PR manager Sasha Petrova about irony and favorite cosmetics
For "Available" 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
My skin is capricious, like a musician with a four-sheet rider. Over the year, a person goes through a lot of changes: from dehydration and dryness to fat content with acne. If earlier I was very worried, then in the past few years I have taken this as an excuse to try something new and try to find the perfect tools.
For the body I prefer to do the massage with a dry brush - this is a proven way to disperse the blood and make exfoliation. And, of course, scrubs - I immediately feel at least luxurious! Then use a fatter cream (in winter) or aloe-gel (in summer). This is the real bliss, when you can at least once a week, without haste, arrange a resort at home. Or not at home, which is even better.
With the face everything is also very simple: cleansing and moisturizing, the main thing is to do it right. Sometimes I arrange for myself an ionization course with the help of a funny device that was presented by friends of parents from China. It has long been a fan of masks: for the most part I prefer cloth, I use them a couple of times a week. It is important to listen to your skin and understand its needs. I tried, probably more than a hundred. For a while I really liked the idea of everything natural, "without parabens." But, having understood what was happening, I quickly refused to do it.
About healthy habits
For more than a month I have been doing meditation with the Insight Timer application, quite a bit, ten minutes a day every morning - this helps me to maintain concentration and balance throughout the day, although at first it seemed that nothing was happening. I love yoga: practice also helps me to keep balance, concentration and distractions from what is happening around. In the summer I ride on the board, I even try to get to work like this - this is where my love for sport ends. Sometimes I try to get out to the spa or bath, and every time I promise myself to do it at least once a month. The main bonus after the bath is the state in which you are ready to move mountains! But nothing can replace sleep. I work a lot, so sleep and rest for me is worth its weight in gold.
I am very glad that I almost stopped drinking coffee in unbelievable quantities, replacing it with spirulina in the morning - a dubious substitution, of course, a swamp instead of a tasty and aromatic drink, but I think that I feel much better. The main thing is respect for yourself, your own time and your body. As soon as you come to this, the banks fade into the background, becoming helpers, a nice addition. It is important to feel happy. Would you like a brownie with stout, go to a rave or go to your grandmother's cottage? It is easy, if it makes me even a little bit happier - and, as a result, I feel and look great.
About make-up and experiments
I passionately love cosmetics, and it seems to me that it would be so, even if I was not connected with the industry. I like to follow American indies, bloggers, makeup artists - they set the tone for the entire market today. From local events, I like the trend of simplification. For example, Telegram - in these blogs everything is clear, clear and there are no perfectly licked pictures. I am pleased to follow the news of Moore Soboleva, the work of Masha Vorslav and teachers from the school of Chilly Dash - by the latter I am even thinking of enrolling in a basic course. I also like Nose Rebublic's perfumery channel of Ksenia Golovanov.
Many years ago, at the dawn of my career in beauty, I had to listen to a whole lecture about how I couldn’t paint myself, and after a few days the beauty director Vogue admired my shooters. In both cases, I was with the same makeup. This I mean that you will not please everyone - and why bother trying to please anyone with your make-up at all? I think that you only need to listen to yourself: if you want, you come to the meeting without make-up, and if you want, you go to the market to buy groceries in full dress.
Since childhood, I treat cosmetics with irony. When I was four years old, I locked myself in the bathroom to make cakes from my mother's hair mousse, watered the furniture with Armani chypre and drew Dior palettes on wallpaper and dolls. Experiments with make-up began about ten years ago, while I lived in the States — I could not pass by the shelves with cosmetics in CVS and not run into Sephora. I love the make-up completely different: today it can be colored eye makeup, tomorrow the eyes will remain intact, but I will have blood-red lipstick on it, and in a few days it can be light art. For me, makeup is a game, experimenting with cosmetics and myself. It is enough to understand what you want and be able to work with your face.
