Programmer Dmitry Chekaikin about your favorite cosmetics

FOR THE FACE "HEAD" we study the contents of beauty cases, dressing tables and cosmetic bags of interesting characters to us - and we show all this to you.

How I started using cosmetics

I saw what effect the make-up can give, what it can do to you, and I wanted to participate in it. I remember passing by a store with cosmetics, I went in and bought my first eyeliner. Sat pleased, smeared it - and everything went-gone. Then he bought a palette with shadows, brushes, lipstick. In fact, I have already accumulated a huge amount of absolutely unnecessary and inappropriate cosmetics. I bought it for experiments, something did not fit, and now it is lying around.

I am not a model at all, I don’t paint anyone, sometimes they just ask me to take part in the shooting, Wonderzine, for example, or my photographer friend says: "I want to shoot you, come on, let's think of something!" In general, I started painting in many ways with the filing of my friend Misha, he is very creative, expressive and quickly came to make-up. I watched him for a while, and then I also became.

I am inspired to experiment with appearances that most people around do not deal with them, they are locked in frames and stereotypes. What I do is a provocation. It’s not that I go out to the square without my pants, but if suddenly one person in a hundred sees me and thinks that it’s not necessary to meet the expectations of others, it will be cool. Maybe with such methods we will all live in a society where we will feel happy and comfortable.

About the reaction of people

I have a beautiful story that was repeated more than once. My friend and I were going to rave: total black, painted eyes, that's all. The rave was canceled, and we already know where the hell. We went to a bar nearby, there were such boys, one of them to me: "Hey, you, why do you paint your eyes?" And I answer: "Because it is beautiful," and I run away. The bottom line is that he was stunned by this answer: he expected that I would begin to justify myself, why I did not correspond to his ideas about the norm, but I did not. In general, the effect that is produced with these words is what I want.

In general, I am not comfortable being in make-up in public places, but these are my favorite moments. As I said, I like the provocation. I love it when I see the reaction of people and it is clear from their gaze that these gears creak, grind and try to process the information: "Why is this man made up? What is going on? What is wrong with my life?"

I was driving here to the studio for this shooting made up a taxi, the taxi driver turned his head at one moment, looked at me for a second, turned away, stopped talking. He was silent, then spoke. About music. That is, he somehow perceived this, perhaps this incident somehow influenced him. As if nothing had happened, I was sitting, discussing the way with him, because this is all normal, I wanted it, and I am myself. Naturally, it is not the best idea to make up on the outskirts of the city, but once I happened to make up a beard to go outside the Moscow Ring Road on an electric train. There it was all, of course, not so fun: some nervous teenagers passed by, whispering “what the fuck”, but everything worked out.

And my colleagues are amazing. It all started with the fact that the New Year we had a "Secret Santa", and the secret Santa gave me a set of mascara and eyeliner. I do not know, probably because I looked at my instagram. After some time, my friend and I recorded a couple of funny videos like "Frost paints Dakota", a couple of issues came out, and then colleagues came up and asked: "Dima, and when will be more? We want to watch!" It was so cute. A great rarity and a great success: besides the fact that I like my main job, the atmosphere that my colleagues create is something.

Favorite makeup

Make-up is now my hobby, but I would absolutely not mind if he somehow turns out to be a little more part of my life, because I like what happens as a result of all this activity. To be beautiful is great, and reincarnation is also great.

I watch drag queen, everything they do: sculpture, contouring, baking. Some details, especially the implementation of a specific make-up take everywhere a little. I saw something on a show or on the street and connect it. I usually experiment: I inspect my toolkit, imagine what things I can use together, and build something out of it. From celebrities I have no heroes, I do not fix on any one.

I love dark matte lipstick, black shadows, black eyeliner, all in the direction of cybergame. All dark turns out better, because if you add color, you need to be able to shade it well. And I dream to learn everything from makeup. The next stage is now - I still want to do a full sculpture of the face, rebuild it and see how the makeup makes you a completely different person. I haven’t succeeded yet, but I try, I try, because earlier I couldn’t really make up my eyes, but now it’s better. The more practice, the faster everything will turn out.