Journalist Alice Taiga about your favorite cosmetics
FOR THE FACE "HEAD"we study the contents of beauty cases, dressing tables and cosmetic bags of girls of interest to us - and show all this to you.
About attitude to cosmetics
Until I was 23, it didn’t occur to me at all to think much about cosmetics: I bought ordinary things from the mass market and sometimes indulged myself with expensive lipsticks or good mascara, making little. She loved dim makeup, was embarrassed to paint her lips, almost did not use eyeliner and did not paint her eyebrows. A little later, I fell in love with the care and beauty, but for some reason, it’s still a pity to waste time, and if it were possible to get it combed, clean and make-up with one press of a button, I would not mind. Remember the manicure gadget in "Recall All"? Here I would not have prevented this.
I am absolutely not afraid to try and be disappointed, so many banks with sensible means that do not fit me I give to my friends and, on the contrary, take away from them what they are tired of. In fact, very little is needed for happiness, and the rest is self-indulgence. Therefore, I buy cosmetics a couple of times a year so that random whims and stupidity do not accumulate on the shelves. Well, when instead of five lipsticks you can buy a ticket to an interesting city, the choice is obvious to me.
The care has changed a lot with age - I smile so much and move my face so actively that my rather dry skin needs to be moistened vigorously and monitor the area around the eyes. I am very calm about injections, plastics and suspenders, but I myself look at my 75-year-old grandmother, who looks at 55, and I hope that I will be able to keep myself in good shape in natural ways. In winter, I don’t part with hygienic lipstick, I drink a lot more liquid and take on foundation - I paint in smaller layers in the summer and take care of myself with regular washing and ice water. I am an owl, and this is an eternal misfortune for appearance, and although I have been trying for seven years to become a morning person who does everything, the body likes to fall asleep in the morning. I reassure myself that this regime will change with the advent of the child, and while you can meet the dawn.
About Asian cosmetics
Everything changed after my trip to Seoul, after which I brought home seven kilograms of perfect grooming cosmetics for me, the guy, the mother and the girlfriends. Korea was surprised not only by the prices, but also by the fact that for the first month all the usual skin problems from inappropriate care simply disappeared. I am not a fan of snail creams or CC products, but I actively use serums, moisturizers and cotton masks from The Face Shop, Missha or Nature Republic: since I don’t go to the spa, I don’t like long baths and I visit a beautician if necessary, sometimes my skin needs give rest. Now I have replaced almost all of the care with Korean, and I try the decorative one all over the place. There is also an inexplicable attachment to the sea-buckthorn Natura Siberica series, from which I lose my will — I use their excellent hand creams, tonics, body scrubs with sea salt and shower gels.
About hair
It took me 27 years to understand that the only thing to do with my own hair is to do nothing with it. In an incomprehensible way, I complexed for a long time because of my color, I was painted and wasted with thin hair with chemistry - in general, I didn’t have to do anything, and now they grow calmly and easily. Sometimes I use a styler, like any girl with straight lines who dreams of curls, but basically just wait for my hair to become long and warm me in winter with a scarf: sometimes I dream of a bang, but I remember how long to grow it, and just parting again. Mowing for 250 rubles in "Hairdresser number 3" at my home from the classy master Alena and I do not think to give it up. Theater ticket or haircut? I will choose the first and I will not be upset.
Pro makeup
In make-up, I love the highlighter and the white pencil that makes a miracle, I always follow my eyebrows, on which my eyes really depend, but also try not to force the nature - I work with the face that I have and learn to love it with age. This is ridiculous, but only a couple of years ago I finally got used to myself and looked at my appearance as something unique and interesting, and not an offensive fact that needs to be corrected. So while there are black eyes - I twist and paint, while there are lips - here is red lipstick, while there are cheeks - let them be blush. In cosmetics, I have no taboos, except, perhaps, false eyelashes, which I still have not learned to stick, everything is possible, as long as it is pleasant and desirable. But I like to twist my own eyelashes, and for me this machine is just a mast. I love my girlfriends very much, who paint simply and ingratiatingly, but I don’t know how I can, as I don’t know how to love difficult smells and clear hairstyles on myself.
About aromas
It is very difficult with smells: each smell is associated with the past, which should remain where it was, and it would not be desirable to return it. Therefore, the bottles I change one after another, and some really like others, but are not at all interested in themselves. Apparently, I am the very mainstream who loves light and floral smells - the smell of a meadow or a fresh rose drives me crazy, so all my perfumes are sweet, simple and popular. I used to have a novel with the novelties of Marc Jacobs, then with Kenzo, now with Issey Miyake. But the most optimal dimensions are all the same for TokyoMilk - two months more than enough smell for me. I also like simple and explicable smells for the house: vanilla, verbena or ginger.
About lifestyle
My main life hacks are not about cosmetics, but about lifestyle. Supplements I drink a little bit, but mostly they are vitamins for skin and hair like Merz or a general vitamin complex. I got a pretty radical look at alcohol, trying to turn it off from regular rituals, and I felt much better. A year and a half ago, she stopped eating meat and poultry, because she was too fond of smoked sausage, wings and every burger junk, and in general she didn’t feel very much at meat: steak was a nightmare for me. I stopped drinking coffee and try not to abuse tea - chamomile, all sorts of herbs and water are my main friends. Regarding food, I’m against myself against bans, gluten-free meals and keto-diets. I eat not very much twice a day and try not to miss desserts. Salty, spicy, sour and sweet, fat and fermenting - everything is possible, if you really want to, just do not need extreme sports. I understand only fans of organic juices, detox, fasting and quinoa, but I don’t want to live like this myself. A dog helps me with my health, with which I have to walk twice a day, good sleep, cool friends, good relationships and the ability not to sit in exactly one place. I ignore the elevators and do short workouts on the YouTube channels BeFit and POPSUGAR Fitness in the morning: I’m depressed to pay for the gym where everything can be done at home, plus I’m a former athlete and I’m not used to boiling around. And there are dances, and this is happiness.