Shopping Haul Part 1

Hello! How is everyone doing? Today I want to share with you everything I bought while in California. I decided to divide in two since it was too much. These ones are clothes and random things I got; the next will be accessories, beauty and make up.

Both from Forever 21

This dress was actually 10 dollars only, and it was from Urban Outfitters

I bought this one here in Argentina for my birthday actually, but thought I should share it with you guys. J

I mentioned before I love Breaking Bad, when I saw this one online in Ubran OutfittersI had to buy it (Even though it was in the men section. Lol.)

I had to buy something from the Pretty Little Liars collection in Aeropostale and thought this Who Is A? Hoodie was genius.

I looooove sweaters because they are so warm and cozy. I bought the first one in Forever 21and the other one in Abercrombie, I don’t usually shop here but the sweater was on sale and was really cute.

This new Dr.Martens are my newest obsession, I got them in black patent and wore them the whole trip, I was scared because my sister said they might hurt me, but I was fine walking everywhere with them.

This are the Nike Dual Fusion, I think, they are really light and comfortable, great for the gym and running.

I love this book already. I read a passage per day and is really inspiring, and since Demi is my favorite I loved this book already. You can find it at Barnes & Noble

I was needing a new journal and a small one to take with me everywhere, so when is saw this one in Staples I got one.

I love these three ladies, so I had to get the magazines with them in the cover. They are the February 2014 Seventeen magazine, the January 2014 Rolling Stone Magazine and the December 2013/January 2014 Nylon Magazine.

I saw this on tumblr and thought: I have to buy it. I wanted for years now and never got myself to buy it and I finally did. Amazon has this as well as many like this from the same author.

I told myself to buy magnets this trip and I found these really cute ones in Staplesso I got some for the big board I have in my room.

I’ve been having a hard time finding phone cases since my phone is not the newest generation. But I found the pink on in Victoria Secret and the cat on in It's Sugar

Hope you enjoy it and there is more coming next week!

Have a lovely lovely week.

Love,

Pili

Ps: wish me luck taking my driving exam next week!

California Dreaming

Hello! I’ve been MIA lately, and this post will show you why. I was in California and Las Vegas for two weeks, and I have been to places that I feel in love and I can’t imagine not living there sometime. So I hope to go back and maybe one day moving. Here are a collection of a few of the pictures I took while I was there:

The Cesar Palace Hotel in Las Vegas, NV

This was the view I had in my hotel in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA

The sun setting in the Santa Monica beach, LA, CA

Venice, LA, CA

Venice Beach, LA, CA, which was amazing and pretty sure everyone was crazy.

The view from the top of Beverly Hills, LA, CA

The amazing LACMA, museum in LA, CA

This is in New Port, CA, an adorable and small town a few hours away from LA

One day we went to explore downtown LA, CA.

These are my favorites, a view of all LA, CA from the Getty Museum

This is in Monterey, CA, where we stopped before San Francisco. It’s a small town, with a beautiful pier.

San Francisco, CA Outline, taken from the boat on the way to Alcatraz

The first thing I saw when I arrive to LA, CA, breathe taking view

The road from LA to Las Vegas was all deserts.

Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, NV

Life is beautiful in old Las Vegas, NV.

Sun setting in Rodeo Drive, Los Angeles, CA

The sun setting in Hollywood, CA

Crazy Alcatraz, San Francisco, CA

Made some new friends in the San Francisco, CA Pier

Lombard Street in San Francisco, CA, crookest street.

And the view from up there

The famous Gold Gate Bridge in San Francisco, CA.

I hope you enjoyed these pictures as much as I enjoyed the trip. If you are planning on going to California, do, it’s truly one of my favorite cities in the world.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

X

Pili

Beauty is skin deep

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Hi guys! Hope everyone is doing wonderful. This post will be different that my previous ones, is more deep and more personal. If I’m being honest, there is nothing that makes me more nervous that doing this, but I want, I have to, for anyone who has deal with this or is dealing, so they know they are not alone.

This post is about body image. A subject that is way too taboo this day, when it shouldn’t because it is something we all deal with.  We have all stand in the mirror and not like what we see, look at a picture and hate it, or looking down and asking ‘why me?’ I know you, who is reading this, have. I wish we could all stop and accept each other. We should stop the little and the big comments, the ‘Are you really going to eat that?’ or ‘You should work out more’ or the ‘You are so skinny!’ I can guarantee you 90% of the times people don’t appreciate, people don’t feel happy about it. I know maybe you are trying to help, but in my opinion let that person be, they already feel a certain way about it, why add it up? The fact that we have all experienced something like this and we still manage to make this comments or point out everyone flawless is what brings us down.

How many times have you heard a friend, or family member say ‘I wish I was skinner’? Yeah probably everyday of your life. How many times do you look at them and wish you could shut the up? Most times, at least I do.  I hate seeing people feel like this, feel like to be someone they have to look a certain way, can we just get over this? Over the fact that, yeah they have curves or yeah they have a smaller structure. Just stop judging others, you have been judge at least once, didn’t they bring you down? Didn’t that hurt? Why do it to other people? Why hurt them? I’m trying to understand here, understand how by calling someone ‘fat’ will make you happier. Is there any pleasure in doing so? Why don’t we invest our energy, words and minds in something better, something bigger? Why can’t we stop the ‘I wish I was skinner’ to a ‘this is who I am, and I’m happy with this’?

Have you ever call someone in their face ‘fat’? If so, did you stop and think before? Please tell me you didn’t, because if you did, they you must be really mess up. When you tell someone they are ‘fat’ regardless of how you say it or you hint about it, you should know the complexity of the word, how much a simple word, or sentence actually does to a person. If you have been call fat, then you understand. I once heard the quote “Never call a girl fat, even if you are joking. You have no idea what she will do to be the opposite” and there is nothing truer than that phrase. But I wish we could stop this. Take the word ‘fat’ out of our vocabulary, and let the person be whoever they wish to be.

It is not just being ‘fat’ the problem here, people who are ‘skinny’ or not toned get call out too. People would say ‘you are so skinny, why don’t you eat?’ As if maybe they don’t try. They can like it, but many times they are actually trying to gain weight. They try the best but they can’t and that’s their metabolism, but no, people still need to call them ‘skinny’ or make fun because they don’t have what they are looking for. Move on, if they don’t, they are not trying to please you anyways.

This post was only to bring awareness to everyone who reads this. To stop the name calling and I hope everyone struggling with body image picks something from this, mainly that you can’t please anyone, if they like you the way you are the go on, if they don’t turn around and wave goodbye, but never let them get you. But not just the people, don’t let the mirror get you or your head, because the mirror means nothing, who you are inside, what you do is 100 times more important than the mirror. The mirror is something we have to deal with, unfortunately, but now look at it and ignore it, because if you are nice to people and do what you want, then that is what life is about, not about the stupid mirror.

One last thing and is for anyone struggling with more than body image, an eating disordered, please get the help you need. You can do it, you can overcome it, and I know you can. Please don’t skip the next meal, I know is hard but try. Please don’t throw up, don’t take that pill and workout as long as you are advice too, don’t exceed yourself. I understand this is an addiction and it is hard to move on, but if you try and determine yourself, I know you can and it’s ok to ask for help if you need. Please do it before it is too late.

NEDA offers a lot of help for those willing to get as well as for family member and friends ofpeople  dealing with an Eating Disorder.

        Photo Credit: Pinterest 

I'm turning 18 today! Haha. I don't know when my next post will be since I won't be in town for a few weeks but I'll have tons to talk when I'm back! Have a lovely week.

Love,

Pili

BlahBlahBlanda

Hey guys! How is everyone year so far? I’ve trying to blog for the past few days but I have been everywhere expect home, it has been crazy few days!

Anyways, I’m here to present the lovely Blanda Eggenschwiler, who is someone I have been obsessed for the last few months. For those who have no clue who she is, she is a Swiss graphic designer who has worked for many important brands such as Kiehls, Obey, New York Times, Incase, among others, and who lives in New York. I have been following Blanda for a while on Twitter and Instagram and I love her works and her style, here are some of her works:

 Photo Credit: Instagram

The way she drew this face looks beautiful, she is an amazing artist!

Photo Credit: Instagram

Photo Credit:Instagram

This one is one of my favorites, I love the style she has when drawing, and this one looks amazing, I wish I could have my bedroom wall like this:

Photo Credit: Instagram

This one are from her work with Incase. This is another of my favorite and her drawing here are remarkable:

Photo Credit: Instagram

Photo Credit: Instagram

Also look at how pretty she is:

Photo Credit: Instagram

Photo Credit: Instagram

Photo Credit: Instagram

I hope you now love Blanda as much as I do, also to get to know her better here are two of my favorite quotes by her:

“People inspire me. In all of their complexity.”

“I believe that any girl’s best accessory is always her
character and charm. Dumb is never cute…”

Quotes taken from: GaloreMag

Last, you can find Blanda online:

Twitter

Instagram

Website

Hope you all have a lovely week!

Enjoy!

Pili

What's next?

I honestly can’t believe it is 2014. 2014 is a big year, at least for me, and I believe many of you can relate to this.

2013 was a crazy year. I have achieve a lot I’ve been wanted to achieve for many years and I can say I’m leaving this year behind proud of myself. I’ve moved on from a lot of pain and trouble than have been bothering me for a while now and I am finally setting myself free. I think 2013 was the year of setting myself free. Free from all the pain and trouble that had been dragging me for some time, I move on and became someone I think I’m proud and happy with. I hit a place in my life where I’m at peace and happy with myself, with who I am and who I have surround myself with. It was a hard year, I had to let many people go and move on, but I found new ones which I’m happier with. I also discover something I haven’t done in a long time, and that is writing. I was missing writing and after everything I think going back to the pleasure of writing was another way to aloud myself to do what I want and to feel more free. It defiantly was a big year and I’m ready to move past and start this new chapter. 2014 here I go.

2014 is in fact a huge deal and here is why. I’m turning the big 18 in a few days and this makes me nervous, happy and confuse at the same time. I’m finally grown up, I have more freedom and at the same time more responsibilities. I’m looking back at some year and realize how crazy that my childhood is sort of coming to an end. But in a way I’m relief, because I can do other stuff, stuff that I actually want and decided for myself to do. Then there is my Senior year and IB year. This quite honestly is crazier that anything else. I’m finishing high school. I’m finishing 12 years of studying, 12 years of having teacher tell you what to do, 12 years of being inside a place for 8 hours straight, 12 years of being a kid, and moving on and going to college, which another thing that freaks me out a little, but I’m ready, I want to and need it. Being a senior also involves the stress and I don’t think I’m yet mentally ready for that. Finals, IB, Colleges, grades and organizing school activities, is going to be one crazy year. School coming to an end also means is time for me to move back home to study and this is something that I’ve been putting of thinking and sort of a taboo to think around my friends. I will miss my friends a lot, but I can’t wait to see what the world has for us. Then, there is this blog. I’m ready to go on with this, to write my feelings and finally share with you, with the world, and to show you who I am. I’ve been wanted to do this for quite some time, and now I’m ready, so here I go. 2014 you are going to be a life changing year, but I’m ready to tackle you down.

Hope you all have a wonderful 2014!

Love,

Pili