my story
The girl behind the blog
My name is Laila and welcome to my blog! I am a 23-year-old American girl, now living in Switzerland.
I was born and raised in Orange County, California and then moved to Lugano, Switzerland in 2010 to pursue my bachelor’s degree at Franklin University Switzerland. After completing my degree, I realized that I wasn’t quite ready to leave Lugano and decided to stay to continue my studies. I am now in the midst of completing my master’s degree at Università della Svizzera italiana aka USI, while also working part time doing marketing and communications.
In 2014 I started a Youtube channel (feel free to go have a peek), but I’ve also tried my hand at blogging via WordPress, tumblr, etc. in the past, but never really stuck with it. Therefore, I decided that now was the time to fully commit to a brand new lifestyle blog, hence the name Life with Laila. I plan to share the aspects of my life which I feel most passionately about, which include beauty, fashion, traveling, and cooking!
I’m excited to start blogging and letting you peek into my life, so stay tuned and enjoy!