Yay to a Friday morning! Long weekend is hereeeeee! Yeeps Yeeps Yippee.

I have great news. I have a new host, and it is going to be a transition hereonforth. What better way to celebrate my new site with a mega long ass post!

I have no idea what’s in my food these days. I seem to be high on something these evenings. Like, perpetually high. Only in the evenings.

Those at pole prac last night would probably attest to that. And then by the time in the morning, I would back to my listless, meek, subdued, demure old (keyword here is OLD) self.

Don’t judge me, but I am now follow Lady Gaga’s dance steps in Telephone MTV via Youtube and literally bouncing as I am typing this. Sorry for the horrifying mental images I just scorched into your minds, giggles.

This post would have seen daylight waaaaaayyy earlier (fresher!) if not for the hiccup I had earlier with my blog and the trip (still have so much spilling excitement from it.. *swoons*).

I had promised to get this post up last week, and CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW LONG I HAVE DRAGGED? Tsk, so irresponsible right?!

Nonetheless, everything happens for a reason I believe, and since it is gonna be a long weekend ahead, it would mean that this post would be PUUURRRRFEEECCCTT timing for those who had suffered a rough work week to slowly browse and cheer up to!

Cos you guys are gonna be introduced to a brilliant new blogshop, and it would mean plenty of prettys to browse through, and a long weekend to get those fingers clicking for some retail therapy with the comfort at home!

I mean.. imagine getting through the long weekend, with spare time to slow the pace, to pamper yourselves with some retail therapy.

By the time the dreary work week started and you get a bit down with dragging yourself back to work, the purchase would have reached you in the midst of the week to tide the blues over and to have that something to look forward to will certainly suddenly perk the entire week up.

Or at least that works for me!

As I was saying! Pretty dresses and party pictures.. Just the awesome combination to get the party, chillax mood started.

Gee. Honestly speaking, I don’t know where to start.

I have drafted this post like a hundred times in my mind, and started on it a few times, but I kept punching on the backspace key, probably because I am supposed to write an advertorial, but over the course of the past couple of weeks, it actually started to feel like I have a certain expectations out of this post, because instead of the fact that I am being paid to do it, I HOPE dearly that something good will come out of it because it feels like I am helping a couple of incredibly nice friends to promote their startup.

So with the expectations of myself, I actually found myself at a loss for words!

I believe I mentioned in my previous advertorials that I am not one of those typical mainstream bloggers people look for to do advertorials, and sometimes it does puzzle me when people do approach me, like in the case of Jenn and Ling (*evil laughs* Too late for you girls to back out!).

I actually took a long read back all the conversations I have had with the ladies who are behind Passion Chiffonier since contact was first established with all the formalities, before I was wondering if the person writing to me had split personalities (cos they had such obvious distinct characters that even came through their emails), until I realised they took turns to reply to me via the same email.

At first they had offered 3 pieces of items for me to review, and as usual, I stated that I would not normally take all 3 pieces for the sake of taking if the stuff is not to my liking cos it would be unfair that if I essentially promote something I wouldn’t and don’t wear.

They gave some background to the product of their efforts, and very delicately explained the little thoughts that went behind the concept of their blogshops, and what motivated them to start their own blogshops. It wasn’t one of those cut and paste mass-messaged PR statements, but it was just their casual remarks that make you realise how they cared about every details and seemed so happy to do so.

This was what they told me:

“…we thought that just solely selling individual pieces of clothes to customers was not enough. We wanted to present different styles of dressing with the clothes that we are going to sell (i.e. pair them up with different shoes, belts, accessories etc), create wearable looks that we both love.”

In fact, the most amazing part is, besides allowing me to choose what normally appeals to me and is within my comfort zone, they did something that some other blogshop owners seldom do which really impressed me.

They threw up suggestions for me based on their observations of my usual style, and they were spot on with my likes! I think that takes heaps of thoughtfulness and sweetness for people to take note of your likes (remember how we always coo about those guys who are have an attention for details?!).

Not only that, they utilised their sharp senses of style and made recommendations of things I had never tried (cos they are observant enough to know!), and what they thought I could carry off, so I could step out of my comfort zone and at the same time, have a refreshed image!

Then, I took a look at their site with their recommendations, and I took a long while to get back to them… because.. because.. I LIKE SO MANY THING AND I GOT GREEDY la!

Don’t believe? Let’s take a look what they have:

And this was from collection 1 onlyyyyy!

(Sidetrack a bit, the model looks a bit like the Yang Jinhua from Bai Quan Nu Wang right?!)

Thankfully I don’t need work clothes, cos I heart the mock wrap Peplum dress, which I saw Zoe Raymond carry the look off impeccably on her blog.

I struggled badly with whether to get the ziippppbrraaa preens skirt or not cos I think the girls did a fabulous job of keeping true to making their pieces so versatile that I love how the skirt could look so casual (and look youthful!) and sophisticated at the same time.

Nice right?! Alas, it was one piece I didn’t get and am kicking myself for it! And it comes in 2 sizes if you guys are interested in getting.

The green romper is cute cute cute! And the black puffed sleeve tunic was another piece that caught my eyes!

And of course, they were quick to spot the grey floral sweetheart bustier dress is something I would totally dig… and if you haven’t realised, it was the very piece I wore for my memorable time with the elephants in the previous post.

Then they had to make my life more miserable by giving me an exclusive glimpse at their latest launch of Polka Dot Romance:

I ended up liking EVERYTHING from this collection, which is a first cos I normally would only like SOME pieces when I browse blogshops, and it was the first time I actually like EVERYTHING from one collection.

How to choose 3 pieces like that, you tell me??

During one of the conversations, they knew about my upcoming trip and with my indecisiveness, they actually allowed me to choose 4 pieces, and when they knew I have trouble pairing my accessories (yes, I am a fashion handicapped that way!), they put in another item to make my life easier!

I love the black lace dress very much because I actually have something in my wardrobe that resembles it to the core which I paid much more for from overseas some time back:

After I posted the pictures of the night out with my pole-mates on facebook, I actually had a few friends asking me where I got the dress from, and since I could no longer find it online, when I saw a similar one on Passion Chiffonier, I was quick to inform them they could get a similar one at only a fraction of the price!

Since I have something similar, it could ease me from choosing that piece cos I was tempted to get the dress in blue but resisted against it so I can keep my options for others, and try out different things.

Eventually, with the help from the lovely ladies who painstakingly answered my queries to all the dresses (they always replied with such details and passion that it wasn’t those one-size-fits-all replies), the material, my choices were finalised.

As they knew I was heading for POCC event and going overseas, they offered to meet up and pass to me personally in between their busy dayjob schedules.

So sweet!

I was greeted by Ling’s bubbly and sweet smile, coupled by her girly dress sense… and she is one of those who looks gorgeous in white! She looks like she is in her teens and surely doesn’t look her age.

And here is how sweet they are:

And they paid me before I even wrote anything even when I threatened them that I might just leave the country (which I did) and then take their moolah and run away! Then like that HOW?! They didn’t even care

It was later when Jenn added me on facebook that I finally got to see how she looks like, and I must say both ladies could very well model their own line!

And it was the constant email exchanges of even the most mundane things (like my whines of my cornea cut, my trip, their work), that gave me more insights to their personalities and after putting faces to their names, I could so totally understand the concept behind their blogshop.

Both of them are vibrant, youthful, fashionable and fun ladies who are in the corporate world, and thus their styles very much spell out who they are, adding a little playfulness and spice to the rigid corporate world, and yet let their characters shine through with the items they chose for Passion Chiffonier.

In my personal opinion, they 2 of them represent different styles and that complement each other well, and give their collection a good range.

At the same time, they understood very well how versatility and creativity could mean the same item would bring a different feel to everyone, and appropriately fits all occasions.

When I brought the pieces to poledance lessons and were having supper with my polemates, I showed them the items and they were all gushing over the pieces and asked me for the site immediately.

So it doesn’t matter if you are 16, or 36, you could wear the same piece and it would look like it fits you to a tee!

So here are what I had chosen and my reviews of the item.. and plenty of camwhore pictures from my outings in the pwwwweeeeetttyy gears!

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Polka Dot Stretch Romper

Surprise surprise! Yes, I actually decided to act cute and chose the polka dot romper!

I was actually pretty apprehensive that I might look too act cute, but it was such a comfortable piece and I am very happy with the selection.

The material was thicker and structured, which was fabulous cos it prevented the tube from sliding down, and hold the shorts’ shape prettily in place!

Someone actually said “SO CUTEEEE” when saw me in it, and seriously, who will ever associate me with the word “cute”?

I decided to wear it out on 24th July morning for the vaccination at Tampines!

And it comes with a belt slot which you could go without a belt or in my case, I took a frilly lacey thingy and just tied it around.

After the jab, Siren and I headed to Hougang to pick up some of her stuff, before I decided to lug along to her pole-prac session, where I saw some of the usual suspects doing aerial practice in the background.

I am now advancing to Pole 5, and boy, has it been that long since I started taking up poledancing? And I was so in awe of the aerial’s grace that I decided to pick up Aerial too. YAY!

As I was heading off to my holiday, I missed the first lesson, and Ming very sweetly allowed me to catch up with the lesson BEFORE the course started.

And since I was in the studio, I took the chance to pick up what I would have missed.

That is to do a.. uhm.. BEACH WHALE.

Why poledancing got all the super stylomilo name but when it comes to hoop, so not sexy one? Then they told me it is also called “Front Lay” and I giggled silly.

Mounting onto the hoop in the romper, feel very secure to even do everything (sheesh, now like promoting sanitary pad!).

Celestine been saying how I always look constipated when I pole, so trying to smile as broadly as possible.

And now… *drums roll* The beach whale!

The thing with aerial is it is always quite hard to get a good picture cos I am always swinging.

Me trying to look graceful but ended up looking silly. Was supposed to let go and pose..

Decided to brave the silk (which would be taught in later part of aerial classes), and here’s the amateurish pictures after I first mounted:

And then… the amazon!

All in my romper! I didn’t even need to adjust the romper after I landed back on solid ground cos the material held up very well

There was a tiny episode when Celestine said she would be damn upset with me if I manage to do a flip she couldn’t do on the silk, I giggled and asked if she was challenging me. I kept trying and trying and suddenly, I managed to flip and she walked away saying she doesn’t like me that much.

My expression was like I struck the toto, and punched my fist in the air.

But the end result of the move?

Bruises on my arms which are not so evident…

Bloodshot red which became big patches of blueblack! But I laughed how it was all worth it cos I upset Celestine (cos her reaction was damn cute!).

Oh, you can also see quite a close up of the romper here and its material

Camwhoring outside the studio!

Camwhoring when I got home before taking a nap for the evening at Zouk to come!

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Been a long while since I last went to Zouk, and this time is all for a good cause, to support Power Over Cervical Cancer, and also the Acro Polates girls were performing as well!

And for the occasion, I was dressed in another Passion Chiffonier dress, which received compliments from some of the girls who asked me where I got it from!

Fab Dotted Satin Dress

When I first received it, it was the piece which material impressed me the most.

Though they had told me it was made in light weight satin, what I like is that it wasn’t the kind of cheap, thin satin that are too shiny for daily use. It was a bit more matt than the usual satin, and you would definitely not feel overdressed in it even for a casual day out. It also comes with lining underneath.

I actually felt girlier, sweeter, younger (ahem) and sexier in it.

It also is thicker than the normal satin so the shape stays and not look limp. And you know what they say about the ruffles at the bustline.. ILLUSIONS, baybeh!

Besides that, it comes with padding on top so you could cheat a little for that nice little cleavage, heh heh heh.

And now.. pictures in my new dress and the night out in Zouk!

Heading out.

And the best part was that Jenn & Ling decided to throw in a Suede butterfly belt (which they also have on the site in Collection 2) so I could accessorise the dress!

The belt is super easy to match with everything I found in my wardrobe!

The pamphlet at the entrance echoed exactly what I have to say.

Nikki and I arrived early and met at the entrance, getting ready to scream ourselves hoarse!

She did the auntie thing to check out the goodie bag offers so that I didn’t have to!

Jean, the closet kinky maiden with her stripper heels! I thought it is so adorable to have a cash slot at the transport heel… like so innocently kinky!

Bumped into Nadnut who was at the event too, and you can see the patches of bruise on my arm!

With Celestine and Jean, who were waiting to perform.

Nikki, Miss Mango Trina, me and Jean. They put up such a fabulous show that night, and made us wonder when we would one day reach that level. *dreams*

SO HOT RIGHT!

Group picture of the girls from poledancing studio (and the pole wipers, hahaha)! Most of us were there to lend our support and voices and they were amazing!

Back to her old self… she had inspired us to pick up the “reach out and pluck the rambutan gracefully” move.

They requested it.

Nikki and I with sexy Eunice, our instructor and motivator.

I said must take full body view so can see my dress. Hahaha. Nikki looks damn chio here.

The night ended with us heading for supper at River Valley Road before we gave Eunice a lift back and conveniently headed for another supper location.

Tucked away in a quiet corner of Stagmont Ring, is this amazing dog-friendly place where we have been chilling quite often at.

It has seating area for dog owners to have a beer or two, and their food is pretty decent and economically priced!

An area for the dogs to run about, and the black fenced up area is actually a pool for the pups to have a dip! Absolutely sweet, sweet place.

This is me and Tyson, a Bull Mastiff puppy. I wasn’t strangling him! Please don’t report me to SPCA!

It was then I saw this lovely pup strolling around with staccato steps, revealing the leg problems it has.

Fell in love with it and it was just so calm, and quiet, except when Tyson tried to kiss him.

It was then the owner of the cafe told me how the boarding house has been a popular place for irresponsible owners to abandon their dogs.

This pup (which I have since nicknamed him “my dog”) is old and has legs problem, and it was abandoned at the gate of the boarding house one day. He is just one of the many, including 3 labs which were sent over by the same owner, and he never came back for them.

I got all teary just listening to the stories, and it perhaps explained why he always looked so… detached and morose. He looked on to the world with jaded eyes and he doesn’t get overly affectionate with anyone.

It is because of him I keep returning.

He is the only dog allowed to roam freely around the premises, and I always tell him he is very loved.. somehow that sounded silly.. but oh well.

We left around 3am that night, and usually the cafe opens till 1ish am on weekdays.

The address is No. 5 Stagmont Ring, further down the road from ten mile junction if anyone is interested in checking the place out!

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It was a beautiful Saturday, it indeed was

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The third piece I chose was obviously the grey floral bustier dress from the debut collection!

It was made of light cotton and that was why I brought it with me for a hot day out during my trip!

The material is very cooling and came with an inner lining too!

And it also comes with the “secret” of padded bustier, that you can see lotsa.. uhm, illusions!

Here’s some of the snippets of the trip (which I will do up a post soon!).. and everyone been asking me what’s that beautiful place, and the answer is..

It is Sri Lanka.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yah, I know, forsaking Sydney for Sri Lanka, many didn’t understand the logic behind my choice either, but I really liked what I saw, and decided to see them for myself.

Again, you can see that I have paired it up with the butterfly belt that Jenn and Ling chose for me.

I could even cross the river in it, heh.

The dress comes in 3 colours and they have even shown different ways to wear it. I wore it to a nice dinner with a cropped jacket and it looks formal and presentable immediately.

This was also the dress that when my pole mates saw, and unanimously liked

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Last but not least!

casual embossed rose tank top

I opted for this for its apparent simplicity but upon close up, you can see the nice gold trimming of the rose that gave it an unique texture.

When I showed the pieces, many touched the material and complimented on its material.

I would say it is damn sexy to wear without tights, but please only keep it in the bedrooms.

With flash you can see the embossed rose more clearly. The material has a nice touch to it, and is really comfortable to wear.

I wore it on the last day of the trip, and was looking forward to run about the trip and doing jumps in it, unfortunately we didn’t have the time to go down to the Colombo beach, and I only had time for a picture in the airport.

Here, I coupled it with a pair of shorts, and it was the perfect thing to wear cos everyone had to be body searched at the airport, and I pretty much cleared without being touched much hahaha.

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The best part is Passion Chiffonier has plenty of tips on how to accessorise your outfits, that would decorate you from head to toe, so just pop over NOW to have a look at the brilliant goodies they have to offer!

Simply go into the site, browse, and list your preferences in following format: