PR manager Diana Abdullina on travel care and cosmetics
For "Available" we study the contents of beauty cases, dressing tables and cosmetic bags of interesting characters to us - and we show all this to you.
About care
The violent insanity in cosmetics overtook me at nineteen after a little teenage depression. It seems to me that beauty-hobbies are the easiest way to help psychological comfort. For three years my imagination excited a huge number of different cans: the shelves in the bathroom and on the cosmetic table were filled with abundance and had no time to end before the expiration date. Not to say that I was completely let go, rather the attitude towards cosmetics has become utilitarian. I no longer spend a third of my salary on shopping, and my daily care takes very little time and effort.
I start the morning with a cleansing tonic; I apply a moisturizing serum and a thin layer of cream, nourishing or moisturizing, depending on the season. In the evening - cleansing with micellar water, tonic, serum with niacinamide or vitamin C and a nourishing cream with a thicker layer. I use acids once or twice a week. Recently, my favorite is Milk Peeling Dr. Jart +: it is well peeled, slightly moisturizes, and it is also almost eternal. After half a year of constant use, a third of the can remained. After parties or when lack of sleep I will definitely find time for the mask of the Valmont Prime Renewing Pack - the hangover mask has not been invented yet. Once or twice a week I arrange additional sessions of care: it may be tissue masks Dr. Jart +, I'm Sorry For My Skin and Cream Thalgo. But sometimes I can get hot and confine myself to an exceptionally nourishing cream. I use any oil or cream for the body, often in the summer I mix it with the Clarins self-tanning drops - this is the best product I've tried: it does not turn into an additional stage of care, it gives a delicate shade, with proper application it does not fall into strips and is washed off very evenly.
My head and put it every day, but if there are no important meetings for work or evening activities, I can get up later and drown myself in a dry shampoo. Daily hair care includes a mild shampoo and a balm. Once a week, a ritual: I put regenerating essence on my scalp all night and Leonor Greyl oil for the length, covering it with the mask of the same brand. I wash off in the morning with a good cleansing shampoo, hair after such care is soft, shiny and a couple of days even harder to style. I apply natural waves with a rotating BaByliss hair dryer-brush - a brilliant piece, I carry it with me on all trips: it is light and replaces two devices at once, a hair dryer and a curling iron. I also love to love my hair very much, for this I use Leonor Greyl Voluforme, it does not contain alcohol and keeps its shape and volume well, combing the beauty of Tangle Teezer - this is the only hairbrush that cleans up easily and doesn’t tear out the shreds of hair.
About travel cosmetics
I love to leave Moscow and once a month and a half somewhere I definitely get out. Collecting cosmetic bags on vacation turned into a hobby: I fly only with hand luggage, so I look for miniatures and samplers all year round. When I work, all significant beauty boxes come into my hands, and many of the cleansing products and care for my hair and body come from there. For a person, I still like to select time-tested and skinned cans. I always take Thalgo acid concentrate with me: it is in ampoules, so it doesn’t take up much space, and one-two is enough for a weekend trip.
I like to take fabric masks with me: it is rarely possible to lie down with them relaxed in a bath, say, in Geneva, but you can entertain yourself and those around you on an airplane. Once I conducted an experiment, trying not to overdry the top layer of the epidermis during the four-hour flight. Two fabric masks, two cream and two pairs of patches took part in it. Half of the aircraft, including flight attendants, closely followed the experiment, so it was fun for everyone. In addition to standard care, be sure to put eye drops in a cosmetic bag.
About salons
From time to time I go to salons for procedures: haircut, manicure, pedicure, epilation. After all these actions, I understand why leaving is still for myself, and not for others. I only enjoy the perfect gloss of gel polish and even hair cut, for those around me I look the same as when I earned fifteen thousand rubles a month and cut my hair with kitchen scissors, collecting them in a ponytail.
Several times I went to the procedures for the care of a person at work, but it did not work out to accustom myself to do it regularly: I feel sorry for the time and money. But once accidentally made an injection of Botox. Jean-Louis Seeb, the king of invasive age procedures, came to Moscow at the weekend: once a year he travels to Russia to regular clients and at the same time gives injections to selected editors and media personalities. I approached him at the end of the day, after the event, with a quick question about when, in his opinion, I should start. “How old are you, twenty-four?” He asked. “My daughter is twenty-five, and I have been giving her injections since the age of twenty. Come here.” And he quickly introduced me two units to the eyebrow area - I did not have time to argue or admire. Botox grabbed after a week and stayed for several months, during which time the habit of frowning my brows disappeared. I do not think I will repeat it, but it was interesting.
About well-being
Sleep is the best beauty tool, and if we slept as much as we wanted, the beauty industry would die. But there are so many interesting things in the world, so a large part of my care is aimed at removing the effects of a lack of sleep - and an excess of prosecco. My rate is nine hours a day. So on weekdays I sleep for six to seven hours, and on weekends - twelve. Fortunately for me, research has confirmed that sleep for the future also works. I also recently started taking vitamin D in prophylactic doses, and this greatly simplified my life: I get enough sleep faster and easier to get up in the morning.
For good health, I need a constant presence of beauty in my life. Without good books, painting, architecture and nature, I’m empty and boring. Recently, in Budapest, which I proceeded and traveled along and across, we decided to see Obuda, the old district of the city, on which there was a harsh imprint of the Soviet past. At the sight of panel nine-story buildings in an atmosphere of longing and desolation, the mood dropped to almost zero, my head ached, and the future began to seem hazy and unattractive. It was worth returning to the center of Pest, as a good mood and love of life returned. How I manage to live and live on Babushkinskaya is a good question.
Someday I would like to quit smoking, and even earlier - to introduce sport into my life. They say that some get pleasure from it, but sport has always seemed to me to overcome myself and to break my own desires in the name of long-term goals and prospects. I hope my opinion will change.
About psychological hygiene
My life has changed a lot after psychotherapy. In my opinion, I generally only now and learned meaningfully to want something, to live, to love, and not to eat myself with or without reason. Psychotherapy did not convince me that I was beautiful, she helped me to understand that I didn’t have to follow the mass ideas about beauty, well-being, lifestyle, career path: I don’t get better from following them, but I stop being myself.
It is very difficult to separate your "I" from the public. By my makeup preferences, you can track trends, and it never ceases to amaze me. Only I will note that I have become less dazzled, as an article about the minimum of makeup as a trend will come to my eyes. I am embedded in the society and unwittingly read a part of the common code and broadcast my own ideas about the beautiful. Perhaps for most it is inevitable.
It seems to me that it is important to realize that caring for one’s own body is an expression of self-love. Careful skin care in the fear of age-related changes and a decline in social status will only exacerbate neurosis. Slimming with tears and snot through hatred of your body will not bring the desired result: the volume will decrease, but there will be no more happiness. Care for the skin, follow the diet and exercise should be a great love for yourself, and not in order to get it from others. I still go to full awareness of this. This is not a quick process, just giving yourself a setup will fail. It is necessary to feel all this: to work out self-doubt, going back from childhood, to believe in the love of friends and partner. Happiness, peace and sensitive care about the beauty and functionality of your own body will come with psychological comfort.
My mother, fascinated by drawing, somehow shared her impression of working with models. You have been looking at his body for so long, you notice and draw the smallest details: bends, shapes, all folds and wrinkles. In a few hours of work, his body becomes almost familiar to you, and it is impossible not to fall in love with him.
