Producer Maria Cirdan about cosmetics and aesthetics
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 appearance
To my appearance, I am ironic. For nine years, I wore short hair, and femininity in its traditional manifestations was not too close to me. Last year I decided to catch up and began to study and try on the female images of past eras and styles: Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo. So I quit visiting my hairdresser, started shaving my temples, forehead, neck, growing the bulk of my hair and, for example, braiding a braid-wreath around my head. Now I have already reached the most sugar style - rococo. Silvery, powdered hair, raised curls, flies, flowers in her hair, and more.
Unlike sources of my inspiration, I have a job, and there is no opportunity to spend a lot of time and effort on morning gatherings, including on a hairdress and a make-up, but it is important for me that this process was pleasant. Every morning I just have a few minutes on my main makeup: matting primer, corrector, “meteorites” as a highlighter, gel or eyebrow shadows, possibly lilac mascara, as well as fly shadows or rhinestones.
Recently, I have become much less beautiful and have given all the extra funds and cosmetics to the Stanislavsky Electrotherapy dressing room. Now I don’t even have a black eyeliner left, but for lipstick I still have a little passion - the new color in the collection always has a small therapeutic effect.
About haircut
As for the hair, everything is a bit more complicated with them: I have naturally thick, dark red hair and in order to maintain the gray color I lighten and dye them about once a month. Anthocyanin Second Edition A01 turned out to be the best gray paint for me so far. In addition to the excellent color, it is well-groomed and able to tidy up even the most damaged hair - and this is important when it comes to the coloring of bleached hair.
The time I spend daily on my hair varies from five to forty minutes - dozens of invisible women, hairpins, hair curlers, flowers and varnish are used. If I wind the curlers, then, as a rule, foam rubber, I do it at night. This, of course, is long, but for a few days you can forget about the need to do something with your hair.
The process of creating a hairstyle reminds me of meditation: it calms me down, immerses me in timelessness and ultimately leads to harmony of thought. At night, this process - curling curlers, in the morning - weaving wreaths. Wreaths help me to collect hair and to accent. It is important for me that I myself take color decisions and create a shape based on my needs on a given day.
About care
I still can’t begin to understand cosmetic updates, so I don’t know more effective means of looking and feeling good than falling in love, balanced diet and healthy sleep. Fortunately, I was lucky: the state of falling in love with people close to me and always working with me.
For food, I follow quite carefully. Probably because I am well aware of the causal relationships with the state of my body and skin, and this is easily controlled. For example, I exclude all meat, except poultry, dairy products from my diet, I limit flour, sugar, vitamin C, etc., because I know how they affect my health (and to a lesser extent, weight). Every morning I start with flax cereal (there are both omega-3 and lots of protein) with banana and cocoa, and during the day I try to eat more vegetables, poultry and drink plenty of water. If I break something in this scheme, I don’t suffer from a feeling of guilt, I’m just not surprised at the reactions of my body.
If I have no problems with the first two points, then the opportunity to sleep will not always fall out. Once a week I try to sleep as long as I can, instead of the usual six hours, but this is not always possible. Unfortunately, the relationship with hikes to the beautician, in the pool, with yoga and in general everything that a decent girl should have occupied herself with, did not work out for me. But already seven years, as soon as the street temperature is above zero, regardless of the place of residence, I, as far as possible, change the subway and taxi for a bicycle. It helps me to keep fit and in mood.
About inspiration and experiments
The sources of my inspiration are old-fashioned and casual - art, movies, old family photos. This is what I see much more often blogs and instagram accounts. It's funny that before the Rococo period began in my current mini-experiment, I always avoided the 18th century French museum halls: in them it seemed to me that I was sneaking through a cloud of sweet, sugary cotton. Now the female portraits of Francois Boucher have become one of my main motives.
My mother always had a freedom-loving disposition and a rational mind, so I got freedom in matters of hobbies and experiments with appearances quite early, she became my eternal ally in matters of change. The first time I dyed my hair pink at 13 years old, it was not a rebellion, but a very natural desire, which she willingly supported. The only taboos from the family were tattoos and piercings up to 18 years. Alas, I did not manage to delay the piercing - I was fascinated by it ahead of time, with the only reservation that it was not on my face. I did the first tattoo much later, my mother liked it. Now their number has grown, but I have absolutely no purpose and desire to demonstrate them as a kind of statement to others. For me, this is just a design.
At 15, I cut my hair, dyed it bright red, then I wore acidic colors for a long time and only with my first love stopped at the image of a short-haired platinum blonde for the next three years. During this period, I became interested in make-up and make-up, as my friends and I constantly created images for trips to parties, exhibitions, etc. Then there was the realm of glitter, rhinestones, eyelashes and makeup in a cosmetic bag. Then there was again a string of flowers, haircuts, a bald head, lightened eyebrows, their absence - but this was never a protest gesture, did not interfere with my social life and never caused problems (except for an attempt to enter RAGViZ). Rather, my engine was and remains curiosity.
