Designer Maria Melkoyants about cosmetics and beauty
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 beauty and work
In my family there are many women, I grew up with my grandmother, who even now, at 76, looks very young and always well-groomed, and a cousin older sister, who, of course, was the most beautiful and tough for me, so I tried to imitate her in every way often took pearly lipstick. Grandmother told amazing stories about youth: how they made mascara almost from shoe polish, hairspray with silverfish, infinitely sewed clothes and generally put a lot of effort into being beautiful (although grandmother was the first beauty without it). Mom for me was generally a princess and the most beautiful person on the planet. The train of Paloma Picasso, which I heard in kindergarten, always hovering behind her, was still hovering along the stairs. And I, of course, still do not understand how she can be my mom, as we look about one age.
Because of all this, I am looking for beauty in everything. And contrary to this, I now have some kind of natural feeling that it is not necessary to make sacrifices for the sake of beauty. Of course, I dry up without moisturizer, but I will not feel naked without makeup (for which my grandmother often makes comments to me). I do not really know how to use concealer, and the cosmetician had, it seems, two or two times in his life, but this does not mean that I do not make any effort to look ok.
Work occupies such a large part of life that, it seems, if you don’t realize yourself there and don’t feel in the process of something important, then it beats on self-esteem and condition. Another thing is that you can be realized through anything, but for me this is one of the points, just like communicating with family and friends and the relationship between. I always wonder that we are in fact in relations not only with one person, but with everyone: relatives, brother, colleague, neighbors. And in each of these relationships, it is necessary to maintain some kind of temperature regime, otherwise either everything will burn to hell, or it will turn into a frozen flower, which will fly into a billion fragments.
About care
I definitely can not live without water, sports, work, sleep, delicious food, care and communication. This all affects the state and, consequently, the appearance. I drink water all the time - it's a habit.
Sports for me entertainment and communication. I played tennis all the school as soon as I got bored - I gave up. The “sports section” is an ideal format and love in general, I have tried an incredible amount of sports, from lacrosse to synchronized swimming. Plus, new friends and acquaintances, beautiful and now infinitely loved. When I lived in Petersburg I went to TRX to two excellent coaches, Pete and Bor, they are absolutely the best, and if I go there, I always sign up for a training session, they restored me after the operation and the 8-month break in three months.
About food, I can tell scary stories related to the body image, and how I did not eat anything during my teens for months. But from love you will not escape, from the love of food all the more. Now I eat often, tasty, sometimes harmful. All other items about employment, sports, water, sleep and communication are just about this balance.
At 18 I cut my hair well. You can look at my 15-year-old brother — that’s how I looked for another two years. Then the curls grew back, and a year later there was a nervous breakdown, and the hair began to fall out on its own, I was diagnosed with "alopecia" and prescribed some course for 200 thousand rubles. But somehow I thought better of it in time, stopped worrying, began to eat normally. I don’t know if this can be avoided, but it’s better not to be so nervous.
About cosmetics
In cosmetics and fragrances, I am frighteningly constant: for a couple of years I have been using the same powder, blush and MAC ink. Perfume, too, alone already seven years, Perles De Lalique, which gave mother. In general, Rene Lalique was engaged in glassware and jewelry, art-nouveau of insane beauty, and at some point they released their fragrances, in fact, in the glass of their own production.
The important thing for me is washing in the evening. For me, it was the discovery of hydrophilic oil. Everything is too simple: you apply oil on a dry face with dry hands, wipe off mascara with a cotton pad, foaming facial wash (there is a special mesh in the Korean cosmetics store) and wash it off. And do not rub your eyes and that's it, quickly and cleanly.
I fell in love with Aesop, once I ordered a lip balm and something for the body from some store, then other things were perfect for me. Everything is cool with them: composition, natural smell, packaging, details (for example, in the travel kit inside the cosmetic bag Karl Sagan’s quote “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting for be known”). The site is very good and describes in detail everything about each product, what is its texture, how to use it, and what result to expect. In Moscow, not for sale, ordered a young man, when he often went to the States (for which he thanks to infinite).
