About
Shai is a professional writer, editor, video producer and fashion stylist. Her writing career officially began at age 9 when her first paid published work appeared in a nationwide youth magazine. She has been writing and editing for major publications since.
She wishes she could say that she is also a professional illustrator and graphic designer, and that she has a Fine Arts degree. But despite the clothing sketches, watercolor paintings and handsewn dolls she made that her mom has kept for posterity, Shai never quite found the courage to pursue art, instead taking up AB Communication at the Ateneo de Manila University. It was here that she engulfed as much knowledge as she can of films, music, theater, graphic novels, Philosophy, management and interpersonal relationships, a lack of any of which would probably result in a person wholly different from who she is now. After college Shai worked in Editorial for a teen magazine and then moved on to write and produce for TV, most notably Project Runway Philippines. Through experiences and friends, she learned the business of fashion, photography, design and marketing.
The only thing that seemed missing—a partner she “could share these passions and grow with,” Shai eventually found in Seph. In her spare time, she reads, sings in cover videos, practices piano, reads, cooks, tries to draw and reads.
Shai was born in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija but grew up in Angeles City and San Fernando, Pampanga where her mom’s family is from. Her dad’s family is from Bacolod and Iloilo, so home means all these places are her hometowns. But since college, she calls Quezon City her home on weekdays.
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We met in 2002 through Shai’s cousin Jeru, who was Seph’s college bestfriend. Sparks flew but nothing ever came out of it, and eventually we both got into five-year relationships with other people. Those relationships subsequently ended, and eight years later we happened upon each other on Facebook. The rest is history. One of the things we love doing together is dressing up and having photoshoots with photographer friends, and that’s how Love Chic started, pretty much.
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