Pregnancy Blog: 10 Items for My Second Trimester Must Haves

I am now on my 34th week. almost there!

I wanted to share what helped me go through my second trimester. coming into my second trimester was a breath of fresh air. Although, my morning (and evening) sickness did not go away until I was on my 18th or 19th week but still it did subside which was a relief. I never thought I could surpass that.

During this time, I was able to eat properly without the thought of how it will taste when it wants to come out. Food is staying down (Thank goodness.. wew!) I tried to eat as healthy as I could, but food cravings sometimes get the best out of me. There are times when I crave for fast food, especially when I see someone eating them or I pass by someone holding a bag of Jollibee or McDonald (drool). I indulge once in a while just to satisfy my craving and then I regret it after because I get weird after taste for fried or oily foods.

Okay so back to my list. Here are 10 items that I listed down that helped me with my second trim. there may be more, I will add it on the bottom. Mostly these are the things I cannot live without during those time.

Pregnancy Blog: My 11 First Trimester Must Haves

Last year (November 2018), we received the most wonderful news we could ever have. I was in awe when we saw our little one on our very first ultrasound. It was a joy no one could ever explain.

This pregnancy has been a roller coaster ride so far, and the first trimester was.. wow! I was glad it was over. But the experience, I would not trade it for any other.

I am sure it was not just me who experienced the ups and mostly downs of first trimester, but one thing I can take away from all that, is that, woman, specially mothers are one of a kind. I now have a huge respect to all mothers who have gone through with that.

So, to help out other women who are going through their first trimester or who are planning to get pregnant, here are my First Trimester must haves. These items helped me survive the first few months. I hope this will also help you in any way.

Here are 11 things that were a must haves for me. some of them I still use until now.

My DIY Wedding

Weddings are a magical thing, it's one of the happiest moment for the bride and groom to share with their loved ones, and let's all admit it, specially girls, we all have that dream wedding in mind even before the proposal happens. Yep! I have that as well, been planning my dream wedding in my head even before we had "The Talk".

I am a very organized person, but not the OC type. I just like things to be where they are supposed to be, so it's easier for me to find them. When Jay proposed, I took up the part of organizing our wedding, since I am in the wedding industry as an Event Stylist and Makeup Artist, and well, because, I don't really have a choice since the proposal went "Ikaw na bahala sa wedding natin ah", and I was like "G! kung yung VMI nga nadeploy ko, ung wedding pa kaya" wahahaha... not as easy as 1,2,3 but I managed.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Birthday is one of the most important event for me, I love birthdays specially when It's my birthday.. we get to celebrate it once a year and I love how happy it makes the celebrant even with a simple celebration. 

Birthdays also means cake, cake just makes me happy, it represents a celebration in life that I get to share with my family or with friends.

Celebrating my birthday doesn't require fancy celebration or fancy gifts. A simple dinner with family is enough for me, as long as I see them happy, I'm happy.

This day was filled with so much fun, love, laughter and stories shared with Jay, Mamang and Grace, whom I was with to celebrate my day. I call it VergeDay.

My Road to Healthiness: 7 Months Later

Hi! it's been a while since I updated my blog. I got busy (but that is no excuse really), changed job (yes! got the courage to move out of my 7 years job to a new one) and now I am still on my road to healthiness, although it got delayed a few times, but I am still committed to achieve that new me. as they say, slowly but surely. no really, I'm just lazy sometime. haha!

So here I am writing my road to healthiness journal, just to give update on you guys, whoever is reading this, I hope someone is. pleaaase. will show you pictures of me, latest me.

Here's what I have been doing so far, Thanks to my gym enthusiast friends, who tells me what to do with my life.. haha!

My Road to Healthiness: Day 0

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. I want to start a new series on my blog which is not really related to Makeup but still related to beauty, Health is beauty and staying healthy is a must for me. I have been eating unhealthy food and not keeping track of my diet these path few months, specially since the holiday just passed and I wanted to change that. Thus, I am making this series to keep track of my progress and to also encourage other people like me, who loves to eat and is too lazy to move, that being unhealthy is not good for you. My goal is not really to be sexy or slim down to a model-like-physique, No No! hahaha! My goal to stay healthy within the suggested body weight that I am supposed to be at and keeping it that way.

What made me start this series is when I watched a documentary in Netflix where in they were also struggling with their health and one day, they decided that they wanted to change, and they just started doing it. Little things matter, such as skipping those soda or chocolate or snacking on chips. So with that, I realized, that if they can do it, maybe I can too. maybe this could be a start :D

So to start, last weighing I did, is that I weigh 67kgs or around 147 lbs, which is pass, way pass my ideal weight (110 lbs or 50kg), I would like to have a 50kg weight at least, so I can still donate blood.

Here is my latest picture. Please don't judge (this is my shameless posting of a picture of me) :D

so there, that's Day 0 and hopefully, as this series progress, I will also have a progress on my goal.
Until my next post! thank you!

Have a nice day!

<3
Gie

Geisha Inspired Photoshoot

Hey There! Welcome back to my blog. I have been away for too long and I have a lot of draft blogs that needs to be published. One of them is this photoshoot we did last year for our friend. 

She wanted to show their Kimono, yes, they are selling them, I will have to update this blog to share with you the their page. anyhoo, I did her hair and makeup and also the Kimono styling for her (help her put it on, since there are a lot of accessories and layers)

This photo was taken by Jay of LightsOffPhoto (check our his page here fb.com/LightsOffPhoto, you can also book him for any photoshoot that you need and he will give you a quote according to your need)

I decided not to go with the traditional hair for geisha, since she has a long hair, I decided to part her hair and roll them up, to create that messy roll on top of her hair, then attached the wig bangs and accessories. the long hair from her back is her real hair :)

Here are some of our shots (you can check out Jay's page, fb.com/LightsOffPhoto, to check out other photos and see them in HD)