PR specialist Katerina Makarova about cosmetics and fragrances
FOR THE FACE "HEAD"we study the contents of beauty cases, dressing tables and cosmetic bags of girls of interest to us - and show all this to you.
About care
Since I have dry sensitive skin and I am older than the average heroine of this rubric, I have slightly different priorities. I choose denser textures and in the last two years I realized that it was impossible to live without serums. On the shelf I have to have oil, which is combined with whey, and a lot of different masks. These are three things without which it is impossible to live. Serums can be different, but as a rule, it should be something deeply moisturizing, with a lot of hyaluronic acid. I recently visited a wonderful French cosmetologist who said that even self-massage, which you do while you apply oil, is the key to success. Plus, she confirmed some rules of a healthy lifestyle, which I gradually come to myself: if you sleep 8 hours a day, eat healthy food, drink enough water, do massage (and use cosmetic oil as a basis for massage), someone loves you and you love somebody, you enjoy life and work, everything will be okay with your beauty. The older I get, the more I understand that beauty is a story not about magic means (well, and yet I have been doing makeup for more than 10 years). Our task is to preserve what we have and maintain a normal lifestyle, which is a matter of small daily choices. And if you have the choice to sleep or watch the series and you care about your beauty, you need not to put a mask on the morning and lie down early.
Although the masks I do quite regularly, because I do not have time to go to the beautician and I try to compensate for the salon care with home procedures. This may be a Plasma mask 27 times a week or a combination of peeling and masks from other brands. I can not say that I am a huge experimenter, as a beauty editor, - I still have restrictions on a certain impact, I can not use aggressive scrubs for example. So if I need to try something, I often choose the means for the body - the fact that I am not so fragile. Before, I calmly ignored them, but now at least once a day, I put on oil or lotion.
I was recently presented with the FOREO gadget, I was skeptical about it, but I started using it with Cosmetics 27 balsam, and it turned out that the peeling can now be done less frequently. By the way about peeling: if you do not do it once a week (or do not use a replacement agent), the rest of your efforts are completely in vain. I have a beautiful story about this: I came back from Bali, where I brought everyone's favorite Crème de la Mer, honestly smeared it and returned with dehydrated skin. Terribly upset, came for the first time in Cosmotheca, and there they explained to me: when you sunbathe and do not peel (and who will wash the tan of their own accord), the nutrients do not get to the skin. With age, this problem becomes even more pressing.
About appearance
I haven’t been experimenting with makeup for a long time, and when makeup artists paint me, I don’t recognize myself. I am a terrible conservative, but not very worried about this. I have been going to one hairdresser for 12 years, it suits me that he is fully delegated responsibility for my hairstyle. Not that he has been cutting me the same way all these years - he somehow knows how to see what I am now and modify the hairstyle. In this case, the hair is well even after a month and a half, and no one notices whether I cut my hair or did not cut it. I do not like it when they say "oh, new haircut!" - everything should be good always. And experiments with staining ended with the fact that I painted my hair exactly the same and decided that I should stop at that. I like everything bright on others, but it seems to me that nature does not just put everything in my appearance.
About aromas
With fragrances not like with make-up, because they are like clothes and it is very important for me to have something to choose from — and I don’t collect perfume. If I don’t wear any fragrance, I try to find another owner for him, because I treat them with reverence. I used to have much more bottles, about a hundred, now there are specific things that I wear. Of course, flavors are rotated depending on the time of year; Very rarely something is added: two new fragrances per year are just a lot. I know pretty well what I like and what not. Before, I even drove tubes with different smells on trips - my every day. Now this is no longer a game, I just know what I feel comfortable with. Choosing fragrances is always a story about what a particular smell does to you and whether it helps you feel the way you want it.
Rarely are there flavors with which you feel comfortable living the life that you live. Now, before I buy a bottle, I always listen to him for a long time. There are things that I really like, sometimes I buy them and give them to friends, on whom they sit well, then to listen to them. It's like a work of art that you can like, but absolutely not everything can be hung in your living room and looked at it every day.