Barber Elizaveta Sokolova about making herself and her favorite cosmetics
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About beauty and age
Self-care is actually my hobby. That, I will never spare the money and time. What gives me sincere pleasure. Cosmetics are my adult toys, and I never get bored with playing them. At beauty salons, I spend a decent amount, and this is what I refuse the last. I do not do any supernatural procedures, but manicure, pedicure, epilation, eyebrow correction and dyeing, hair dyeing and treatment, and occasional face cleansing are my norm.
Attitude to appearance, I largely took over from my mother. She always dressed up and looked after herself and now, already at a mature age, she is graceful and graceful, she looks about fifteen years younger. Therefore, I have always had a good example. By age and the first signs of aging, I am calm: I really started to get high on myself and my appearance after thirty. I found that notorious harmony. Today there is nothing that I would like to change in myself.
About self-acceptance and profession
In my youth I had big problems in accepting myself: I had everything from acne and dermatitis to weight problems. When I was 20, I brought myself to exhaustion, eating one kefir, and then there was a rollback — uncontrollable gluttony and even greater fullness that followed. No matter how trite it may sound, but that most hackneyed "acceptance of oneself" is what radically changed everything for me. When I removed everything from my life that was not valuable to me, I stopped doing what I didn’t like, and I built everything the way I want, without looking at the expectations of others, everything went by itself. In my case, it was closely connected with global existential questions: why do I live not in the way I would like, and what prevents me from making my life fully correspond to how I would like to live.
By education I am an economist in international affairs, when I had an existential crisis, for six years I worked in a large international corporation and worked in PR. It sounds great, and so it was from the point of view of society and all people significant to me. But it was stuffy for me. The feeling that I operate with air masses and that without everything that I do can be easily dispensed with, I was terribly depressed. I was haunted by the feeling of lack of freedom, that I did not live, but I was acting out some kind of socially approved scenario, but it was not mine, but my whole life was just a decoration of a successful life. In search of an answer to the question, what do I want, I began to observe what I get sincere pleasure. And I caught myself on the fact that wildly high in the first place from the process of applying makeup and creating hair. Without thinking, I left the office and went to study in theatrical and artistic at the artist-make-up artist. And she became the makeup artist!
For a year and a half, I worked in freelancing, from film and television to fashion shows and photo shoots. In the process I came to the conclusion that this topic was interesting to me first of all for myself, but life in the tumbleweed format is not quite mine, and I need stability and something more practical. At that time, the first barbershop opened in Moscow, inspired by the aesthetics of this establishment, I realized that I wanted to be a barber girl. It was an insight. I found where you can learn barbering, and fit into this topic at the dawn of its formation in Russia. Now, three years later, when barbershops became mainstream, I was at the height of the trend. I work in the barbershop, the only girl in the men's team. I am a fan and master of my craft.
Having changed everything in my life that I didn’t like, I changed outwardly - kilograms and skin problems were gone, I became all collapsible and harmonious. Working in the office, I spent six years practicing Iyengar yoga, went to retreats and seminars, ran in the mornings, and even participated in races. But my body did not react to the artificial load, and since I did all this on willpower and through resistance, there was practically no visual effect. Eliminating any resistance from my life and starting to do everything only with sincere desire, I left yoga and running with the office - I still have allergies to them. Now, instead of fitness, I have a job, I don’t think at all about what and how much I eat, I am guided only by my own feelings, what and how much I want. In the diet I do not believe. But I keep to the idea that the body never lies.
About decorative cosmetics
I have love with decorative cosmetics - I have a whole suitcase of tools and a lot of brushes. I understand all this well. I read beauty blogs, I follow the news, before I buy something, I always investigate: I read reviews on the Internet, study swatches, try it in the store and then decide whether I need it or not. Despite the love of cosmetics, never buy too much. Since there is a specialized education, makeup or hair of any complexity is not a problem for me. Reincarnation with the help of make-up remained my hobby: my sister is a photographer, and we often arrange photo shoots with her, so I practice my creativity.
As for the everyday look - I love to make up and make hair, for me it is not a must, but a pleasure, therefore, as a rule, I am at a parade or with a full parade. I can afford to be careless, but it will be deliberate negligence - and that is if I do not have important meetings and I am not at work. I have no complexes about my face without makeup, everything suits me, but I like the makeup more. Plus, without makeup, I look very young, so in order to fit the form, I prefer to be beautiful. Otherwise schoolchildren get acquainted with me on the street.
