The Making of Rocio Zobel's December 2025 Cover

For our December 2025 cover, Preview joined forces with the team over at Belo Medical Group. Gracing this month’s cover is none other than Rocio Zobel, the newest face of the clinic’s Neurocosmetics treatments.

Two years after being named among Preview’s Best Dressed, Rocio returns to our digital pages—this time as the magazine’s December cover star.

“I still remember how the team was just in awe because she genuinely had no bad frame,” recalls Editor-in-Chief Marj Ramos-Clemente, reflecting on Rocio and Preview's first shoot together. “Two years later, having her back in the studio—this time for a cover as the new face of Belo Beauty—felt like a full circle moment,” she adds.

“Rocio is our modern day muse, but in a way that feels fun, curious and real—not overly perfect,” shares Associate Creative Director Jana Jodloman, who also happens to be directing her very first cover shoot.

To translate that vision, the editorial team enlisted the help of production designer Justine Arcega-Bumanlag to construct a fairytale-inspired bedroom set. Alongside her set design crew, Ms. J assembled a miniature dollhouse world—complete with scaled-down furniture and a moody-dream-like atmosphere.

“She moves through these tiny surreal spaces in a way that makes beauty feel less polished and more like something that’s always changing,” Jana notes.

Spanning four different layouts and five outfit changes, that sense of carefree, childlike ease was perfectly captured by photographer Borgy Angeles. The team of stylists from Stylized Studio, led by Jolo Bartolo, dressed Rocio in a series of romantic and feminine pieces by Filipino designers such as Andrea Tetangco, Vania Romoff, Steph Verano, Inigo Villegas, Jun Escario, and Rhett Eala.

“Since this is my second editorial with Rocio, I kinda wanted to do something different for her—more volume, and then more playful in terms of colors,” Jolo explains.

The Belo team was all hands on deck in helping the editorial team bring the vision to life. In fact, Dr. Hayden Kho himself was present to support! “What was exciting about this one was actually being able to bring their vision [to life], and to collaborate with them, and Preview-fying that vision,” Managing Editor Reg Rodriguez muses.

Over in the glam department, Preview tapped industry veterans such as makeup artist Denise Ochoa and hairstylist Brent Sales.

With Rocio’s skin already judiciously maintained by Belo, the approach focused on simply enhancing her natural glow. As beauty assistant Kyla Villena explains, the looks “focused on adding shimmer in her eyes and her corners, and on the highpoints of her face. It was like an elevated ‘no makeup’ makeup look,” she adds.

Read the full cover story here.

Produced and Styled by the Preview Team

Editor-in-Chief: Marj Ramos-Clemente

Managing Editor/Producer: Reg Rodriguez

Assoc. Creative Director: Jana Jodloman
Sittings Editor: Bacs Arcebal

Co-producer: Em Enriquez

Photographed by Borgy Angeles. Fashion Direction by Paulina Singh. Styling by Jolo Bartolo, Ashley Jamlang, and Beatrize Lagco of Stylized Studio. Beauty Direction by Kyla Villena. Makeup by Denise Ochoa. Hair by Brent Sales, assisted by Rionell Galvez. Cover story by Katrina Maisie Cabral. Art and video direction by Jana Jodloman, shot by Teddy Garcia Jr. and Jino del Mundo. Set and production design by Justine Arcega-Bumanlag, assisted by Krishna Loquinte and Louie Sandro. BTS photos by Nick Majaba. Photographer’s assistants: Pao Mendoza and Rojan Maguyon. Set men: John Edward Amon, Junior Ingal Bondoc, Mark Anthony Bondoc, Cris Soco, Richard Buot, Vincent Buot, and Rueben Alferez. Studio: Baked Studios. Special thanks to Belo Medical Group, Dr. Vicki Belo, and Dr. Hayden Kho Jr.