TO THE WOMAN OF WORTH, (YOU)

This advocacy is born out of a heart that is passionate to witness a generation where every woman is well-aware of her worth in a holistic point-of-view: physically, emotionally, socially, legally and most of all, spiritually and Biblically.

In a world where women experience inequality, violence and discrimination, this advocacy aims to raise up Christ-Empowered Women, who live to empower her home, her husband, her children, her ministry and career, her generation and her nation.

This advocacy believes that this is her time because she is PRISCILLA TODAY.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

REAL TALK: Channeling my Inner "Maldita"

Sometimes I feel like I've been too nice to everyone, that I forgot how to be nice to myself.



Okay, so I've always played the role of the "nice girl"probably someone you can easily be friends with, someone you could quickly turn to for help, someone who'll willingly say "yes" because sheIam scared to turn you down. 

I was actually "too nice" to the point that my favorite words were (number one) "Yes" and (number two) "Sorry." 

I was once that kind of person who apologized all the time because I always felt like I was in the way, it's like apologizing for existing.

I used to even say "sorry" whenever someone gets in MY way. Ang lala talaga.

Sometimes after speaking up, I would still end up

Monday, February 23, 2015

SPOTTED: The #LiveToFeel Generation Celebration

People of our very own generation, from different walks of life, unite with top influencers Bianca Gonzalez, Daniel Matsunaga, Laureen Uy, DJ Mars Miranda and the Philippine Junior Marketing Association (PJMA) National Executive Board, to altogether launch the new revolutionary campaign last Saturday (February 21) outside Eastwood City Mall. 

The "Live To Feel" movement aims to speak out to each and every individual that there is more to life than just existing. It is an invitation to live full lives by FEELING and DOING. It is how you take in the feelings that come with each experience and manifest them in your actions that truly defines you. 

With this campaign that lets people voice out who they are, more and more individuals are now rediscovering what they live to do.












Yours truly, Writer. I LIVE TO EXPLORE!


My mom can't just help but take a photo with this hahaha! :-* Love you Ma!
with Bianca Gonzalez, Youth Ambassador

"I LIVE TO INSPIRE." - Daniel Matsunaga 

Daniel Matsunaga, Role Model

You still can be a part of the #LiveToFeel generation! Create your own statement photo at livetofeel.me :)


Thursday, February 19, 2015

BEAUTY FEATURE: Getting my Lips "StyLIZed!"



 LIPSTICK IS PART OF YOUR WARDROBE, SO DRESS UP YOUR LIPS!


So here's the news! Inspired by her bestselling book, StyLIZed: Liz Uy’s Ten Style Essentials, celebrity stylist Liz Uy collaborates with Happy Skin to create limited-edition lipsticks that career women like you and I would surely love.

I am personally a fan of lipsticks, lip balms, lip creams and anything lip-related. I used to be insecure of my pouty lips, but I've finally learned to embraced this imperfection and to actually flaunt it! 

The color I put into my lips are now like my statement of the day. If you see my lips in red, I'm actually feeling strong, independent and daring...or maybe I'm on my way to a night event for work. I would then wear my lips in pink or corale, when I'm about to have a light coffee date with friends or something to that effect. Then I love wearing it in a nude color when I'm just having a carefree day or when running some errands...or when probably I'm feeling like I just want to keep my day low-key.  

So imagine my excitement when I got these three new "Shut Up & Kiss Me" lippies from Happy Skin! (Thank you, work!)



To be sold at P599 each, the Happy Skin StyLIZed collection gives you new pouting essentials in three limited-edition Shut Up & Kiss Me Moisturizing Lippie shades: 


1. 24 CARATS (pink)
2. RED CARPET (red)
3. STYLE ICON (nude). 

The set of three limited-edition lippies also comes in an acrylic clutch set (P1,799) and a leatherette case set (P1,499). 


“Lipstick is a fashion essential because it completes a woman’s look. Just like shoes, the right lip color can change your entire look.” 











Ha! Now, trying it on myself!


SHADE #1: STYLE ICON

Happy Skin StyLIZed STYLE ICON lippie, P599 each














I absolutely love how the 'nude' color blends perfectly with the natural color of my lips. My usual problem with lighter colored lippies is that it makes me look like I've just donated too much blood in a hospital, looking dry, pale and unnatural. But this one even has a moisturizer on it. It's perfect for the no-makeup makeup look!

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

HAZEL WRITES: Stupid is NOT Forever, Wisdom is Forever


Dear Sen. Miriam, @senmiriam
I think "Self-importance" exists because we live our lives as if we own our lives--that we end up thinking we have the right to do whatsoever with it "kasi buhay ko naman 'to eh."
But maybe all of us are meant to live as if God owns our lives. I think that grasping the "my-life-is-not-my-own-but-of-God's" philosophy is the end to self-importance and the beginning of true wisdom.

REAL TALK: Big & Small


Do you remember that story of a really BIG fish in a somewhat little pond--being contrasted to a really tiny fish in a wiiiiiide ocean?

Sometimes I feel like one tiny fish in a very big sea...probably insignificant, probably unnoticeable. 

But here's a little trivia I hold on to. The small fish in an infinitely wider space HAS GREATER CHANCES OF GROWING even beyond the size of that arrogant king-sized creature swimming in its lonely paltry pond.

So to all "bigger fishes" out there looking down on 'tiny me'...I want you to know that God has placed me in this BIG ocean, in this industry, because this is my territory. No matter how small I am, I'm surely meant to GROW and to be GREAT.

#HazelWrites
#BigNSmall

Sunday, February 15, 2015

REAL TALK: Just Adjust.




God gave each one of us a "magnifying glass"--a gift of "FOCUS."


I think they way we use our own magnifying glasses tells so much about how we see our own circumstances and how we deal with it. 

Some people tend to magnify their problems making it seem bigger than it just actually is, and they end up discouraged. 

On the other hand, some people aim their "magnifying glasses" on goals that truly matter and they become more motivated to move forward and forward despite any obstacles that come their way.

Probably, the more we focus on what we want to achieve, the more our problems naturally fade in a blur. The more we focus on our problems, the more our goals fade into a blur, and then seem impossible. 

Maybe most of the time we try so hard to change our  situation, sometimes we badly want to change the entire picture, but really, all we just have to do is to JUST ADJUST the FOCUS. 

Are you focusing on the right things or should you adjust your magnifying glass?  

#HazelWrites #MondayRandomThoughts #AsInMRT 
#JustAdjust

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

REAL TALK: Growing Up. Growing Apart.

For over a decade, my best friend and I grew up together. We laughed at the same things. We cried over the silliest things. And on mall dates, we splurged on useless things up to the last coin we had. 

And growing up, we started to pray for each other's lives. We shared words of encouragements during hardships in school and careers. We loved each other's family like our own. We cheered each other's successes. We corrected each other's mistakes. We accepted each other's failures. 

In a nutshell, it felt as if the bond we had, promised us the so-called "forever"—that both of us could easily picture how it would be like to be grandmothers together, sitting on our rocking chairs while knitting our grand-kids' mittens as we reminisce about our 'glory days' back in our childhood. 

I honestly thought we were that strong.

Flaming Wing's Wicked Oreos - Katipunan

And for no good reason, it had to wither. No, we weren't really mad at each other. It wasn't a big war that ended what we had. There was nothing to scream about, nothing to fight about, just nothing really.

But I figured our individual lives were just starting to take a form of its own—our lives were becoming way too different and separate from each other, that in order to grow, we knew we couldn't stay together for any longer.

My values and her values weren't the same anymore. My vision and her vision were two poles apart. My priorities and her priorities never found its way to match one another. My world was eventually becoming a totally different dimension from her world.  And the way to my life’s fulfillment was away from her, and hers was away from me.  

It was a quiet and natural way of drifting apart from each other, but, it was at the same time, sad and solemn. We were like two tree branches bound to naturally grow apart.

"Have I lost a best friend in her?" I asked God.

"No. Not at all."

To my "main chick," remember that you are eternally stuck as my 'best friend' in the storybook of my life, no matter how many friends I am bound to meet tomorrow and the days after. 

We met for such a time and in such a momentous way, that we couldn't avoid entwining. 

Our lives may have started to branch out separately, but we will forever be unified by the same tree trunk we grew from side-by-side, and by the same roots that brought life to us. 

We are forever bound by that one point in our lifetimes, despite both of us journeying in entirely different directions now.