Lawyer Anna Gubanova about your 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 lifestyle
I don’t believe in the extraordinary wonders of modern cosmetology, if we don’t speak now about cosmetic surgery, maybe in ten years they will come up with the magic pill, as soon as possible! In the meantime, I think a person closer to the age of forty becomes like a portrait of Dorian Gray - his lifestyle greatly influences his appearance. Well-groomed is, by and large, healthy lifestyles: physical activity, a balanced diet, no bad habits, a bath every 1-2 weeks, healthy sleep, etc. There are friends and close people who have a healthy lifestyle — they all look great, admire.
Unfortunately, I don’t have enough patience and willpower for many "right" things. If I don’t regularly go to the gym, I try to walk more and walk more - in good weather I can walk, for example, on the way to the office. I also have a favorite 20-minute yoga program for beginners - a great thing, it helps to properly form a muscular corset, keep muscles in shape and, as the presenter says, reduces stress levels. As soon as the back starts to hurt, after two weeks of such daily classes, you already feel great. I also try to sleep for at least 7-8 hours, pity, it does not always work.
I love the expressions “everything is good in moderation” and “only without fanaticism”; they can be easily applied to self-care. I think the sun in reasonable quantities is very useful, vitamin D in our latitudes is generally deficient. In the winter, if it’s very melancholy, once a week a tanning bed for 5 minutes is a great option for improving your mood (I close my face in it, I have to). But with the sun, of course, caution is important, especially with an abrupt climate change, a trip to the mountains - then I use the tools with an SPF of at least 30 without fail.
About care
I have very dry and sensitive skin, while I, unfortunately, smoke. Therefore, in the morning I try not to forget to drink a glass of water half an hour before breakfast, take omega-3 (or just a teaspoon of linseed or olive oil) and askorbinki. I try not to save money: I know that if cosmetologists in advertising recommend “pea”, my skin will want to “eat” five times more. If there is an opportunity, I buy large volumes at once - I keep it in the refrigerator, and for daily use I fill jars for cosmetics from travel kits.
I was looking for skin-friendly care through trial and error, it was especially difficult in the winter: my face would dry, then blush, then peel off — horror. Now, especially after 35 years, I try to use the winter time with maximum benefit - to apply more active agents that are not recommended to be used for a long time and with solar activity (creams of dense texture, with vitamins, retinol). Often, I just put vitamins under the cream, they can be found in capsules in the pharmacy, sometimes fortified capsules are produced and cosmetic brands.
I love both Korean masks (for example, with collagen), and homemade, natural, cooked yourself. Once or twice a week for the night (two hours before bedtime) I put on some kind of “heavy” fat cream or butter. I buy a lot of different kinds of oils: argans, coconut, jojoba, peach pits, etc., but I usually have an allergy to essential oils, and even expensive creams with essential oils often do not suit me, alas. Once a week I use a super-moisturizing or SOS-mask (I like Carita masks very much, I have enough of them for a long time, and now I have a Korean one, I bought it in Thailand). In the summer I often use natural aloe-gel instead of cream. If the product fits me - it is already fine, then the subtlety and pleasantness of perfume is not important. I like natural herbal tastes and smells - probably, such people will not understand everything. For example, she brought excellent toothpaste from Thailand and India: one with clove oil, and the second with herbs, Ayurvedic. After brushing the teeth, the young man once said: "Brr, what are you, balm" Asterisk "ate?"
Four years ago, thanks to her friend, she drew attention to the German professional creams (Sans Soucis, Beauty Hills, CNC) - compared with the mass-market of active ingredients in them more. I liked the lack of irritation and allergies, besides many different areas of care. European brands, on the market for a long time, but faster than in the mass market, they introduce a new and interesting, and there is a choice for naughty leather. I really like hyaluronic products, excellent face and eye creams - based on apple plant stem cells (One Apple a Day), chamomile, Taman. In connection with the crisis, I don’t know yet how to react to price increases and wage delays, but I hope that we’ll manage to adapt.
About makeup and hair
I often do not use decorative cosmetics. I can come to work at the office without makeup, or just with mascara and lip gloss or hygienic lipstick. If I am going to somewhere in the evening, I apply a foundation, sometimes mixing with a base luminizer, some shadows (matte brown in the outer corners of the eyes, light shades in the inner), lips - shine or bright lipstick. Eyebrows do not paint, they are already dark and thick.
I prefer the make-up as natural as possible - this is what suits me the most. Of course, in the school 90s it was different: lilac, crimson pearl and even gold lipstick, multi-colored sparkles on the lips and eyelids, and eyelashes, dyed in many layers. But since I wore glasses with strong diopters, I still didn’t make it to super combatant colors, it looked quite modest for those times. True, I was very worried that my eyebrows were not a “thread”, until one intelligent friend realized that I didn’t go very thin — thanks to him, he told the truth.
Sometimes you want something unusual: apply bright lipstick, colored eye shadow, colored mascara. I can quite make up the bright, in the mood. Recently experimenting with haircuts. Now I wear a very short one - I got used to my new image for a very long time, for a couple of months for sure, as I always perceived myself as a "classic" woman with at least four of a kind. It turned out that a short haircut is very convenient, and I still go. Now I doubt whether it is necessary to grow hair again, at least for now I do not plan to do it. It’s so natural and healthy for a woman to be different.
