This website is written by… Valentina Chirico. Ok, but who is she? Who am I? No time for philosophical questions, that’s enough talk.
Valentina Chirico is an expat web editor and archaeologist, born in Italy and living between London and Bedfordshire.
She has been online since 2009 under the pseudonym of Valens. It was October 2009 when she founded her first beauty blog, ‘Valens… per voi’. The ‘00s was the time of personal blogging; so she launched her own space to support her career as a beauty sales advisor. That work adventure started in 2007 and lasted a decade. Over a coffee with her area manager, Valentina was sporting a Miró-inspired nail art which earned her a new and exciting opportunity. In 2016, Valentina got in charge of the local beauty workshops for her company; meanwhile, she got published on established websites: she signed as a co-author for the luxury e-magazine Alpi Fashion Magazine. During the same year, she joined the editorial team of Fabulousity. as a green beauty blogger and Twitter manager.
2016 was a year of great achievements. She got awarded a BA in Archaeology and History of Arts from the University of Naples ‘Federico II’ and moved on.
In 2017 – after a short stay in a tiny sea village – she moved abroad to study Egyptology at the University of Birmingham. She was living in student accommodation when she started a new blog on an inspired whim late at night: Italian Memories.
In 2018, she stepped into fashion ghostwriting, and she fully endorsed her academic affiliation with the UoB as she wrote for the University of Birmingham PG Recruitment Blog.
In December 2019, she got an MA in Egyptology with her research on the representation and meaning of the so-called ‘seven sacred oils’ in Egyptian funerary beliefs.
Let’s skip the pandemically shaking years and let’s move to Spring 2021 when she got her big role as editor-in-chief for the British fashion event company FashionsFinest: from Vallo to attending the London Fashion Week, life has been a bubbly sip.
January 2022 called for a new start and complete transformation. SEO, marketing and copywriting took her days as she entered the StickyEyes/Reprise/Mediabrand sphere.
Valentina Chirico is passionate about foreign languages like Korean, travels, ancient cultures, storytelling, and Egyptology. She combines some of these interests into her writings and enjoys video making/editing too.
Although she loved her time in Bham working in a theatre and occasionally as an extra in the city’s surroundings… and is ready for the next big adventure!
