RBC editor-in-chief Nadezhda Weiner about favorite cosmetics
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 care
I practically do not use caring cosmetics. I have the necessary minimum not to stink, not to itch and to keep my face from the skull: fluid for the face, hand cream, toothpaste and gel for intimate hygiene. I have very sensitive skin of the hands, I am a raccoon-poloskun, so I have to use the cream all the time. Everything else is purely situational. In the morning I don’t use anything at all, because maybe I’ve rebelled and is alive, and maybe not, and I have no strength for anything except to crawl to a cup of coffee, pour it into myself and crawl to work.
I am a publishing editor in the RBC newspaper, so I have a specific working day: we start around two or three days, finish at eleven in the evening, I crawl home at half past nine, and the next day I wake up in the image of a zombie. The only thing that I still use from the caring cosmetics is Niveola masks. I buy them only because they look intently on instagram, I always get a lot of likes in them, and they do it or not - I don’t know. In general, the whole skin care system seems to me to be cheating from the point of view that I will never become younger: if I use a mask, my skin will not change at all.
A friend once told me about a woman who, when asked if she wanted to look younger, replied: “I have worked on my wrinkles for 40 years! I laughed and cried for them to appear! Why should I want to part with them? ! " And I completely agree with her. In the end, how do I differ from any rock that the rain and wind wears and wears. There are traces on it - and let them remain on me. I'm not against.
About psychotherapy, sports and insomnia
My main personal care is psychotherapy. For everything else, I say that the main thing is to get behind me and understand what I really want. When I watch myself, I understand that many of the arising desires like to lose weight or go in for sports, not mine, but some kind of neurotic. It happens, something says the voice of unpleasant older relatives, for example, you have too thick ass. Well, no, my ass is normal, I want her to stay with me. When I want it to become something else, it must be my desire, and not the voice of an internal evil critic.
I walk my 10 thousand steps and periodically do exercises, if I remember about it. When insomnia, the desire for physical activity very quickly disappears. I would like to do something, but when you wake up after three invigorating hours of sleep, and you have, for example, a ten-hour working day, you do not always have enough strength to exercise. It is important for me to sleep well, but I have severe long-term insomnia. There is no guarantee that if I fall asleep today, I will fall asleep tomorrow.
Leaving myself alone - it was this decision at some point that made my life better. Stop tracking whether I ate a piece of cake, walked 10 thousand steps. It's ok. No need to beat yourself every time for what you did or did not do. The less I pound myself on the head, the more I listen to my true desires, the better I feel.
About hair
I cut my hair well when I'm not lazy, every three weeks the last five years. Sometimes I grow, because hair grows very quickly, and I have no patience to hold a hedgehog. Hair care however has some. First, I use shampoo. If the hair is one and a half centimeters, it does not mean that they do not need to be washed. Secondly, when they grow up to five to seven centimeters, I have to stack them. My hair is naughty, stick out in all directions, they have their own life, which is in no way connected with me. My favorite styler is wax. I like it to the touch by itself, and it’s convenient for them to work with hair like mine — hard, naughty and resisting.
About decorative cosmetics and inspiration
It's hard for me to say where the cosmetics came from in my life, but it happened relatively recently. At one point I went to Rive Gauche and with a shudder and horror I bought myself a red lip gloss. I wanted it simply because I wanted it. It all quickly turned into a hobby. Until I was thirty, I didn’t use makeup at all. The maximum that I had was some kind of cucumber lotion at the age of seventeen. I was not interested for quite a long time, and then over the year it progressed to eleven nude lipsticks, although I don’t really like nudes.
The main thing is that I am interested in cosmetics, and I even write about it a little bit - in fact, why we do it. By and large, there is no obvious answer to the question. We do not see our face, others see us, and we can say that we paint ourselves for them. But not everyone likes this option. All the time looking at my own reflection and making a selfie seems to me a bit neurotic story. In a normal state, a person does not think all the time about how he looks. From my point of view, I do not impose it on anyone. Therefore, it is interesting for me to study what is happening between a person and a cosmos. Since the only person I can study is myself, then, accordingly, I am doing it in all forms, partially voicing it.
I do not dye every day. There are periods when I do not want any cosmetics on myself. I have a question “Why?”, And if I don’t find an answer to it today, I don’t dye it. And if I tell myself that I want blue lipstick, I want glitter, I want to put a constellation of glitter under my eyebrow, I want to draw an Indian on my face, then I do it.
I like Masha Worslav's telegram. Periodically, I notice that we, apparently, signed on instagram on the same people. I read bloggers a lot on instagram. There was a period when I wildly ran down the drag queen. They were probably a dozen in the tape - I looked at it with great pleasure. I like exaggerated things.
About the reaction of others to an unusual makeup
People usually either do not care, or rather, they respond positively. When I meet my eyes on the subway, people usually start to smile, apparently, I somehow enjoy them. This also does not affect my work in a serious business newspaper by a serious publishing editor. It is more important for our editor-in-chief whether the title to the article is good, and what color my lipstick is, it is completely on the drum. Of course, I stumbled upon not very pleasant comments, yet I love these little jokes. I do not like them, but I know their culture, so I don’t get very hurt when I meet with this.
About beauty blog
We met Moore Soboleva about a year ago, but I didn’t start blogging right away, but six months later. I have long been a game critic at lenta.ru and I know what it means to go to a novice in a toxic community. During the six months that I write to Moore, I have already managed to get once to the LJ community “beauty_nach” as their heroine. I did not read what they were writing about me, because psychotherapy is psychotherapy, and you can get hurt. But they gave us a good attendance. Like any novice beauty blogger who doesn’t have a more or less formed idea of the industry, I occasionally encounter a crisis of ideas. In video games, I understand seasonality and cyclicity, according to what laws they live and develop. And in what is related to cosmetics, I still do not understand which periods and how they replace each other.
I can not say that I am a wild canned collector and can not live without new products. But I love the flavors, although I don't have a lot of them either. I do not know how long I have enough and how quickly this hobby will pass. For any hobby it is fair that he does not have a specific expiration date. Today a man sews mittens or cooks according to Jamie Oliver, tomorrow he becomes interested in something else, the day after tomorrow - the third. This does not mean that he has ceased to love something, just now such a period. If overdone, then the cooling period can be anything. But a lot of love does not rot.
