Ariane, the gift that keeps on giving.

I feel so giddy right now. :) After approving a couple of comments for my last blog entry, I checked my blog's stats and saw that I had views with glamour.com as an entry point. I wondered how that came to be so I checked the specifics of my stats. That's when I found out that the US fashion magazine's portal picked up one of my blog posts and linked back to my site!

Several months ago, I wrote about it simply out of curiosity. My friend and I kept seeing this girl everywhere and I just had to find out who she was. What do you know, that post turned out to be the most read entry on my site. Other people were curious about her too.

But I didn't realize my curiosity would land me (or my blog) on an international magazine's website! And to think my entry was haphazardly written. If I knew this would happen, I would've made it sound more serious. Hehe!

But if I learned anything from this, it's that I should keep doing what I am passionate about. And that's my little piece of advice for you too, dear reader. Whether it be about the serious or the mundane, just keep going. You never know where your creation will land. :)

Who Is This Girl?!

My office mate Marye and I have a big dilemma in our hands. This has been bugging us for weeks! Whenever we think about it, we stop on our tracks, get our phones/computers ready for a screenshot, then think about how to solve this mystery. Hence, this blog entry.

Does anyone know who this girl is?!

She first entered my consciousness when I saw her for the Amway Fun Run poster.

The next time I saw her photo was on the wall of a fast food place in our office building.
I mentioned this to Marye, and I think she remembered it because next thing you know, we were seeing her everywhere!

I saw her on Yahoo:

Marye saw her on Air Asia's in flight magazine:

 I saw her on Sea Air's website:

 Marye saw her on a tarpaulin for Magnolia Flavor House:

 And today on Ensogo's website:

We even saw her on the app 4 Pics 1 Word!

It became a thing for us haha, we need to know who she is and why she is so popular as the poster girl for ads. It seems that she has a lot of stock photos. But it's just weird/funny to see her all the time. Is it because of her infectious smile? I think so.

PLEASE, if you know who she is, do tell!!! It's really important for our peace of mind. :p

P.S. I'm not kidding. I really need to know who she is because it's driving me nuts seeing her everywhere. It's like a puzzle that I need to solve. My mind won't shut up until I know who she is!

UPDATE! Marye and another friend found a link of her stock photo profile. She has the username Maridav.

Here's a screen shot of her profile on 123F:

I googled Maridav, and her profile on Shutterstock came up. It says she is a Photographer/Illustrator/Vector Artist/Videographer. So does she photograph herself in all these situationals?

UPDATE II: My former office mate Jerome, who's now part of Esquire magazine, says they did a feature on her in their April issue. Am I willing to spend 195 pesos to know who she is? Let's see! Hopefully I can find the closure I need. Hahaha!

UPDATE III: A comment on this entry informed me of a Facebook page dedicated to her, and that her name is Ariane. I found a copy of the Esquire issue at my brother's house, and while they had an email interview with her, she still didn't provide her surname. She says she values her privacy. Apparently, she works together with a guy named Martin and do all these shoots. Her father's French-Canadian and her mother is Chinese. So I guess that's that! Ariane, with no surname.