Blogger Ekaterina Sljadneva about balance and favorite cosmetics
FOR RUBRIC "COSMETIC" 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 make-up and experiments
I love to be beautiful since childhood: at seven I stole my mother's cosmetics and drew cherry lips. By about twelve years of my mother’s conservative palette, I began to miss, but then I started working on the holidays in the book department. Money spent on the market - on the colored eye pencils for fifteen rubles and lip gloss with glitter, which smeared wherever the hand reached out. A great shock for me, a provincial teenager, was the advertising of varnishes Maybelline Colorama, in which Adriana Lima flashed on the frame with a manicure with different varnishes on each finger. It was a shock! And what, so you can? Then the era of duochrome eye makeup came: first I timidly took shades of the same color, and then I began to combine pink with bright blue, gold with green, purple with yellow. Girlfriends liked. And I liked more to spend time on make-up than to see the result.
After crazy experiments, I had a seven-year era of arrows: now I can draw perfectly smooth black lines with any liner, at any time and in any condition. By conservative estimates, in my entire life I spent about a hundred hours on the hands of the gun (sad music).
About the telegram channel and blogs
At some point, all the girlfriends started telegrams and discussed posts and subscribers at each meeting. I was as far from blogs as possible, but in life I knew how to do two things well - to paint my mouth and take selfies - that is why I started the comic channel “Beauty for 300”, which suddenly became popular in a matter of months. The telegram helped me to understand that loving cosmetics, spending a huge amount of time and money on it is not a shame and a shame; no need to whisper to say that you are a "beauty blogger", because it is supposedly frivolous. The popularity of the blog helped me to accept myself and my interests, to develop them and to return to experiments with decorative cosmetics, and not to draw patterned rock arrows, because with them I supposedly look cooler.
I read few blogs. I follow the channel of Adel: I like the way she gives information, I learn a lot of new things; I still look at the fantastically beautiful make-ups of Mila Bulatova and adore Gevorg. Recently subscribed to a huge number of foreign Instagram bloggers - this is generally some other universe. I study with them the setting of the frame, processing, courage in photos, the ability to make a beautiful subject. Well, I endlessly admire the stylish bows.
About the love of cosmetics
Now for me, cosmetics is a means of self-expression and perception of the world. My face is a blank canvas on which I draw every morning. I began to show the world my mood through cosmetics, I stopped sharing makeup on day and evening and chose cosmetics with thoughts like: "This shade is bright, but not frightening." Blue, gray, green, orange lipsticks settled in a cosmetics bag. Glitter there is adjacent to the stickers-rhinestones from the store of goods for the holiday, and the liners for the shooters are already about fifty pieces. I am painted with what I want and how I want, although I remember very well my first exit from the house with blue lips: it seemed that everyone in the minibus was judging condemningly. But no, over time you realize that nobody cares.
In the morning, makeup helps me to wake up, to understand myself a little better, to listen to feelings and mood. I can spend in front of the mirror both five minutes and two hours - depending on the desire and the amount of free time. Sometimes I don’t want to use decorative cosmetics at all and ... I don’t do that! And sometimes you want to put a little more highlighter, sprinkle everything with glitter and go to work. No sooner said than done. I am convinced that cosmetics should not make us better, more beautiful, more attractive for someone - no. Cosmetics is needed only if you want to use it. If the process gives you pleasure, if the makeup pleases and helps, then why not?
About care and habits
I am a very unstable person, so I almost never buy money the second time. The exception is the tonic for oily skin Botavikos. It costs 125 rubles, very cool washes makeup and moisturizes the skin. The most important thing for me in body care is that it smells delicious, so I often take conditioners or lotions in Lush. They are long enough, and the smell is like falling into a vat of lavender.
Trite, but my personal care is maintaining the harmony of my body and mind. Sport, meditation, food, order in the house - everything is important. I love to clean the apartment, sort out the wardrobe, every week I throw things away that I don’t use. I do sports only when my body demands it: I try to understand when I want to go to yoga, when I go to the gym, when to swim, and when I just lie on the couch with pizza. I am very categorical in the matter of habits and I constantly train my willpower: for example, I have arranged for myself a challenge with food - I detailed the beginning of the year for weeks and check how I live without a test, or without meat, or without lactose.
It sounds tortured and banal, but before I learned to listen to my needs, I lost weight infinitely, lost weight, then gained weight again, reproached myself, hated every jumped acne, appeared gray hair and, o gods, mimic wrinkle. Our body is our spacecraft, which you need to take care of, repair parts and check settings. For me, self-love means the absence of violence against oneself: you don’t need to do it every day, if you don’t like it, don’t need to spread your diet or beauty procedures, if they don’t bring you pleasure. You need to listen to yourself more often.
