Artist Sonya Borisova about body positiv and favorite cosmetics
For category "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 care
If we talk about care, then everything is very simple: there are almost no rashes on my skin, even as a teenager I walked without acne. Of course, a pimple may jump once every three months, but I do not panic about it. In the mornings, I wash my face with a cleansing gel and apply cream, and in the evening I take off makeup cosmetics with micellar water, if I have it, I wash my face again and apply cream again. Once a week or two I make cloth masks and use a scrub.
Moisturizing is very important for me, and everything: face, body, cuticle, hair. This may seem ridiculous, but I cannot fall asleep from the feeling of dryness on my hands, so the jar of cream is always with me! It’s a pity that I haven’t found the perfect tool yet.
About nutrition and lifestyle
I think my skin behaves so calmly also because I have been eating well and fully, for about two years, not starving all day long, and not tearing myself down on sweets and fatty foods to nausea. In my diet should be as much as possible vegetables, fruits, nuts. I work from home, so in the afternoon, to warm up, I arrange for myself an hour of sports. Of course, I still eat chocolate, rolls and pizza, but I do it less often and more meaningfully. I really want to emphasize that this is my way and lifestyle in which I feel comfortable now: I respect other people and their way of life, I never climb into someone else's plate of moralizing.
About make-up and body positiv
I am an artist and illustrator, now I actively began to engage in street art, so bright contrasting makeup for me is rather a few more minutes of fantasy flight before leaving the house than a necessity. Now my work is closely connected with feminism, I give a special role to bodipositive. I have already told you what kind of health difficulties I faced in pursuit of an “ideal” and how I came to accept my body.
I used to paint purely "by the rules", but this year everything turned out differently: my own inner feelings, and creative breakthrough, and, of course, partly fashion influenced. Now I am not ashamed to glue glitter on my cheeks and go to the park to ride a skateboard or to paint my eyes with bright pink for a family meeting. A very important point is that it brings me joy and pleasure from the process, but at the same time I can not paint myself for a month and I will also feel good. So I don’t do everyday makeup now - I don’t need it: I dye brightly or in no way. My favorites are all shades of pink and red on the eyes that were once forbidden to me because of the fear of appearing "unhealthy" or "tearful." Now I do not care what I seem to other people - this is an incredibly pleasant feeling.
