In the past months we have become a nation of critics. Thanks to social media, we were able to express our keen interest in evaluating our fellow Filipinos’ actions and behavior towards issues that concern our citizenry and humanity.
Look at what’s on the buffet table before piling up food on your plate. Eat slowly and socialize between bites, and ditch the snacks while waiting for the next holiday banquet.
This year made household names of female breakthrough artists such as pint-sized diva Ariana Grande and rapper Iggy Azalea, whose faces have graced our news feeds more times than we can count.
On top of their number one hit singles and millions of music video views, they have also inspired countless memes, some of them not exactly flattering.
This trend got everyone uploading a collage of themselves and their lookalikes (or people they wish they looked like). Some, like those with real makeup skills, flaunted the amazing results, while those who just wanted to have fun transformed themselves into things like, well, a cupcake or a chocolate cake roll.
From musicians whose success in 2013 spilled over to 2014, to newcomers who broke into the scene and made this year their year, here’s a list of acts whose songs we sang along to and gave us a serious case of LSS.
Deaths, weddings and scandals—2014 had it all. Here are the stuff we Googled, read about online, tweeted about, and maybe even made memes of.
The year about to end has seen top cosmetic and fashion brands updating themselves through collaborations with designers.
Mandarin Oriental closes its doors after 38 years.
Uniqlo shoppers can expect a third collection of women’s wear from Ines de la Fressange, as the Japanese global ready-to-wear brand collaborates anew with the French model-turned-lifestyle doyenne.
Because the phenomenon of the selfie has swept the whole wide world, dahlings, everyone is now taking #IpanemaSelfeet, a campaign introduced by the colorful Brazilian flip-flop brand that encourages Filipinos to aim phone cameras lower, down to our feet.
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