PLAYBOY Philippines is proud to introduce the 23-year-old Filipino-Latina model Saffi Karina as their cover for the month of January.

Saffi works as a London-based model and boasted of numerous shoots with different fashion magazines, internationally-aired television commercials, and catwalk assignments with the world's most distinguished brands.

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With her entrancingly beautiful mix of Filipino, Cuban, Spanish, and Irish features, Saffi embodies what is considered the modern epitome of human beauty.

She is a classic Pin-up girl, redefined, as per Playboy's Philippines team.

The spontaneous Libran spent most of her childhood with her family in Dumaguete, where she learned to speak two local dialects - Tagalog and Bisaya.

She then permanently moved to London to finish her studies. Upon graduating, she formally pursued her love for the limelight and has been professionally modeling and hosting in the United Kingdom for almost two years now.

Saffi described working in the Philippines as her most enjoyable modeling experience yet, particularly her experience with Playboy Philippines, calling it her "best shoot yet."

"This is my first time to pose for a men's magazine and my first cover for a men's magazine. It's been more than a blessing and I am absolutely very happy with the outcome of the cover. It's classy it exceeded my expectation I am really glad that I did it," she said.

"Lots and lots of fun, you know the Playboy team is a lot of fun, they were like family to me. They were so accommodating so welcoming and the great thing is there's a lot of input from me. From start to finish they asked me what kind of way you want us to perceive. The theme we came up at the end was the Pin-up princess. So it's classy, it's so like very subliminal, so like implied. We are bringing the Pin-up girls all back to the naughty sexy speak and you know showing it to the whole new generation," she added.

Other must-read features in Playboy Philippines January issue are the 20 Questions with veteran actor Eddie Garcia, "Millionaire's Dozen," "55 Most Influential People in Sex" and "History of Playboy Part 1." (JRDB/Press release)