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Because the world really needed another La La Land review

February 6, 2017

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Major spoiler alert, keep reading at your own risk (seriously, just go watch the movie first) OK to be honest, this is not a proper movie review. This is more like me needing to tell you how much and why I freaking loved La La Land. I am writing this post mesmerized and deeply touched by this movie, but I have to say I didn’t have great expectations before I watched it. First of all it’s a musical. And I…

The Lipstick Quest

January 31, 2017

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I have recently entered a new beauty monomania phase: lipstick. It became an obsession because a good lipstick can actually make you look very cool with a tiny effort, but I just can’t find the “right colour”. It pisses me off like crazy. Somehow I never feel 100% comfortable when I wear lipstick. Either I feel too slutty, or too flashy, or one day my mouth is too big, one day my lips are too thin… What would I like?…

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Just an expat

January 24, 2017

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I come from a town nestled between Florence North hills and the Appenin mountains and it’s not an exaggeration to say I used to hate living there. I used to hate living in Italy in general. I spent my adolescence and young adulthood wishing to leave and at 25 I packed my bags and moved to Belgium: the official reason was to do my PhD, but deep inside I knew I was kind of running away. Most of my Italian…

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The first New Year’s resolution

December 20, 2016

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Can you believe I’ve never ever made New Year’s resolutions? I don’t know why. Probably because I usually spend the first days of the year in a food/hangover coma and in general in a partial lobotomy condition on my couch, surely not thinking about productivity goals. No but seriously, I would really like to know how many of you use the first days of the year to think about sparkling wishful plans that will bring you to a better bikini…

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Singapore bound!

August 11, 2016

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Drawing inspiration: Singapore beauty and fashion influencer Yoyo Cao, a dress by the Singapore designer Ong Shunmugam and, of course, the Singapore lion Yep, that is what the title of this post is saying: I’m moving to Singapore.(it’s so cool when I write it like this black on white because seriously, I still have problems believing it…) It all happened pretty fast.I went from “Oh, yeah, my boyfriend and I sometimes talk about moving outside of Europe for a while,…

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Because the world really needed another La La Land review

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