One day in the life of a model, makeup artist and sex blogger
We continue to explore how people of unusual professions live in Moscow. Earlier we already talked about the usual activities of the actor "Gogol-center", street art artists and co-owners of petanque cafes. Wonderzine spent a new one-on-one day with the characters to find out everything about their lifestyle, and they, in turn, with the help of Instax instant printing cameras captured certain moments.
Marina Volga
model
About the mix of modeling and motherhood, spending the night in Nikola-Lenivets and the only way to get better
marina moments
I have been in modeling since I was 16 years old. A girlfriend brought me to the agency, from which I had been involved in volleyball since childhood (by the way, I brought it to volleyball), and somehow everything started spinning quickly - I immediately went to New York. Then I treated everything with youthful pofigizm - New York, so New York. For example, when I was in London and went to the Paul Smith show, I didn’t even know what kind of brand it was. Now I understand that for 17 years it was very cool - for three days in London I was chosen to show the brand, and for the advertising campaign, but then I thought only: "Mm, okay."
Now I get up every day at eight or nine. Before the advent of the child, it seemed to me that this was completely unsuitable for the usual, non-working day routine ...
Model business somehow naturally flowed into my life. Partly because I didn't have to break myself. I did not have nude filming, like many models. I started at 16, and my agent was categorically opposed to the girls at that age being photographed naked. In addition, I have big breasts, and at that moment when I started working, the combination of my face type and big breasts was not in demand. After school, I studied economics in the correspondence department, but I do not consider this an education to the full. I tried to somehow move away from modeling. She participated in different projects, often in the role of organizer. Literally on the eve of pregnancy, she worked in advertising in Park Production. Now my life is a mix of modeling and motherhood.
Who in 16 feels like a super beauty and accepts himself as he is? Over time, the shooting helped me to better know my body and open up. Working as a model made me more self-confident.
When I worked a lot as a model, I had a clear schedule only when I was flying abroad. For example, during a two-month trip to Singapore, I worked every day, sometimes even two days in a row without sleep. It's easier in Moscow: there is a house here, you can give up something, and there is a contract. Now I get up every day at eight or nine. Before the advent of the child, it seemed to me that this was completely inappropriate for the normal, non-working day routine. But when my daughter was born, I got used to it, and such rises became natural for me. I remember we went to Nikola-Lenivets with Glamor and stayed overnight there. I understood that I could just sleep right now, but still got up as usual.
Regarding growth, I never worried. Some doubts were about my nose, but as soon as I got into the modeling business, I was told: "Oh, class, this is character"
The first year after my daughter was born, I did not work. My daughter and I were one, spent all the time together: we went to visit the guests, traveled. That was great! The last three months of this period we spent with her in Thailand, and just there, when she was one year old, I realized that it became easier. We returned to Moscow, and I started shooting again. Now I am filming once or twice a week. I like to go on the shooting, because I am so distracted from everyday life and communication on "Mommash" themes. After the birth of a child, shooting ceased to be a job for me. Now it is a rest.
I do not like to stay at home - it's boring. With my daughter I always go to visit, for some classes, in the pool. But I do not take her with me on the set. Once we had a joint shooting, and the daughter was trying to get to my chest all the time in all possible ways, even without being in the frame. Then Olga Charandaeva, a makeup artist, saved the situation: she grabbed the child and took a bath in the bathroom with foam (we rented at the Four Seasons Hotel). I believe that such a hassle is useless, since you can leave your daughter with a nanny.
It seems to me that communicating with a child is the only way to become better ...
If I'm not with my child and not at work, I spend time with my friends. We are going, playing board games, going to the movies: watching a movie at a normal volume and not being distracted is great. At the same time at home, I do not watch TV at all - I advocate the complete weaning of the child from the gadgets. And I reviewed my presence in social networks, because it is possible to teach a child something by my own example.
A child changes a person, and for the better. It even seems to me that this is the only way to get better. Everything that is not good during constant communication with a child begins to emerge, and one must either get rid of it in oneself, or become a “stepmother” who is constantly dissatisfied with something and breaks down all the time in a child. As soon as I gave birth to my daughter, I felt unconditional love and began to relate differently to the world around. Immediately surfaced inner child. And it turned out to be very important to work out your own childhood in order not to follow the path of my mother, but to find and create your own parenting model. This is a great work on yourself, you have to dive into it. No, do not become a crazy mother, but just understand yourself, feel contact with the child. It now captures me the most.
Carolina Gofre
makeup artist, makeup artist
On emotions on canvas, 11 assistants and recipes grandmothers
Caroline moments
I went to study makeup artist in 2000, and since 2002 I started working as a makeup artist. Now I work mainly in advertising and with some actresses - with Maria Valerievna Aronova, with Elena Velikanova. Makeup artist and makeup artist are completely different professions. A make-up artist is more about how to draw a beautiful face, and a make-up artist can cut his hair, dye it, make plastic make-up, sew wigs, mustaches, beards. If I didn’t do my main business, I think I would write pictures. I paint in oils, I get such a strange painting. I do not participate in exhibitions - my paintings are just at home. This is a very personal matter. I throw emotions on canvas, but I never had the desire to show it to anyone.
Theater is not a little bit of mine. The specifics are too chambery, but I love changing places, something new every day. And the set, of course, is best suited for this.
The choice of profession, of course, influenced my lifestyle. Because life, besides the profession, is no more. I even have all my friends at work. We can go somewhere with them, but this happens very rarely. Mostly outside work I try to sleep.
I get up at four or five in the morning, have time to have breakfast at home, at six o'clock I leave for work ...
Shooting starts early, sometimes at six, sometimes at seven in the morning. We prepare artists for an hour or two, and then the filming process begins, which lasts about 12 hours. Sometimes there are daily shifts, sometimes even more. I come home at midnight or at one in the morning. If the next day there is a shooting, then I just go to bed. If it is not there, the night turns into a day for me: I cook, meet someone or watch a movie until the morning. For so many years I got used to my schedule. More than two days of rest in a row - and I immediately begin to panic: I urgently need work, I need to go somewhere, do something. But when the holiday is still given, I can go riding horses, go with friends to the forest. I can go to the cottage. And I love to cook - I collect recipes of girlfriends, grandmothers, and even bring them from travels.
In the sixth grade, my parents sent me to the gymnasium, and every weekend with the class we went to the theaters. I always sat down at the side and looked at what was going on behind the curtain - what was happening on the stage did not particularly interest me. And I always loved to draw. Since I was a student and I was not taken to the tenth grade, it was my mother’s wild happiness to send me anywhere. Apparently, it was just in this way that my dreams were fulfilled - I got to the drama college and began to study makeup artist. After him, I started practicing in theaters: at the Bolshoi Theater, the Pushkin Theater, and then I realized that the theater is a little bit not mine. There is an interesting make-up, interesting images, but the specifics are too intimate, and I love the change of places, every day something new. And the set is, of course, best suited for that.
I prefer short-term projects. You work for a few days - and you can go somewhere ...
My first project in the movie was the series "Bunker, or Scientists Underground" on TNT. The team somehow believed in me, although I had no experience - only theatrical, plus I was still a student. It was a shock, because I did not understand absolutely nothing. Interaction with artists - well, I was taught this in the first year, but I learned how to build relationships at the site, who the director is and what the makeup artist should do on the project. Nobody told me anything, I tortured the director and sometimes asked absolutely stupid questions. The fact is that the specifics of work in the theater and in the cinema is very different. In the theater, a long preparation, a lot of rehearsals, readings, and during this process, the artist creates an image. In the cinema, this is all accelerated: a month for the preparation of images, a month for the approval of artists. It became interesting to me, I continued in the same direction, but in the last three years I take less and less films. I have two or three pictures a year, but I try to minimize work on the site - I am more interested in advertising. The project on which I am currently working will last five days, and this is the course of working time that suits me most. For example, I worked for three days, and then I can go somewhere. In a normal, stable position, I have never been. My biggest project lasted probably a year. It was a big series on 200 episodes. I had 11 assistants-make-up artists in the state, on the day there were three sites - the artists constantly moved from place to place.
In the movie there is no such thing as a stylist. There is a makeup artist and costume designer. Naturally, we work in tandem, together with the director we come up with an image, draw up large mudbords with photos, sometimes we draw something by hand, we find some pictures on the Internet. The makeup artist must make the actor comfortable to exist in the chosen image. Sometimes it can be a plastic nose or enlarged jaws - imagine what it is like for a girl. But we all pronounce in advance, in addition, the actors of their character also think through, they know how to distinguish between personal life and work on the image. I was taught that the most important thing for an artist is to make it comfortable to play. A make-up artist is a person who releases an actor to the site. How the make-up artist releases the actor from the make-up room, with such a mood, he will go to play.
Tatyana Nikonova
journalist, sex blogger
On successful subcategory, Woody Allen and demands for orgasm
Tatiana's moments
My blog is already a couple of years old, at first it was a hobby, now I spend a lot of time on it. In addition, I write a lot in different editions - there are few experts in this topic, so there is enough work. Plus, in December, I launch workshops on the choice of devices. The first seminar will be held in a large sex shop, visitors will receive a discount on purchases, will compensate for the cost of the ticket. I will tell you how to choose toys depending on the type of orgasm, for masturbation or sex with a partner, about safe use, features of different materials, means for enhancing orgasm and increasing pleasure in the process - that is, basic things for beginners and those wishing to better understand the subject.
You can teach decent sex to anyone, more importantly, is there anything you can talk about while walking with your dog ...
I wake up, eat, walk the dog - I have a dachshund Lucas. Then I train with her, feed her, after which she goes to bed, and I work. I make calls, answer calls, write texts and do, in fact, product testing. Now I have also begun to read erotic literature and profile non-fiction: publishers have already sent me stacks of books, and soon I will start publishing reviews. If you need to do something urgent, I go out to work in a cafe and do not specifically take with myself the charge from the macbook so as not to be distracted. But I am indifferent to sports, I prefer to walk for a long time. If it is not very cold, in any weather we can go with the dog to the ravines of Neskuchny Garden and to the embankment, we spend hours there.
Another habit that the work at home has brought is to cook a bowl of lettuce in the morning and get fruit from the refrigerator.
This topic is delicate only as long as there is no language for such conversations. But since I have been discussing a subject for a long time, I have a suitable language. The description of toys on many sites of sex shops is written by people who have obviously never talked about this with anyone, they seem to blush: "This toy will take out your most intimate place, and you will be covered with waves of incredible pleasure." But the consumer from this absolutely nothing is clear, because we read the description in order to understand how to use it. For me, specifics and practicality are important. My goal is not to advertise the product. To the sentences "And let us tell you what our cool product is," I reply: "No, let me send it to me, and I will tell it as it is." An advanced user will always find both advantages and disadvantages, everything must be told - for some, specific disadvantages will be insignificant, or vice versa, everything is crossed out, because all people are different.
The replica of the man “So you are a fan of“ Doctor Who ”became a model of a successful strike! My favorite is the Tenth. I never even refused to refuse to meet. True, my favorite - the eleventh
About ten years ago I was taking medication with a side effect - anorgasmia, and with regular sex, everything became complicated. Then I bought my first, very small vibrator in the shape of a pig, and he helped me. I became interested, began to buy online on foreign sites, look for sales to buy a little more.
I spent a lot of money on sex toys, sometimes I consulted my acquaintances, and also found out a lot about sex by itself. And at some point I realized that it was easier to answer the same questions in a public space. Now I am contacting suppliers of toys, testing devices and accessories for sex, such as lubricants or lightweight BDSM paraphernalia. In the blog itself, I also answer questions about sex (they can be sent anonymously, answered several hundred already), give links to news about sex and sexuality, and publish a variety of quotes on topics. I constantly spend some time on non-commercial projects. Now I have two of them: "Pony and Rainbows" and Hey Grrl Shop. The first is a collection of quotes from discussions in social networks, demonstrating a cross-section of public opinion about "second-rate" people, that is, women, LGBT people, migrants, people with increased weight, poor people and so on (almost everything turns out). Hey Grrl Shop is a shop of T-shirts and souvenirs with prints, which are made especially for him by our designers. We all work for free, the profit goes completely to the help center for the survivors of sexual abuse "Sisters". By the way, you can transfer money to the center and just don’t need to buy a T-shirt.
I try to fit into the schedule of “five days in two”: it’s easier to meet friends who work in offices. I try to work no more than eight hours a day, although it happens rarely - if the topic is interesting, I forget about time. When a short break is badly needed during the day, I spread the yoga mat of a furiously pink color, I lie down and just do nothing - it helps to come to life. I switch with the help of music - I broadcast music performances from a laptop to a TV via Google Chromecast. I occasionally buy a subscription to the Metropolitan Opera archive, but there are also free options - interesting performances on The Opera Platform, and decent recordings even come up on YouTube. I regularly go to the conservatory and listen to the opera - including broadcasts in cinemas. Wagner, for example, is good, but five hours in a chair are much easier to carry if you are in uggs, a sweater, and with an inflatable airplane pad under your head. In a theater, you can't do that. I also like going to the movies - to Woody Allen and all the movies about superheroes.
The balance of personal life and work is still necessary to observe, otherwise one day you just can not get out of bed ...
Because of what I do, I stopped walking on his heels and wearing a bra. When you find contact with the body, it becomes difficult to walk with a large amount of cosmetics, with difficult styling, in uncomfortable clothes or shoes. But I started wearing only silk underwear - not because I am a smart woman, but because it is very pleasant and comfortable. I like men and are able to provide peace of mind. For me it is essential that a man does not smoke, understood my jokes and did not get scared when he discovered that I do not have high-heeled shoes. Тогда появляется вероятность, что мы сможем подружиться, а это главное для построения отношений.
Сейчас я сфокусирована на женской аудитории по нескольким причинам. Во-первых, основной российский покупатель секс-игрушек - мужчины. Они покупают их и в подарок женщинам, но выбор делают на свой вкус, поэтому вокруг столько страшных человекоподобных фалоиммитаторов с мошонкой с кулак и вздутыми венами. В результате, девушки даже не в курсе, что бывает что-то более разнообразное и не менее эффективное. The devices come across in the form of cupcakes, ice cream and even cats, glass, ceramic, metal, from different types of plastic and such forms in which you never suspect sex toy.
Secondly, orgasm is an essential part of life. My psychotherapist says that 90% of women who complain about the absence of orgasm have never masturbated in their lives. That is, they simply "pass" through sex, and this is terrible. And definitely does not strengthen family life. A woman who knows what she needs is more demanding, but also happier. In our country, as is usually the case: we imagine an experienced man and a young, unsophisticated girl, with whom he shows how everything works with her. But this is impossible. Not one, not even the most knowledgeable man, has such a comprehensive experience to show a woman how exactly she has everything. The situation is complicated by the fact that we still have some taboo on talking about female masturbation. I think if you use funny beautiful toys, which are far from naturalistic forms, stress decreases and it is easier to talk about sexual satisfaction.
