Girl Next Door

I was planning to clean my drive because the desktop computer I use at work is performing slower than the usual. I brought DVDs with me to save backups and delete some personal files but guess what happened, I found recent photos of me from my iPhone photos folder. These were taken on the last week of September and what made me giddy to blog about these two outfits? MARiS and Laduree, my two latest addictions!

We don't have a body-size mirror at the office and every time I wanna see how I look like, I ask my office chums to take a picture of me. Pictures speak a thousand words, right? And of course I project whenever they snap and tap my ever, so dear iP. (Oh, just to be sure, we do this during breaks, not on office hours!)

 All the colors I love: blue-green, violet and pink.

I also couldn't believe that I sported the Miss Pastel Necklace from MARiS at work. People here are often dressed in jeans and plain tops except for talents (actors, anchors and reporters). I'm usually spotted wearing dresses just to be safe! :)

Blue-green dress from Aeropostale | Black tank top from Gap | Feather necklace from MARiS | 

Violet ballet flats from Solemate for SM Department Store

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Sumo smile!

I wore this during the final fitting of our gowns. Before picking Jovy and Susie up, Pao and I lined up for ATM to get some moohlas. The boyfriend suddenly took a photo of me while talking and I was so ready to smile!

Crazy for Laduree part two.

My last piece of Laduree is the pistachio flavor and I made sure to have a digital copy of it to please the Blair Waldorf in me! The red car behind me got the boyfriend's attention, ergo the background. I was also wearing the MARiS Camie feather hair clip!

Black lace coverup from Landmark Department Store | Black tank top from Gap | Feather hair clip from MARiS | Leopard print shorts from Landmark Department Store | Bejeweled flat sandals from Mom

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Crazy For Ladurée

You know how much I love Blair Waldorf. Her style, her character(!!!), everything she does, I wanna do. And even if I'm not an elite like her and that I'm not from NY, I have an inner Blair Waldorf in me. We both like Audrey Hepburn, we both have Jenny Humphrey and that we're crazy about Ladurée macarons!

Omgaaah Blair Waldorf is made of class ♥

Whenever I feel like eating macarons, I go to Bizu (and now Sweet Bella at Burgos Circle). To note, the closest Bizu branch from where I'm located is Greenhills so I usually fail to fulfill my cravings. Last week, I was dying to have some macarons and the good news was... a former classmate from college who's now a flight attendant flew to CDG before flying back here in MNL. She Twitpic'd me a box of Ladurée and begged her to buy me a box of 8. The flavors of my choice are: Red Fruits, Raspberry, Pistachio, Chocolate, Rose, Vanilla, Praline and Mint and Strawberry.

Just a little background about Ladurée: it is a luxury pastries shop from the ever luxurious city, Paris. History says that it is the brand that invented the double-decker macaron shells with a creamy ganache filling. The perfect description for “le Macaron”? According to its very Parisian website, “These small, round cakes, crisp on the outside, smooth and soft in the middle, are the most famous creation of Ladurée.” It is also the pastry brand which took charge of all the cakes used in the film Marie Antoinette starred by Kirsten Dunst.

Now that I've finally tried Blair Waldorf's favorite, I can swear by this description. I can forever munch on this. I even found myself sleeping beside its box. But of course I shared the macarons to my parents, siblings and Paolo because the best things in life must be shared to all, especially to our loved ones. :)

My oh, so precious box!

Les Macarons: two almond meringe shells with butter cream or ganache filling ♥

"Crisp on the outside, smooth and soft inside."

Raspberry, Pistachio and Chocolate.

Chocolate, Mint & Strawberry and Coffee

Vanilla, Praline and Rose.

© Photos by Mai Marcial. 

It's official! I am craaaazy for macarons! I've tried Bizu and Sweet Bella and next week, I'm gonna try Empire. Also, I was also informed that McDonald's in Paris also serves macarons. Can't wait to try each and every macaron in the world! 

If you have suggestions on where else I can get/order/buy macarons, please let me know! Email or tweet me! Thanks! :)

I really love channeling the inner Blair Waldorf in me! Okay forgive me for being such a social climber (my haters say I do it best hehehe) but never mind, I'm a Prince(ss) Macaro(n)!

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