Half Skull - Halloween Costume!

Hi everyone! 

Finally, after at least 4 hours of video editing, here I am, with the new Halloween costume video. 

I really like how it turned out, so I'm pretty proud of myself this time. 

Hope you'll enjoy it!

Don't forget to comment, rate or subscribe!

Ciao a tutti!

Finalmente, dopo almeno 4 ore di video editing sono riuscita a caricare il video.

Mi piace molto come è venuto, quindi questa volta sono abbastanza fiera di me stessa. 

Spero vi piaccia!

Non dimenticare di commentare, votare o iscrivervi al canale :) 

Take care, 

South Africa needs your help!

Hi everyone! 

*Serious issue*

Probably a bunch of you already know that the last summer I went to South Africa with my family. The thing that you probably don't know is that my dad is a vet and he worked for free in India and South Africa in order to vaccinate dogs from rabies and save a lot of children lives. 

At least 20.000 children die each year in the whole Africa because of rabies.

During this "trip" my dad met other vets that are now our friends. Renee is a women that is trying to change something and she created a vet association that vaccinates dogs and helps people and children to have an education, that is looking for donations right now. 

That's what she wrote me one hour ago: 

"Hi Ilaria!! Hope things going well in Milan! The girls miss you and your make up! Ilaria , may I please ask you to spread the word about our project in the townships. We desperately need funds for the new town ships..see the message below that I sent your dad. I feel helpless and am desperate to ask for help. These new townships we are working in are horrific, hundreds of dogs being killed, I was crying and shouting, my heart broken. BUT I AM NOW EVEN MORE DETERMINED TO CONTINUE EDUCATION AND STERILISATION, BUT WE NEED HELP.

--message sent to my dad--

Davide Thank you so much for spreading the word on our project! We have taken another 3 informal settlements on from this week to work in. It is horrific. The SPCA came in and euthenased over 500 dogs this week while we were doing sterilising in the townships/settlements. I went crazy, couldnt stop them from killing the dogs in front of me. We pleased and told them they can see I am sterilising, give us time, but they wouldnt listen. I was in tears and felt absolutely helpless !Our hearts broke to see these healthy dogs being killed. It just drives me even harder to educate the people and sterilise even more and faster! Please Davide can I beg you to continue to spread the word to your friends and collueges as every € helps. Can you please ensure if they want to donate to our South African projects, to donate to our south african

optimavet@vodamail.co.za

paypal account. Once again thank you for all your support!"

For those who don't know that, townships are the black people informal settlements in South Africa. They don't have water, electricity or any kind of education because they're too poor to afford it.

A township

Ciao a tutti!
*Discorso serio*
Probabilmente qualcuno tra di voi sa già che la scorsa estate sono stata in Sud Africa con la mia famiglia. La cosa che però non credo che qualcuno sappia, è che mio babbo è un veterinario ed ha partecipato a svariate campagne di volontariato in India e Sud Africa, con lo scopo di vaccinare più cani possibili per la rabbia e salvare così la vita agli stessi cani ed a molte persone, specialmente ai bambini che sono i più colpiti dalla malattia.
Almeno 20.000 bambini muoiono ogni anno in tutta l'Africa a causa della rabbia.
Durante questi "viaggi" mio babbo ha conosciuto tanti altri veterinari, che sono poi diventati nostri amici.
Renee è una donna che sta cercando di fare la differenza. Lei e la sua famiglia vivono in Sud Africa e devono accettare questa realtà ogni giorno.
Così, ha creato una associazione che ha lo scopo di riunire veterinari e civili, per vaccinare più cani possibili ed educare anche i bambini che non se lo possono permettere per renderli adulti migliori e più consapevoli.
Questa associazione proprio ora ha bisogno di aiuto e donazioni.
Questo è ciò che Renee mi ha scritto un'ora fa:
"Ciao Ilaria!
Spero che le cose a Milano stiano andando bene!
Alle bambine manchi tu e le tue lezioni di make up!
Ilaria, potrei chiederti di informare più persone che puoi della nostra associazione e del progetto per migliorare le township? Abbiamo disperatamente bisogno di fondi per occuparci delle nuove che abbiamo trovato. Leggi il messaggio che ho mandato a tuo babbo. Mi sento abbandonata e disperata per questo chiedo aiuto. Le nuove township che abbiamo trovato sono terrificanti, centinaia di cani stanno venendo uccisi, li hanno uccisi di fronte a me e stavo piangendo ed urlando, il mio cuore si è spezzato, ma non mi hanno ascoltata. MA ORA SONO ANCORA Più DETERMINATA DI PRIMA NEL CONTINUARE COL PROGETTO DI EDUCAZIONE E STERILIZZAZIONE, MA ABBIAMO BISOGNO DI AIUTO.

--Messaggio a mio babbo--
Davive, grazie mille per aver comunicato a tante persone del nostro progetto! Abbiamo trovato altre 3  township abusive questa settimana in cui lavorare. è spaventoso. La SPCA (Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals) è arrivata ed ha praticato l'eutanasia su più di 500 cani questa settimana mentre noi li stavamo sterilizzando. Io sono impazzita, non li ho potuti fermare ed ho dovuto guardarli mentre uccidevano quei poveri animali davanti ai miei occhi. Li abbiamo pregati e gli abbiamo detto che potevano vederlo, li stavamo sterilizzando, dovevano darci tempo, ma non ci hanno ascoltati. Ho pianto, e mi sono sentita davvero impotente! I nostri cuori si sono distrutti nel vedere questi animali perfettamente sani venire uccisi. Questo però mi fa essere ancora più motivata nel continuare ad educare le persone e sterilizzare ancora di più e più velocemente!
Per favore Davide, ti prego, continua ad informare le persone ed i tuoi amici e colleghi perché ogni € conta. Se vogliono donare possono farlo sul nostro account paypal:

optimavet@vodamail.co.za

Ancora grazie per il supporto che ci hai offerto fin ora!"

Per coloro che non lo sanno le "TOWNSHIP" sono insediamenti molto spesso non legali in cui le persone di colore vivono. Non hanno acqua corrente, elettricità e non possono permettersi un'educazione.

Una township

Volevo semplicemente far girare la notizia come è stato chiesto. Potreste per favore condividere anche voi? O se vi va, donare. 

Grazie!

I just wanted to spread the word as she said. Can you please spread it too? Or if you want even donate.

Thank you!

Take care, 

Fall Makeup

Hi everyone!
I've been soooooo busy recently! I started university and the last two weeks have been quite complicated, but I'm finally in my hometown again now, so I found some time to write.
I just wanted to share with you my latest youtube video focused on a makeup that I've been wearing a lot recently. Hope you like it!


Ciao!
Sono stata davvero impegnata recentemente!
Ho iniziato l'università e le prime settimane sono state abbastanza complicate ma ora sono finalmente a casa per il week-end ed ho trovato un po' di tempo per scrivere.
In realtà, volevo semplicemente condividere con voi l'ultimo video che ho caricato sul mio canale youtube in cui ricreo un makeup che recentemente ho fatto spesso.
Spero vi piaccia!

Take care,

This week on instagram

I'm in late with this post.
The fact is that I've been so busy lately!
Anyways, here you'll find the best pictures of the week on my instagram profile! :)

Sono in ritardo per questo post.
Tra l'altro devo scusarmi perché ultimamente ho postato davvero poco.. sono stata davvero impegnata!
Comunque, ecco qui le migliori foto della settimana passata postate sul mio profilo instagram!

Best products of the week:
Duochrome palette (NeveCosmetics)
NakedBasic Palette (UrbanDecay)
Bareminerals bronzer

New UTOPIA Velvetine - Limecrime

Getting ready for Halloween

My new WWF diary for Uni 

Moving to Milan!

 

  

                  

Frassassi caves 

My new fake septum ring finally arrived <3

Milan - My new house

Take care!

Cruelty-free fashion and beauty

Hi everyone!
Guess this is going to be quite a long post.
When I decided to start writing a fashion/beauty blog I didn't really think that it would have been easy and that I would have gain a lot of subscribers in few days.
Now, I REALLY do understand that we are still not a super large number, but today, even if I don't have a huge audience yet, I want to talk about a VERY important issue:

Cruelty free fashion and beauty

I decided to become TOTALLY cruelty free in beauty stuff months ago and now I can proudly say that I made it. Maybe I had to stop browsing on MAC Cosmetics online store, but it's for a good cause. 
Now I want to tell you the story behind my decision, hoping you'll decide to follow me.

One year ago I was watching a TV program with my boyfriend called : "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern". Maybe you have seen this program before, because I'm aware of the fact that it's a quite famous program. 
In that episode Andrew was in Barcellona and he was at the restaurant attending his giant crab to be cooked.
At a certain point I started to cry. In the program they showed how this crab was cooked..and killed.
And I started to cry when the cook ripped the crab pincer and legs while it was still alive. 
Just like that, it was so easy to do, rip everything and throw what remained of the crab in a pot of boiling water. 
I've always known that crabs, shrimps and lobsters were cooked that way, but then, when I really saw it, in a TV program, without any regret, without any hesitation, as a mechanic job.. I realized that there was something SO wrong. 
With this awareness, I decided that I wanted to go against those principles and I decided that also, I wanted to try to become a vegetarian. But now I don't want to talk about vegetarian, vegan and stuff.
This is a choice, because we are born to eat meat, it's our nature. 
But to treat animals in horrible ways for our beauty and arrogance is another story.

This story, was just something personal to make you understand my point of view. 
I was already a WWF and a Lipu partner, but then I started some researches and I found out other amazing companies such as Greenpeace and Animal Equality. 
Then one day on Facebook I discovered the PETA organization ( At that time I already knew Peta, but I wasn't so informed on its programs and stuff).
I visited the online official site and I found out something incredibly useful: the cruelty free companies list. ( You can find it here: CLICK )

I was SO disappointed in discovering that there is an incredibly large number of massive companies testing on animals!
Then I continued to research informations on animal testing and stuff and I really realized something:

People don't want to see

That's the truth.

We don't really want to know what those animals have to tolerate EVERYDAY of their entire life just because of our vanity and arrogance. 

It's easier to being not conscious of what we are causing, what we are permitting.

I don't want to wear the sufferance of a living creature on my face, on my head or on my body.

That's so wrong, we are not even talking about medical researches on vaccines or diseases, we are talking about make up.

I started using products by: 

Limecrime Makeup

Neve Cosmetics 

Lush 

Collistar

Sugarpills
Urban Decay

Moreover, fashion is cruel with animals too.

And I'm saying that as a fashion student.

I discovered things on D&G that I don't even want to think about now.

Few days ago, on the Animal Equality Facebook page I saw that video ( If you are easily impressionable don't watch the video, I want to share this because I WANT TO SEE, and I WANT PEOPLE TO SEE what really happens everyday. I cried during the whole video, but it was necessary to comprehend even more how important is to start saying "NO". PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE watch it and read the article, I want you to be strong and informed. ) 

VIDEO HERE

Let me know what you think, because I don't have words to describe my feelings.

I can't comprehend how people can be so cruel being conscious of what they're doing. 

How can you kill an animal so easily? You don't even need to eat and survive, you don't even have to wear animals real fur on winter because otherwise you are going to die. We don't live in caves anymore.

WE CAN CREATE  PERFECT FAKE FUR FOR OUR COATS.

And you know what?

I'am glad to have a fake fur coat in my closet. 

I like it and it keeps me warm.

That's all I need. That's all everyone in our society needs. 

I love animals and I want people to respect and protect them, if you agree with me, please, become a partner of the companies I mentioned in this post. It's free.

Also ( a quick off-topic ) Greenpeace collected more than 6 millions signature for the #SAVETHEARCTIC campaign. 

Join us HERE .

If you have any question, feel free to ask.

My reason to be cruelty free

My reason to be cruelty free

Take care

*I have to write the italian version of this post tomorrow*

*Tradurrò questo post in italiano domani*