JSKT curator Maya Stravinsky about injections and 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 Botox and the approach to beauty
I work on infographics and data visualization, I work at the intersection of the humanities and technology, talk about this in the Telegram channel and lead the JSKT data group. The team and I, for example, made the connection graph of the Leo Tolstoy novel War and Peace for Samsung and the thermal map of museum attendance for the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. A. S. Pushkin. That is all together: algebra and harmony. This approach is so natural for me that I approach the beauty in the same way: I am interested in new technologies, design and unusual combinations. And experiments. I used to experiment with make-up - now I’m much more interested in the technology that hardware and injection cosmetology offers. It seems to me that we finally learned how to apply them moderately and carefully.
I have been doing Botox injections for a couple of years now and I love him very much. Although many of my friends do the same, they prefer not to talk about it, but I believe that the worship of "everything organic" is no better than the dictates of beauty canons. I do not give injections because of men, because of women, or because of advertising. I eat food containing GMOs, gave up natural childbirth in favor of epidurals and horse dose of stimulants, losing weight and botox, and I do everything exclusively for myself.
We live in an amazing world in which there are already completely different ideas about family, gender, orientation, nutrition, goals in life. It seems to me strange, using the latest achievements in various fields, to reject innovations in one of the most interesting. Judging by the composition of the means that I use, I am much closer to the chemical industry than to nature. And if you choose between the images of "forest children" and cyborg, then I definitely like the latter more. I think I would gladly implant myself a chip and pay in stores with a flick of the wrist. I am not afraid of old age: it seems to me that it will be interesting - in due time. In the meantime, I have plans to try fillers, mesothreads and other interesting things.
About blogs and publications
Since I started my channel, I prefer to receive almost all the information from the telegram. The best local beauty blog, in my opinion, is Don't touch my face. Little is written about hardware or injection cosmetology, or it is done by those whom I do not trust. My interest, however, quite satisfies the American magazine New Beauty. I especially like its electronic version. The editors make a cool infographic and are not afraid to show the skin in the section to explain how the components penetrate into the deeper layers of the epidermis. It seems to me that knowing this is more important than what the editorial staff thinks about the plamolifting barter.
About gadgets
There are no less wires on my dresser than on the computer: I’m more a gadget man than a beautician. Among other darsonvale, cleansing brushes and irrigators, I like most two Tanda machines. I bought them at the instigation of the same New Beauty and is still very pleased. Zap allows you to cure inflammation using the blue spectrum of LED light bulbs, while Luxe removes fine lines and wrinkles. The latest discovery of mine was the nail printer in the salon "My Fair Lady" at the Patriarch's, I have never met him anywhere else. There you can print any pattern on the nails and cover it with gel varnish. Imagine putting your finger in and some suprematic composition or letter from your favorite font is printed on it. It makes me very funny.
About curly hair
As a child, my hair was straight, and then literally on the same day of the transition period, they began to curl, and they started with bangs. I felt like the heroine of Christina Orbakaite from the movie "Effigy". When all the hair finally curled, it turned out that I liked it; However, after the birth of my daughter with my curls, something became wrong again. Then I did a keratin straightening and never regretted it. It happens that curls do not wind as you would like - and you are not obliged to accept it.
About self-love
I am the mother of a little girl, and for us with her beauty is an important part of communication. It’s not even about her spinning around me when I'm going, but about the fact that we are working through some kind of base through this communication. For example, about the desire or unwillingness to differ from others. Liza somehow gladly pasted the tattoo on her cheek, but then, in kindergarten, washed her up to the bruise. Not because teachers are strict (they are just very tolerant), but because a six-year-old child is intolerable for otherness, this is a very important period of conformism. I did not expect this, and I had to collect in my memory all the stages of attitude to myself, beauty and the opinions of others. And, you know, this is an excellent exercise - so you understand that this is not a scale of dependence on someone else's opinion, but rather a timeline. Different times - different attitudes. She will also learn to be different and not depend on someone else's opinion; this is just a matter of experience.
And I, it seems to me, learned from her much more important things. Liza is so enthusiastic about herself, so sincere about it, so devoid of these add-ins for many years of fighting with herself and the views of others, that it was through her that I understood how to love myself. And if self-acceptance, self-esteem is from growing up, then self-love, I am sure, is no wisdom, but always a childhood.
