Geologist Adel Miftakhova about your favorite cosmetics and personal care
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About appearance and its assessment
When I was 17-19 years old, I really didn’t like my face, and I tried to gloss over skin problems instead of solving them. And then suddenly it turned out that if you properly care for yourself, then you do not need to mask anything and the skin becomes beautiful on its own. Not that it radically changed my life, but definitely allowed me to come to harmony with myself and accept my appearance - which is very important for confidence in a world where they still meet in dress.
In our society, it is customary to evaluate the appearance of people, and this is generally normal. Another thing is that everyone has their own evaluation criteria and their own ways to express it. Not everyone is ready to go beyond the limits of his picture of the world and accept the fact that beauty takes on different forms and expressions and that there are no rules that would make it possible to unequivocally call one person beautiful and the other not. At that moment, when it became clear to me that someone else’s opinion about my appearance does not really have anything to do with me personally, life became much simpler and more pleasant. I am engaged in science, and our appearance is given very little importance. When you study the world for a long time, against the background of its complexity and scale, many social phenomena no longer seem important and interesting.
All this is more related to the Internet, because in life few people will take the liberty to approach a stranger and tell him something disgusting about his appearance. I try to never write in my Telegram channel or on the Internet what I could not say in person, because such things are not only hypocritical in themselves, but also capable of making a person feel guilty for what he is imperfect.
About care
I like to take care of myself, and because the process itself relaxes me, and because I see the result. I understand perfectly well that cosmetics cannot solve skin problems, but it can help to minimize them if you choose it correctly. Unfortunately, there is no universal recipe for selecting cosmetics, and without a couple of thousands of rubles thrown to the wind, this is not enough.
My care consists of cleansing, peeling and moisturizing in several stages. I never wash my face with products containing soap, because they dry my already dehydrated skin. A great alternative to facial cleansers is creams and balms that, in addition to cleansing, have a bunch of other nice bonuses. If the face has cosmetics or sunscreen, then be sure to clean the skin in two stages.
For me, acidic tonics are the easiest way to exfoliate the skin, even out the texture and minimize the rash. I usually use them both in the morning and in the evening. After an acid tonic, I consistently apply a moisturizing tonic, serum and cream, which in summer is replaced with just a moisturizer for sunscreen. At night, instead of the cream I use either oil or an indelible mask.
Pro makeup
In terms of makeup, I am terribly boring. But this is not because I do not like bright makeup, but because when I have a lot of makeup on my face, I stop recognizing myself in the mirror, the face seems to me a stranger. This is not the most comfortable feeling, but sometimes this effect helps to transmit your mood to the world without words. For example, when I feel sad, fierce black Smokey helps to protect themselves from the outside world. On such days I don’t talk to anyone, and generally I am outside of this world. This, by the way, works in the opposite direction, which is called "fake it till you make it". When I dye bright lipstick, like today, my back immediately straightens and I become more confident in myself. But most of the time, I still only get around with foundation and paint on my eyebrows. I also love blush very much, but they all disappear from my face by the middle of the day.
I have never been attracted to refined images, because I cannot see anything behind them, they are for me as exhibits in a bad museum - beautiful and faceless. I like this shabby beauty when the makeup is a bit blurred, the clothes sit imperfectly, hair shaggy, like those of Carolyn de Maigret or Claudia Winkleman. As if you woke up in the morning after a party in a strange apartment and went to work in the same clothes. It seems to me that a little licentiousness and carelessness in the image have not harmed anyone yet.
