Whenever I went shopping for beauty products, the word that I would use the most was "oily". Shampoo for oily scalp, weightless conditioner, mattifying foundation and God forbid moisturizer! Then I had some hormonal disbalances and I found myself noticing in horror that my long, luscious hair was now dry. Those oils that I cursed every single day were actually the ones that...

Was there ever a Weekly #2? No, there wasn't, and I'm not going to pretend I was way too busy to write one. I just wasn't really organized. But I would like the number of my Weeklys to be coherent with the week I started writing them. If you would like to be all caught up on my Weeklys, go read The Weekly...

Ladies and gentlemen, I believe we can make it official: spring is here! Nature is waking up from its winter torpidity: the peculiar light of this gorgeous season shines through the delicate peach flowers that have just blossomed, releasing a fresh, comforting scent in the air. However, what most of us can do is staring at spring's astonishing magnificence in the thirty-minute break...

In Italy, whenever you are very anxious, worried about something or the day is just not going your way, there will be somebody telling you to "take it with philosophy". Philosophy meaning patience, perspective, a little bit of humor, taking the day off everyday mishaps. I don't know about you, but in the list of my very first-world problems, there's also that of...

Inspired by the amazing Louise, I've decided to start this new series of posts that will come out every Sunday (I know, it's Tuesday, but let's pretend I wasn't late with this one). It will enable me to share with you my day-to-day life, as well as aspirations, progress (fitness, food and photography) and maybe some of my daily outfits.  ...

"Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through  No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing The dream that you wish will come true" I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who remembers vividly the scene of Cinderella singing her heart out about her dream of finding the love of her life, her...

I guess for this week I've completely failed my blogging resolution to blog two to three times a week, however I do have to admit that this week was tough. I had to study and work constantly, and I've been feeling very much exhausted on the emotional and self-esteem side. For this week's post, then, I decided to get a little personal, and...