Costume designer Polina Grechko about the love of vintage 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 and lifestyle
I have no system of care: I make masks, when I have time or when I remember, I use different creams. I usually wash my face in the morning and in the evening, at night I smear my body and face with shea butter, coconut oil or jasmine cream - depending on how dry my skin is now and how lazy I am to rub hardened butter.
Because of the tight schedule and work for months without days off, I do not have time or often score on "rudimentary" things like beautiful manicure, smooth heels and flaky skin. When I release a play, I do not sleep much and eat garbage on the go. Yes, I deliberately developed in myself this terrible ability to dine on the way to the subway or the next store. This is wrong, you always need a normal meal, during which you focus on food, but do not solve a lot of questions and answer calls. I don’t like that I drink a little because I don’t carry water bottles with me. I also love white bread and lose my will with just one kind of curls with cinnamon.
I put an experiment on myself when the month had not eaten anything at all. It turned out that my ration of 70 percent consists of cookies, pasta, burgers, pancakes, rolls, khinkali, nuts with condensed milk from "Karavaevs" (for the sake of the latter, couples in the institute walked). Quickly eating something and being full for more than one hour was very difficult. I was hungry and miserable all the time. Not eating flour at all is unrealistic, you just need not to eat white bread, I thought, and at the same time I devoured a bun. This is my whole point.
About good habits
I do not have a very balanced diet, but when I see what other people eat, I think that I am just a god of conscious nutrition. I eat sausage only for the New Year or in some exceptional cases, I eat little fat Russian cheese, I don’t like mayonnaise, I don’t like to drink soda, as well as tea and coffee with sugar. Chips are an event, although I love beer. In this case, all of the above - the everyday set of many products.
From good habits - I learned how to care for hair. I always wore a short bob, and, of course, I needed length to do my hair. So I grew my hair, but they looked very bad, like a dry bush. Having tried a bunch of different tools, I realized that natural oils in their pure form are the most suitable for me. I usually buy the cheapest shampoo in a professional hair product store - this is better than the most expensive in a supermarket around the house. I do not use a hairdryer, I just sleep with wet ones, and in the morning I pack it minimally. So the effect of heat is three minutes, not ten. Then distribute a drop of oil on two thirds of the length. I used to be afraid that my hair would look fat, but it turned out to be a prejudice.
Pro makeup
I like what's happening with makeup now, and I like to be beautiful. Recently I went to a ballet in the Bolshoi Theater with red arrows, drew them with my mother's lip pencil. I am very glad that glitter is now legal. If we talk about what is going on for me, I think that these are black classic arrows. I am good at drawing the most different, because I am interested in the history of makeup of the XX century. I usually have wide and long, as from the 60s. I also like to paint my eyes like movie stars of the 20s: to darken is not the outer corner of the eye, as we are doing now, but on the contrary, the inner one. So make-up becomes dramatic and languid.
I love to experiment. But at the same time, I often have nowhere to wear a bright make-up. When I come to work with blue eyebrows, then I listen all day to retarded jokes or answer questions about why I did it - so I have to restrain myself. I like not to paint the eyes and paint the lips at all - this, in my opinion, creates an image as if descended from the Renaissance paintings. I would like not to wear makeup at all, but it seems to me that my skin is not sufficiently smooth, even and radiant. Waiting for acne to become fashionable.
About yoga and wellbeing
To stay in good physical and psychological shape, I do yoga. Until last winter, I was skeptical about the excitement around her - everyone worn with these rugs, as if possessed. But at some point my back ached so unbearably that I decided to go to class. A miracle happened: I myself became this most blissful man with a pink rug. The back does not hurt, a lot of energy, you go to the subway at rush hour and you don't care, the mood is super. I am even ready to chat about this and that with others in this very subway. Yoga classes imperceptibly tighten the love of self, the desire to eat healthy food, to rub oils, and so on.
