ROSE STEIN: AIRBRUSH MAKEUP EXPERT IN MANILA, PHILIPPINES

In the past, I keep on seeing on various social media platforms friends and people wanting to learn about airbrush make up and that they go to school for it. I got curious but shrugged the idea off as make up didn't really interest me that much till I met Rose Stein, a Manila-based, Professional Hair and Makeup Artist and Airbrush Makeup Expert.

I met Rose Stein a decade ago in a modeling project I spearheaded. Throughout the years, I see her doing more and more gigs in modeling. We went out with common friends a few times but I never knew till late that she is now one professional airbrush makeup expert in Manila. I bumped into her recently at a friend's bridal shower then wedding engagement and it was there that I knew about her career.

Airbrush as she told me is a technique of spraying makeup onto the skin using an airbrush instead of being applied using brushes, fingers, sponges, etc. and I learned that them makeup professionals really go to school for this. Rose Stein also told me that she even has to go to London School of Makeup to get advanced studies for this. Wow... I thought to myself... isn't it very expensive to do so? I did ask Rose and she said yes it is very expensive indeed but that sacrifices has to be made to further improve herself in her skills and profession. Here are some of her works in the past that I got from Rose Stein's official website www.maryrosestein.com 

I then thought it is a wise move having further studies offshore. The move would make her a formidable star in her field... I mean, not every make up artist makes the serious effort nor has some money saved to make room for improvement. To be competitive and excel on a certain field, improvement can be never-ending as nothing is constant. Especially in beauty and fashion, one has to be in the know of what's hot and what's not... conforming to the trend. 

Watch out for Rose Stein, women in the Philippines! She is one to be searched for when it comes to makeup artistry in the country. Below is one her brochures for your reference. All contact details are there including her email should you need to ask for rates as well as mobile, website and Facebook page.

Rose Stein uses high quality cosmetic brands that is apt for your skin type and colour to ensure the best results.

THE FACEBOOK DOMESTIC TURKEY

Today, I have come up with so many names to name those people on Facebook who are so gullible in letting scammers win. Either that or they are plain stupid hence, I call them... The Facebook Domestic Turkey .

A huge number of people number of people have been lured to pages and "so-called" Facebook applications  and requests. The most recent once again is the "Facebook Profile Viewer" app claiming to give you access as to who is spying or visiting your profile.

It gets to be annoying but I am fully understanding why people repeatedly let scams like this succeed. The rogue apps and requests are brilliantly created and of course, the creators are banking on human gullibility owing to the fact that always... "curiosity kills the cat".

I did my fair share to stop these even spreading information that LINKS pointed to or coming from friends' Facebook status updates are not to be trusted and REQUESTS by people to direct you to an application are also not to be trusted. Also, I spread information on layman's term that Facebook asks us to verify our accounts or anything else via e-mail and mobile but clearly, not through friends.

Despite all the sharing of links from experts and hoax-busters explaining that these links are nothing but a scam, people still get to touch those links! On this day alone, I have 2-3 victimized friends every 5 minutes! Thus; I thought of them as Facebook Domestic Turkeys!

Why? Because domestic turkeys are known to drown in a heavy rain shower because they didn't realize that it would be dry and safe inside their hutches. Other domestic turkeys are so brainless that they can't even remember how to eat and must be fed by the farmer. These gullible people on Facebook are meant to be called such for not using their brains or, they are just purely brainless.

Facebook Domestic Turkey... It's a fun and apt name! Through my dedicated poster for them to be spread on Facebook, I hope this will help stop further clicking of rogue apps affecting and infecting others. Just like the message on my poster, "We should never under-estimate the power of stupid people in large groups".

MR. HAPPINESS OF MANILA

It was not so long ago that my younger girl friends dragged me out to Republiq (that massive dance club in Resorts World) for some fun. We started downing alcohol like there's no tomorrow. Everything went fast before my eyes then I saw 4 of them jumping up and down, dancing, giggling... giddy over the booming voice that rocks the party. Then they screamed! I scrambled for my possessions (including the bottle of Grey Goose)  thinking there's a fight that broke out in the club but no... they screamed because of the club's emcee! They went screaming "OMG! OMG!" and my jaw dropped when I saw it's my brother from another mother... Mitch Malli!

Now you ask, who the hell is Mitch Malli to merit a blog from me? Apart from being a hardworking business man, a great PR person, a mushroom that sort of sprouts everywhere (yes he's very visible anywhere that's good)... he is family to me.

Yup, I have known the boy since he was just starting that process of major physical changes by which a boy's body becomes an adult body capable of reproduction. Along with his best buddies Jon Hall and Borgy Manotoc, they were our boys in a gang of hot, party goddesses who acted as their sisters, mothers and best friends. Yes, we were very protective of them. It was like no other group of girls were able talk to them ha ha ha! Altogether coming in clubs and bars (nightly!), the red sea would literally part! I mean, who wouldn't?! Those were the formidable group of happy and good-looking people! Just by looking at the 3 boys alone, women were confused as to who they prefer! We all had fun memories with Mitch, Jon and Borgy... those seemingly endless nights of mayhem and days of alcohol recovery... days when our livers were screaming! 

Mitch Malli however, is a far cry from what he is now. Aside from him being more serious with his business, health and physical fitness (girl, did you look at his body lately?!!)... before, he was that ever-smiling but shy type guy... often more quiet than mysterious and suplado-looking Jon Hall. Not to his family of friends though... he is still what he is now... makulit ever!

"Some shit never changes", as we always say in the group... papa Mitch as we all fondly call him back then, has always been the same with us whenever we bump into him. He would always give us big hugs and kisses despite the many changes in his life. He always makes us happy! He is Mr. Happiness for us! He would always get us drunk too! And to barely a handful in my group who have become sober for years, it becomes a beautiful nightmare the next day with matching memories of  a lot of leaning... leaning on bars, leaning on walls, leaning on sisters, leaning on waiters, leaning on club bouncers + lots of hugs... hugging bottles, hugging lamp posts and hugging toilets! And what about friggin' Mitch Malli? His ass would still be sober in the morning enough to see us off to our homes safe!

I must say we all literally survived the fun and wrecked nights in the old days with Mitch Malli... and even if we all don't have much photos with him (not yet the digital age at that time), in our minds, we will never be able to survive recalling how much fun we all have in the family back then! He was that good to embed good memories with him in our "then-dying but recovering" brain cells!

In behalf of Melissa, Cristina, Christine J., April, Richelle, Angel, Kelly and the rest of my family of good girl friends, I raise my glass of iced tea to the guy who, as he grows older, he pays less attention to what men say because he just watches what they do. Happy birthday, papa Mitch!!! We love ya!!!

Mitch Malli... Mr. Happiness! Ironic... when one Googles his last name, the first on the search is Malli Leaves... suitable for kidney cleaning yet, he is now one of the ambassadors of fun and clubbing entertainment. That means, unknowingly, he'll give you one heck of a good time at the clubs you never know you're drunk as effed when people tell you the next day you were experiencing a lot of leaning and hugging the night before!

For ladies who likes my hot brother, by all means, follow him at Twitter... @MitchMalli!