WISHLIST 2010

Is that time of the year again to be materialistic!(joke)

my wishlist:

Make UP brushes ( I really need a stippling brush, a round brush and a good kabuki brush)

 

make up case beacuse have lots of make up already >__<

dslr camera

 sewing machinery!!! ^__^

urban decay ( Alice in wonderland) 

 

 

 OR

I heard urban decay eye shadows are really good

travel

DOLLS!

there ^___^

a word from a designer: clients

Ok. I got angry with a client. Well not that angry, I just told him some frank words that might re-think the way he treats a designer/artist. You see guys, if you want a logo designed by a designer don't expect to come in a very cheap price. We designers, put time and effort to design and custom-made an idea of your specification. We also have a business, a business of art and design.
 

My scenario is this, a client ask me to design his logo for his up-coming business. He told me he hasn't got the budget, and if its ok to work on a very small budget (how small? lets say its not enough to buy me a 1 terabyte HD, still curious? check on sulit.com.ph for prices).

I said YES ok, BUT given with my terms and conditions.

I have agreed on:

Terms and Conditions:

- 1 design for logo

- 1 design for layout and illustration, if you will be needing more illustrations I would have to 

   charge a fee

- 2 revisions allowed, further than that I would have to charge a fee

-50% down upon starting

-50% balance upon submission of files

-copyright will belong to me

Note: Since this is a small business, I have allowed you to charge a small fee, this quotation is limited to ONE cart only, if you decided to extend a cart or create a booth or create a franchise, then I have to charge you with a fee for royalties (net of tax)for extension, limited to booth and cart; a separate fee for franchise of logo and illustration. Any unauthorized usage of logo and illustration will be subject to legal action, republic act No. 8293, presidential decree no. 49.

He already agreed (sunday), gave me a color scheme to work on, the deadline is on wednesday. I said "ok, but you have to deposit on monday for me to start working on the logo."  I gave him the terms (see terms and conditions) I ask if it's ok.

he said "OK" and logged out.

Monday came and I ask him if he had received and agreed to my email. Then, he suddenly tells me, we change the color scheme, do this do that, this is our competitor and just make a logo that looks like theirs,   hey can you whip me up a sketch for the design first?

I said "I have yet to confirm you deposit first before I could make a sketch :)  thanks."

then the client emailed me: what if we don't like the concept, we only get one turn right? is it going to be forfeited?

CLIENT TIP: If you're not sure if the designer is good, ask some of her/his portfolio samples, that way you have a preview of what quality he/she can bring to the table.In this case, I already had a DA acct, in w/c he already checked.

then I got really frank at him:

" you already knew what I am capable of as a designer, I thought that's why you hired me for.

Next thing, I'll also invest my time and effort to do you a logo, so actually the down payment is for my study already and FYI it's very cheap. Naka mura ka na nga actually, normally this logo costs XX because you are going to use this for business, in short you are going to earn from this, right?

Please always remember good design is not cheap. If you want just a plain logos that looks like your competitor, then go to the nearest computer shop and let them design for you,
and don't hire a designer and expect cheap design too :)

thanks "

after that he didnt emailed me again.(it was ok, but I really hope he learned a lesson)

P.S.I really did a study of the logo before he made any down payment I got excited to get to design again.

too bad for him(client) and this little guy T_T

a very early new years resolution

Christmas and New Year is approaching, well that is until next month. But since I'm super excited by the coming year I decided that I make my resolution early to remind myself that I wrote this: TIME IS FAST AND IT IS RUNNING OUT.

I mean, I'm having this quarter life crisis. I'm 25 years old and I still didn't have any money to buy a car, a house, or rent my own space, I didn't have something that I'm proud of like an award or accomplishement. I don't know what I did for the last 5 years, and looking back I see all this craziness, running away from home, quitting my job, see my bf flew to the states, getting fatter instead of thinner...etc *sigh* Seeing those things makes me want to regret things that I should have did, but I made an excuse so I didn't. I'm having this crisis that I'm 25, I have 1 bank account, and all I have is 3000pesos that's equivalent to nothing in some county's currency. If there is some force out there that's going to help me, we'll I'm going to need it...A lot of it.

So this time, I'm going to make it happen, I'm going to do it. make or break, at least I tried.

my new year's resolution 2011:

1. Start losing weight...Again. No cheating this time, I really need to do this. I am ok being chubby and cute but I don't want to be fat for the rest of my life.  I want to be able to go to SM and fit all the dresses I like and not return them to the saleslady and say "It doesn't fit me". This year, and the remaining days, is pig out days. But next year I have to control my appetite, Ill have to say no on extra rice, eat more veggies, exercise regularly, and have a healthy lifestyle. I want to show PEDZ that I could do it, and he'll eventually say "mami, will you marry me?" hahaha just kidding, I want him to say " mami, im proud to be your boyfriend, and you are so sexy and hot" hahaha!
2. Open up a business. YES. I'm truly ecstatic about this. I'll do anything as long as its legal, good and profitable. I honestly don't have anything to invest right now except for my talent. I have lots of ideas, I know of all people, that I could do this. (yes, I have to empower myself somehow)
3. Sleep early. Wake up early. I want to wake up like 7-8am next year, and sleep around 12 midnight, that's the LIMIT. As people say, early bird gets the early worm, If I'm going to put up a biz, I need to wake up early, do things early, stop saying TOMORROW. I need to say NOW.
4. Spend less. Save more. gee that sounded like a grocery.  I  need to jot down my expenses to remind myself how much I'm spending. I don't want to spend above my net salary. And save save save!
5. Read more books. I haven't had a book to read this past year. My vocabulary stinks and I'm having trouble expressing things in english (sorry) When I was in high school I was a fast reader because I was so addicted to romance novels (geez...) hahaha. But yeah I'll be definitely going to read more, and collect more books/art books. I need to stop relying on the internet for entertainment.
6. Do more ART, and have an exhibit! I haven't been doing this because I'm in a hiatus of finding my style. but I think I already found it now. My DA is crying right now, I know, Im going to leave DA, but im going to start somewhere again Ill be more prepared and more inspired! I'm excited to do more art and photography too.
7. Travel. I really like traveling in fact 2010 has been my travel year, I went to, batangas, baguio, abra, davao, tagaytay, and singapore. I had my first airplane ride with pedz. so happy. I would like to gho to boston or hawaii to see pedz next year, granted that I' ll have a tourist visa. I need you universe! pls make that happen!

so there you have it, wish me luck on this coming year ^__^
reminder to self: look at this when you are feeling down and hopeless.

double panda

Me and Pedz have been playing this game on the net, Double Panda by armored games. I like this game I think the concept is very cute, 2 pandas working together. We were so addicted to it because it's so cute ^__^ awe panda * I love PANDAS*

double panda: very cute game! The game is about 2 pandas helping each other yay!

Pedz finished playing it like a day. Me, being the no-hand-and-eye-coordination person, finished it for a century. OMG. But I did see the master. he's cute too! aweeeeee!! racoon master *^__^*

giant panda, red panda and racoon master <3

multigrain snack review

I have been eating multi-grain snacks for a while instead of junkfood. And boy, I thought it would not be appetizing to chow on granola bars, but NOVA caramel peanut crunch, wow, when I first tasted it, it was so yummy, the sweetness is just right(not so sweet like nutribar) and it has only 99calories...so guilt free! I'm just having difficulty finding it, because I think it is only available in 7/11 stores, I tried looking for it at SM and shopwise, not available. it costs me around 10 pesos( you can see the price on the pic) . It was so yummy for me that I had to tell you about it!

nova multigrain bar(only 10 pesos)

yummy! sorry for the photo I use a cellphone>_<

I also tried the quaker oats oatmeal cookie in raisin and in honey nuts, I bought it at shopwise, they had a sale buy one take one on the cookies at 10 pesos. I wasn't so amaze by the taste. It tasted too dry for me and the sweetness is also okay, I guess it wasn't that sweet.

I just like these because of their packaging >_<

Quaker oats also have granola bars, I have already tasted it a year ago, but didn't like it because it was too sweet for me, if  I'm not mistaken I tried the chocolate chip and smores flavor.

perfect for the sweet tooth

I'll be buying again on 7/11 for more NOVA. I really think that this is a great alternative to my sweet junk food ^__^

My first make up gigs!

Yeah I had gigs.

At that time I was so into make-up, ( I dunno why, maybe because I'm suddenly becoming a LADY..haha) I got really obsess by it that I watch michelle phan's videos on youtube over and over again. She's a pro on changing her looks.

I bought an eyeshadow palette online c/o dollface cosmetics http://swtangel.multiply.com/ 

I love it because it has many colors, highly pigmented ( I use this on the looks below) ^_^

Photo credits: http://swtangel.multiply.com/

I bought the basic 88matte palette that michelle used on some of her vids

I also bought some products on WATSONS/SM. The local ones, together with a set of brushes.

My boss(also my boyfriend's sister) gave me a set of elianto cosmetics, a korean brand.

She gave me a neutral eyeshadow palette, foundation, a white lipliner to start off. (I'll upload pics on my future posts)

My boyfriend had a photoshoot, but didn't have money to hire a make up artist. He needed me for his class because he's taking up basic photography (this was months ago btw, I hadn't blog about it so I'll just post everything on one post)

MODEL: Carmela Cucuenco

 

before ( I just took a random pic on her facebook, because I forgot to take a pic of her)

AFTER credit to pedz for the pics

Ok.  the second gig that I had is another photoshoot with hendirk lerios and edz avancena, they're great photographer friends of mine, I ask them if they want to have a shoot with me being their make-up artist and they've agreed

MODEL: edz avancena

before

after: credit hendrik lerios for the photo

Then I had a third gig, This one is really challenging because my model is a pageant contestant, Janissa De Leon. Aditha, my other colleague who is also a photographer, invited us to there place at batangas, the weather was so bad, it was raining hard, frequent blackouts, we thought we might not push through to the shoot, but there were times that it was cloudy so we just tried to make out the most of what we have.

It was a two day shoot.
DAY 1:

before

after: I took this photo, I also shoot ya know!

 DAY 2:

after2: credit aditha bautista for the photo

So watchathink? ^__^
I'm really enjoying being a make-up artist, if you know me personally, I dont do make-up on myself, but I do now(more on that later). I also styled the hair for the shoots above, I really like making people beautiful!
More shoots to come!