Journalist Nastya Sinitsyna about self-optimization and favorite 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
To be honest, I'm still looking for the perfect care system for me. There was a time when I firmly followed the Korean ten-speed system with all the tonics, night masks and so on. Now, thanks in large part to the blog by Adel Miftakhova, everything has come down to a cleansing-peeling-moisturizing. Although now I use acids not as fanatically as before: I somehow went too far with Biologique Recherche P50, the whole was covered with a terrible red crust, but the aloe-gel saved me. I've been talking for a few months now - probably, this says a lot about my priorities and responsibilities - I can’t order a new hydrophilic oil for myself, so I wash off olive oil and clean up the remnants with a hot, damp towel. I like clay and fabric masks, which I usually use during the weekly course, which is much more effective.
More recently, somewhere since April, a daily facial massage came into my care. Okay, not quite daily, I keep at the level of four to five days a week. Firstly, it is pleasantly relaxing, and secondly, it seems to me, it works to improve the contour of the face. An indispensable thing, if you are the same drinker, like me. There are dozens of videos on YouTube with different techniques, but I didn’t bother much and chose the most popular. It is possible that in the near future, even before acquiring the corresponding device, some kind of massage stick like the Nurse Jamie - they say, the lifting effect is stronger than from their own hands, and you have to make less effort. I do not accept scrubs with large particles and "cosmetics from the refrigerator" on the face, but such tools work fine in body care. Mix coffee with shower gel - the immortal recipe from the public "Vkontakte" - definitely yes.
About lifestyle
Last year, I fanatically followed Blogilates training calendar, now I do it at best, two or three times a week. I love the Yoga with Adriene channel and its monthly challenges very much: when you complete all three, you can start anew, and it doesn't bother you at all. I'm a fan of Smiling Mind and Headspace. On a par with meditations, yoga has given me, however banal it may sound, an understanding of how you can listen to your body, exist with it, find some comfortable states. "Find what feels good", that's all.
At the same time, I should probably say that at first I was skeptical about “practicing awareness”, there are too many examples of extremes: I will become a syroed, clean the chakras and go to Tibet! The De-Mystifying Mindfulness course on Coursera helped to change opinions: in the theoretical part, the author views meditation from various points of view, from cultural to medical, and consistently debunks the main myths about it. The practical part is represented by a variety of awareness training.
I probably would not have been able to live in an apartment where there would be no bath, because for me there is no better and easier way to relax. Therefore, at home there is always a year's supply of sea salt, bombs, foams and all that. This year, I wrote my coursework about the phenomenon of self-tracking and in the process got a little involved in this practice. All these metric indicators suddenly became important to me: how much I walk, how much sleep (much less than I thought). It turned out that even in the most "healthy" periods of my life, I consume much more sugar than is necessary according to the norm. Perhaps, for me, all this also becomes a matter of self-optimization - in general, it is clear that my lifestyle and well-being are not up to par, but the metric allows us to understand this clearly.
About change
With great difficulty and anguish, I still taught myself not to crush acne on my face (my Toulon!), But I never stopped touching my face. Could often change pillow cases and wipe the screen of the phone with antibacterial wipes and save yourself from potential rashes. I dream of regular massages: it seems to me that this should radically change my quality of life. Yoga, alas, does not save me from tension in the muscles. My main achievement in recent months was a change in attitude towards emotions: I finally learned how to let go of them, and anger or sadness no longer overwhelms me. This does not mean that I have become somehow unfeeling, rather balanced, and this has markedly improved the perception of life in general.
There is an obvious thought that I myself only recently was able to realize more fully: you need to put yourself in the center of your own life, but at the same time not think that everything revolves around you. Articles and books are full of phrases in the spirit of "listen to yourself and your body", but very few people actually do it. The degree of our alienation from our own body is too high, and there may be various reasons for this, starting with the inconsistency of appearance with how we feel, and ending with the rejection of body signals and our own feelings as unnecessarily subjective. It is with this subjectivity that one must learn to coexist and work. Before, I could, for example, go to the next party with a hellish hangover, ignoring physical exhaustion. You need to keep track of what makes you tired, irritated, dissatisfied with yourself, fix these states, and if necessary even keep a diary, because only this way you can begin to understand something about yourself and change.
About make-up
In fact, my "real" makeup history is less than six months. It so happened that in the winter and in the early spring I was forced to spend almost all the time at home, and for a person who is used to getting out somewhere every evening, this is real flour. From idleness and the impossibility of some kind of social exhaust, I literally began to draw on the face. At first I repeated the favorite make-ups from instagram, from my favorite v93oo account, for example, then I started to invent something of my own. She put it in a story, got comments: "Hahaha, Sinitsyna is now a beauty blogger?" - and then they suddenly began to call me to the shooting as a make-up artist, it all started with vgikovskih works.
For my first job as a makeup artist for backstage (in MOTEL they shot an advertisement for perfume), I received perfume as payment, well, that loved ones. Mom said: "Well, if you’ve already taken it all in, you can learn to do it normally?" And she sent me to the basic course in the studio of Chilly Dash, and it was both the most joyful and the most difficult three weeks in my life. I did not know and did not understand about makeup and the work of a makeup artist, and then plunged headlong into a completely different world. It was in my “cosmetic” endeavor that I received as much support from family and friends as I had never received before. I get high when I paint myself and other people, I really enjoyed the work on the set, but still now it's more of a hobby for me.
I don’t really bother with the rules of make-up and I’m really proud to have come to this myself, and not through the articles about “releasing” through make-up. I calmly mold transferable tattoos on my face, forever instead of shadows, and wear a flash tattoo on my lips, make a strobe with glitter and do not hesitate to come to university with my lips kissed. Perhaps, my mother influenced this freedom in make-up: at school she bought me colored mascaras of all possible shades and lipsticks of not the most standard colors like bright orange.
Now I have such a period in my life that I practically do not dye and do not try anything new, but at the same time I feel completely comfortable. I am bored with wearing makeup that "makes it beautiful." Even for myself: I know that I can make myself an instagram beauty with bunches of eyelashes and perfect contouring, but I’m just not interested. It is important to understand that make-up is an opportunity, but not an obligation, that you are not obliged to make your cheeks smaller, your eyes bigger, and your lips puffier. You can turn your face into an art project, or you can turn it into a market commodity. Neither is good or bad. I can even say that it was makeup that gave me the opportunity to take on my face and my appearance.
