Sights in Sperlonga, Italy

Sperlonga.

Hello everybody! :*

Today I am going to share some snaps we took on our second venture to Sperlonga. After being there during the night, I was dying to get back to see it's beauty during the day. It's probably one of the most amazing towns I have been in so far in Italy. Its a little town on the beach full of stairs and passageways. It's about a 20 minute drive from Terracina so the driving distance wasn't bad at all. :) 

In the pictures I'm about to show you you will find little corridors with doors. This is actually the town and those doors are the front doors to peoples houses! So incredible and gorgeous!

Outfit details and more below:

Outfit details: 

Head to toe in Penneys/Primark

 A tree giving the illusion that there is a house sitting on it.

View of the Sea. 

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 Imaging that being your home <3

 This place is even more beautiful in reality. If you ever get the chance you must go and see it's beauty.

I still have more to share with you from this amazing holiday so as usual, keep posted! :)

I am currently in Spain with my family. I can't wait to share this experience with you when I get back.

Chat soon guys and girls :*


Love Ciara x

Our Italian Holiday Pt. 2

Beach Days!

Hello again everybody!

Today I want to share with you some of the pictures we snapped whilst at the beach and I want to share some advice for tanning. 

First off, I am one of the palest people I know so I ended up getting 50+ sun cream because I didn't trust the 30+ I bought. 

We went to the beach everyday of our holiday and after everyday I got more and more coloured. The first day I actually burnt my feet pretty bad because I didn't reapply the cream on my feet after being in the water which was a massive mistake! 

If you want to get a gradual tan I highly advise to apply factor 50+ and reapply it after being in the water.. I was actually completely pink after the first day but I wasn't burnt (except my feet). Everyday I would always apply my factor 50+ 2 or 3 times at the beach. 

The most important part of tanning is after you get home from the beach. I took my shower then covered my body in aftersun and then again before I went to sleep. This kept my skin extremely hydrated and prevented any peeling. In the end I came out with a great tan so I'm so happy about that!
If you guys have any more questions on that topic don't hesitate to ask me :)

We rented the lounge beds and a sun parasol for the beach which were a must if you also want to relax under the parasol away from the sun. After lunch I would always stay under the parasol to have a nap and I would only sunbathe in the morning and before lunch.
There was a bar and small restaurant on site too. It was so cute! 

Here are some snaps of our beach days:

I kind of look like scary spice in this picture but we bought this inflatable dolphin for the sea. I was the biggest child at the beach. But i loved it! 

Outfit details:

Shawl: Penneys/ Primark

Bikini's: Bought in Italy.

Flip-flops: Bought in Italy 

Sun hat: Penneys/Primark

Sunglasses: Penneys/Primark

I still have a lot of pictures for you guys to see so keep your eyes peeled for more :)


Ciao for now,


Love Ciara x

Our Italian Holiday Pt. 1

Hello guys! :*

I'm back from Italy and I'm seriously suffering from the post holiday blues. Coming back to an over 20 degree climate change and rain was so horrible! :( I wanted to do a post for you while I was away but the lack of internet (using Davide's Hotspot) and being occupied every second really limited my ability to post and edit.

But I have snapped tonnes of pictures for you all to see and I can't wait to share everything with you. :)

We travelled to Bologna first because finding a house was number 1 on my list of things to do, whilst we were travelling we decided to stop in Florence for some lunch where we saw the Statue of David! I really want to return to Florence because we only had 2 hours to have a quick lunch and a quick look around. I put a picture of the Statue of David on my Instagram @ciaraswalsh for you to see.

The first day in Bologna was full of sightseeing and getting to know the city where I will live, it's a cute city and we were greeted by the amazing things it had to offer us. Le due torri (the two towers) which lean to one side were incredible, as well as Piazza Maggiore where there was a massive open cinema which screened movies every night. We got the chance to watch an old French movie with Italian subtitles. Our second day in Bologna consisted of house viewings and I was really impressed with one house. Still hoping I get something soon just waiting for confirmation at the moment. (fingers crossed) :)

Le Due Torri

The following day we finally made it to Terracina, a gorgeous beach town in Italy where Davide has a house. I fell in love with the place immediately! 

We ventured to a nearby town called Sperlonga one night where we had dinner and walked around. 

Here are some snaps of what I wore that night:

Top: Penneys/ Primark

Skirt: Holister

Sandals: Penneys/Primark

Keep an eye out for more blogposts on our holiday. 

Chat very soon!

Love Ciara x

Ed Sheeran

Hello Everyone!!

I have been busy lately which is the reason to the lack of posts. I'm in Dublin now for the last few days and it's been lovely. Tonight is our last night before we fly to Rome tomorrow. I can't wait its over 30 degrees at the moment so I'm so so excited! :)

Davide and I went to the Ed Sheeran concert on Friday night and it was absolutely brilliant. One man and his guitar. No backing track no drums nothing just him and his guitar and he had all 80,000 of us on our feet. The atmosphere was incredible to say the least. Kodaline joined Ed on stage as a surprise act and they got the greatest cheer of the night! They sang "All I want" in which Ed said made him cry the first few times he heard it. <3

Here are just a few snaps I took including my outfit details:

 Jacket: Zara

Top: Savida

Jeans: Zara

Shoes: Penneys/Primark

 Thinking out loud <3

 Kodaline

I'll be blogging whilst abroad too so watch out for some more holiday posts! Wish us a safe flight tomorrow. :) <3

We are off for some dinner now so I'll catch you all later! :*


Ciao for now guys!


Love Ciara x

Sneak Peek.

Hello my lovelies :*

Tomorrow is Friday! The week flew so fast (Thank God!) In just one week my holidays officially begin so as you can guess I am dying for the next few days to go by quickly.

I will begin my holidays in Dublin where I will go to the Ed Sheeran concert with Davide (my sisters will be joining us at the concert), followed by a few nights stay in Dublin before we fly off to Rome. We will be spending the night in Rome and the next day we will travel up to Bologna where I can finally visit the place I will live for a whole year! There, we will obviously sightsee and (hopefully) go to some house viewings. I am still continuing my search for a house in Bologna, no luck yet but I know I'll find something soon. After our time in Bologna we will yet again travel to a beach town call Terracina. I can't wait to jump into the warm sea! We will spend the next 7 days there and just relax. :) 

Today I thought I would give you all a sneak peek of my holiday wardrobe. I am in love with this simple boho look. Details are below:

 I love this picture but ignore my hand.....haha

Playsuit: Pennys/Primark €14 

Satchel: Pennys/Primark €10

Shoes: Pennys/Primark €18

Sunglasses: Pennys/Primark €1.50

Watch: Komono- Little America (Rome)

All of the pieces from Pennys are currently in store. It's probably one of my favourite looks from my summer wardrobe. The watch I am wearing was bought for me in Rome in a gorgeous men's clothing shop called Little America. They also sell shoes, bags, watches and sunglasses. My watch is a feminine watch as well as some of the sunglasses too. And guys I would highly recommend this store if you are ever in Rome. Their Instagram is: @littleamericaclothing. 



Chat soon my dear,


Love Ciara x

Photo credit: @michelleswalsh

Tips for Acne Prone Skin.

Hello everybody!

I hope you are having a nice day, the weather here in Ireland is absolutely diabolical! I am longing for some sunshine, just 16 more days and I will be off on my holidays! :D

Today I want to address an issue I have been battling for about almost 10 years and I want to share some tips I have learned along the way for you guys and girls who suffer from this too. 
Since I was in my last years of Primary school I have never been a day without having spots on my face.
I have been living with Acne for as long as I can remember and throughout my teen years it was at an all time high. I remember even my back was covered in spots.
It was horrible, and as I entered my adolescent years my confidence diminished. I never felt I looked pretty so I tried to cover my face with lots of makeup When you enter into secondary school all a young teenager wants is to feel cool and pretty and I found it very hard with my skin problems and seeing all the other girls looking so flawless all the time!
I remember asking my Mom when I was 12 if she ever had bad skin. She told me she did but they went when she was 14. I took that with some happiness believing my spots would disappear when I too turned 14. But no, here I am 21 and still getting the odd spot.

I learned to live with this believing I wasn't pretty enough for a few years and trying to cover my face as much as I could. But then I began to learn about cleansing my face and moisturising my face.
This did help a tiny bit but not a lot. When I entered into my Leaving Cert year I began to stop wearing makeup to school because at that stage I was mature enough to not care what I looked like. But in my Leaving Cert year I discovered something that put an end to the harsh acne. 

I changed my diet. Never did I think that food could change so much about a person. Since I was a child all I would drink was milk, glasses and glasses of milk a day, I would eat a lot of bread and of course have a lot of sugary foods. I cut everything out. I stopped my milk consumption and exchanged it for Soya milk, I began to eat spelt bread but only a small amount, I refused to eat any starchy foods. I ate a lot more fish and vegetables, drinking a lot more water.
Side note: In 5th year (second last year of school) I developed this terrible cough which would make me get into terrible coughing fits in class. I went to the doctor multiple times about my cough and they gave me every form of medicine they could. Nothing helped and I was a year with this horrid cough.
After drastically changing my diet and my God was it hard at the start, two weeks after the change my cough went, my skin cleared so much. I still got some spots but the severity of the spots went down by over 50%! Never again did I get a spot on my back, to this day my back is spot free.

I'm 21 now and I have scarring on my face from my acne days. I do get some spots some days but only a small amount. I know my diet is a huge influence on how my skin is. Until this day I can't touch milk. I don't drink normal tea any more only Green tea. I have bread but very rarely. I still have confidence issues with the scars on my face but as I grow older I love the way I am a lot more. :)

Follow these steps and I guarantee you your skin will improve immensely.

1. Diet
Cut your milk consumption in half or completely out of your diet. Substitute it with soya milk or Almond milk. Stop consuming so much bread. I have cut out bread in my diet and I only eat spelt bread now it's just as nice maybe even nicer! But I only eat it the odd time. 
Introduce more fish and fish oils into your diet and meat. Introduce more vegetables especially green vegetables. Reduce your intake of starchy foods e.g. potatoes, crisps etc.
Stop the sugar now! An increased amount of sugar is a big no, substitute you sugary cravings with nuts, and cut out all sugary drinks from your diet. We all know they're not good. Drink water instead. Substitute you tea or coffee cravings for green tea or any of the herbal teas. If you can't do that then reduce the milk intake in your tea/coffee or else substitute it for soya or almond like I said earlier.
2. Sleep.
Try to get enough sleep at night especially if you are a student. While your sleeping your skin is trying to repair itself, lack of sleep reduces this process. Try to get 8 hours minimum every night and try to get your body clock in order. I know it's hard when it's summer time but try. It's called Beauty Sleep for a reason! <3
3. Water!
Keep yourself hydrated as much as possible. If you're out of the house a lot bring a bottle of water with you. When you wake up in the morning drink a full glass of water. After your nights sleep your body is dehydrated and needs water. Your body is made up of 80% water think about how much water you need to give it to keep it healthy and flushed of toxins. 
4. Hygiene. 
Cleaning your skin is very important, I try to use natural soaps to keep my skin clean, I recently started to use a soap called Nesti Dante Dolce Vivere Soaps from Italy.  
My boyfriend was kind enough to buy it for me because he knows how much problems I have
with my skin. I find it to be excellent and after doing some research I know it's possible to buy 
them on Amazon, You can shop the one I have here. If you have oily skin like me don't cleanse
your skin too much as it will dry it out  and in fact cause more breakouts, wash your face twice 
a day and moisturise after each wash.
The moisturiser I use is by Boots, it's the Botanics range which I love because its made from the 
plants in the Royal Botanic Gardens in England. You can shop it here. 
Another important tip, DON'T touch your skin, I know it's tempting to squeeze your breakouts
to get rid of them but it will only cause an infection and scarring. Try to leave them alone 
and let the spot run its course.
Try to exfoliate once a week to remove dead skin, I use the exfoliator from the Botanics range
and you can shop it here.
5. Bed sheets.
I'm not calling you dirty but how often do you change your bed covers? If you suffer from acne 
you should be changing your bed sheets a lot more frequently to prevent contaminating other
parts of your skin and preventing further breakouts. Your skin needs to be away from as much 
oil and dirt as possible and changing your bed sheets is extremely important.
6. Stress 
We all know stressing doesn't have good effects for our bodies so of course it wouldn't have
benefits for our skin. When you're stressed you are more prone to getting run down, lack of
sleep and in fact laziness with care for our skin and daily routines To reduce stress in your life
I found what helps me is to get organised. If you have a journal keep notes in it and you can 
plan what you are going to do in work/school/college. Since I began keeping a journal I have
never felt more organised and on top of all my work.

If you're an acne sufferer and you have any tips I would absolutely love to hear them.

I hope you have taken away some useful information from this.

This was not easy for me to address but I believe I can help people from the experiences I've encountered and I want to help people overcome their confidence issues because I know it can be very hard.
I will share pictures of my skin and how it is scarred:

In these pictures my skin is actually clear and I have only one spot. These are just the scars left over from years of acne.

Chat to you soon everyone! Be kind to your skin. <3


Love Ciara x

Sheer Event.

Hi guys!

I can't believe it's Monday again, a wet and miserable Monday! 
First off I want to wish my gorgeous Granny a very big Happy Birthday. She turned the big 90 on Saturday! An amazing accomplishment, but what can you say she's a beautiful, strong and inspiring woman! We had a lovely day and almost all the family gathered in her house to celebrate, snap some pictures and of course eat some cake! 

Yesterday I attended the Sheer Model Management Fashion Show in NUIG in aid of Pieta House. I would like to say well done to all the models and I wish you all the best of luck with your future! 

The details on what I wore are below:

 Top: Pennys/Primark

Trousers: Newlook

Shoes: Pennys/Primark

Necklace+Earrings: Pennys/Primark

Watch: Daniel Wellington

Bracelet: Pandora

This smart outfit was so easy to put together. I decided to say no to a skirt, dress and skinny jeans as I wanted to wear these amazing trousers from Newlook. They are so classy and they give off a sassy elegant vibe. I went for orange shoes to brighten up the outfit more. I loved this outfit and it was so comfortable to wear, including the shoes which are also available in black. 

Overall the event was very enjoyable so congrats to Sheer Model Management and I wish them every success!


Chat soon lovelies,



Love Ciara x.