Screenwriter Anna Karpova about hard work and favorite cosmetics
Under the heading "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.
Interview: Margarita Virova
Photo: Ekaterina Starostina
Anna Karpova
screenwriter
My favorite way to reboot is strategic shooters and games of the genre "survival horror"
About work
I'm twenty-eight, I'm a reporter and screenwriter for documentaries in the Amur Waves content company. Over the past six months, we filmed and aired the project “This is a real story” - nine powerful detective dramas about criminal cases in which it is not completely clear what happened, but real people are in prison. These are strong stories that everyone has their own truth, to understand this is hard and painful, but if this is not done, then pain and evil only multiply.
About holiday rituals
In order to get a good interview with a person experiencing traumatic events, a journalist must strive to make communication comfortable. Without trust nothing happens. With many heroes, I still maintain a relationship: they can write about the latest news on their business or just share something good or bad from their lives. This communication is sometimes too intense for me, and my resource begins to run out. It is impossible to make a film about the fire in “Winter Cherry”, after talking with the victims and witnesses, after watching the video from the burning shopping center watch, come home and fall asleep easily and soundly.
Therefore, I have my own rituals that help me recover - and this is not only a bath with salt and fir oil. My favorite and most effective way to reboot is strategic first-person shooters and survival horror games. Almost every weekend a friend comes to me, we open a pack of chips, turn on the console and for the next few hours we collect pebbles and pieces of wood in the forest to make a hatchet, with which we then make ourselves a refuge from a horde of zombies.
About skin health
I didn’t use decorative cosmetics until the age of twenty-three; I only covered acne with toner and drew my eyebrows. During puberty, I suffered terribly from rashes, then the skin's immunity finally collapsed, and I got demodecosis - an allergic rash due to the demodex tick. He lives on us, on our things, and on animals, but if the skin is not treated properly, it multiplies, and this causes an unpleasant rash. I tried to recover for a long time, thinking that I had rosacea or acne, but then I finally got to a good dermatologist and cosmetologist, I was given a ten-second test under a microscope and made the correct diagnosis. And then they brought my face in order - a course of cryotherapy and special ointments helped. Cryotherapy I still do from time to time: no longer in the fight against ticks, but for a healthy complexion and prevention of rashes.
Since then, the caring cosmetics I have more than decorative, and I also learned that not all decorative cosmetics cause clogged pores and comedones in prone to skin rashes: you just need to help her control the release of sebum, properly moisturize and avoid comedogenic substances in the composition . And frequent business trips taught me to painlessly collect a small travel cosmetic bag that easily fits my minimum: wash basin, squalane with retinol for the night, moisturizing cream with sun protection for the day, serum with niacinamide and zinc, concealer, mascara and blush in stick.
About meeting your face
When I, having cured my skin, reached lipstick, blush and eye shadow, I didn’t know what to do with it. I looked at other girls and did not understand why they emphasize their features so sharply and they look great, and I’m wearing make-up either ten years older or more like those guys who are given a liner in their hands and asked to repeat the arrows from the photo. Then I realized that, for example, colored arrows look better than the shadows in my eyes: I have a hanging eyelid, so the shadows in my eyes make the upper part of the face heavier - this can also look good and appropriate, but eyeliners more often fit your mood.
The worst of it was with the eyebrows: by nature, they are bright and not very thick. I tried everything that the industry had invented for eyebrows: from pencils and shadows to persistent gel tinth, which lasts a couple of days, even if you wash. I would dwell on the latter, if by the end of the second day its color did not turn from brown to red. In the end, I decided to powder spray, and this is my best beauty solution: eyebrows in place and in the pool, and after sleep. I only occasionally tint their powder on the mood, if you want to make a face more strictly. The first two weeks had to suffer with healing, but the main thing - do not be shy and not be embarrassed if something on your face flakes or is inflamed. It is better not to focus attention on this, simultaneously making everyone around you feel embarrassed by witnesses to something that looks like shame. You shouldn't be ashamed of that at all. On the seventh day after the procedure, when the crusts on my eyebrows peeled off noticeably, I had an interview shot, I combed my hair so that I could hide my eyebrows a little and acted as if it should be — if someone noticed something, then quickly I forgot about it.
