-Reyes who runs Trajes Manila. She is so amazing because she beautifully executed the gown the way I imagined it to be.

The outcome:

I know, my body is disgusting. Bleh. I paired the gown with these blush colored heels from Steve Madden which were really comfortable to walk around with for a few hours. I've always wanted heels like them and I was super lucky to have gotten them with their price marked down! My mom lent me some of her vintage accessories as well as her vintage lace pouch with stringed pearls as its handle.

My hair was curled and pulled back like Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's".

Then we added these really pretty bobby pins inlaid with roses from "Accessorize".

In the end, going to prom was worth it so I'm glad I didn't miss out :)

I've been hibernating.

That and I've been contemplating a lot about where I want to go with this blog. So I've just recently rediscovered the "fashion pirate"'s blog (fashion pirate) and came across this video of hers.

It honestly made me reflect and realize the, as I quote the title, "State of Fashion Blogging". I know that I'm just a "noob" to this blogosphere but the longer I stay, I realize how much pop culture has affected the often wayward language of fashion. Everyone's so uniform it's kind of pathetic when people claim that an UK flag crop top and daisy dukes with a thin belt and Vans ensemble represent who they are. SUUURE.

What else is prevalent in the fashion blogosphere? Tall skinny girls. Chubby people who try starting blogs hardly get anywhere. Skinny girls on the other hand make it far. And since when did the dictation of fashion become influenced by body type? I mean sure Twiggy was and amazing model but that doesn't mean that every single skinny girl out there are better than what curvy girls have to offer. I don't hate skinny girls okay? I just think it's really sad how much people are so hypnotized with the mindset that you aren't beautiful if you aren't skinny.

Back then, I had really big issues with the need to become thin. It tore me up and made me do things that I wish I hadn't done. I felt really worthless back then but then I came across something that changed me (no matter how cliche it sounds): art. Yes, art, not fashion. For me, fashion falls under art but that's a different matter right now.

So it was through art that I was... saved? Yeah. And I'm talking about art in a general sense. I delved into drawing, painting, singing, dancing, acting, performing and (leading to what this blog is about) fashion. Yes, fashion is an art form. It's technically a way to express oneself and that's how I'm going to utilize fashion in this blog; as a means to express myself.

I'm going to be starting afresh. It'd be better of you guys disregard my earlier posts. Consider those as my "starting" point. It's going to be something to look back to.

I'm going to be a tad bit more serious about this fashion blogging business so look forward to it ;)

P.S. As you guys may have noticed, to symbolize my "fresh start" I've changed the title of my blog AND my url! HOW FUNKY IS THAT? Anyway, I changed it to "whimsical sailors" because I wasn't satisfied with my old url which was "whimsicalsnails". It was an inside joke that no one would probably get so I changed it to sailors as a homeage to navy inspired fashion, something I'm a fan of. So wish me luck this year, guys! :)

Amy Winehouse FEVERRRR. (Plus the new Fred Perry Spring 2012 collection.)

I am a SUPER fan of Amy Winehouse. I don't think there hasn't gone a day wherein I don't listen to at least one of her songs (you know, unless of course my ipod runs out of battery and I get too tired to charge it.). So, being the lovable fan I am, my eyes popped right out of their sockets when I found out that Fred Perry had an Amy Winehouse themed clothing line. I was nonetheless brimming with happiness while I was checking out the designs, but I've got a few comments regarding the designs.

I don't think the collection exactly captured the essence of Amy's Miami-themed style. Especially the plain and simple pastel pink cardigan. Amy Winehouse' style is one that stands out from the crowd and not to mention extremely sexy, but after seeing such plain and (forgive me for saying this Fred Perry) dull designs, I just can't help but feel a tad bit disappointed with the outcome. I know that the clothes still had to have that "Fred Perry" vibe, but perhaps they could have used a little more "oomph" to them. Though there were some parts of the collection that made me a downer, I thoroughly liked those that made use of the Amy Winehouse themed print. The pattern was playful and whimsical. It had this really cute yet raw feeling to it. Kudos to that. My favorite part of the collection was the tie-up printed shirt, the high waisted turn-up shorts, and the pedal pushers. The handbag was pretty cute too.

So these are my favorite designs from the collection:

 

Some Amy love :)

Her previous collection from Fred Perry:

And that concludes it for this blog post. Now, I shall go back to black for my exams start tomorrow. Wish me luck! :)


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pictures from fredperry.com & google.

My current love.

Wooden bracelets

mean the

world

to me

for they 

remind me

of someone

special

and dear

to my

heart.

(plus, they're tiny & adorable wooden circles on an elastic string, how could one not like them)

Psyching myself. (I think it's working)

I've been "brain dead" lately so I Googled me up some images so I can give myself an idea of  psychedelic themed ensembles to sketch. e.g. Versace's Spring 2010 collection (3rd image below).

 I may not know what show this is, but I like his funky necktie.

The Beatles, perfectly enjoying their Yellow Submarine. And their colorful military outfits. (Woot woot! Paul McCartney in blue!)

Versace's Spring 2010 collection. I love it. (sighs)

Yes, I take inspiration from comic books. Whooptyfriggindoo. (You can't hate on their primary colored costumes.)