Pensioner Margarita Trushina about cosmetics and personal care

FOR THE FACE "HEAD" we study the contents of beauty cases, dressing tables and cosmetic bags of interesting characters for us - and we show all this to you.

About perfume

I have always used perfume, not exactly "Red Moscow" and "Red Poppy", I remember that very well. But my first perfumes, which were brought from Poland, were called like “Wait for me” or something like that. And then there were those that my husband gave, called "Silver Lily of the Valley." It was a very sharp, stuffy smell, and yes, there probably was something from the lily of the valley, because then I could not smell it. I still remember him, the other day I was driving in a transport, and I smelled like that from some person - I found out.

I had a funny case. Somehow my friend and I waited for the plane and decided to go into the duty free. Naturally, they were not going to buy anything there, just for fun, they went for a while. As a result, we stopped at the booth with the perfume of Chanel Chance, we tried a lot of things there, and we smelled amazing. And when we sat down with her in a cafe to drink coffee, one woman passed by us already three times and then could not stand it: she said that she could not pick up perfume for herself, and it smells very good from us. And asked what kind of fragrances we have. But we couldn’t answer her anything - too many different things were poured on us.

About the first cosmetics

I don’t remember my first makeup - it was so long ago. The only thing I remember is the terrible mascara that we seemed to buy in the toilet on Gorky Street. Specially there went for this ink in black long cardboard boxes. Here we used such ink. And before that there were no pencils for lips. I did this: I took a match, sharpened it, picked up her lipstick and drew a contour.

In my youth I painted eyelashes (I once had very long, good eyelashes) and lips. And on the face did not put anything - we did not have any tones, of course, there was only powder. But she dried her skin and looked ugly.

I began to paint not so early, at seventeen. Mom did not forbid, she really watched her, so she understood and supported everything perfectly. In general, I believe that women, girls should always be at their best. I can't go out without makeup, I can't even go to the store next to me, so as not to make up.

Pro makeup and beauty

The fashion for different makeup was, but I do not remember that I followed her. I still understand what will work for me and what will not. Therefore, something fashionable that looks bad on me, I will not buy. Here in the 60s I wore arrows, and brown lipsticks in the 90s did not: they look somehow vampire-like. In general, with bright lipstick, I paint my lips if I have to go somewhere else in the evening, and my daytime makeup is dull. I also paint my nails with a dim pearl lacquer. Maybe once painted in other colors, but now I do not remember.

A young girl should look natural and should emphasize this natural beauty. Well, what else to emphasize it, if not makeup. Only he should be intelligent, not vulgar.

My mother now would be under 120 years old (I am 82). She, of course, gave me and my sister great lessons and by example showed that a woman should follow her. At the time, there were no such tricks, but she dyed her eyes and hair. She was blond, she worked up to 80 years and went on her heels - although you understand, at 80 this is already hard. But she was always straight woman.

I do not really like fashion magazines, they are specific. Sometimes they fall into my hands through my sister-in-law, then I look over it. I somehow they are not very interested. I can spy on trends there, and in order to read regularly - no, I am not interested.

About homemade cosmetics

I do not use any means for washing, although at home they are with me. I usually do this: I put vegetable oil on my palm, preferably olive oil, and put it on my face. Then I take a small fleece or a disk, we urinate it in sleeping tea or just boiled water, wring it out and wash it all off. If I feel that the makeup is still there, then I can wash it again. And after that I put a night cream. I invented such a method myself, like everything I use. I have dry skin, and you cannot wipe off cosmetics just with water, but with oil it turned out to be well washed off. If the makeup is solid (as I do today, I painted my eyelashes), then I allow myself soap. I prefer Dove, it's soft. I also remembered: our dacha was in a real village (for three years now, probably, as we have no village, now there are only summer cottages). Naturally, there were cows. And I, even with all sorts of creams with me, did not use them, but took cream off the milk and, instead of creams, smeared my face with them.

Sometimes I bought Chinese cloth masks, unfortunately, now I do not see them. I also make masks myself. For example, a scrub mask, I did it today. There is a banana, oatmeal ground, honey, olive oil. Thoroughly stir everything and impose. This is the last mask, about which I heard either on TV, or read it in the newspaper, I don’t remember. I also like the mask with cottage cheese, there is also honey, soft cottage cheese, yolk, butter and a few drops of lemon. I do not know how much it brightens, but they say so, so let it brighten. And her scent is pleasant.

Pro body

I have never played sports, but I must say that after the birth of my first child, I realized that I needed to somehow bring myself into shape. Then I looked for exercises in some magazines and did them myself. Now I do not do sports, neither charging, nor gymnastics, nothing. But the form is not going anywhere. They say that at this age do not grow stout. And this is exactly what I need.

I’m not trying hard, I’ve already taught myself not to eat after six in the evening. I can drink ryazhenka or milk after seven if I want to eat, but nothing more. True, it happens that at night there is a strong desire, then I open the fridge and grab something - but just a little, just to drown out hunger. If I eat a lot, it will not be good for me, already this habit.

I have never been more complete. I remember that my husband and I went to Hungary for a vacation, it was also a hundred years ago, and there they were fed very tasty, everything was so spicy. We were on a steamboat on the Danube, we were serving fish soup there. I have never eaten such soup. She was red and so hot that everything in her mouth was burning, but so tasty that it was impossible to refuse. So, by the end of my stay in Hungary, I, of course, added. Oh, and there was such a pastry, but I really like sweets.

The girls were not thinner or fat before, there were always different figures. True, when I was young, about 14-15 years old, everyone was very thin around, because they were half-starved. There were no fat girls among us. It is now full meet, but it is probably even good that you can eat plenty.

About hairstyle

I used to wear curls, but I changed my hair a long time ago at the insistence of my husband. I had rather long hair, though not braids (although they used to be). I wound all the time, slept on curlers and put my fingers between the curlers so that my head would not hurt. My husband asked me: Well, cut off the hair, well, make a short haircut. And men usually love their long hair. In the end I did a short haircut and since then I have been wearing it. It was forty or thirty years ago.

Once I really wanted to be blonde, but my hair is completely out of color. I even bought myself a patch tail of a beautiful platinum hue, my cousin's wife brought me from America. He walked with me very much, and I tried to lighten my hair under it, but nothing happened. In the barbershop, however hard they tried, I was bright red. So all my life and go with chestnut.