Editor Tanya Reshetnik about informed purchases 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 attitude
Bukowski has the story "The most beautiful woman in the city." This is a very short piece, on the third and last page of which the main character commits suicide. Because "beautiful" is not equally happy. Media and aggressive advertising for decades imposed on us the opposite idea. Buy a new mascara, take an expensive cream from the shelf, go for a manicure, choose a dress, stay forever young - and you will be fine. Unfortunately or fortunately, this mechanism does not work. I am glad that many publications and large companies are gradually realizing this and are starting to focus not on the conventional beauty, but on the uniqueness of each individual person.
I strive for a balance between conscious consumption, a reasonable attitude towards myself and the desire to sometimes go on about advertising. It is clear that a fifth face mask will not make me happy, but a moisturizer will help to survive the heating season, and a new lipstick will cheer up when another hton breaks out outside the window or on Facebook. Self-irony is my best friend. Nothing helps come to terms with yourself as well as the ability to make fun of your "shortcomings" or the most unsightly traits of character. I think this is reflected in the way I look. The uneven contour of the lipstick, the blurred line of the eyeliner, one large earring instead of a pair - such things do not confuse me, but rather gladden.
About appearance and personal care
At my thirty-three bad habits, there are exactly three useful ones: to walk at least nine kilometers a day, drink two liters of water daily (this makes me feel better) and go to the dentist and gynecologist every six months. I am quite a restless person, so rituals and system are very important for me. Once a week I find time to go to the pool, twice a week - half an hour for a manicure, pedicure and mask. In the morning and before going to bed, I put coconut cream on my body, and I thoroughly cleanse and moisturize my face. Such a systematic approach does not take much time, but it relieves me of many problems.
About cosmetics and fragrances
Crash and haircut, I always the same. When I was still in school, I started wearing four of a kind - I like short hair for easy handling. As for make-up, it is important for me that it takes no more than fifteen minutes: in the morning sleep interests me much more than fussing with brushes and eyeliner. Since in 2012 I stopped doing my hair and let my eyes down like Amy Winehouse, my everyday makeup almost doesn’t change. I like to emphasize eyebrows, always emphasize freckles and regularly wear bright matte lipstick. I lie if I say that for special cases I am painted in a different way.
Unsystematic buying cosmetics and clothes, I stopped a couple of years ago. I love to joke that this is a professional deformation: for the last three years I have been writing and editing texts about the beauty industry and fashion every day. It quickly became clear that it was impossible to grasp the immensity, and many new items are not worth it to stand in line and wait for the start of sales of the new collection. Now I often buy new tools in return for ended and rarely try something new.
With aromas harder. I love heavy, synthetic and strange smells, I adore incense and musk, but I try to buy new perfumes on occasion: when traveling, in the brightest moments of my life or when I want to change everything again. Old bottles keep out of sentimentality. You remove the cover from some half-empty Caron N'Aimez Que Moi - and hello, my 2013th.
About age and self-love
Now I am twenty-six, and I understand perfectly well that the traces of all bad habits, lack of sleep, passion in reading in the dark and irregular working hours will be on my face and body in three or four years. At the same time, age itself does not frighten me. In front of me are the faces of my mothers and grandmothers (I am their absolute copy), and I perfectly understand how I will look at thirty-five, fifty-five and sixty-five years. It seems to me that the manifestation of self-love consists first of all in allowing ourselves to be weak (like the habit of going into fast food at one o'clock in the morning) and not reproaching myself for them. It is these concessions that help me to keep my balance of mind.
