Anastasia Solomatina about let's nail Moscow studio and favorite 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 decorative cosmetics
In adolescence, I was very pleased to paint with red lipstick. It is now I understand how 15-year-old girl in ripped jeans with bright red lips looked comical, and then I thought that I looked very adult and wildly beautiful (about wildness, maybe I was not mistaken). Now, if it were necessary to leave only three makeup products, I would choose a pencil for eyebrows, mascara and blush - an open look and a blush on the cheeks look natural and adorn any girl.
Like everyone else, I have a standard makeup that I can do with my eyes closed with my left hand. This concealer, a thin layer of powder, eyebrow pencil, neutral beige shadows, a thin short arrow, mascara and a little blush. But more often I go with a completely “clean” face, sometimes I tint my lips with lipstick.
A few years ago, I attended a short makeup course. I can not say that he radically changed my vision of myself, but a few tips that I heard there really helped. I learned, for example, the formula “cream for cream, powder for powder”. Before, I did not hesitate to put the cream on my face, then I took a powdery blush and tried to apply them evenly on the cheekbones - and I was very surprised that they lay down thick and stained. It turned out that cream should be applied to cream, and dry - to dry. Therefore, if you do not use powder, but only in tone, cream blush will be applied much easier, and vice versa - it is easier to apply dry corrector and blush on powder.
Another concealer should be applied not only on bruises under the eyes, but also on the upper part of the cheek. We all saw photos of stars with white circles under the eyes — this is the wrongly conceived concealer. If you have it, like me, a little lighter skin tone, try to apply it lower than usual - so it will be easier to shade with your finger and the border will not be noticeable.
About care
Caring means: creams, tonics, facial wash - all this is a necessity for me, caused by Moscow water and air. If after washing for several minutes I do not apply the cream, the skin of the face begins to dry significantly. But when I go to my parents in the Crimea, the need to use all these joys simply disappears.
I have very unpretentious hair. I know that most girls have to wash their hair every day, and I need only one or two times a week. This is probably the reverse side of owning dry skin - if I need to pour out a liter of moisturizer on my face, then I’m not suffering with hair. But they have one big drawback - they absolutely, well, absolutely do not keep laying. A night with heated hair curlers, a spray of hairspray and super-hot curling tongs - all this has been passed and all this has been recognized as ineffective, because within 15-20 minutes the most curvy tresses and the volume fall off, and after an hour my ideal straight hair again. The only remedy that miraculously allows me to sometimes create a basal volume is hair got2b, I need to rub it with my fingertips in the hair roots. And here it really works!
About perfume and sport
I have a complicated relationship with perfumery for one simple reason - my young man has a difficult time tolerating artificial fragrances. Therefore, caring and decorative cosmetics pass its strict control on the smell, and I practically do not use perfumes. But recently we found several flavors that were accepted by a strict judge - these are the edible Caramel, Vanilla and Chocolate Sephora. They are sold in small stick sprays at Rive Gosh, they are comfortable to wear even in the smallest clutch bag and they really smell amazingly delicious.
I practically do not practice sports as such (walking on bicycles and roller skates once every one or two weeks does not count). But I really like to walk on foot, if there is a free evening, I can wander with my girlfriend for hours in the alleys of China Town. Toward the end of autumn, a fitness club opens in our house - and, apparently, sport is inevitable. Since the opening of the studio, I began to feel a lack of physical activity and now I will fill it up with exercises on simulators.
About the passion for nail art
It all started with the fact that my young man and I gathered in Los Angeles. I love to plan trips, always preparing a list of sights, cafes and shops, which we must definitely get. And so, reading travel sites and travel articles, I stumbled upon one of the many Californian nail art stores. It was a shock: for me, the limit of nail art was a color jacket and hearts from a drop of varnish, which we did with friends at school. And then I saw voluminous cats, fish tails, beads, colorful blots and cupcakes - all in one manicure and different colors, very cool. I tried to get to them, but the nearest entry to the salon was already a month later.
After the trip, returning to Moscow, I began to look for such places here and did not find one. Then I bought myself a small paint brush in a nearby office supply store and sat down to paint myself. At first it worked horribly, but I so wanted bright multi-colored nails that my horrible drawings did not stop me. I started a blog and started uploading photos there. So, a little bit, studying for different photo and video tutorials, trying to copy the manicures that I liked, I began to draw better. And at some point I felt that I did not have enough of my nails - I wanted to paint so many things, and only ten nails. In Instagram, I already had more than 5,000 subscribers, and I was often asked: "Where, where to do something like that?" And I made a helpless gesture and said that I didn’t even know what to recommend. Then the thought came to me: if people like it and I get so much pleasure, why not try to transfer my blog to the studio? I will have more opportunities to implement my ideas, and in Moscow, finally, the first nail art studio will appear. And it appeared.