Centro Most Stylish Onliners Part#2 - End

Salaam, ladies :D Do you remember my last post about Centro Most Stylish Onliners?

Well, the second stage of the contest was held the next day, BUT the groups are separated to individuals. It means, no grouping anymore!!! AND my friends didn't have confidence to continue it!!!! AAAARRRGGHH I became the one and only girl who wears hijab that time! -__-"

The second stage's theme was "Nautical", and onliners should wear their outfit (no borrowing at Centro this time).

Wanna see what others wear? They're sooo stylish! And the most embarrassing moment was to walk on stage like a model, hahahahaha...

Where's my photo? Hehehee I don't have any proper pict of myself -___-"

From 45 contestants, only left 14 goes to the next round. We all get Rp 100.000 shopping voucher, alhamdulillah :D

 

And at the third stage, the theme was "Colorburst: Revlon". It means pinkish-orangey-purplish color.

AAAAANDDDD 10 contestants were chosen to go to the final round, getting Rp 1.000.000 shopping voucher!! I GOT IT!!! Alhamdulillaaaahhh :D (see my picture? I looked happy didn't I? :p)

source of pict: Nia Vaniari

Big Dilemma for The Final Round

The truth was, i got a dilemma to do the final round. The contest was held on Sunday noon, and I got a ticket to Denpasar at Sunday, early flight! (It's for working, not holiday, hehehe)

And the Rp 1 million shopping voucher was only valid for the shopping rally at final round!!!

Wawawawawaaaa... the work shall be done at Sunday night!

Then my decision was, rescheduling the ticket. Aaaaaa it was soooo hectic!!! Paying ticket rescheduling at Juanda in the morning, going to Galaxy Mall for the final at 11 a.m, and must be at the airport at 15.00 for flight at 15.55 p.m.

The final round itself was soooooo fun yet hectic & tiring.

Imagine this: Contestants were given Rp 1million voucher, and only 30 MINUTES to shop! Including fitting, paying at cashier (and you know the queue at weekend?), and styling ourselves wherever you find a place to change your clothes!!

Running here and there looking what shall i buy. What is good enough for the contest, and is good enough to be worn at my real life?? My choice: Pleated skirt (I've been wanting it since the few days before) & batwing top. And I must buy inner top because I didn't bring it from my house -__-" Lucky I found empty fitting room, so I could finish  styling on time :D 

And I still left some Rp 100.000 vouchers :) I'll give it to my mom.

Tadaaaaaa.... here is me & some other contestants, styling with Centro's items :D

source of pict: Centro fan page

Why I put my picture larger than the others???? Because this is MY BLOG wahahahahahhh :))

I left the contest earlier (there should be some little presentation about the outfit but I took permission) coz I must catch my plane! The best look were chosen for an additional Rp 1million, and I didn't join until the end. So bye bye additional 1 million, but still, alhamdulillah, thanks Centro for the great experience (and shopping vouchers i got ^^)

Do you like my look?? It's somehow looked like a gypsy :p The effort was less than 30 minutes, and my body was shaking greatly (panic panic panic!) :D and i was the only one wearing jilbab! (umm, well, not really, coz some boys wore turban :P)

Vote my picture here :D Thank youuuuuu

*smooch*

PS: to like the picture, firstly you must like the centro's page ^^
And you can see what others wear, too... Fun!

Flyer Design: Cutey Elegant

Hehehehe actually I don't have a theme. It's not cutey elegant. It's just pouring what my mood was, while designing.

Good mood creates pretty good design :p Thanks to Adobe Photoshop.

Flyer design & fashion drawing (orange-girl) by me.

For Hijabee Surabaya.

Aaaahhh I think it's a nice event but I couldn't come! My family's gathering will be held at the same time. The closest bond wins the choice :)

Centro: A New Star Has Born

Lucky meee, being invited to the grand opening of the first Centro dept. store in Surabaya :D

Met some new onliners (well, I raaareeelyyy seen Surabaya's fashion blogger), and found out that one of them came from the same junior high school as me! Aha! I knewww i've seen her face :p

From left to right: Merry, me, Dista, Andri (same junior high!), and Kanya. I love Dista's vintage style heheheh.

There were also Surabaya's Cak & Ning (Mr & Miss Surabaya), Ferry Salim as the MC, Andre Aksana & the beautiful Olla Ramlan (wow she's much more prettier than whom I saw at TV!)

Then a fashion show was held, showing Centro's newest collections. Hehehe I'll only post the kaftan collections, as they are loose and flowy and long and hijab friendly ;D So colorful.

which one do you like the most? I saw some prettier kaftans at the show, but the picture was blurrrryyy -__-"

Then the guests were allowed to do "the first walk" to the new store! Yayyy!!

Ended the event with a big grin :D Received a goodie bag, contained an ethnic necklace! Thanks Centro!!

Whoaaa I became Surabaya's socialite! I'm readyyy to parrrteeehhhh all night loong... ehehhehh kidding, guys. I'm still an introverted silly shy humble and culun girl :D

PS: check out centro's website and find out some contests you could enter :D

Centro Most Stylish Onliners Part#1

The Most Fun & Hectic Hours at Centro
Let me tell you a short story :D There were a contest: Centro Most Stylish Onliners, held at Surabaya. At the first stage, contestants are grouped into 5 people. Luckyyyyy I've met Hijabee's girl! If not, i didn't know who should I ask to accompany me in a fashionista things like this :p Heheheh.
Theeeeennn the fun part was, these groups were given some minutes to borrow Centro's outfit! Only for the brand CEIL & KARLA. One of the group member should be a model while the rest get her styled. The brand itself has various outfits. Many stylish items like jumpsuits, cardigans, cape, etc. But whaaattt will a hijabi wear??

We got confused. We brought a few piece of scarf & shawl from home, try to mix and match them to what will our 'model' wear. Then we decided to dress her in colorful kaftan.

The hectic-ness continued. What hijab style to use?? The event organizer has told us to be quick, not enough time. Pin here and there. Used this and those shawl. Add a brooch. Add necklace. More pins. And the turban styling done!

Tadaaaaa.... here is sheeeee...

Lily the model, behind her sweet smile, she was hungry and her head was dizzy because of the heavy turban! Sorry girl :p But she's so beautiful riiightt???

Ouchhh others were sooo stylish in modern pick of outfits! And very cool styling, too... Here's a few of the contestants:

The judges then called the qualified contestants to go to the next round. WHY our group's number hadn't been called????? I was busy to comfort myself that it's okay to lose when finally our group number was called.

And the excitement hasn't over.

 

 Our group became the judges' most favorite styling that dayyy!! Yaaayyyyy alhamdulillaaaahhh!!! It must be bcoz we were different than others :D

See the winning pic here, from @centroholic twitter. I looked fat :p will not post it here!

"Kaftan for Lebaran", beautiful in turban styling, was one point I told the judges at the contest. Hihihi... Maybe it matched Lebaran moment? 

We got one package from PAC cosmetic. Thanks PAC!

Happyyyy :D thanks gals for accompanying me... And splitting the cosmetics to 5 of us was so heboh :p

One lesson learned:

"Wearing jilbab surely makes our choices of clothing less various. There's some rules of modesty. But don't worry, it will bring us LUCK!"

..to be continued to the second round, heheheh....

Green Day Yayy!!

Attended Islamic Study held by Hijabee Surabaya (oh yeah it's a hijab community, finally in Surabaya!! Hahaha). Alhamdulillah I contributed as the logo & banner's designer.

The dresscode was green. And the event was fun :D Read the story at Hijabee's blog!

Pict by Adilah Novarani. We supposed to clean up the mess after the event. Balloon was the decoration hahahaha

What I wore:

Stripey shirt & green skirt (made by me!! My 2nd sewing task heheheheh).

Left pict by Dwita, right pic (crazy pose -__-") by Adilah

And here are a few of effortlessly stylish girl attended the event :D

Ikka, high school student & singer (she joined Opick's concert). Noni, makeup artist.

Levi, college student, my junior! hehehe. Lily, model. Look at Lily's ring-bangles!

BTW if you noticed, my pict is shorter than the X-Banner. But others are taller! So, yeah now you know I'm that short :D hehehehe

Yesterday's Dream

I was pretty shocked when I received an email from Ashfi. It's an invitation to the event of Ina's Scarf!!!! Oh my God!!! I was soooo excited! The mail was sent to many girls including Hijabi FashionWeek's participant (yeah, me was :D). Buuutttt, as the mail came at Wednesday, and the event is held on Friday, I wondered.... Could I come???

Ina's scarf is the new 'it' scarf from the designer Irna Mutiara (please google if you don't know her). I'm sure the event would be fun and thrilling and every nice thing I could see.

The problem is I live at Surabaya. The event is at Bandung T_____T

And after checking plane ticket's price (althought 50% of me knew, going there is such a stupid thing and wasting money, but I still keep my hope!), aaaaaaarrggghhhh.... One way ticket was about ONE MILLION RUPIAHS!!! It's not fair, compared to what I would get (10% discount, delicious food by chef, goodie bag, and the experience to meet designers and bloggers---ummm well, that would be a precious experience of course!)

So, bye bye chance :) I'm sure the event was greeeaaattttt!! Hopefully I'll get another (^^)v

---Dinner with Mom, the night i received the invitation---

Me: "Mom! I got an event invitation!! It's a designer's store opening!" (I'm not sure my Mom knew Irna Mutiara) "Many bloggers are invited! Event is in Bandung!"

Mom: (Without expression) "So, the invitation includes the plane ticket?"

Me: (Quiet)

My brother: (Laugh out loud)

Introducing a Group Event

It all started with a group of muslimahs in Surabaya who were inspired by HijabersComm (HC). HC could successfully gather many muslimahs and held some good events like Islamic study, bazaar & hijab class.

They were a bit disappointed when HC closed the branch-development, coz they were preparing to join the part.

As many muslimahs support that "in Surabaya, there should be a community that can be as useful as HC, inspiring muslimahs to wear hijab & do good deeds", the group will keep doing the faith. It's good if in the end they become one organisation inside HC, if not, it's still okay.

Lately I (happily) joined :D

*** there were a bit of worry inside myself to join such community. Since usually the members look fashionable & beautiful all-the-time, I was afraid I'll push myself to be more fashionable too. Now I know such kind of worry is not important at all and it was just my negative thinking of something I haven't try.

The important thing is I could give my opinion, my energy & my ability to do good deeds such as charity, study,etc. Maybe I found some kind of enjoyment like what I feel when I was still a busy-student-committee at campus not-so-long-years-ago :D hehehehh

Join the event, anyone? It's Hijabee's 1st Islamic Study :)
UPDATE: Registration closed -- Full! ^^

more Info: Here

Flyer design by me :p

If anyone (hijabi) who lives in Surabaya is expert in design, please helppp meeee,,, >__< 

*I think my designs were not pretty cool* *coz basically I don't learn how to design in a formal way*

"Hijabee" logo by me too

Fashion Design - PKBL BUMN Expo 2011

On Friday, June 10, 2011, a muslim fashion design competition was held at Gramedia Expo, Surabaya. Actually, the competition itself began from a month before that. Participants were given traditional fabric randomly, and they must design + create muslim clothing for party. Here are some designs of participants..

 The second outfit from the left, became the judges most favorite that day. In my opinion, my favorite was the right (fourth).

 After the outfits worn at runway by models, they were being displayed for "sewing technique judgement". I really appreciate the first winner. Verrryyyy neat creation, and the cheap batik looks elegant too.

Hehehe here's mine.  

To minimize the cost, I sew my design by myself. Mistakes I've done: I couldn't sew chiffon material, so the bottom side left unfinished. Of course the judges noticed it and told me it should have been sewn >_< Even my model friend told me, "Heyy how could this clothes is unfinished? If you join a fashion competition it should've been fitted to the model few days before the event..." And my sewing wasn't neat at all.. :p ahhh such an experience!

Three pieces of clothing: Inner gold sateen abaya + chiffon maxi outer + batik bolero

Just an opinion about the competition....

****you could stop reading at this point, unless you wanna get bored****

I guess the event organizer didn't do their best they could. So many information were missed, like: 

Participants should bring their own mannequin -- many, including me, didn't bring it (luckily my chauffeur could went back home & brought me)

The mannequin & clothes should be left at the Expo until the next day -- after the event many participants went home brought their stuffs, then suddenly the committee told us to leave our mannequins there. 

Chairs surrounding the runway hadn't filled by "true watchers". Chairs were used to keep bags of the participants. If it's good organized, front rows should be filled with real people, shouldn't it?

Gladi Bersih/ Rehearsal was done at 12 PM --> it's Jum'ah praying time! How come "Muslim" design competition be held like that?

The MC didn't wear hijab and legs were shown (I mean, she could be more modest for this event, rite?)

Very small changing room, and easy access makes a boy could get in (although he's still maybe 7yr old, but he saw models changing clothes >_<)

The competition itself didn't give time for models to do pray.

Hmmmm does every fashion event has circumstances like that?

*I'm a newbie speaking here*

BTW have you noticed that Surabaya's fashion sense is very different from Jakarta/Bandung? Yeah, here people like the more "heboh" or bling bling designs...

Quick! If you want to join HFW!

Hijabi Fashion Week will be here in a moment. If you are willing to join, please visit them here. Today is the last day of subscription!! (Max subscription: 2 April 2011)

March Short Trip To Jakarta

March 18, 2011 I went to Jakarta. Visiting college friend of mine, who works at Jakarta now. The next day I went to Hijabers Community Launching, big thanks to Wulan who gave me ticket :D

I don't take any picture at the event.. Below is the only picture with my ex-boss from her camera ;D (aagghh my face was soo chubby >.<)

 About the event: since many blogs have already written about it, I won't talk too much. I was so glad to meet some bloggers I only know from the net. And got some freebies from Wardah, Aquila magazine, and Noor.

Buuuutttt,,, somehow I don't think I'm suitable enough to join events like that. If you know what I mean, I feel awkward with a place surrounded by too much beautiful girl wearing high fashion items! Ahahaha!! Got it??

I just wanted a nice chit chat, like we do with our close friends, without any imitation self image a.k.a Jaim. I automatically turns to Jaim girl once I enter places like that :P

The next destination, Wedding Expo at Bidakara Hotel. Heyyy, not for arranging my weddinggg.. I went there because my family's catering had a booth and I become like "representative" of family to visit them. You know, at wedding expo you can taste many kind of foods from many catering! Hihihii...

Saturday night, before going to my friend's boarding house, I had dinner with mr. Tall. We found a restaurant on our way, named Olivo. He ordered steak, and me.. burger :D

Long story short, finally I had to go home again....

Bought Krispy Kreme doughnut at the airport, and alhamdulillah, my brother was soooo happy receiving it as souvenir. He ate almost all of the doughnut. And at home, I got a present from my college friend, Ika Nurshanti. Some books and block note. Thaaaankkksss....

What a lovely weekend :)

What I Love Recently

1. Movie:
3 Idiots
This is an Indian movie, and watching it can really makes you laugh, and then cry, and then happy... just like a roller coaster. I think this movie is really smart and you need to watch it!! Love love love the characters and miss them when the movie's over.
PS: Ummm, don't be fooled by it's cover... the first time I saw it, I thought it's kind of (sorry) porn movie. But nonononno it's not!! What a greeeaaaatttt storyyyyyy


2. Song:
Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson
Must be heard and must read the lyrics!!! I love how MJ created songs with universal theme, not always about love. Fallen in love with this song while watching This Is It, and love it even more after I know the lyric :)

I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror / I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways / And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer / If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place / Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change

3. Event:
HFW!!

For those who don't know, HFW is an international fashion event when bloggers around the world showcase their outfit for a specific theme in a week. How fun is it? :) *you can search the label "HFW" on my blog hehee*
And they now have a facebook page, and twitter. If you would like to know or join the next HFW (coming soon this year), please Like and Follow :)

PS: I won't be joining the next HFW... It's your turn, ladies to showcase your looks :)

Hijabi Fashion Week

|Dear all hijabis :D Here's a great event I wanna share with you all!

What should I do with this?
Well, you should post an outfit a day (whether it's your own pict or you create it from polyvore etc) at those specific date, and I think the most interesting (and challenging) part is...
The Categories!!!
What to post each day:

Day1 (Nov 15): "Money on My Mind" - Work Wear 

what would you wear to work or a future job? 

Day2 (Nov 16): "Celebrate Good Times" - Eid

what would you wear for Eid?

Day3 (Nov17): "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" - Girl's Night Out

what would you wear when you're chilling with your girls?

Day4 (Nov18): "Vacation is Where I Wanna Be" - Vacation / Holiday

what would you wear if you were to go on vacation or holiday?

Day6 (Nov20): "Lovestoned" - Date Night w/ the Hubby (*wink wink*) 

what would you wear on a date with your hubby or future hubby?

Day5 (Nov19): "Flavor of the Week[End]" - Weekend Wear

how do you dress for the weekends?

Day7 (Nov21): "The Cup of Life" - Running Errands

what would you wear when you go grocery shopping, picking up the kids from school, and other random errands?

Wanna join? :D Please contact Em at modestytheory@gmail.com, and let her know... Because she's building a list of everyone who's participating :)


See you ;D 


List of participants:

3fs - http://walkmethere.blogspot.com | Jezmine Blossom - http://jezmineblossom.blogspot.com | The Fashion Project - http://hijabifashionproject.blogspot.com | Mademoiselle M - http://madem0isellem.blogspot.com | Hijab Revival - http://hijabrevival.blogspot.com | Hijabulous - http://hijabulous.blogspot.com | Style N Scarves - http://styleandscarves.blogspot.com | Fatin Liyana - http://honeykoyuki.blogspot.com | Under Urooba's Umbrella - http://underuroobasumbrella.blogspot.com | My Amethyst - http://www.myamethyst-shea.com | Haute Muslimah - http://www.hautemuslimah.com | Fiminin Islamic Fashion - http://fiminin.blogspot.com | Fashion by Fatima - http://fashionbyfatima.blogspot.com | Zinah - http://zinahns.blogspot.com | Hijab Style Guide - http://www.hijabstyleguide.com | Tea Love Coffee - http://tiananana.blogspot.com | KakChick's Wardrobe - http://kelatemaghi.blogspot.com | Hijabs & Co - http://hijabsandco.blogspot.com | Modesty Theory - http://modestytheory.blogspot.com