summer nyc diaries | life updates, flying to california, haircare routine

Auto-captioned from the film, lightly cleaned. Elena's words, not edited prose.

where we can stand guys there's a literal hurricane going on outside i keep getting all these new splashes being like morning hurricane coming and so i'm gonna have a very cozy sunday looking forward to the day i just got off two long phone calls with a brand in my accountant and i'm hungry time for lunch and i'm having lunch today with daily harvest i've been having lunch most days with daily harvest house of late but they're sponsoring today's vlog and i'm excited to show you guys what i've got in my fridge what's great about daily harvest is it's really easy to get my fruits and veggies in each day they deliver the package right to your door and then i just stick it in the freezer so i know it's gonna last for a while it's also like gluten-free dairy-free plant-based all the good things let's take a little peek shall we i think today i'm gonna make the strawberry peach which has strawberry banana peach raspberry oats and goji berry if that will focus then depending on the bowls maybe i'll try this broccoli and cheese i haven't tried this yet broccoli cauliflower sweet potato tomato olive oil and nutritional yeast what's also great about this is the 95 of the ingredients are organic and they're always frozen at their peak ripeness so there's no you know gums preservatives or artificial ingredients you're getting the good stuff i'm also gonna make this strawberry peach smoothie got the goods here to eat like half of this box i love the harvesters that obviously it's simple it's easy it just fits in my fridge especially when i'm working from home or if i'm on the go and i want to come home and just have like a healthy easy meal this is clutch it's just nice having stuff that's healthy and easy on hand because i'm really lazy cooking you want to try out daily harvest for yourself you can use the code elena for up to 40 off your first daily harvest order cheers to that i'd love to hear in the comments too how y'all are doing in my last vlog i was a little down i've been going through some stuff um but y'all were so kind and supportive i'd love to hear how you're doing as well i feel like i'm a little less burnt out a little less sad um kind of like picking my spirits up just staying busy with work and friends um i have some fun videos in the works as everybody loves to say i feel like i have bigger videos coming up and bigger videos to me are the ones that take a very long time to film and edit like apartment videos or neighborhood videos um or some travel videos stay tuned and then i have friends coming over this evening we're gonna have to take out like ashley and gabby's my best friends so that'll be really lovely i'm gonna finish this up and get back to work see figured i'd show you guys my hair routine not to sound like the most basic creator in the world but i feel like it's been highly requested my hair is like partially damp onto berries this morning came back and my day started i'm kind of aggressive right now with my hair care products but you definitely don't need this many i just enjoy using whatever i have on hand i actually did a rice water hair mask earlier which i'll link below it basically is supposed to be for hair growth it's not like scientifically proven because it's kind of hard to track but i feel like in my case it's gonna help so if you're looking for something for hair growth maybe try it out i will say a lot of these are from pr packages like this skizu leave-in conditioner which i really love when it comes to hair care products honestly there's a lot of drugstore brands that i really loved and as long as it's you know has good ingredients and is relatively like clean and natural i don't think you have to break the bank necessarily if i want a little extra leave-in conditioner i love rnco in general it's just a really good brand where it's like clean it's natural there's also the smoothing leave-in cream by ebony nyc and then this other moisture and shine cream so sometimes i'll just do like a little like half little half squirt of like two of these depending on how my hair is like if i've been in the sun a lot or i've been going to the beach a lot and it's super dry then i kind of like pack on the leave-in conditioner just to the ends of course because my hair has a tendency to get so so dry and then either once my hair is dried and styled or right before i love using just a little bit of hair oil goes a long way and kind of just run it through the ends in general when it comes to hair styling for me i usually sleep in a slightly slightly slightly damp french braid and i take it out in the morning and if i'm not working out i'll sometimes if i want to go a little extra mile put in a few curls throughout and then put in either dry shampoo or texturizing spray and kind of like shake my roots i really love a waze summer spray but this playa and the summer spray is really great as well but that's pretty much my daily hair care routine give or take guys i've been feeling so uninspired with fashion these days i've literally just been wearing like monochromatic t-shirts and shorts and then i'll usually throw on some type of like little tea little button-down moment over top what about you guys but i've been so creatively uninspired for like so long at this point probably because of the pandemic but oh my god i feel like in college it was i had so much fun with fashion and love playing around and then like the first year i moved to new york i look back at some of those outfits i'm like what the hell was i wearing and then i feel like since then i've kind of just mellowed out and like simplicities kind of like stayed away from a lot of color you know lots of white and black love a good suit set love good leather jacket kind of simple things but i'm like i want to get re-inspired again i feel like when i dive a little deeper in like one creative element or artistic space it can bleed into other areas and i feel like i've been getting back into certain music genres that have kind of left like fall to the wayside like i used to just absolutely love rock and roll and in the past year i haven't been listening to as much it's been more like funk and groove or just even more like like give me a good conan grey song a good like her song or like johnny utah whatever that counts as i don't know indeed lo-fi pop something like that which has been fun but honestly getting back in rock and roll i'm like oh i feel like it's like re-igniting some like creative side of me that's been locked up for a little bit so i feel like music can really play a big difference when you're like in a creative rut of sorts like like walking around listening to like a little black sabbath or you know some fiddler my classic like surf rock favorites i'm like okay getting in touch with my roots again it feels good i'm also looking for some new and exciting content creators to get inspired by if you guys have any recommendations i would love some in the comments um especially people outside of like just the lifestyle category like i really i know i've talked about them before it's like i've loved videos by like yes theory or travel like cara nate or like johnny harris more like so things that are a little bit outside of the content i find really interesting so your recommendations let me know just kind of working from my desk today editing you guys know the drill nothing that interesting i hope these vlogs are interesting to you guys because i'm like i ain't doing much but alas here we are and then celebrating that's birthday night which should be fun going out with a group of our friends to get some food so basic day in new york stay tuned telling you the name hello running wild right now because we're about to head out to dinner but not ali's birthday we're gonna go to um doctor clark's in chinatown she's wearing a dress in heels so she requested that i wear dress in heels too because we so rarely do and we're both very tall here's the fit let's go i hope you have something great to wear tonight because we're going to a party okay hi it's her birthday it's 25.

look at her cute little red dress oh and the shoe she's chic at a consignment drawback ah baby good morning new day i'm excited because today i am flying back to california to going out with my family if you haven't seen me videos i'm pretty close to my family they're the best my little sister is my homie and i rarely see her this year because she's in school and i've been here obviously so i'm excited to go fly back and see them soak up that sweet california sunshine my flight is later today i have not packed i am very unprepared at the moment but first up i get some coffee all packed up called uh called the taxi via the curb app and head to the airport and we'll get to see my family this evening i'm so excited hello from orange county for any of you guys who watch my videos last year during like peak quarantined you'll probably have some because i certainly am say jj are gonna do a little workout i hung out with the fam this morning and i'll have breakfast together i swear anytime i come home even if it's 8 a.m the conversation is always about like politics international nations humanitarian issues and like religious freedom every time i come back which i love because it's super stimulating and they're all very intelligent so we had a lovely chat i'm gonna go warehouse sage tell want me tell me what i can do hi hi look who's back i've been in the vlog in a minute that's our 14 days the quarantine diaries it's pretty yeah time has flown we have long hair now updates she's graduating here early yes going to my senior can you say where you're interning is it alone yeah i'm done i interned at the state department this summer our consulate general in morocco all right i'm about to head to the beach by myself just for a couple hours get a little sunshine go for a little swim that'll be really nice laguna beaches are just creme de la creme it's about a 30 minute drive from here so but it's really lovely seeing the family i'm just very grateful for my parents i feel like the older i get the more grateful i am for like their wisdom and like their friendship as well my dad always says this thing and i feel like it'd be helpful to a greater audience as well basically like throw mud on the wall until you're 30 and by that he means try a little bit of everything see what you like so you don't like figure out what sticks and what doesn't then find your calling do it well and do it long in order to create a positive impact i think that's really valuable i feel like it gives me peace in my 20s to be like okay every skill set i'm building up now will be beneficial in the long run even though i most likely will not be doing the same thing my entire life each thing is like a building block on the next and it makes me like excited for the future instead of apprehensive that was good to hear also life update just to keep you guys in the loop i am indeed single now um some of you guys have noticed i've been getting some comments we ended on really good terms i still think he's an incredible person i would just really ask that you please respect both of our privacies with this it's obviously really hard um and yeah i'm like entering a new chapter of life moving forward um which i'm finding things to be excited about just putting that out there i don't plan on going into any details or anything like that you know out of respect for him as well as just for my own heart and healing process as well so i'm gonna leave it at that i'm pulling through pushing through um on that note i could use a little salt water and sunshine so yeah it's a big update for me um time to go to the beach here of the iranian tradition this is fun yeah my mom's yogurt yeah so we go plane playing some evening cards once again really repeating quarantine things me and my dad and sage are playing some nuts i just want in second place with a stunning 44 we have clyde taylor and then the winner 54.

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