Furry northern people

The first thing I noticed as soon as I got off my ferry to Helsinki, Finland, was a casually dressed teen with ripped Abercrombie jeans, a random t-shirt with a rocky print and an extravagant, oddly shaped fur hat projecting outward and embellished by two flaps hanging there on the sides. Very odd, I suddenly found myself thinking. Overly odd, I stated as a good italian used to elegant high heeled ladies and well-groomed, pink-shirted men. But I mean, we all know, besides stereotypes, that northern people have a quite unique and honestly controversial perception of hot and cold.
Around march, on the beggining of the lovely and much desidered spring, in Italy we basically wear what I see Brits wear in November, and as soon as the tiny little streets of my minuscule city get crowded and filled up by curious tourists, northern people are always quite easy to spot. They are without the shadow of a doubt the ones with weird open sandals, pale complexion and no sleeves while we Italians bravely start feeling springy by showing off a pair of white jeans instead of black wintery trousers.
Since the first moment I arrived in Helsinki, where I currently am on holiday, all I saw was FUR. Fur everywhere. I kept seeing it in every tiny corner like a nagging nightmere... I actually think I started having delusions and hallucinations after a while. Beige and grey beautiful furs in the classy high fashion shops, furs in the everyday wear shopping centres, furs in the traditional open-air market down on the port. Everywhere, honest.

As a fur's lover, I tingled with excitement.
Fur is the only good thing about cold weather and my favourite excuse to look classy and on trend; indeed the trend keeps coming back and you will never think it's old school neither too modern... Still, in a way I feel like it's both old school and modern. And why is fur so great? To me, personal opinion, it's because it can be used in different ways and overall with different intentions: fur can give a little more attitude to a boring white blouse, yet it has an immense power to embellish and refine an even more boring jeans and a t-shirt. As I always say, fur can change your outfit, as much as the right shoes and accessories can do.
Afterall, the main goal for a woman as regards her style is to always be able to balance things in order to look never too elegant, never too casual. Even though, this Fins definetely do not do. To them, wearing a t-shirt when it´s ten grades outside is ok, but only with an overly warm hat or scarf. Again, creepy. And odd.
Despite this little incomprehension issue between a typical italian girl and phisically insensitive Fins, what I'm loving the most about Helsinki is the street style. As it should be in every good capital city, even small ones, I could pleasantly see a lot of diversity. While it could sound a little cheesy, trust me: diversity in terms of clothing is usually given for granted and as a native of a tiny minusculous city I can definetely say that people LOVE comformism, they love not being judged and they love looking like each other if no one has that little sparkle of creativity to stand out. Actually finnish people seem to be quite brave and positively careless of what everyone else thinks, which I love.
Besides, it's not like they wear sloppy outfits just because they don't care. With a bit of reasearch, in fact I now know that finnish fashion has made a striking entrance in the fashion industry recently. Indeed it is always more prominent and important in the Helsinki Design week thanks to new seminaries and courses led in the spring. Finnish designers work also abroad for some of the most important houses in fashion industry, like Diesel, Calvin Klein or Nina Ricci. Moreover, thanks to bloggers and the press the world is getting to know some talented finnish designers and in the last few years some grand design exhibitions where held in New York and Tokyo. Compared to other northern designers, like the Swedes, Finnish ones have more character and usually make interesting and creative products more likely to have a chance in international markets. As far as style and fashion are concerned, creativity is the key. New and fresh is what greedy buyers look for, and apparently finnish designers are doing good.
To sum it all up, Finland is not all about shy and awkward fish lovers, but it rather has a cool fashion world and a nice amount of good fur that, let's make this clear, we all envy (Italy first). Go and you'll see... it's worth the journey and the cold to see graceful parks, a beautiful scenery and such lovely open-air markets selling real finnish food and clothing.

Traditional, creative, beautiful. Loving Filand and its oddly-worn fur.








Love you all,

 Camilla

Punk Luxe in high fashion

Ripped clothes, safety pins, spikes and a provocative manner: fashion was never a means of rebellion as much as in the seventies for the working class youths.

A battle versus the upper society, kindling with the desire of destroying the ideals of the bourgeois, was the chief motive for Punk Luxe to burst. Since the young and rebellious working class thought theirselves alienated, alien they decided to look like, using fashion as a powerful way to impose their personality and dissatisfaction.

Ironically born to fight against conformism, globalisation and brands, the Punk Luxe is now glorified and rather glamorized on red carpets and high fashion catwalks. Its wide commercial success last emerged in 2010; after five years punk elements are still widely used to create couture looks with a little extra attitude.

The punk luxe as a high fashion style never allows daring elements to completely take over, but with a little balance and discipline those edgy items can be mixed and paired with more classy garments.

Versace’s safety pinned dress worn by actress Elisabeth Hurley is famous for its elegant yet edgy and risky appearance. People seem to like it, it gives attitude and energy to a classy look and softens it up. This black dress became so popular that it is often referred to as "THAT dress".  It's 2014, Elisabeth is accompanying Hugh Grant to the premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral, in a dress made of lycra and silk, held together by oversized gold safety pins. The dress is perhaps Versace's best-known creation, clearly recalling the Punk Luxe golden age with a touch of elegance.

Most noticeably are then Balmain’s skin tight ripped jeans and studded leather bags, Jean Paul Gaultier’s tartan and PVC, or the skull scarves and bondage undertones of Alexander Mcqueen.

Creative, provocative and rebellious are now the adjectives used to critique the punk luxe style on catwalks, appreciating that bit of edginess and aggressiveness added to high fashion looks.

Love,

Camilla

THIS SUMMER'S BIGGEST TREND

You will see it constantly and everywhere, crowding the streets with his energetic luminosity and its reckless courage: it's a controversial hue, loved and then hated, feared and thought to be either too bright or too feeble. But still, summer 2015 definitely got it as a chief trend and, depend upon it, love it or not you will learn to appreciate it by looking at the stunning examples of high couture designers. 

Yes, it's the classic, underrated yellow. Since the human species origins, yellow was always a primary colour, the brightness or the sun, the daintiness of spring flowers and the thrilling peril of the top fire flames. Yellow was then somehow copied by human, and started to be used as a clothing color in different shades; always loved in art, in fashion this color went through some tough days. It's his audacity, mostly, that makes people feel uncomfortable about their choices of wearing such a glowing, intense hue.

Yellow, the color of sunshine, that stands for freshness, happiness, energy, optimism, enlightenment and joy, is shaking up this summer, making everyplace of clothing look fresh and delicately but still firmly joyous. What better chance to have a blast and fun-full summer on a pair of cream sandals and a yellow swimsuit?

Seems like Dolce and Gabbana had this idea in a beautiful swimsuit, a  boost of proteins provided by the color... simple... but effective. 

For a classy night out, a fresh dress from Chloe, looking stunning in its simplicity, full and flimsy

Or you can spice it up a little and get slightly more complicated and refined dress like this one from the Balmain, spring-summer collection 2015

To draw conclusions, in the fashion fold there's a lot to risk and still a lot to go for... the rule is be fashion, make it, be reckless and people will love it. So don't be afraid, go buy a bright yellow garment and you'll definitely look amazing and for sure you'll be keeping up with this summer's latest trends.

Have a good day, everyone

Love you

Camilla

Diet advice from one century ago!

Let's go straight to the point and face up to reality: we live on a helpless world, where the most important value is probably beauty (Averagely talking, of course, let's not have stereotypes). Sounds scary to say this, and we would one hundred per cent like to pretend the average woman/man doesn't care, but we incessantly rely on beauty and fashion icons. 

I'm not saying this is either wrong or right, I strongly believe that criticizing society is a mistake since  it would be impossible to change it in any way. In fact, the only thing I'm trying to do today is restore your faith in humanity, but letting you know that yes, even before the 21st century people were quite obsessed with dieting and styling. For millennia genetic programming has told us to eat when we can, to eat what we want for it's what our body needs and the fear of crests and wars suggested to always do so. For the past century or so, instead, concerns about obesity and such disorders resulted in there creation of a true diet holy literature.

That's why I looked for some diet advice dating back to the first decade of the nineties, that could possibly turn out to be quite useful for the 2000's generation... hope you enjoy! 

The first thing you must acknowledge, before you even think of getting on a diet, is if you really need to loose weight, r you are just a curvy woman or a muscular man.

This is how Mrs Kellerman suggest to find out what your real condition is, in her book "Physical Beauty, how to keep it", published in 1918:

 "Here are a few tests to determine how much of you is real woman and how much is just plain fat. In the first place stand before your mirror nude and look yourself over…Now bend over in various attitudes. Are there unsightly wrinkles and rolls of loose flesh? Lie down on a bed or couch on your back…With your free hand grasp the loose skin and flesh that lies above these muscles… if you are too fat there will be big rolls of loose flesh above the tightened muscles"

"The woman who is too fat will frequently, though not always, have loose busts. She is likely to have excessive hips. Her knees and ankles, instead of being trim and shapely are likely to be soft and puffy"












Back to 1901 also the anonymous writer of "Beauty's aids, how to be beautiful" with a rather pungent wit explains another method to define your body shape:

"A very thin woman is not beautiful, but she can be graceful even to a remarkable degree; but what shall we say of an old woman, overflowing with fat, no longer possessing a human form, much less the form of a woman, always gasping, sweating, and breaking out into redness at the slightest movement, looking, in short, vulgar, ridiculous, and half-bestial"

It may be interesting to know that even before the 19th century there were diets, as we can see from "The woman beautiful" from Hellen Follett Jameson, who published her book in 1899. Here's what she had so say:

"[The fat woman] gets into clothes that are skin-tight, and she draws in her corset string until it snaps and gives at every breath and sneeze, and even then she does not look graceful and pretty, for the fat — like secrets — will out, and it rolls over and around like the little bumps and humps in a pudding bag"

Ehm... quite rude, right? Indeed, these writers from the nineties could be rather strict when it comes to judging a woman's body, probably stricter than we are today, even though we keep saying we live in a society where beauty is everything. Just have a look at these random phrases:

"Sleep must be limited to seven hours, and daily naps are strictly tabooed. [The Woman Beautiful]"

"Banish all thoughts of going back to bed. Instead begin your rolling. There is no mystery about rolling. It is simply what the name indicates. Down upon the floor you go and roll over and over swiftly, not slowly as a porpoise rolls. The porpoise, you will observe, is not a slender animal. Roll over as a puppy, tingling with the joy of life, rolls in the dust when at play. Roll quickly. Make at least 80 revolutions before stopping. [My Secrets of Beauty, Cavalieri]"

"Mere napping about for those who already have too much rest and luxury is suicidal to both mind and body. Oversleeping at any time makes one stupid and logy, yes — fat. [Physical Beauty, How to Keep it]"

There are many other evils beyond corpulence that result from excess in eating, and a badly arranged dietary. Among them may be mentioned a deranged digestion, a loaded tongue, an oppressed stomach, vitiated secretions, a gorged liver, plethora and its consequences, a sluggish brain, with horrible dreams during sleep, and depression when awake. [Foods for the Fat: A Treatise on Corpulency and a Dietary for Its Cure, Nathaniel Edward Yorke Davie]

Now, we shouldn't take to seriously all of these purposes, for studies weren't as advanced as they fortunately are today; in the 1890s and before there were some weird beliefs, even silly for our mindset but still very pervasive and persuasive at the time. 

One of those (the queerest we must notice) was that water had a fattening effect on the human body. Water was indeed thought to be interfering with gastric juices, which could actually help weight loss, if allowed to attack food. The theory was first explained by Thomas King Chambres in 1852, in his essay Corpulence: Or, Excess of Fat During Pregnancy. 

His work was professional supported by some of the era's most respectable doctors, who wrote medical advice for women. And surprisingly, he wasn't the only want to think water could be fattening:

Do not drink much water. A little lemon juice added to it will make it less fattening. [The Woman Beautiful]

First and most important, drink very little, as little as possible, and only red or white wine, preferably Burgundy, or tea or coffee slightly alcoholized. [Beauty's Aids; Or, How to Be Beautiful]

In America the number of fat people is growing larger every year and the suffering endured by this usually good-natured class of people is tremendous. As a matter of fact, a great deal of this discomfort might be avoided if people would not drink such an inordinate quantity of ice water and could be made to understand that thirst does not lie in the stomach and that it is not satisfied by pouring down water by the glassful. [Beauty, Its Attainment and Preservation]

Crazy, isn't it? If we ever thought that we were the ones obsessed with diets, we know found out it was always like that, and even (let's be honest) worse, since since wasn't really enough developed yet.

Have a good day everyone, let's think less about beauty and more about brain,
Camilla

LISTEN UP, CUDDLERS: SLEEPING WITH SOMEONE ELSE IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH!!!

Good morning, you beautiful human being! I have very sweet good news for you today, or bad, depending on how your love life is going right now!

Have you ever waken up to someone you felt truly loved and secure with? You know that feeling of butterflies in your stomach and thrill running through your body knowing that that one person is soon going to wake up and stare deeply into your eyes beaming at you?

Ah, isn't it the best feeling ever for us romantic women? 

Science, that is usually all the opposite of feelings and emotions, this time actually explains why sleeping next to someone else can be absolutely good for your health and lifestyle.

I'm sorry I have to say this, but there's an actual reason why your single self is waking up miserable sometimes, especially after a sad break up... well, ladies, we need to find a partner, no excuses! Apparently, science said this and this is probably going to be my next pick up line (of course, I'm joking... I usually try not to be this lame ahah).

But let's go straight to the point here: according to collective research by Andrea Petersen in the Wall Street Journal (Link here), sleeping in the same bed with your parter provides health befits, added to the emotional pattern of course.

Some scientists in fact hypothesize that an intimate relationship can help us being in better health and live longer that a singleton living his life with pessimism and insecurity.

Previous findings told us that women actually tend to sleep less and move more when sharing the sheets with someone else, but the new studies seem to challenge all of this.

"The psychological befits we get having closeness at night trump the objective costs of sleeping with a partner" says indeed Wendy Trowel, professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. Moreover, you may very well know or that feeling of safety and security you get when sleeping with someone you really care about (which doesn't mean it necessarily has to be a lover), right? Well, that agreeable empathy is thought to lower your levels of cortisol, a hormone causing stress. If your wound up, in a n nutshell, start sharing your sheets with someone you love or really care about... that may works, at least as scholars say! 

"Sharing a bed may also reduce cytokines, involved in inflammation, and boost oxytocin, the so-called love hormone that is known to ease anxiety and is produced in the same part of the brain responsible for the sleep-wake cycle": these are the very professional suggestions of the Wall Street Journal.

If you suffer from anxiety especially, as I do too, you should try to boost your love life up with a bit of cuddles, which, let's be honest, even sturdy, manly, cold real man secretly love. 

But studies went even further... if we slept naked, psychologists say, we would develop a sense of closeness and intimacy to strengthen our relationships (Link here), and this is also quite intuitive and easy to realize when you snuggle with someone you love. With cuddles and nude nights, women are thought to fall asleep faster and reduce the annoying wake-up-every-hour cycle.

Also, a poll of 1000 Brits shows that 57 percent of couples sleeping naked claim to be happier (Link here)!

So, ladies, let's just say that now we have a really brilliant and smart excuse to convince our man to sweeten your nights with a bit of warm cuddle-time.

Have a lovely Sunday everyone, be relaxed, sleep naked and snuggle,

lots of love

Camilla

UGG BOOTS ARE BACK INTO THE FASHION WORLD?!?

Just as I threw my pair away, convinced that no one was ever going to wear them again, they came back to the fashion fold, as cozy and comfy as they’ll ever be. It’s scary and crazy how fast this trend can affect everyone and how easily the high streets of London and Paris will be full of them.

Yes, I’m talking about Ugg Boots.

I still remember that a few years ago every girl of my city would show up with the uggs and woolrich combo... it was thought to be so cool and fashionable, I hardly ever met girls without them at least in their wardrobe. But then everyone started to think it was too “daggy” or just like “slippers”, reason why I would have never imagined that they would come back to the fashion world, again. And, by the way... “slippers”... ehm, there’s always that insecurity about “are they actually fashionable?” “Does it look like that’s my PJ?” “Do they look like slippers?” Now, let me clear your mind. 

Back in 2003 an awesome celebrity devotees like Kate Moss wore the “slippers” in a fur gillet walking down the street in West London... and in 2001-2002 it was virtually impossible to get your hands on a pair of Ugg boots, with a very humble price tag of 250 pounds... quite expensive slippers, uh? Moreover, they were not as easy to be found  as they are now, literally at every single corner of high streets.

But what does actually make people love Uggs so much?

To really understand that, we must take the ship’s bearings on when and why they were invented.

They originated from Australia, at first designed as an utilitarian footwear worn for warmth. They were usually worn by surfers during the sixties and they were actually introduced to the world market in the 1970s, firstly in the surf culture of the UK and USA; who brought them to Europe and American where simply surfers, usually coming back from competitions in Australia. They started to emerge as a fashion trend in America in the late 1990s and earned world-wide importance in the mid-2000s.

While we wear them as a quite fashionable trend, and not only for the freaking amazing warmth they give us, in Australia they are worn predominantly as slippers and associated with “bogan” culture. Now, in case you wondered what that means, “bogan” is Australian and New Zealander slang to describe working class people, in a nutshell; as my Australian friend explained it to me, it can be either pejorative or self-deprecating.

Now, one of the reasons why everyone loves Ugg boots so much, a part of the fact that we are all idiots (sorry) and we suddenly like something when everyone wears it, is their comfortableness. Designer Ashley WIlliams admitted: “I wear mine with hand painted Aries Jeans, a Moschino tote, Palace Skateboards hoodie and Meadham Kirchhoff star hair clips. It was my first outfit of 2015 – Uggs are the marmite of the footwear world, they’re so comfortable. I love them”. And in addition to that, Vogue’s settings editor Nura Khan had quite positive things to say about that: “Of course there is the comfort factor too. They are just so cosy. Carrie Bradshaw wore them the best with painted boyfriend jeans and a sheepskin jacket – think throwback, grungy San Francisco style”. So, I wouldn’t exactly say the high fashion world does not appreciate Ugg boots, as lots of people (mostly Ugg’s haters, to be fair) say. Ahhh, this means we don’t have to feel guilty about wearing them!

What I used to think a few months ago is that I would wear them when I felt cold, or bored or sad... or else, when I was not willing to spend time choosing a good outfit. But I was so wrong... and I now learnt how to wear them to look at our best. If worn right, they really can make you look trendy and fashionable.

1 Firs of all, choose the right colour! Just try different pairs on and see which on matches the most with your complexion and hair colour. If you are pale or you have light or reddish hair, you may want to go from a natural earth tones range of colours (like brown or chestnut), whereas if you have a swarthy or olive skin, blue, black and grey will be awesome on you. Still, don’t ever feel like the colour is the most important thing, since you’re not obligated to follow any stereotype: just find the ones you like the most.

2 NEVER forget your body shape, even though (I know that feeling) most of the times we really don’t want to think about it! The main guideline is, as fare as body shape is concerned: of you have short legs, compered to your upper body, opt for the ankle-high boots and wear them with leggings or jeans. Again, don’t feel restrained to stereotypes and feel free to choose your favourite look, as long as you like how it fits you. There are tons of different ways to wear Uggs for a fashionable and super comfy look:

 - For a very casual look, wear with boyfriend loose jeans, a tight jacket and no make up (or, if you can’t help it, with a natural looking make up); in fact, the first heyday of uggs was back in 2004, in the feet of Sienna Miller, who had a lovely look with a completely bare face.

 -    Try with a vintage kind of dress and a chunky knit 

 -    For a strong look, go for a tux shirt or a long tunic with mini back Uggs

-       Wear baggy trousers and tuck them in the boots, accompanying them with a tight shirt or blouse with a cardigan

-       Opt for leggings and a cute babydoll dress, which usually helps to create curves for rectangle-shaped figures or, on the opposite, to hide extra curves.

-       Do the opposite of the baggy jeans style! Go for skinny jeans and a baggy blouse; if you’re that kind of girl, like me, who cannot live without accessories, put a wide, black necklace on

THE TWO MAIN DON’TS IN THE UGGS WORLD!!!

-       Why does everyone do it? Please, don’t ever wear uggs with shorts or supermini-skirts and bare legs, since there’s a reason why they’re filled with fur... despite the fact that the UGG Australia brand claims that the shoe can also be worn in summer, the trend in our fashion world is usually reserved for winter or fall. My conclusions are: if you feel like you’re going to be soaked with sweat if you wear leggings or stockings, it probably isn’t the right time to wear Uggs, too!

-       Don’t wear for dressy occasions. Despite what you see on TV (I mean, how stupid are most of the ads!), since I once saw a girl wearing uggs for a party, please be aware of the fact that Uggs are for casual outfits

AND... that's it! Hope everyone has a good day, love you all (and wear uggs!) :)
Camilla

DOES SIZE REALLY MATTER? My personal opinion

Have you ever seen a picture of a girl considered a beauty idol in 1950s? Or, let’s say, a Greek Venus? Well, in case the world needed some reminders, there you go...

  

I know, right? A little bit out of the standard we now have of a “hot girl”... completely, terribly, so horrifically wrong. Those girls are beautiful, and they are not only beautiful because they have “curves”, which are often said to make a “real woman”... they actually look stunning because you can see the confidence in their eyes. And by confidence I’m not talking about the certainty to be beautiful, but that awesome, extremely attractive look that tells: “Hey, this is me and I’m never going to change””. I may be wrong, but I can see that clear in those beautiful voluptuous women. Can you ever imagine Marilyn Monroe thinking “Oh, no, why am I so chubby?! I must loose weight!” Err... no. Would you ever be so crazy to think these girls need to be on a “diet”? I guess you wouldn’t. As long as there's health, everything can be beautiful. Then why are we so strict with ourselves? And then, last question, do you actually know what diet means?

Straight from the dictionary:"from the Latin root diaeta, means 'a way of life'". A WAY OF LIFE. 

Yeah, exactly. Misunderstandings everywhere, right?

Now, we also should all wonder what makes a woman a “real” one, apart, of course, the body: in my opinion, it’s likely the confidence, the confidence seen like the certainty of feeling comfortable with herself and accordingly with anyone surrounding her.

When I used to be slightly plumper, at about fourteen, I remember my mom telling me how much I looked worse when I clearly didn’t feel comfortable, maybe because next to my super skinny girlfriends. I didn’t believe her when she told me “You know what, you would look so much prettier if you got more confident and if you started to love yourself a bit more”. But I couldn’t. And I was involuntarily making myself look less pretty than I actually was... and if anyone ever thought that I was not beautiful, it probably wasn’t for that little bit of tummy on my stomach, but for that look that was telling everyone: “I don’t like myself”. It’s unattractive, it’s more unattractive that the actual body’s blemishes themselves. Crazy, I know, but so true.

I don’t want to sound cheesy indeed, like all those girls that spend so much time acting like earnest and sensible and then make fun of “fat people”, so I want to explicitly say that I personally think being thin (slim, not bony) is maybe the best choice, because being healthy comes first than any other thing; still, as long as we are happy and healthy, every size is good. And there's somthing called "constitution", which means you maybe have a bigger build, or a thinner one... and that's obviously not something to blame. Obviously, when it comes to obesity or anorexia there clearly are some issues and, in this case, the only way to escape the illness is to talk, even if sometimes it’s just so hard to be honest about something we wouldn’t like to admit even to ourselves. I'll be honest, I don't like it when I see those youtube channels where girls say "be whatever size you want"; as harsh as it may sound, either too fat or too skinny are bad... not for how you look, but your your health.

I’m really, really sure that taking care of ourselves and learning how to love our bodies is the best way to show everyone how amazing we are... either with some meat on our tights, or with small breast, we will always look lovely if we are happy with ourselves.

We always tend to think so superbly that we’re such good liars, when we don’t realise how many secrets our eyes can tell. And sometimes it’s really important to face up to the fact that what really makes the world so good is diversity, and  that there’s not one single person all around the globe that looks exactly like you, and with your own exact personality. We have the chance to be unique and we keep trying to waste it, struggling to get the body or the face of somebody else... we are who we are, as simple and annoyingly cheesy as it sounds. And one day, sooner or later, we will find that one special person who will understand how perfect we, and only we, are to him or her, whatever your size is. And still, it’s your personality, always, that the people you talked to will remember at the end of the day; and surely taking care of ourselves, trying to loose weigh when we need to and doing exercise is very good for us, as long as we do it because we ENJOY it, or because we STRONGLY DESIRE to change something about ourselves. It’s ok, sometimes, to feel envious, it’s ok to try to change and it’s ok to find flaws... trust me, the only reason why the world “flawless” exists is to be sang in Taylor Swift’s song “Enchanted” (this night is flawless, don’t you let it gooo lalal), which tells about an imaginary world: enough said.

Perfection, my loves, comes from a mysterious mix of humbleness, confidence and good values. What you look like DOES NOT change anything... and if anyone says it does, it means this person’s still too young, too blind, or incredibly stupid (my apologies) to understand what life is really all about: happiness. And we couldn’t ask for anything better than that.

Alright, so this was my little thought about a subject that is currently so discussed everywhere and anywhere... I just felt like I had to say what I honestly think.

Have a great night and work hard to love your flaws more than your virtues.

Love,

Camilla