Her time is now

To those of you who don't know here's my best friend:

 

Cool, huh? First thing people notice when they see her is her shaved head. But beyond that, she's a person who's not afraid to LIVE. 

So far she's lived in 4 countries (Saudi Arabia, Manila, Germany & Norway), traveled all over the world (name any country, chances are, she's been there), climbed mountains (literally and figuratively), and surfed the waves. She's a yoga instructor, photographer and skateboarder. She was a competitive wall climber (even competed in international meets), triathlete, print model (mostly for Summit Media magazines), t-shirt designer...the list goes on. All this and she's only in her 20's.

And now she's on to pursuing her latest dream:

becoming a Benetton model

Why Benetton? Ever since we were in high school (when Benetton was THE brand), we always admired the Benetton multi-racial print ads, though we felt that the Philippines was unrepresented. With the exception of Tim Yap and Rissa Mananquil, there never were any other Filipinos who were featured in their ads.

Except now.

Benetton recently launched an online casting call for their 2010 campaign, and Isla is part of it! With her morena complexion, unique sense of style and her go-getter attitude, she's the PERFECT candidate to represent our country for the campaign, don't you think? But before she can do that, she needs to win the online polls so she can be part of the shortlist of 100.

Do I need to say it out loud?

PLEASE VOTE FOR ISLA!

by going to this LINK

or copy and paste this to your browser:

http://casting.benetton.com/users/76558-isla/

The votation ends on March 16, and you can vote for her everyday. You just have to create a profile though, but I think they also have a Facebook connect thing. Easy right? :) Vote, vote, vote!