It’s been almost like a year since I was planning to work with Ms. Ian Lipa as my make-up artist for a shoot. Through God’s grace we finally got the chance to work together! I was personally worried as she just came back from London just 2 days before our prenup shoot with Joel and Olive. Ian is a very down to earth person and very professional to work with and I should say she’s really an amazing person inside and out 🙂 Working with her was just like a breeze. She really knows what to do and what I have in mind. She really cares about her clients on how they’ll look like and for this she keeps an eye for every detail even during the shoot. She’ll excuse herself even before when I was about to call her for a re-touch! WoW! I rarely see a person who is so passionate of the kind of work they do, and Ian just blew me away. Thanks Ian!

Here is my latest couple who are soon to tie the knot on September this year in Boracay! WoW, beach wedding!:) Too bad again, I won’t be able to cover their wedding as I’m 4,588 miles away from them 😥

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Joel and Olive are both lawyers. They were together for like 11 years already. They’ve met in their pre-law years in University of the Philippines while taking up B.A. Political Science and were inseparable ever since up until their Law years with the same university. Sweet! 🙂

Aside from being lawyers, they did some modelling for a print ad. Joel, did model for Shell V-Power and Olive for Rogin E. If I’ve only known this earlier I swear I would have let them do the poses for me 🙂 haha! xD

Joel and Olive were such a lovebird, they keep laughing and joking around before, during and after our shoot! 🙂 Few of their friends came over to witness their shoot and I’m so glad to have met them! With the whole gang around, it made the day–a day of laughter and joy even with the hot and humid weather we had that day 🙂

The day ended soon enough but everyone is still bursting with adrenaline and as I was packing my things already, I was informed that I should join them for dinner. Good thing, my class was moved from morning to evening! without thinking twice I gladly said yes with a smile 🙂

Joel and Olive brought us to Uncle Cheefy in Global city and oh boy the food was superb! from the steak, to pasta, pizza’s and even the wine was genuinely awesome! I couldn’t even lift a finger as I was so full already and all I thought we are done with the dinner, Olive quickly invited us for a coffee! haha! I didn’t know that Starbucks serves one of the best Red Velvet Cake ever as Joel puts it. He said, he had 7 servings of this when he first tried it. I would really love to have tried it but I really am full already and I can’t even finish off properly my coffee, hehe. Now, I have a new reason besides coffee to visit Starbucks soon
enough to try them! 🙂

make up by Ian Lipa

shot together with Alfie Lipa

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some behind the scenes shots of Ms. Ian and their F.R.I.E.N.D.S. 😀