Health | Staying sane

As many of you may know already, I have struggled a lot with my weight, it is a little repetitive but here I can feel free to speak out what bothers me and what not.

Beauty | Silisponge - First impressions

I might be a little late to the trend, but normally I don't keep up much with them. But recently, I got my hands on a silisponge, those which are said to not waste any of the foundation you apply with it and yesterday was my first time using it.

Travel | Miami Bound

We have travelled a couple of times to Miami in the past year and oh boy, it has been amazing every time. I love the weather, the sun, the beach, driving, everything.

Health | Eating better on Dukan Principles

It is so hard to stay on track, specially when you have a ton of friends and office friends and family who are mayor into going out to eat or drink. Eating is the worst thing for me, because I have been in a love affair with it for quite some time bording the 2.5 year anniversary.

Life | Being Hungry

I know what you think, but it is not THAT kind of HUNGRY. It is the kind of hungry that makes you act and do more things because you are so ready to start a new chapter and have new challenges.

Doing honor to the great mind behind the quote:

Life | Family Fun

If you are anything like me, having fun with the fam is better than getting wasted with friends at bars or clubs. Of course, every once in a while I will do the later without getting wasted but to have some fun with friends.

Health | GM Diet Diary: Day 3

Day 3.

Health | GM Diet Diary: Day 2

After having an awfully hangry day on day 1, I can say that day 2 was not that bad. I felt a little more energized, a bit more bubbly and a wee bit more productive. Everything went pretty well.

Posting Schedule

Welcome back friends! 

Today I will write a quick little post to let you know my posting schedule for the blog so that you can know when to expect new content here.

Run

On a rather gloomy Sunday morning I decided it was time to run. It was really refreshing and I had fun at it. It was the first time I ran in the morning and I feel brand new. 

Here a peak of my neighborhood's park: 

I will start doing this more often than not, whenever I have the time during the week. I feel motivated and full of energy after that. 

Hope you spend a great Sunday! 

Sunday dreaming

Mondays are somewhat dreadful, specially if there are projects and tests and other million things to do for the week. I am almost a month from ending my senior year at University and things could not be more hectic than right at this moment. Stress is flowing through my veins and there is a lot lot lot to do so there is little space for rest. 

#trueThat! 

This brings me to my next point in which I really think that maybe, just maybe, it should be illegal for people to have to work or do assignments of any kind, so there should only be one day to just stay in bed and have a date with a Netflix marathon of your favorite show. Yes please! 

Well, enough for the weekend (Sunday) rant. I just need sleep! 

have a good week! 

Ending it right.

This week has been an emotional roller coaster. Don't yo ujust hate it when that happens? Ups, downs, turns, cero gravity and finally, it stops all of a sudden? Maybe we don't realize how big or small those impacts are in our lives but sometimes they just pin point things that may be happening or things that already passed and you didn't notice. 

But as all things that can and may go wrong, small details are the ones that create a whole something and make you smile, just for a little while through it all.

Never let negativity and trouble bring you down. Maybe from that experience you can take something and learn from it.

Pretty things to make you smile this Friday are about to come.

Pink Coke 

Cute Vanity

Glittery Shoes 

Pink Glitter

Have a nice day and a great weekend. 

Baby Lips #FAIL

A while ago I purchased a Maybelline's Baby Lips and said in a previous post that I would see how did it worked and if it was as miraculous as they preached it to be. They claimed that the product would soften the lips increasingly in a 4 weeks time if you used it consistently and religiously. I did this for the first...what...2 weeks, and noticed that my lips got softer at times but later on they got supper chapped and had to pile more of the product up in my lips for them to be soft again, and once the product was fading up, they become chapped again, this was starting to really annoy me exponentially and iIwas becoming moody and not about the topic. This crazy way of applying the product was, in my opinion, just a marketing strategy for people to keep on using it excessively so that they believed that the product was the one being miracolous, when in reality, it was making the lips more chapped and annoying. 

My final say about the baby lips? They are not good at all and I won't be repurchasing the product. I really like the other Maybelline products like their mascaras, their nail polishes and their eyeliners, but this one didn't matched up with my expectations and I felt dissapointed when the chap-iness started to occur. Instead of getting softer lips, I ended up  with super dry lips, a bad mood and a bad relationship with water (cause it was not helping with the dry-ness). 

Baby Lips score: 2 out of 10.

Painting...

...my nails. I haven't done that in a week! i can't believe it from me.

I've had a hectic week. Like for real, crazy hectic week. University, work and life have been beasts on me. But I have a little time to breath and to pain my nails. Which i am so happy about! I don't like my nails to be naked. It makes me a lot more self conscious. I have the habit of not letting my nails rest, but I figured, as I have zero time to spare lately, that I prefer to have naked nails instead of chipped nails. 

But I finally painted them and I feel much better that way. It boosts my self esteem. I feel prettier, and (for a weird reason) healthier and happier. 

I hope you are having an awesome Sunday.

 

picture from here.

Purple Mania: Purple Room

Hey Everyone!

Now that I am a free student for a while, I have been having tons of ideas about what posts to do.one of them came when I was looking around my room lying in my bed, doing nothing at all, and figured that I was kind of surrounded (and kind of burried) with purple stuff in my room, from my bedding to my walls and the case of my Blackberry. Then this idea came to my mind… why not write a series about the Purple Mania that's going on in my room? (and life if you might as well say it).

The first topic I will be, as the tittle of this blog states, the purple elements in my room. I don't know it started, but I kind of gravitate towards purple, some might say that purple is not a well defined colour, but it has always been pretty to me. I am one of those persons that just don't want to admit that a book actually influenced this behaviour, but it totally was a book which made me gravitate towards it. I remember reading the book "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker, which in the imagery of it (thanks Miss Wendy for teaching me actual literary language) included a lot this color. In one of the papers we had to present, I investigated about the meaning of this imagery, and actually found out a lot of meanings, the one that I remember the most, is that Purple represented the royalty, monarqy and it gave status to the people. We have a winner!! I know now why I always gravitate to that color and, of course, you know now too.

Going back to the main point,  my room. I am writing this post as I stare to the only purple wall in my room. I have a huge tree painted on my walls, it covers two of them with the branches and the leaves, and yes,  the leaves are PURPLE, oh my, Purple everywhere. Here is a picture of it.  

Pretty isn't it? My adorable mother helped me draw it and then I painted it, love my art forward mother.

Another purple element in my room, is my blanket, which is very cozy and warm and makes me happy, specially in this cold weather we are having here. Oh and also, a smaller blanket, which is lilac, a shade of purple.

Yes that is an animal print pillow cover (guilty pleasures revealed?)

Now, I am peaking over my dresser and I notice my infamouse Happy Birthday Balloon my parent gave me when I turned 15, which is proudly going to turn 6 this Tuesday. 

This is it for this series, I will try to upload them everyday or every other day!

I hope you enjoyed my purple room elements!

Xo,

S.A

Disclaimer: All pictures belong to me. 

Silly Sunday + Birthdays!

Hey Everyone!

A successful alarm dodges near the dash

What does this sentence mean? I really have no idea but as it is Sunday I was browsing through the internet and found this. I am currently studying for a reading comprehension test on Monday, but got tired and decided to spend a little time in the cyber-world. 

Oh! and yesterday was the Birthday of a fellow blogger. HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU SUEMI! 

We go to Uni together and are working on a project this semester. I love her blog (it's in spanish). She writes from her heart and has a very strong point of view which is nice to find now a days, because not everyone has the courage to speak up their mind any more and she does that. I hope you spent a really great day yesterday Sue! HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! 

here I leave you with her Blog! go check it out: Cuando SuEMi quiere bloggear.. 

ps. She has a great art editions too. I am sort of, kind of jealous!  

I hope you have a great day <3

xo,

S.A

picture from here. 

Something Awesome: The Laine Blogger Award!

Hey Everyone!

I am super excited right now, I received a comment in my latest post (which you can see here) by the lovely Becca from Looks and Books with Becca, saying something awesome! She nominated me for the Laine Blogger Award. Becca has a pretty cool blog and I am obsessed! you should check her out and follow her for great posts!

Here are the rules:

1. Tag the Blogger who awarded you
2. Award 5 more bloggers
3. And Jasmine added a few questions :)

  - What is your current beauty obsession?
  - What is one beauty item you wished you owned?
  - What kind of posts are your favourite to write and read?
  - What inspired you to become a blogger?
  - What colour polish are you wearing right now?

a. What is your current beauty obsession?

Lipsticks! I am crazy for them, any kind will do.

b. What is one beauty item you wished you owned?

I wish I owned a Chanel make-up remover for gentle skin! I got this as a sample many years ago at the airport, but have never really focused on saving to splurge on it.

c. What kind of posts are your favourite to write and read?

love to write polish reviews and fun update posts. I love to read/see outfit of the day posts and fashion look books.

d. What inspired you to become a blogger?

I think it was the YouTube beauty community, but I am a shy girl (yes I am) to stand in front of a camera and start talking to it! Maybe in the future I will suck it up and start posting videos too.

e. What colour polish are you wearing right now?

Right now I'm wearing Revlon's Classy and on my ring finger Revlon's mini Sparkle.

Here are the bloggers who I nominate:

Dictator of Taste
Soup for the Girly Soul
My Obsession 
Beauty Glitz
MAD4FASHION

Hope you have a great day! I sure will be jumping up and down of excitement all day :)

xo,

S.A

The new Blog

Hey everyone! 

It's been just recently that I moved both blogs, my Getting Fit and Light and Beauty by S.A, together I feel that now I can expand on topics about beauty, fashion, randomness, healthy eating and habits in this blog now. While writing the entries I feel much more confident to say what is going on in my mind much more rapidly and type things up related on the topics I normally address here. Just recently I've come to notice that I have been slacking in writing diverse entries like my healthy spotlight and in general the healthy eating habits I once had. The reason is that I have my life all jumbled up and since I went on summer break from university I have been so bad in the way I control the food I eat and what I drink. 

I want to get back on track, I even bought a notebook where I can jot down the ideas that come to my mind at the moment about the benefits, what I eat to renew my diet, and all of it. Since I merged my previous blogs into SKMS, my previous blog posts have been unattended and left behind and I know you would love to know what else is here apart from  the recent fashion forward posts I put up constantly now. 

So here I leave a list of 5 of my previous blog posts so you can check them out and tell me which ones you miss the most <3

Healthy Snack: Avocado Humus

5 foods that get to your hips 

Healthy Spotlight: Almonds

Gossip Girl: Blair Waldorf Inspired 

13 personal Questions Tag.

I hope you like them and get back and check some more of them! 

xo, 

S.A