Come along for a few days in my life! This vlog includes a college friend reunion, my Amazon wedding guest outfit, and a little juicing at home!
All of us met at University of Central Florida through Kappa Delta, and we reunited in St. Augustine for our best friend's wedding. It was such a fun weekend catching up with friends we don't get to see nearly enough and celebrating a huge milestone together. 💍✨🌴 LINKS BELOW:
Hi!! My name is Sonali (sun-all-ee), I'm 29 years old and I have been living in Austin, TX ever since I graduated from University of Central Florida in 2019! I worked in a corporate job for a couple years after, but I recently took the leap to pursue taking on being a full time photographer in the Austin area and full time influencer! Follow along on this journey with me and you can also find me on IG, TikTok, pretty much anywhere!❤️
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It is 10 a.m. and I already got my workout in for the day and I also did two headshot
sessions right after my workout.
One of the perks of being self-employed is making your own schedule and I literally plan
my headshot sessions for right after my workout because I'm already kind of like out and about.
I didn't get sweaty today because it's really nice out, it's like 70 degrees but usually
I'll get sweaty on a shoot so I'm already sweaty from my workout, why not just put them
right next to each other.
I'm also someone who doesn't do a ton of going out during the day.
I probably leave my house once or maybe twice a day but I'm not coming back and going out
so if I'm out, I'm doing all my errands at once because I also just hate driving.
Since I was making chicken salad, I had to buy celery and now I just have so much of
it and one of my goals is to just use the things in my house especially the kitchen
gadgets I have because I love a good kitchen gadget and I have like so many cool ones like
the KitchenAid ice cream maker or my juicer or even like an immersion blender.
I love playing around in the kitchen and like trying new recipes and things so I decided
to make celery juice but I also bought cucumber, apples, we have lemon.
I am worried that it's gonna make a ton of juice and we are literally leaving tomorrow
so I am curious about that because I know juice doesn't really do well in the fridge
even though we're gonna be back on Sunday.
We're leaving Friday, coming back on Sunday so it's not like a super long trip but still
I have the mentality of like when I'm leaving for the trip, everything has to be eaten and
taken care of and like cleaned up in the house so I definitely have lots of cleaning and
picking up to do today.
It's also hair wash day.
I washed my hair on Monday and I don't think I washed the conditioner out all the way so
my hair's just been like really greasy.
I know that's probably TMI but yeah so this is like back has been in my hair for two days
now.
Let's get to juicing.
Did make more than I thought it would.
Oops.
But it's really good and you can basically just like taste it as you go and then add
more whatever you think you're missing.
I wanted to make it a little sweeter at the end so I just added in more apples.
We got Erewhon at home you guys.
I remember getting this at Erewhon like in LA so many years ago and I was like I'm for
sure keeping the bottle because those juices are so expensive and the bottles were so cute.
I do have another bottle but I do not know where the cap went so I was like searching
everywhere.
I couldn't find it.
I did just purchase these weck jars.
I have smaller ones that are a little bit more chubby for my matcha but I wanted to
use these for pickling and I guess this is perfect for juice.
Then I ran out of aesthetic ones so I used an old Sahl's jar.
The older I get the more I'm just turning into both of my parents to be honest because
my mom would do ---- like this.
Like she would keep a jar.
Well number one she would recycle it or she would keep it and just reuse it so I'm finally
reusing them because I've actually been collecting like pasta jars for a while now.
Also I'm thinking hopefully when I get a lot of tomatoes this summer I can make my own
pasta sauces and salsa and then I can just like gift my friends them in these jars.
I do need to take the time one day to just like peel off all these stickers.
You can do it really easily with a blow dryer I just like was lazy.
Another thing I was thinking is using this for my garden.
This is like all of the pulp.
I don't have a compost and I don't know if I can just like throw this straight into my
garden.
I'm gonna do some research on this.
Maybe like freeze it and use it for soups or something.
I got this juicer two or three years ago and it's actually pretty easy to clean.
The hardest part is getting all of the parts together properly because if you don't click
them into place or if they're not in the right place this will not turn on and I remember
the first time I got it I was trying to look up all of the YouTube tutorials on how to
get it like perfectly in place but I mean everything clicks together.
You just have to do a couple times to get the hang of it but it's such a fun machine
to use.
You saw that I left on majority of the peels except for the lemon because I didn't want
it to be like that bittery lemon taste but even for apples you can keep on the peels.
Now it's time to clean.
I washed my hair and I gave Sophie a bath because we're dropping her off at the dog
sitter and I just feel like it's considerate to like make sure your dog's clean and looking
all good and smelling all good before you drop her off at like a dog sitter's house.
So we're going to do that later today but I don't really know what to do with my hair.
I'm going to admit to something that I'm really not proud of but so long ago I used to pick
like really little baby hairs out because they would just like piss me off or like I
don't know they would just be a little bit crazy and now they're like all growing back
so bad and I don't know why I didn't think that would happen back then.
I mean this was like years ago that I did this but anyways now they're being more annoying
than ever.
You know these are my consequences.
So I'm using this Acton Aker Cold Press Stem Cell Scalp Serum and it's supposed to promote
hair growth.
So I just kind of like do that along my hairline and then in my part too.
I feel like my part's definitely gotten a little bit better but it used to be really
really like wide and I don't know if it's just because I've been wearing a middle part
since I got out of- did I start in college?
I think I started in college, yeah.
Then just massage that into the scalp.
You can get this brand at Sephora.
Also their hydrating serum.
My hair is still a little bit damp so I wouldn't apply this really when your hair is dry actually.
It doesn't say you can.
I think it's just better if you apply it when it's damp, clean scalp.
Also I don't know if I've talked about it on the vlogs but I have been in the trenches
with some skin issues lately.
I grew up with very very bad eczema, like severe eczema.
I was uncomfortable like so many years of my life.
I remember going to the dermatologist all the time and they would give me new cream
to try out or medication and it just like would be a temporary fix.
I did find out I was lactose tolerant in 5th grade and it was the worst day of my freaking
life.
I remember it to this day because my sweet mom came home from the grocery store with
like, I'm not kidding you, at least three different alternative milks.
And like when I was in 5th grade, you know, oat milk I don't think existed so she got
like rice milk and soy milk and it was just so different from, you know, normal milk that
I was used to.
I don't even know if they had like lactate milk at the time.
But anyways, yeah, it was a very sad day.
I don't eliminate dairy from my diet.
I do drink oat milk and I try to be, I try to pick the alternatives when I can like for
my matchas and stuff like that but if it's in something like I'll eat cheese, I will
not eat queso in a Mexican restaurant, especially while I'm out.
I will not do that to myself because I know what could happen and it's bad.
So like if I'm out and about, like I'll try to be a little bit more strict just because
like I know it's going to upset my stomach and I just can't be sitting on the toilet
the whole night.
Some days are a matcha day.
Today, it's an Ilani Nu day.
If you aren't chronically online though, you would not know that somebody found a legit
mouse in their Ilani Nu can.
So now every time I open it, I'm just like, how do I know?
Because I feel like it's heavy enough for a little mouse to be in there and you wouldn't
know.
I love the orange flavor.
I think it's like orange, is it dreamcicle or orange kiss, something like that and then
I just tried the cotton candy flavor and it tastes exactly like cotton candy.
It's insane.
This one's strawberry sunrise.
It's pretty good.
Okay, I think I'm going to make the executive decision to just blow out my hair and do some
more relaxed curls.
I do have to film a brand deal so I want to look really good because it is for Sony, which
is insane, you guys.
This is like one of my top dream brands.
Already this year, I worked with Anthropologie twice for weddings and just normal dresses
and that brand has been on my dream brands list for years and so has Sony and so it's
for their digital camera Sony RX100 mark 7 and I've actually had it for I think it's
been like a year and a half or two years so I'm really excited about the partnership.
The other day I actually tried to film it and it was such a gloomy day.
The lighting was just going in and out and then also my baby hairs were not looking great
to the point where I'm just going to refilm the whole brand deal because I was just like,
I want to look good for this.
This Kenra blow dry spray is so good.
I literally bought a travel size so I could take it with me on the go.
Quite literally cuts your blow dry time and a half, which I don't know how that works
but I'm not complaining.
I feel like I can't even let my hair air dry anymore because of these annoying baby hairs.
Okay, then my part looks so weird.
I got so much content done today, hence me not vlogging anything during the day.
It's around 8 o'clock and I am packing for our trip tomorrow.
We're leaving Friday and we're getting back Sunday so super short trip which makes it
a lot easier to pack.
I feel like the hardest thing to pack is makeup, hair, all that because that doesn't really
change even if it's a shorter trip and I got to do my full glam for the wedding makeup
so I have to get everything, lashes and all.
I had you guys vote on which dresses I should wear this weekend.
This blue one's from Amazon, I'll pop pictures on the screen and then this yellow one I'm
actually renting on Pickle.
I got this cutie little dress at Target the other day, it's literally $30.
Target has some really good stuff lately, highly recommend checking them out.
Then I just have a swimsuit in case we do a beach day, I'm really really hoping the
weather is good enough to do so and then PJs.
We're taking a pause from packing because I'm going to do a quick dinner.
I'm making nachos tonight and this sounds so good.
So the ground beef is cooking and I'm going to do the best chips ever, H-E-B.
And then just add all the toppings on top.
Ryan just dropped Sophie off.
She's sad.
Ryan, what is the Mexican pizza at uh, have you ever had it?
Good morning, I'm doing a last minute brow lamination at home.
I just got this kit on Amazon so let's see if it works.
I've done this before many times.
The last time, I don't know if I got them wet or what.
It didn't work as well.
I bought a new kit because I was also thinking okay, it's so old.
I've literally used the same kit multiple times so I was just thinking maybe it's like
expired or something but anyways, let's hope this works.
As I get older I learn so much more about etiquette in general but especially wedding
etiquette and so I already bought Kaylin and Augie a wedding gift on their registry but
I feel like it would be nice to get them a card just for like the day of.
So I am currently trying to make my own card.
Here's what I came up with on Canva.
I have this really cool like watercolor-ish paper so I just literally searched up watercolor
coastal like templates on uh Canva and then I put congrats to the newlyweds and then I'm
just going to like hand write a little note right here.
So it's just going to be one singular paper and then I'm just going to print front and
back.
Let's hope this turns out well.
I already packed my tripod so just resting the camera on the vanity.
You know now that I'm thinking about it the first day that I get my eyebrows laminated
even when it's with someone professional they look so weird the first day so I definitely
should have done this yesterday but that's okay.
Got one last step which is the conditioning lotion.
Honestly the hardest part is remembering not to get your eyebrows wet because I will do
it on accident and like forget that I'm not supposed to do this.
Let's hope this works.
Okay this happens often when I press borderless but it still gives me a border like that just
makes me so annoyed but it's not horrible.
I thought it would be a little bit more saturated.
I tried it again there is still a slight border on the side but I feel like only I would really
be able to tell and then this is just what the back looks like and this side is a lot
skinnier than this one.
Don't know why but I don't really have the time to trial and error it so I think this
looks good.
We are here in St. Augustine for Kaylin's wedding.
Introduce yourself.
I'm Charlotte I've been on the channel before.
If you go way back you'll find me.
Charlotte was my junior year roomie in the sorority house.
Tiff was my senior year roomie.
I think I was on a bunch of videos.
Well 100% my roomies better have been and then Megan say hey.
Megan's obviously been in lots of videos.
I mean I used to be a college YouTuber back then.
Crazy and then obviously Kaylin she is doing her bridal thing.
Your wedding's tomorrow.
We're waiting for you on this really comfy couch just at the hotel bar but then we found
a couch so we're waiting for you.
Everybody loved the chocolate chip cookies as well as the oysters.
And the oysters.
And the pretzels.
The oysters and the bags.
Those were hits as well as everything else.
As well as you.
You were also a hit.
Love you.
Good morning from St. Augustine.
I didn't vlog a ton yesterday because we were so rushed getting here.
We thought we were going to be so late to Kaylin's welcome party but we ended up being
there like right on time.
But basically there was some issues with the car rental and it took so much longer to get
the car rental and then also to get here.
We thought it was an hour away but it was an hour and a half.
There was a lot of traffic.
It's just like a little bit rainy this weekend which is not ideal but at least today it's
going to be just like overcast we're hoping.
And I think everything today was already planned for indoors so that works out.
We have to be at the wedding venue at 3.30.
It is like 10 a.m. right now.
I think we're going to go get some coffee and then probably go to this shrimp place
that Charlotte is really wanting to go to.
So Charlotte and Kaylin grew up around St. Augustine.
So apparently she hasn't been to this one restaurant in so long and it was one of her
favorites so I'm excited because I love seafood and Kaylin had oysters last night.
They were so good.
Oh my gosh.
I'm just going to eat as much seafood as I can while I'm here.
We were going to do a beach day today but the weather's not looking amazing for that.
I think we're just going to like bop around St. Augustine.
Hi everybody we're at Osteen's.
They have the best shrimp in St. Augustine.
We got here 10 minutes before they opened and there was already a line around the building.
So we're excited.
Charlotte's giving us a St. Augustine tour.
Look at all these trees.
The moss is so pretty.
So we took a picture on a cannon and that's all we remember.
Well that's all I really remember of walking downtown after we went to the Columbia restaurant
and we were trying to find the same cannon but there's like multiple cannons
and we just we can't find it.
But we think there's something that got taken down behind this because we think it's this cannon.
Anyways we recreated a photo taken in 2018.
They must have taken that little building down then.
Oh you guys there's missing grass here.
You think?
They literally took it down?
Wait show the photo.
We're trying to find this little church thing in the back.
We can't find it.
Yeah the stairs are right there.
You can see the stairs on this.
That's so weird.
I think it's missing.
No that's way skinnier.
We're making this everyone's problem.
This little plaza?
Yes for sure.
Because you can see the gazebo thing.
Yeah.
So they took the cannon and the cross just to mess with us.
I think it was like on a selfie camera and it's reversed some way.
But I don't see a crossing anywhere.
What is the like fruit of the loom stuff that everybody mentioned?
What's that called?
Mandela effect.
We've all been through this same thing.
Yeah there's only one side of those steps.
Like in the middle of this I think.
I think we chose the right cannon.
At least we got the cannon right.
That thing had to be taken down because there's no other explanation.
Okay tour guide Charlotte.
Ghost tours and stuff.
Those are fun.
It's the oldest city in the United States.
Wow.
Spanish came here and built a fort.
Stunning.
Did some stuff.
And now we have all this old stuff.
Beautiful.
That's about what I've got.
I'm sure there's fun facts that I don't remember.
We're at Columbia Restaurant.
Which is like the restaurant that everyone-
I don't know if I told you this but my dad was like,
oh yeah there's this one restaurant that has this big breakfast buffet.
And it was here.
Really?
Yeah and I was like-
Nobody comes to the breakfast buffet.
But I'm like okay so everyone just recommends-
Back in there Megan.
I just think it's funny how everyone recommends this restaurant.
Like for St. Augustine.
It's so good.
Yeah.
It's actually- it started in Sanford though.
Oh.
The original one's in Sanford.
But this one's nice.
Columbia.
And just three of them.
That's lucky.
There was that one in your ride check?
Um we had a full-size mirror but it's like big and heavy.
We had a couple people get married in grad school and I was like,
how on earth?
I'm like literally I don't even know how people have like time.
Oh.
Are you big?
Do I just suck in my ass when I-
Okay wait I just need to see this dress.
We're ready.
We have to get the wedding at 3 30.
It's 3 22.
Is it?
This is what we're wearing.
Give us an OOTD.
Abercrombie.
Okay.
And then um I don't know.
Amazon.
I'm renting this dress on Pickle.
Nice.
This is $50 on Pickle.
Girls from Ragsuit.
Some summer walks from Dubai.
Michael Kors.
Amazon sweatproof shirt.
Slay.
Yay!
Gorgeous queen!
Do a spin!
Gorgeous.
So iconic!
Wait I want to see your transition so far.
Oh my god I gotta get ready really fast.
Oh that's helping.
Good.
I think at least.
No yeah.
I know.
Is your pants in my butthole right now?
No.
Not at all.
Does it feel short?
You drop it.
If you drop it low.
All right let's practice.
Pretty.
I have a little clear gloss.
Do you want?
Yeah.
Thank you.
It's because I have you out every day.
Seriously.
I'm like what?
It's top of my lips.
Gorge.
Happy wedding day!
Ready to party!
Oh I'm sorry.
Can you watch me drop it low?
No.
Okay what if I do a little bit of this?
It's perfect!
It's very, it's very tasteful.
Perfect.
It's the issue that you said a 90 degree.
It's gonna just be eyes and feathers.
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