IMG Portfolio: CANDICE SWANEPOEL

Candice's portfolio is expanding!
Super happy and proud of her, all her hard work paid off :')

ABOUT

KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa native Candice Swanepoel was discovered in a Durban flea market by a local modeling scout. Perhaps best known for as a lead Victoria’s Secret Angel, Swanepoel has appeared in its annual televised fashion show for seven consecutive years, and famously opened the show in 2011. She has also fronted innumerable print and television campaigns for the intimate apparel behemoth, and can currently be seen it its Fearless campaign. She has also starred in advertisements for Tom Ford, Versace, Miu Miu, Rag & Bone, Prabal Gurung, Oscar de la Renta, and Brian Atwood, as well as Nike, Diesel, Topshop, Juicy Couture, and Guess, among others.

Select pret-a-porter runway appearances include Christian Dior, Chanel, Givenchy, Fendi, Dolce & Gabbana, Bottega Veneta, Stella McCartney, Elie Saab, Jason Wu, Diane Von Furstenberg, Michael Kors, and Marc Jacobs.

Swanepoel has fronted over one dozen international editions of Vogue--including the 50th Anniversary issue of Vogue Italia photographed by Steven Meisel--by Meisel, Sebastian Kim, and Terry Richardson, and accompanying editorial features by Patrick Demarchelier, Craig McDean, Norman Jean Roy, and Bruce Weber. She has also appeared in W, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, and Elle magazines by Mario Sorrenti, Mert & Marcus, Inez & Vinoodh, and Sebastian Faena, among others.

Swanepoel has also had star turns in the international editions of GQ, LOVE, Purple, Numéro, TEN, Allure, and MUSE magazines by Cedric Buchet, Yu Tsai, Alexi Lubomirski, Cass Bird, Dan Jackson, and Willy Vanderperre. Mario Testino photographed her for a twenty-five page spread for V Man magazine, and remarked, “Candice is an amazing new find for me, gorgeous, free and fun...she made the shoot an amazing experience.”

Off-duty, Swanepoel enjoys swimming, and practicing ballet and yoga.

From: IMG MODELS | CANDICE SWANEPOEL

McDonald's sausage patty

Hello! Just wanted to update that.. The McDonald's sausage patty.. is so gross and plastic-y?! It's pretty strange since I used to love it a lot and it's my favourite part of McDonald's Big Breakfast. I really wonder how I didn't find the taste disgusting all those times. Maybe it's cuz I ate it with salt? Lots of salt if I may add, haha! I'd empty both columns of the salt packet on one Big Breakfast meal. (Horrible, I know) I love salty foods haha!

But I'm learning to cut down now, can you believe I'm actually able to taste and feel disgusted about salty foods now?! HAHA! Back to the topic, the only thing different I did today was to eat the patty without any salt (in an effort to lower my salt intake), and it tasted fucking gross! By the 2nd bite I felt nauseous already! *waves white flag* So, I guess that'll be the last time I'm ever gonna eat a sausage patty from McDonald's. It just really tastes like processed plastic-y food! YUCKS! Doesn't even taste close to ham or luncheon meat or other processed meats. It's just full on FAKE and inedible..

Besides the patty issue, the ball of my feet still hurts even when I'm walking around the house :( The price to pay for wanting to look good..

Ps: I really miss my slutzys, Iggy! T^T and gabriel! I miss our super "atas" English convos about all artistic and creative stuff, be it music, media, art, or even life issues, etc. I feel like my English is getting worse and it sucks. I know I'm like some annoyig baby and always saying how I miss my Slutz, and I guess so far I've only whined about missing them on my blog. HAHA! Like everytime I whine about friends I'm missing, it's just them :( Can't wait to hang with Iggy now that his Internhip is over HAHAHA! Still remember him telling us that he was gonna walk in on the 10th last day of his intern with two palms facing out, symbolising #10, 3 fingers on the 3rd last day and finally a middle finger on the last day HAHAHHA!!!

CNY: Meh my goals and wishes be fulfilled

KEKE! Sounds like a greedy & ambitious title but... I guess it'll remind & motivate me to not give up and continue working hard! After all, I'm a Capricorn and it's represented by a Seagoat (Which looks like a goat + mermaid, haha! So that makes me a Mermaid right? HAHA KEEDZ), so probably this Goat Year will treat me well too? HAHAHA!

Super exhausted today, mentally and physically (actually just my feet). Been super long since I've actually been out an entire day hiking in 3 inch stiletto heels! 

Even though mine are brand new and comfy (they didn't give me blisters of any sort) heels are heels after all, they will hurt after walking in them for prolonged periods without rest. And the pain is always at the ball of the foot. Thank goodness for my 15 years of ballet training, I can bear with the pain more without having to practice wearing them around frequently.

Was out all day teetering in my stilettos, hiking temples in them! HAHA! I don't know how I did it, but I'm glad I survived, I DID CANDICE PROUD :) It's really a workout to walk in heels all day, no wonder Candice and all other supermodels are so slim!

And I forgot how it hurts more whenever you put on your heels again to walk in them after taking them off for awhile. It's more bearable to just leave them on and rest your feet in them instead.

So yes, I was REALLLY tired walking around all day in those, and I'm mentally exhausted cuz I didn't have enough sleep to begin with. Tried really hard to get some studying done yesterday but I just kept getting distracted and wasted the whole day. The only productive thing I ended up doing was my ab workout and Candice butt routine before I went to bed at 3am :(

Almost surrendered to my bed and skip visiting the temples, but it's like CNY isn't fun anymore if we don't visit the temples you know. HAHA! I'm not a hardcore Buddhist, my parents are Buddhists,but I consider myself very much a Free Thinker. I just don't mind going to the temple on CNY just for the sake of getting into the festive mood haha! Otherwise just plain house visits would be boring. 

But I've this fear everytime I visit temples is that ash from the joss sticks will fall onto me and disfigure me HAHA! It happened once to me, but I wasn't disfigured, just got a blister and a temporary scar which went away in a few months.

So yeap, as usual, when ever my Mom says we gotta leave my Yipo's house, I'd always say "Huh, why so fast?!?!" The only part I like about visiting is going to my Yipo's house and bonding with my cousins. They were my idols, like Candice Swanepoel to me now, during my childhood days. So yeah, I always miss talking to them. I guess it's also cuz I never had a sister so I'd be excited to meet them each time. I used to go over for sleepovers a lot when I was younger. But I'm still thankful that I don't have a real sister cuz then I won't have anyone to be compared to, I'd probably be more depressed than now HAHA!

Will upload my photos when I have the time, gotta study now!

SELF.com

Candice Swanepoel: Strong, Sexy and Hitting Her Stride

As strong as she is sexy, supermodel Candice Swanepoel is nothing short of amazing. Sporting spring's best performance-inspired looks, she shares her secrets for staying hot, happy and healthy.

On any given day, long before the sun shines into your window and rouses you out of bed, it’s likely that Candice Swanepoel has already been hard at work for hours. “I’m up and on-set pretty early, usually by 5 a.m.,” says the 26-year-old Victoria’s Secret Angel, who routinely shoots for 12 hours a day, often seven days a week. “I do a lot of swimwear, so for the best light, we try to get the sunrise and sunset.” Afterward, when everyone else goes home to relax, Swanepoel hits the gym for a full-body workout. “I’m an athlete,” she says. “I use every single muscle, especially my core and arms, when I pose. It’s so important for me to feel strong.”

Such discipline and dedication come naturally to Swanepoel, who grew up on a beef-and-dairy farm in South Africa. “I saw my dad wake up at 4 every morning to milk the cows. I’d put on my overalls and gum boots and follow him around,” she says. “Growing up surrounded by so much life and death and realness shaped my personality. Africa is not for wussies. It’s in our culture to be hard workers.”

That may be why, after being scouted at a local flea market at age 15, Swanepoel took the brave step of moving to Europe, alone, to pursue her new career. She spent the next two and a half years walking runway shows for major designers, including Dolce & Gabbana. And yet, despite her early success, she remembers that period in her life as difficult. “It was the loneliness,” she says. “Every day, I was working with different people who were speaking different languages, so I was never able to form any relationships. I just wanted to go home.” During that time, she was also told that she needed to lose weight. “I was so used to people criticizing me for being too thin that it was shocking to me,” she says. “I was crying.”

By age 17, Swanepoel was ready to quit modeling altogether. That’s when Victoria’s Secret called, and everything changed. “My agent said, ‘They want to see you. If you get the show, will you move to New York?’ I said, ‘If I got Victoria’s Secret, I’d do anything.'” She landed the gig, moved across the world, found an instant community and rededicated herself to her work—and her workouts.

Credits: SELF.com

Thankful

So, in the end I didn't get to sneak the present into S's bag. HAHAHA! DAYUM. But instead we met up near Nanyang Audi & CBTL yesterday.

So much for meeting away from any sightings of our friends, cuz right after exchanging gifts(sounds like late X'mas) we saw Grindor's Nic. But it's fine Cuz he's usually mia in the chat. And a non-stirrer. 

Anw, really super thankful that he took the effort to design the card-letter, and used pink paper & marker! HAHA! And the envelop has glitter on it, with a bit of scent! Really not bad! *applause* Hope you liked yours too, I was stuck on how to create the letter S for the buildings but after getting inspo from Gabriel, it worked out. HAHAHA! (Oops, cat's out of the bag, guess I'm not that creative after all) 

And also, super thankful for a not-short Bday message. I like receiving those cuz I  tend to re-read all my letters a lot, makes me appreciative of whatever life has given me.

So yeah, overall thankful for going the extra mile to not just give me the $$ for my Bday present in just an envelope but in a card haha! I'll use the phone case for a loooong time, hopefully until it's time to get a new phone 😊 So happy 23rd birthday S!

That said, I'm super glad that my Nude heels from Zalora has arrived! And they fit perfectly! WOOHOO! I was so afraid I wouldn't be able to buckle them :( but it was no problem at all so yay! And the straps were really soft and comfy hehe! Super awesome buy! 

On a random note, I just realised that I can rearrange Candice Swanepoel's name into an anagram to "I can poledance sew" HAHAH! Ok it doesn't really make sense cuz of the sew part but... I tried. HAHA yeah, this is just the tip of the iceberg of what I'm usually thinking when my mind wanders off. Most of the time it's just, how to get a small waist like candice, or make my lashes grow, or my skin better or lose fat more effectively through things I enjoy doing like dancing, swimming, etc. or it could be thinking of a way to make time for dance :((

New Url

Yay! I've moved to TheycallmeBlonde.blogspot.com :D

Hahaha! After consulting Zihui & Gabriel, I'll settle with this. Was stuck between, HerBlondeMusings and this. But we figured this is more fun and casual, and more straight forward :) Will probably use that next time.. When I become more serious/formal about my life HAHA

Losing concentration

There's a silly quiz for LabVIEW tmr and I can't seem to concentrate recently?! I haven't started studying the 70 page notes!

Like I'll take 3 days to do 1 tutorial! And even when I planned what I'm gonna do on my free day (finally), I still won't stick to it regardless. Instead, I'll start thinking of stuff to Google about like how much Candice eats(to which even though I found the answers I'm still continue googling it every other day, you can try checking my history.), what new workouts she's been doing, what other sports does she do/ is taking on. I'm just like a super silly coconut.

And it's back again, the phase where I wanna change my url/username. I'm always having this problem. I wished I had a better name? I hate to say this, cuz it's the name my parents gave me but my name is so fucking common! I hate feeling un-unique but it's like even though I don't feel that way it's hard to think otherwise sometimes when it's staring in your face, "your name is too common". Seriously, Felicia is a super common name in SG, and my chinese name too. Gosh my whole name is just too damn common, I can't even use it as a username. It looks ugly, and plain :( 

Oh yes, to add on the list of reasons why I don't like my name, there's this thing going around lately. Just search "Bye Felicia" and watch the YouTube video of Nicole Ritchie on Ruan Seacrest's show and you'll get it. "Felicia is just some random, that you do not care about." Ouch much? Hahah! I'm not taking this seriously, but of all the names in the world it had to be that?? 😂😂

So yes, I'm finding a way to make a new url, I always wanna put "candy" in my name so that I can relate myself to candice(LOL, lame I know, but afterall I look up to her a lot), so yeah, hence my IG username @candyflaws. But I'm a bit shy and sometimes embarrassed to explain to my friends the meaning behind it. YES, there's a meaning behind it, it's not just simply a play on the words "Candy Floss". It's basically meaning, that I am the sum of all Candice's flaws(if she even has any). Yes, it sounds so #emokid already which is why I would feel embarrassed in a way. Cuz, lets be honest, if you know some kid is like super emo, you'd probably be turned off to even try to begin a friendship with them. And I really do not want that.

Since candyflaws is taken on blogger domain, I am still not satisfied with my url HAHA! HMM.. HOWWWWW??

And I need to find a way to sneak the present into S's bag so that my friends won't see haha. I just hate it when people start stirring shit and make my friendships awkward, I guess I wouldn't be awkward, but the other party usually ends up being real awkward. 

Add on:---
Been stuffing myself silly with CNY goodies over the weekend, can't seem to stop myself T^T My tummy hurts from eating so much junk, but my tastebuds crave the taste :(( And I only realised that I haven't been drinking much water that's why I keep chomping!! >:( 'm feeling real emo now, after realising that all angles of my wrist looks like the same thickness??!! WTF! So because of that realization, I didn't have any appetite to eat dinner, and I'm more irritable. Like while I was driving back to hall, every single thing that came out of my mom's mouth I get so angst. But I know it's just me, and I feel bad.In the end, she didn't have dinner cuz of me, but I think she'll find something to eat later or probably go out with my brother for supper or something, It's like the same feeling in primary school again, when I eat I feel irritated, when I don't eat, I'm moody. WTF do I want?! GOSH! I really wish I can stop caring so much about what I eat already! >:(

So many things, losing track of what I need to catch up on, in life and studies

I just want to feel confident and comfortable enough in my own skin to not feel inferior around the awesome friends I have, and who care about me.

On a side note, I can't tell if I'm being used.. But at the same time I am doing it out of my own will, with only the intention of helping where I can since I have nothing much to offer as a friend besides my company.

I wonder..

I wonder how it feels like to wake up and be truly excited to attend lectures or tutorials or practical lessons because you're interested & want to be better at it. I wonder how it it's like to actually look forward to feeling satisfied with your assignments just because you enjoy the process of doing it and learning from it.

I wonder.. When will I ever get to feel like that..