Beauty editor of The Blueprint Maria Chekalina about 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.
On conscious care
I have sensitive, prone to fat, pigmentation and redness of the skin - all the "joy" at once. Therefore, it is important for her cleansing, moisturizing and sun protection. In the morning it is micellar water, eye cream, antioxidant serum, moisturizing serum, and then SPF moisturizer. In the evening - cleanser, micellar water, again eye cream, regenerating serum (now anti-couperose) and night cream. Constantly in my locker are three brands: La Roche-Posay, SkinCeuticals and Ultraceuticals. I love face masks, I have a lot of them. I like the fact that more and more three-minute devices appear, for example, oxygen Bliss or Night Wear Plus in Estée Lauder. Sometimes it is difficult for ten to fifteen minutes to lie still, especially when you apply three consecutively (my salvation in the morning after the party).
I am in favor of listening to cosmetologists and other experts, but first of all I listen to myself: I selected all the care intuitively. There are no bad and good means, there are not working with your skin. For example, in my La Mer cosmetics, the skin reacts with rashes - apparently, an allergy to some component, and in my girlfriend from the same cream, the scars on the face healed faster.
About extremes in makeup
As a child, I remember a character from the book "Ozma from the Land of Oz" - Princess Langvider. She had a wardrobe of thirty heads, one for each day of the month. Each had its own eye color, shape of the nose and lips, texture and shade of hair, skin tone and character. It's a dream - every day you can change and play a new role; This function is performed by makeup for me - I set the desired mood with the help of cosmetics. The application process itself is like meditation, there are no other thoughts at this moment. On the other hand, I love painting, but I do not know how to draw with dignity, so the face is my canvas.
Often I go to extremes: either makeup is nude (in my case it’s five to seven products, otherwise I’m a man without a face), or glitters, dark lipstick, bright colors. If I met a man when I was very made up, the next time he might not recognize me. I found my first make-up scheme in the magazine Yes !, therefore I still believe in the use of the materials “how to do such and such make-up”. Although inspiration can be found everywhere: at the university I wore crimson shadows with a black eyeliner around my eyes - I peeped at Olga Shelest in one of the editions of The Cheerful Morning. After the opera promenade, The Queen of Spades pulled out flickering shadows and highlighter from the depths of her beautician’s makeup — inspired by the image of the main character. I did not use lipstick until I was twenty-five years old, until I got to work in Glamor magazine and did not find suitable shades; before that, any lipstick made me a porn star. The search for the desired shade of eyebrow products ended only four years ago - the powdery shades of the MAC shade of the Omega shade became ideal.
As for the manicure, the blue color for me, as for many - red: a universal and not annoying look. With nail design, I played enough at school: at thirteen years after resting in America, I returned with a Kiss nail art kit. There were six bottles with thin tassels, and I drew myself on the nails of the island with palm trees, electric guitars and patterns (Burberry cage, for example), which I looked for inspiration in fashion magazines. All friends and colleagues know that I need a large selection of shades, so I am looking for resistant tools in a wide range of Essie, Christina Fitzgerald, Smith & Cult. I do manicures mostly at home on my own, and I go to the salon if necessary and only on the unedged one.
About dermatitis care
It is not the first winter that I experience only with La Roche-Posay Lipikar body balm, because with the advent of cold and heating, atopic dermatitis appears. Tried other moisturizers, only Lipikar saves and it is the balm. At other times, I use different brands of body creams to maintain elasticity. I don’t touch them with scrubs, the principle of “better less, yes better” works with my skin. I love any massages, the best in Mandara Spa, Chavana Spa, Decleor Spa by StandArt, Natura Siberica and BeYoga studios.
About changeable flavors
Perfumery for me - an endless journey into the world of smells, like food - into the world of tastes. I'm still looking for something new, because my preferences change over the years. I used to love only fresh light aromas: Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue - my first long love. Then came the perfume with a soft skin tone, such as Tom Ford White Suede. Now I'm a big fan of Atelier Cologne. Its creators, husband and wife, manage even to make oriental chords easy and not suffocating. Even if I myself will not use all the flavors of the brand, I am able to appreciate how cool they sound. Now I have two smells: Camelia Intrepide and Mimosa Indigo, - but I put one of my friends on Atelier Cologne so that he already has four fragrances of the brand.
About healthy lifestyle
Ten years ago I learned from a friend what he was doing to look good after thirty. He said: "I do not drink, do not smoke, eat little, sleep a lot." It turned out he lied, but the formula works. I try not to abuse alcohol, get enough sleep and eat right. On my desktop there is always a glass bottle with water, so as not to forget to drink during the day. Water is what I start the morning with, and what is always at hand - in the office, plane, hotel.
I started eating properly even at fourteen, thanks to women's magazines: then a green salad appeared in the family refrigerator for the first time, then I was the first to abandon mayonnaise even for the New Year. In general, I try not to sit on “fast” diets, although there were such times, but simply to eat healthy food, eliminating soda, mayonnaise, and fast food from the diet. But there must be a balance in everything, so a juicy burger with a pint of cider in the pub is my gilty nod.
I regularly play sports, but I constantly try something and try to get used to systematicity: I went to tennis and yoga at school, then to fitness, I was fascinated by body ballet for a few months, the last six months was cycling. But my main load is brisk walking. I walk and take the subway at a very high speed - this is also a kind of cardio. When I remember, I do gymnastics in the morning or twist the hoop for twenty minutes, and the plank helps reduce back pain.
Over the past year, I fell in love with herbal tea instead of tea: with chamomile or mint - for the night to calm my nerves, in the morning - with cinnamon for vigor. In a good sense, I am addicted to aromatherapy: sometimes I take a relaxing bath with essential oils or spray spray in the room with them. Somehow even facilitated a runny nose without drops: she did steam baths with essential oils of eucalyptus and pine in the morning and evening - and with the lethargy of the body after a cold she struggled with echinacea tincture.
