BeautyHack Editor-in-Chief Olesya Mintz 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
Every morning and evening I clean my face and put on a daily cream; I will not say anything new here. Now I use (Malin + Goetz) - the usual moisturizer with vitamin E, before that was Clarins. My job is connected with the fact that I always try something new. So far, all my products without any anti-aging properties, just moisturizing. I sometimes do peels, but this can not be called my habit. In general, I go to all the procedures that you need to try.
My mother went to the bath all her childhood, she had a master there, with whom she did all the cosmetic procedures. A facial massage is something that Mom always advised me to do, and now I advise everyone to keep my face in shape. The same applies to the body, massage is very effective. I don’t have a definite master; I always go to someone new, I love experiments.
From the last I really liked acupuncture. On certain areas of the face put needles that affect the cells from the inside. I go to the Dao Clinic, there is a wonderful doctor Igor Nikolayevich. In the same way I get rid of stress: he puts little needles on some points on the ears, and every day, sitting in the office, I stimulate them. Acupuncture is a godsend for me. I want to check the time, how it really works. Although a couple of sessions are enough for me to feel that the skin has become more hydrated.
Hair is my special passion, it's a million cans in the bathroom and, rather, my own merit. I do not go to the care all the time. I have enough Olaplex Hair Perfector No. 3, which I put before washing for 20 minutes. Olaplex is a salon care, but they have jars that you can buy yourself home. I try to dry my hair with a hair dryer, the ends become very dry. I did shatush for seven years, from my natural dark color, we achieved a wheat tone, which is why my hair suffered a lot. I love to mix masks at home in old, proven ways. Egg, castorca, under the cap and walk. It seems to me that you can do well at home. Now many professional brands produce home lines that do an excellent job with all tasks. Therefore, I take care of my hair at home in my bathroom.
About sport
Not without sport. Here, I am also not a fan of one thing, I am always in search, at different periods of life it is something of my own. I go to the World Class, I can swim there or go to a group lesson. Now I really like well-known cycling. There are already a million of these studios throughout Moscow. I like the studio Velobeat. This is the place where you can come for an hour and go out as if you were exercising fitness for three hours. It seems that you just sit and spin the wheels, no, there is an imitation of mountain slopes, a very intense training and quite fun - with loud music, with shouts and motivational shouts of the coach. It also helps me to keep myself in the shape of my child. He is my man-helicopter, he is not sitting still: you cannot be distracted with him for a second, therefore this is a definite sport that does not end 24/7. Especially on weekends, when I spend with him all the time, I don’t need to go to the sport already, we run, run, walk around.
About habits
Previously, it was very hard for me once a week, for example, to drink some green smoothies or sit on cottage cheese with an apple. It was hard to limit myself, because presentations and meetings on work were constantly taking place — they often represented conversation over food. But lately I have got the habit of arranging fasting days, especially after the weekend. This is either the Organic Religion day smoothie program or a fruit day.
I'm also very glad that now I fall asleep until midnight, so I really get enough sleep. This is due to the regime of the child, but this is exactly what I wanted to do my entire adult life. I can even sleep less than hours, but from the action of biorhythms or something else I rather get enough sleep if I go to bed before twelve. And I would like to refuse sweet, I love him very much. I probably won't be able to completely eliminate it, but it would be great to give preference to more useful species.
About decorative cosmetics
Children's experiments with shadows and lipsticks began with a grandmother's dresser, in which my parents left me for the weekend, and climbing in her beautician. As a translator, Grandma traveled frequently and brought many new products from her trips. Naturally, I also have children photos with green shadows and red lipsticks. At school, we often ordered something from Oriflame catalogs, did not go for lunch, saved money.
The way I paint now, always depends on my mood. I have, for example, three tonal creams, it depends on my mood which one I choose: harder, lighter, with shine or without. I have a lot of things, I love to experiment. Every day, I use, perhaps, only a highlighter: I like to highlight cheekbones, put it under my eyebrows and generally consider it an excellent piece. With the help of face highlighter you can make beauty very quickly. I can make up in the morning with red lipstick. Someone looks at her at eight in the morning with bulging eyes, but I like it.
About work
Before the decree, I worked in the magazine Vogue. Started as an assistant Vicki Davydova [chief editor of Russian Vogue. -Note ed.], worked for two years. It was a very cool experience, I learned to "stop the accelerating aircraft." It’s best to start from such positions if you want to become a journalist and develop within the publishing house. Working as an assistant, you know everything and all departments, you try yourself and there and here and then you clearly understand what you want to continue to do. I immediately knew that I wanted to go to the beauty department.
After working there for several years, she went on maternity leave, in which a lot of ideas accumulated. And after the decree, Margarita Lieva and Katya Domankova appeared in my life with the idea of creating a website on beauty and health on the Russian Internet, without any distractions: to make it beautiful, clean, in a magazine format and nothing superfluous before my eyes. The idea was close to me. Such projects are in the US market, Refinery29 or Into The Gloss, we did not have. Now it will be - from day to day we have a launch site.
