I'm working on it...
I'm a Fashion Designer from the States living in Hong Kong for a bit. While I'm away I'm keeping my family and friends up to date on my travels abroad via Tumblr. Not a bad idea, right?
If you're wondering: most of these photos are taken with my Blackberry Torch. I have a nice digital camera, this is just easier. Deal with it.
Ask me anything. Really.
Jun 1st, 2011 @ 11:30 am
pipu:
PORK #3 coming soon!
YEAH YEAH BLAH BLAH
the quest for the perfect reblog is over ladies and gentlemen
this babe!
(Source: katieaaberg)
Reblogged from ✿ CHUBBY BUNNIES ✿.
May 30th, 2011 @ 3:17 pm
astrolatte asked: Love your swimsuit pic!!!
My favorite was the second to last one, it's sexy and curve fitting. I'd love to get a suit like that, do you have any ideas? Thanks :)
Hey there! I got mine at Marks & Spencer, but there are TONS of great places for suits. Figleaves.com is good, and so is Target.com! Where are you located?
@ 3:16 pm
msdrealawson asked: I LOVED your story on FYCF...I was liberated just by reading it! Haha I'm glad you enjoyed yourself at that party & those bathing suits look amazing!
Aw, thanks Babe! I’m so glad you felt like me with just reading my story!
@ 3:15 pm
Anonymous asked: I hope you wore the sailboat dress on the junk. Pics or it didn't happen! Love, Aislinn
I’m waiting for all of the photos to get uploaded on FB… but yes, I wore the sailboat dress, DUH. :D
May 16th, 2011 @ 1:48 am
Got a new dress! Marks & Spencer (amazingly?!) had this in the swimsuit section of the store… it’s probably a cover up, but I’m rolling with it like its a regular dress.
@ 1:47 am
Mia Tyler
good lord. wow.
May 13th, 2011 @ 6:35 pm
Put this down under “Shit I never thought I’d like”: Sour plum candy.
I had it the first time in China— while out in a tier-2 city, and I was so weirded out: A sour & salty preserved plum stuck inside clear sugar candy. It makes your taste buds go insane trying to comprehend all the different flavors. Its also not a very attractive candy… but now when I see it I lose my shit. I think they’re so tasty!
These are from Muji here in HK. If you live in NYC you can pick them up at the Muji there, I’m sure…. or really, almost any asian grocer carries them I imagine.
@ 12:17 pm
d0rkyg1rl asked: Those swim suits you're wearing in the Chubby Bunnies picture are all freaking awesome on you. You're a stone cold fox and I love your hair. Just thought I would let you know.
Lady, that just made my day! Thank you!
Who doesn’t love being told their a fox? :]
May 12th, 2011 @ 5:43 pm
I DO HAVE A DEATH STARE!
Yikes, even my physical features are nailed here…
Reblogged from Work In Progress..
May 10th, 2011 @ 10:12 pm
ljm:
You are a dream coming true!
Have reblogged before, am reblogging again.
A worthwhile exercise.
Reblogged from pizza shrapnel.
@ 9:29 pm
Submitted this to FuckYeahChubbyFashion… thought I’d share this on my own tumblr as well:
Maranda, size 16 US / 18 UK
IT’S SWIMSUIT SEASON!!!
Now normally, that would just be the effing worse thing to hear or contemplate… But I need to stop. I need to get over myself, and all the things I think will go wrong when I go swimsuit shopping and bare my ass in public.
A quick story: I live in Hong Kong— and went to a giant beach party 2 weekends ago. While hanging out with my friends, we all were pretty drunk, and I kept eyeing the raft in the sectioned off bay… One of my friends started running for the water, and a few others followed him (in swim suits). I was so excited I handed my drink to a friend, ripped off my sundress and ran into the water in my bra and panties. The minute I hit the water, I felt drunk regret. But it was too late. I was swimming to the raft. I get to the raft, I climb up the stairs— and realize, I’m standing on a raft with 5 friends— in front of 200 people at this party. (Yeah, it was dark… But I glow, I am so pale!) It was nerve-wrecking. Well, within a matter of minutes, someone smacked my ass and not a bad word was spoken. I even started doing drunk yoga with a friend, in front of all of these people…. It was SO liberating! I never felt better.
Really, people don’t care WHAT you look like in a swimsuit. They just want you to have a good time. No one wants to give anyone else a pep-talk to get into the water. They just want you to be there with them.
So… This is me at Marks & Spencer shopping for a new suit. I bought the last 2 (on the far right). This is going to be the year I’m wearing a bikini. THAT’S IT. Life is too short for me to be sitting on the sidelines, hating myself. You die at the end of this— stop holding back in your life! Shoot, I even had a slice of pizza BEFORE going shopping… A few years ago, I wouldn’t even dared to look at pizza before swimsuit shopping. It was such a good day!
I hope a couple of you will embrace the bikini this summer with me!
May 3rd, 2011 @ 4:19 pm
Anonymous asked: Not so much a question, more a comment: it's so much easier to get a bikini that fits than a one-piece. You can just mix and match till the pieces fit. And remember what I said about Brazil? Everyone loves a woman who is just fucking having fun and doesn't need a pep-talk to go out in the water in her swimsuit or underwear or whatever. :)
Oh sister, I couldn’t agree more! I am slowly learning to not give a fuck, and that everyone hates dealing with the insecure… it is quite the chore.
I’m going bikini shopping at Marks & Spencer (only one that makes my bottom size) later this week. So excited!
May 2nd, 2011 @ 1:57 am
(photo credits: Darshan M.)
Another Hong Kong long-weekend that ends up with my being crazy. Not a ‘oh shit, that girl is unstable’ kind of crazy— but the kind where you just do shit because you can, and you should…. because as Ben would say: You die at the end of this.
This weekend I attended a beach party in Stanley with a open bar. You know where I’m going with this, right? Cut to me 6 hours in, 9 mai tai’s down— and off comes my dress and I run into the water in my underwear to swim to the raft in the enclosed bay with a bunch of other people more equiped to swim in say… actual swimsuits. But here’s the interesting part. This party had about 200 people. I swam out to the raft twice, and twice I had to come to shore in my underwear and search the beach for my friends to get my dress back on.
Thinking about this potentially embarrassing moment sober frightens me, but at the same time liberates me. I was in my bra, wet panties and my butt, my belly, my EVERYTHING was hanging out. No one flinched, no one said anything. I braced my drunk self ready to fight anyone that was going to say anything negative— and I was more surprised that no one said a word. In fact, someone slapped my ass. Not bad yeah?
So yeah.. fuck this shit. I can’t get my new bathing suit from American Eagle Outfitters to fit my chest right, so I’m now looking on-line at bikinis. Life is really too short to give a shit, right? I even saw a lady at the same beach in a bikini, a transparent sarong, and she just did not give a fuck. I need to embrace that. I need to get over my own hang ups. Wish me luck on the bikini search.
Apr 26th, 2011 @ 8:23 pm
Reblogged from hey, fat chick!.
Apr 11th, 2011 @ 11:06 pm
A few choice photos of me in Macau (taken by Charlotte Lee & Ben Tang)
I really wanted to have a full outfit pic— but alas, no one has uploaded anything with that yet. I’m still trying not to live through my camera lens this year— so I’m totally dependent on everyone else taking photos.
