Secular columnist Evgenia Milova about your favorite cosmetics
Under the heading "Cosmetic" we study the contents of beauty cases, dressing tables and cosmetic bags of interesting characters to us - and we show all this to you.
Interview: Margarita Virova
Photo: Ekaterina Starostina
Evgenia Milova
Secular columnist for the newspaper "Kommersant"
I consider attempts to harden in the chosen image as the main sign of aging.
About attention to yourself
The main thing that I understand today is: I am thirty-seven years old and it’s time to sit down urgently and thoroughly understand what I need to do in order to continue to like myself. And the main advantage that age gives is that I finally like myself very much. Although still not entirely. It is clear that the standard care once a week with a cosmetologist and vigilant adherence to home protocols developed over the years are no longer able to cope with the emerging signs of aging. We need a more serious and thorough approach to the issue.
In this sense, I rely heavily on endocrinologist Irina Gosnevskaya and cosmetologist Yulia Shcherbatova. I try to follow their recommendations: for example, I reduce the amount of sugar. True while it is given to me with difficulty. I do not drink alcohol or drugs at all, but sugar is my real and deep addiction. And he is everywhere! And he hides in almost everything! Now I am practicing replacement therapy in the form of "Victory" chocolate bars with stevia, but, alas, there is still a long way to go.
About care
I usually wash my makeup off with Bioré hydrophilic serum oil, then I wash my face with Dr. Foam. Barbara Sturm and Clarisonic Mia 2, then wipe my face with a Pixi tonic with retinol. I do not think that the percentage of retinol in it can be working, but the tonic is really good. Next, I spray my face with green tea hydrolate, which really fights inflammations, if any. Next serum: in the morning - Dr. Barbara Sturm, in the evening - The Ordinary with retinol. After the serum is absorbed, apply the cream. In the morning - A'Pieu with madeaccasid, bought in “Girlfriend”, in the evening - Augustinus Bader, very cool, exclusively presented in Buro Beauty.
When choosing a care or decorative cosmetics, I am always happy to replace expensive means with affordable ones, but only the replacement should be equivalent in quality and effect. Augustinus Bader cream can not be replaced, it is the only cream in my practice that gives a noticeable lifting effect. And it’s also an ideal makeup base. Once I had to make up in the evening in hot Sochi for the closing ceremony of the Kinotavr, and in the morning in cool Moscow I met journalists at the press screening of the film “Sobchak's Case” at the TsDK. I am not proud of this achievement, but I really didn’t have time to wash or sleep. And this makeup existed on the face for almost a day without noticeable loss!
Caring for the body, I certainly do not do anything outstanding. The main thing is to force yourself to go to the gym regularly. In my there is such a dark room, the so-called cardio-cinema. They really show a movie on the big screen and there are several different cardiovascular machines to choose from. We will assume that my sporting impulses are held back by a selection of films: for some reason, the administration of the club prefers domestic films made with the support of the Russian Military-Historical Society to all other film masterpieces. So each trip there - overcoming your own aesthetic standards.
About the sea and well-being
In addition to the above manipulations with the face and body, I consider extremely important for good health and appearance to be regular trips to the cottage on the Baltic Sea coast in the Kaliningrad region. The horizon line in front of the eyes, the conscious starry sky overhead, not azure sea water and strong wind — all of this perfectly returns to the basic moral attitudes and imparts a feeling of peace and will. In Moscow, I go to Timiryazevsky Forest or to exhibitions, to a certain extent it also works.
About short haircut
Of all that I consciously did for my appearance, the best solution, it seems, was a haircut. Always - Yana Potapova from the "White Garden". She understands so well how my not too curly hair wants to lie, that it can be done in five to ten minutes and even with my eyes closed — it will still be fine. A year and a half after I cut my hair for the first time, I received compliments of a “new haircut”. Indeed, it is difficult for me to imagine myself now with long hair.
Once I spent a lot of time and money on styling in salons, because it seemed to me that I myself could not do it. Then I bought an apartment on credit, and it turned out that the forceps, ordinary or conical, is not at all difficult. I decided to cut off the hair only for reasons of time saving in the morning. I just got tired of spending forty minutes on it every day. As a result, this turned out to be a breakthrough decision not only for the time of laying - new horizons in the choice of clothing, make-up and, most importantly, self-perception opened up.
About make-up
It is important for me that the morning was long and leisurely: to have time to read, stay with me, choose clothes for the day and evening (when I work, I often have to load some evening set into the car at once), with a sense of makeup. I love to be painted, always with an emphasis on the eyes. True, the most daring - electric blue arrows - rarely do.
Often it is necessary to apply make-up behind the wheel, almost to the touch, in the wrong light of marker headlights of cars driving in front. The fact is that I never found a single really cool make-up fixer (and I prefer to apply my miracle cream, which I mentioned above, before bedtime), but in a day I still need makeup somewhere slips, and in the evening, before the secular exit, it is better to apply it again. I try to paint myself in different ways, because I consider attempts to froze in the chosen image as the main sign of aging.
