Rissa Mananquil Trillo

Co-founder, Happy Skin

The Galanistas | Rissa Mananquil Trillo marries her passion for style with her advocacy for sustainability

Rissa Mananquil Trillo has been a model, a beauty columnist, and the founder of the breakthrough cosmetics brand Happy Skin, which she introduced in 2013 as “a skin-caring makeup solution [for] Filipinas.” When she exited the brand in 2021, Happy Skin had won over 40 awards and, most importantly to Mananquil Trillo, built the foundation for other local beauty brands in the Philippines.

Mananquil Trillo now serves as the first green beauty ambassador of beauty brand Dermtropics. The mother of two is also a UN Women Advocate and continues to be a mainstay in society events for brands such as Bulgari and Louis Vuitton.

Because styles come and go, she says that sustainability is what really matters in her wardrobe. “I used to buy a ton of fast fashion clothes from a ‘conscious’ collection, only for them to be left hanging in my closet with the tags still on. I realized that an ‘eco-friendly’ label does not mean it's okay to be consumed unlimitedly,” Mananquil Trillo says. “Now, I find it rewarding to be able to breathe new life into timeless pieces. My best fashion moments are when I would re-wear or restyle an old item from my closet, and people from the fashion industry would compliment it like they were seeing it for the very first time.”

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At the age of 23, Rissa Mananquil Trillo became the president of the Professional Models Association of the Philippines (PMAP) and established guidelines and standard working conditions for all members.

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Styling  

Monique Madsen

Hair  

Patty Inojales

Make-Up  

Johnson Estrella

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