Leader of educational projects Vera Kurbatova about 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 and skin care
I grew up in Petersburg in an intelligent family of a famous academician. We had a strict daily routine, and since the grandfather received an ulcer in Solovki, the food was strictly dietary. From May to September we always lived in the country: in my childhood, grandfather was already a famous person, and our house was in the prestigious village of Komarovo. All day long I sunbathed on the Gulf of Finland, rode a bicycle, walked a lot.
Unfortunately, there is no foundation for perfect skin. It deteriorated in 15 years, and I still work with consequences. Now I can quite calmly talk about it: for my 29 years I understood very clearly that this is a given. I used to cry and could not leave the house in the days of exacerbations, now I just know what means suits me. For all these years of torment, I have formed a list of several rules. Firstly, I believe that it is necessary not only to accept your body, but also to understand it. For example, I found out that I am allergic to B vitamins, so all the pills for skin, nails and hair only hurt me. I refused the sweet and flour - there are exceptions, but rarely. Would refuse alcohol, not helping the skin, but I can not.
Secondly, I use only what is really necessary. One hundred jars for the face, I think, can only afford a person with very stable skin, the rest should approach this issue in detail. Also without fail I will visit the cosmetologist. I have been going to my house since the age of fifteen, my mother to her from the age of twenty. This is an incredibly vigorous woman who cleans her face with the old school method, but the effect is better than after expensive masks and procedures with beautiful names. Unfortunately, she is in Petersburg, and I moved to Moscow.
If the store does not have a professional consultant, then it is better to study the information about the funds at home in a relaxed atmosphere, where beautiful jars do not look at you and do not stick to PR people. I consider cosmotheca.com to be the best blog, but also google the necessary information on trusted sites. The last and most important rule that everyone already knows about is to wash off cosmetics or simply to thoroughly cleanse the skin before going to bed in any situation.
About hair care
This is a whole chapter. I hated my curly hair and straightened it out right to the end of my first year. I studied in the Russian department of philology, we had a very difficult summer session. On the night before the exam in the Old Russian literature, I realized that I was not in a state of beauty, I have not read the Life of Avvakum. In the morning I came with curly hair and everyone decided that for Vera the exam was a holiday, and I slept on curlers. She left with the top five (yes, I got a question about Avvakum in the tickets) and with compliments. Since then I have become so accustomed to my curls that the next blow was only after the birth of a child. Curls disappeared. I got so desperate that I posted my old photos on Instagram and asked for my hair to start curling again. As you can see, my prayers are heard.
Pro body care
Since I do not have enough patience and time to smear myself with all the wonderful tools, I chose one that is suitable for everything. This is coconut oil (as well as shea butter and shea butter). Firstly, it is a body cream, secondly, a nourishing mask for hair, and thirdly - for me it is a remedy for atopic dermatitis: I am allergic to cold in my hands during the winter period. I bring cans of coconut oil from everywhere and get them as a gift. In the summer, when the skin does not dry so much, I use any creams and milks with citrus or mint smells. In pampering, my favorites are & otherstories, L'Occitane, and recently I discovered Natura Siberica in glass jars.
If we talk about physical fitness and good habits, then I have not so many of them. At the beginning of the summer I went to the gym and worked with the coach, I consider this my colossal achievement, but, unfortunately, the only one. I smoke and drink wine. In winter, I ride a snowboard in the Moscow region, in the summer I do wakesurf on the Moscow River.
Pro makeup
I never experimented with looks. As much as I would like, I have a feeling that it will only get worse. All my life I have been trying to work with what I have, I am not trying to rectify nature. I do not like tattooing, I am indifferent to tattoos, I don’t like strongly colored eyelashes and I’m not going to change hair color until I turn gray. For the same reason, I almost do not use decorative cosmetics - it seems to me that it makes me older. What to hide: by the age of 29 I did not even learn how to paint my eyes - and this is not slyness. The only thing that saved me from an unclosed gestalt was that for several years I worked as a producer of expensive documentaries and starred in almost all reconstructions. The make-up artists read my nonverbal desires and, where possible, made either Smokey Aiz or bright lips, or both. In the frame was good, but in life it seemed to me that I look too defiant.
