Journalist Sophia Kaczynska about favorite cosmetics and self-irony
FOR THE FACE "HEAD" we study the contents of beauty cases, dressing tables and cosmetic bags of interesting characters for us - and we show all this to you.
About care
My nature is not very good skin, and for the primacy in the nomination "The problem of the century" fight and rashes, and pores the size of Martian craters, and dryness in winter. Therefore, a year ago, I seriously began to search for ideal solutions that would at least keep a person in good condition. I did not have to reinvent the wheel: I was fascinated by cleansing, peeling and moistening. And cleanliness in this list comes first. In addition to the obvious things, every week I wash my makeup brushes and change the pillowcase, I don’t climb in the face and do the cleaning masks, which I myself prepare at home. I tried mechanical cleaning of the face, but I am not ready to survive this suffering, despite the fact that my cosmetologist is my mother. This is, by the way, an object of dispute. Every time I come home, she wants to arrange another genocide of the Jewish people and squeeze out all the pus and soul with me.
Once a week I use the sauna and spend another day at the home spa marathon: I work from the bed with a mask on my head and face, a thick layer of cream under my eyes, wearing glasses (so that my eyes can rest from the lenses) smeared with shea butter and burdock oil on the eyebrows, then wash off all this, lie in the bath and do a manicure, if necessary. A year ago, my friend and I bought a lamp for gel polishes and succeeded in using it: you can walk for two weeks with your nails, and given our wildly working schedule of American students and the utter mess of local manicurists, this idea has no drawbacks.
Due to the fall in the ruble exchange rate, I had to transfer cheap and good cosmetics from the category of sports interests to the category of vital necessity, so gradually I become the queen of Etsy and iHerb, I know places where Bobbi Brown is sold at a 70% discount, and I am not ashamed of drugstore cosmetics and homemade mask recipes. In general, the attitude towards consumption begins to change: there are so many cool things and no need for financial injections that I even started a public about cheap cosmetics and not only.
About decorative cosmetics
I am an extremely boring person, I regret it: sometimes I want to learn how to make an awesome bright make-up, but I don’t know how. The tone of my face and eyebrows are important to me, more precisely, the struggle with their absence, the rest is beyond my daily duties.
On the way out, I have standard schemes: Smokey, arrows and red lipstick. Recently, however, I bought colored eyeliners, transparent lip gloss and glitter for everything in the world in some store like Ragstock (commission shop), and am having fun as I can: eyeliner on the eyebrows (shade with an old brush from under the carcass!), on the lower eyelid, on the cheeks, glitter on the cheekbones and lips, transparent shine on the upper eyelids and other manifestations of excessive fantasy, the main thing is not to put on the best at once. It turned out to be fun and pleasantly diversified by short conversations at parties: now everyone is excitedly asking how to do the same.
About attitude
By 2015, I finally learned to take care of myself. A great lover of going into a working spirit and not getting up from behind a laptop until the dawn of the second Wednesday of next month, I began to reconsider the approach to such things. After the next attack of workaholism (lasted 7 months), I could not get out of bed for 17 days, I began to sleep more, drink less after work and never blame myself for being too lazy if she rolls. This, by the way, is contrary to the universal American aspiration to work until you die, then get up and work again. To me, this philosophy seems invented by unhappy people. I understand those who are passionate and passionate about ideas, but the bare cult of work seems unhealthy to me.
The body should be treated as the physical carrier of its ideas, emotions, and other wonderful things that make our life fruitful and interesting. Reserve body is not included in the package. Even if a spree-marathon or an emergency happens to me, I try to make time for rehabilitation, and I just have a rest a couple of times a year. During these weeks, I don’t care about anything at all, I don’t do anything and turn off the sound of my conscience and the telephone: the world has not yet collapsed because of these simple measures.
I try to tell people as often as possible that no health or beauty will work if they, for example, suffer from depression and do not want to cure it: even if you are adorable and fervent by nature, but there are plenty of demons inside you who hate you Neither the people around you, nor you yourself will consider you really beautiful and necessary. Therefore, I myself devote a lot of time to my psychological state. Besides, it is winter now and there is almost no sun, and I use a special lamp for people with seasonal affective disorder whom I suffer, and every January I dream only to sleep so that everyone lags behind and only pushes the double cheese pizza under my door. Maybe this is a placebo, but light therapy really invigorates. I do not understand how I lived without her in Petersburg, where I was almost ready to die without the sun.
And my grandmother always taught me that you should not just laugh at yourself, but laugh at it, then life and you yourself will be transformed every day. The easiest of all is for those who are not shy about falling through, breaking off and doing what they want, and allowing these luxuries to people around. I'm listening to a fool Niki Minaj and draw a crooked eyebrow. And I want to - botox vcolyu forehead and I will sing in Vaengu karaoke. This is such a feminist position: leave a woman alone, she will figure out what she needs.
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