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Beach Mode: On

Sunscreen, stripes and the summer mood board of what's actually in my bag

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Erica Firpo
Jul 16, 2026
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Beach mode on.

It doesn’t matter that currently I am sitting in a shuttered apartment Rome, I am in full beach mode, which means I have an arsenal of sunscreen in my bag, along with a few other summertime essentials it’s time we talked about.

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