The founder of Irony Production Xenia Town Hall about cosmetics
FOR THE FACE "HEAD" we study the contents of beauty cases, dressing tables and cosmetic bags of girls of interest to us - and show all this to you.
About care
I have a choppy and inconsistent approach to self-care: sometimes I spend all day testing creams and masks on myself, and then I don’t go to the shelves for weeks and even come to the office without makeup. I buy almost everything in Cosmotheca and on sites like Cult Beauty, having previously gone deep into the ratings of the American Allure. There it is never clear where the advertisement is, and where the honest opinion of the editor is, but the process of decoding the message itself is a pleasure. I love bloggers Clothes Encounters, Beauty Crush and Candy Johnson very much - from time to time I try something according to their recommendations.
I was lucky with my hair: I never really tensed up about their care, even when I dyed them black for a short time, then blond, then red and then black again. Of the shampoos, La Blue Bottle made the strongest impression on me, but it quickly ended, and nowhere in Moscow can I find it anywhere. So I use Davines Alchemic Shampoo, written out from Parma solely for the title. What really creates magic is Moroccanoil oil, after whatever shampoo, even from the mass market, I did not use it. This smell drives me crazy, and in winter, thanks to him, my hair is no longer confused and electrified.
As for the face, I could not live without scrubs before, but once a Cosmotheca consultant asked with a shudder voice why I was so — I was ashamed and since then I have only used Clarisonic (twice a week) and Cor soap (daily). Face creams often change: before that, Bobbi Brown Hydrating Face Cream was applied at night, now Philab Moisturizing & Anti-pollution Cream. I also had a serum that impressed me wildly - in a matter of minutes it made my face shine, and you get very impressed with this effect - but I just can't remember the name. While the failure in memory has not been eliminated, instead of it I use Malin + Goetz Replenishing Face Serum. Favorite lipstick - hygienic Lip Smacker with the smell of cherry Dr Pepper and children's chewing gum. I found them in some English-language list of the best budget cosmetics. I love the means in the style of Nabokov Lolita.
The divine body cream is the base Kiehl's Crème de Corps, after it I feel like a goddess and sometimes I can’t help myself not to stroke myself on the thigh or, there, on the knee. When I have a lot of time and a slight irritation on my skin, I use Eucerin Aquaphor Healing Ointment (I rejoice every time, noticing a serial comma in its description on the package). In general, this cream reminds babulino overseas potion from all misfortunes, which was advertised in the 1912 issue of the Niva magazine. When it is necessary to accelerate the healing of tattoos - and this year I have already filled four in Faux Pas - I use Bepanten Plus gel. I use either scrubs or body brushes for exfoliation - in addition to Acca Kappa, I have, for example, an Elemis brush with a removable handle, very convenient.
About decorative cosmetics
The main thing for me in makeup is an even tone of face. I have an extremely white skin, so finding the right shade was extremely problematic. The best I've met so far is Erborian BB Crème Light. After this cream, the skin flickers like that of the airy Korean beauties, and at the same time you do not die under it on a hot summer day or while playing sports. Cheekbones are the second most important moment: I honestly hate cheeks, so I try to stop their dominance on my face with the help of dark MAC powder or NARS. NARS Orgasm is ideal for an innocent blush, Urban Decay Naked Palette is for Smokey Aes. Shadows of MAC Omega Matte help to make eyebrows a little darker and clearer. Ink - either impenetrable waterproof MAC False Lashes Waterproof, or something like Maybelline The Colossal Volum 'Express - cheap, but cool and very voluminous. If a night is planned in a bar, an important date or rap battle shooting, I use black shadows, liquid eyeliner, and black pencil, but I put red lipstick on the way out, it seems, only once - I have too strange lips for bright lipsticks, becoming like a geisha.
As for nails, I have a dozen OPI lacquers at home, a couple of Essie and Zoya. OPI Lincoln Park After Dark - in case I am unhappy and plan to spend the night drinking whiskey in a byronic manner. OPI When Monkeys Fly - for a beach holiday, to lazily look at their feet in white sand, and nails to shine with all shades of gold. But in the past six months, I most often do manicure and pedicure with a deep cherry color with GelColor. It lies on the nails as armor and lasts at least three weeks.
About aromas
I can’t find the only fragrance that I’ll wear all the time, so I alternate between heavy and elegant Tom Ford Santal Blush with the simplest DKNY Be Delicious in its green version, the noble ST Dupont Passenger with very French TokyoMilk Everything & Nothing and so on. My dream is to get Escentric Molecules Molecule 01, but I constantly forget to buy it abroad. Everything is simpler with home fragrances: I once ordered Cire Trudon candles on Mr Porter and was conquered. In addition to the impressive history of the brand (for example, the company’s founding date is considered to be 1643 - they supplied candles to Versailles in the era of Louis XIV, and Napoleon presented his newborn son with only one gift: a Cire Trudon candle) they have really flawless, complex and memorable smells. My houses are now Nazareth, Balmoral and Dada. I love their church flavors, even though I am an atheist.
Pro sports, massage and applications
Most of the time, I relieve stress by walking quickly five or ten kilometers through the Tagansky courtyards when it was dark and people disappeared from the streets. It takes me about two hours, lately, while listening to the audio course "How to Listen to Understand Great Music" and nervously checking the statistics of the Jawbone Up application.
At the beginning of the year, my main sport, besides walking, was roofing, until finally in Hong Kong, walking on the roofs with the recently famous Daniel Lau, I realized that I had finally got rid of the fear of heights. When I first started, with Kirill Oreshkin, I was afraid even to approach the edge of a ten-story building.
In the summer, on weekends, I learned to ride horses in the equestrian complex "Bitsa" - two hours alone with obstinate horses allowed me to forget about business. Every evening, in an unbearable heat, swam in the “Seagull” pool - the main thing in this experience was, of course, the dialogues of bohemian old women, remembering the existence of the word “beau monde”, but not embarrassed to speculate about the Crimea. In July, I began to play tennis again - I found beautiful courts at Petrovka. I trained since then twice a week, until ten days ago I broke up the anterior cruciate ligament: the first sports injury in my life. And, what a shame, a couple of days after the injury, I planned to start practicing with a triathlete coach who would put me on the running technique and sign up for muay thai, but I had to postpone it. I'll be back for a while in "The Seagull".
I also rush through massage courses - but so far I have not been able to find a master who acts effectively, but does not turn the massage couch into a Procrusteus bed and a vale of weeping. The colorful man from Mahash Spa worked most delicately - he did manage to turn the massage sessions from the course of a young masochist into something like an ascetic consolation.
My main fitness tracker is the Jawbone 24 bracelet, which interferes regularly on my hand and therefore it infuriates, but without it in any way - who else will figure out how many steps I took in a day? Nevertheless, in the iPhone just in case is Moves. The ideal app for food control was The Eatery - something like an anonymous instagram for food with the ability to track its harmfulness, but it got somewhere from epstor, sadness. From time to time I manually drive in breakfasts, lunches and dinners in MyFitnessPal, but I miss them for a long time.