Designer Anna Schemeleva-Konovalenko about your favorite cosmetics

FOR THE FACE "HEAD"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 family values

Beautiful and well-groomed women surrounded me at home. Mom, grandmother, aunt and cousin were and remain for me examples to follow. All of them are artists and, I think, express themselves through makeup. The dressing tables of all these women were something of an altar for me: a mirror on which jars of perfume were placed, powder in balls with powder puffs, palettes of shadows, makeup brushes and lipstick in gold packaging.

My grandmother had a great influence on me. She is 89 years old, she is an accordionist, she began painting at the age of 13, and she has many stories about how the USSR insulted lipstick and tinted eyebrows. When my mother was a schoolgirl, the teacher brought her to tears, criticizing the "painted mother", who came to the parents' meeting and did not match the image of the Soviet mother. Grandma devoted and pays a lot of time to face and body care: at 60, she began to practice yoga, takes a contrast shower, rubs her body with a brush every morning, she does a facial massage for herself. For the holidays, she always has one list of gifts: very light, almost white powder, red lipstick, whitening cream and a film mask for the face.

When I was a child, I was greatly admired by the appearance and inner freedom of my older sister. She was about 16-17 years old, she put on a colored mohawk, then sheared her hair to zero, brightly drew her eyes and used dark lipstick. I remember how I gave her a green hair dye for the New Year. She dyed her hair platinum, and on the back of her head dyed a green Christmas tree with a stencil.

All this greatly influenced me, my attitude to myself and the realization that you can do whatever you want with your appearance. Want to walk in the afternoon with purple lipstick and dark shadows? Walk Do you want to paint face, eyelashes and lips? Please, the main thing that you were comfortable, and do not care that someone will say something.

Pro mode

I taught myself to go to bed at 10-11 in the evening and wake up without an alarm at 6: 30-7 in the morning. Previously, I could sit at night to work, but now I endure everything for the early morning: the head works better and has strength. If there are no tasks, I try to spend the morning in peace: I prepare myself breakfast, turn on a movie or series, draw and do not check the notifications on the phone. At work I have to noon, so I have time to do a lot of things without haste. I start the morning with a glass of water on an empty stomach and a 30-minute workout, plus this spring I began to run.

To feel good, I definitely need to have a hearty breakfast, and I divide breakfast into the first and second. Usually I eat couscous, quinoa or brown rice with vegetables and greens on the first one, or I make myself scrambled eggs with a bowl of greens and lemon juice. For a second breakfast, I can have a snack with fruit, cheese with whole grain breads, or drink a glass of kefir. I drink a lot of water, more than two liters a day, but not because someone said that, but because I feel how my body wants it.

I really like to walk a lot, for which my boyfriend blames me, but I am ready to walk for several hours without stopping. If I have time, I try not to use transport once again. I have a sedentary job, and sometimes I feel that my body lacks movement. Therefore, I set a timer for every 25 minutes and get up to walk to the cooler with water or just screw the circle.

About care

Almost all the care products I use are cosmeceuticals. I pick up the care with a beautician and consult with her about some funds that interest me. I start the morning like this: I cleanse the skin of the face, take a shower, then a face cream, a body cream, a hand cream, a foot and cuticle oil. I do the same thing in the evening: cleansing, shower, moisturizing the face, body, hands, feet and cuticle. In summer and on vacation I always use a cream with an SPF of at least 15.

A year ago, I had long hair to the waist. The master, at which time I had cut my hair, said that at the point of the gun she would not remove the length. At some point, I realized that I can not wear them anymore, I just got tired. Then I went to the salon and cut my hair over my shoulders. Hair care has remained the same regardless of length: the ends of the hair I nourish with oil every day, once a week I make masks for hair, I go for a haircut every two to three months, and in the summer I use Sachajuan sunscreen serum.

Pro makeup

At school, I did not have any radical experiments with appearance. The only thing is that at 14 I painted a strand of hair in pink, like Avril Lavigne in the video "Girlfriend", and at the age of 15, pierced her upper lip and drew a little less grotesque arrows than Amy Winehouse had. At the age of 16, I took off the piercing and stopped drawing arrows, because I was tired of them, and the period of "makeup without makeup" began.

I treat the face like a canvas. I do not try to embellish, emphasize, add or remove something in my appearance, but just go up to the mirror and do the kind of makeup that I want at the moment. I think that any lipstick, shadows and colors of mascara go if you like yourself. Therefore, I feel equally comfortable with a “bare” face and with bright makeup. I like to lay on each other lipsticks of different textures and shades, mix shadows, draw colored arrows without tails. I love red shadows very much, for me they are both in a feast and in the world. I wear them with not painted eyelashes or with very densely painted.

At work, we have no dress code, so if I want, I can afford to come at least in glitter, even with red shadows paired with red lipstick. Last time, I often began to wear Dana Scully's makeup — brown eyeshadow and brown or nude matte lipstick.