Filipino Party Essentials: The Lechon Purse
For Filipinos, a party is never just a party. It is all about food, music, familiar-weirdly-comforting noise, hospitality, inside jokes, karaoke, a...
Spill the Tea...
Kilig Ko Filipino Pride Collection: What It Means to Carry Home
For Filipinos and Filipino Americans, style can be expression and belonging all at once.
What is Kilig Ko’s Filipino Pride Collection?
Kilig Ko’s ...
The Kilig Ko Product I Almost Kept to Myself
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I found Your Daily Kilig while cleaning my crafting room.
It was not a planned reveal while moving things ar...
What These Scarves Taught Me About Kilig Ko
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There is something special about seeing a product on the website after it once existed only as an idea in my h...
When It’s Not Your Fault But It Still Feels Like Yours
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The original plan for Bukas Society’s "Beyond the Pearl" event felt full and steady in my mind. There was sup...
Seeing New York Through Kilig Ko Eyes For The First Time
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I used to think of trips as breaks from real life. You pack a suitcase, turn on vacation mode, and let yourself...
What Our First Consignment Rack Taught Me About 2025 (And 2026)
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If you’re new here, or if you ever saw posts about a little Kilig Ko rack at The Cove in Stockton and quietly ...
Secret Sweaters, Public Promises, and a Year of Showing Up
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Secret Sweaters, Public Promises, and a Year of Showing Up
There is a special kind of torture in having some...
Terrified, But Building Anyway
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Every New Year, I tell myself I won’t make it a big deal. But when I sat down to film this 'unfiltered yapping'...
Loud, Soft, and Proud: Inside the Filipino Pride Collection Encore
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When I filmed this vlog, there was a parol glowing behind me and piles of jerseys and cardigans waiting to be p...
Finding Healing Together: Collaborating With Tri-Counseling
Ever since I dropped the Kilig You Deserve Collection, I’ve been wanting to go deeper into the heart of affirmations and healing. Not just the cute...
Surviving the Busiest Month of 2025: FAHM
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The first restful week after FAHM, I sat myself down, reflecting and just talking about everything that happened...
Filipino, Always: Our First Stop for FAHM 2025
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There’s something about the start of Filipino American History Month that always hits different,, especially wh...
Owning My Journey with Kilig Ko
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When I started Kilig Ko, I never thought it would grow into something people actually connected with. It began a...
My Love Letter to My Identity: The Filipino Pride Collection
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A Love Letter to Our Identity
I used to think pride was something you had to show through big gestures: flags, p...
In the In-Between: Healing Starts With Owning Our Story
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“I never felt Filipino enough. I never felt American enough either.”
That line might sound familiar. It’s wh...
Designing Kilig: How Every Piece Becomes a Lesson in Culture and Connection
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When people ask me what kind of pieces Kilig Ko makes, I always say: it’s clothes that carry my history, my cult...
How One Pinay’s Embroidery Hustle Became a Movement in Cultural Healing and Self-love
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I unboxed a Brother PE800 embroidery machine in December 2020, my brother’s Christmas gift to me. At first ...
No Pattern, No Problem: What Sewing Pants Taught Me About Myself
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I didn’t expect a two-hour sewing class to feel like a portal to my future- or a return to my roots. One...
How a Plastic Bag, a Typo, and a Whole Lot of Kilig Built My Dream Brand
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First, it was just a plastic bag.
Nothing fancy — a clear bag your tita might use for leftovers. Then came the t...
My First Kilig <3
Okay, real talk? I didn't really practice self-care and self-love growing up. I was that person just cruising through life on total autopilot, chec...
My Favorite Things as an Event Vendor
Joining events and markets as a small business owner has been such an interesting experience! A lot of my opportunities have come from fellow small...
Kilig Ko Soft Launch
Better Never Than Late! I think that’s the saying? Oh actually.. better late than never! This online merch launch has been a journey in the making....
I’m Quitting
You read that right… “I’m quitting Kilig Ko.”
…is what I would have said if I didn’t believe in myself.
Honestly, it’s a bit crazy how many times I...
Behind the Scenes of our 1st shoot!
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