Artist Kristina Galochkina about self-expression and 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.
About care and awareness
Unfortunately, I am not one of those who are friends with my body, take care of it, take it to the procedures and feed it with germinated wheat. Our relations are approximately like this: I will create everything I want, and please try not to die. Everything within reason, of course, on purpose I don’t pour arsenic into my pasta. But rather, I belong to the category of people who will only call an ambulance or go to the dentist only if they die. Of course, with age, the approach is still becoming more conscious, and by the age of twenty-six, I had mastered the minimal culture of self-care. We must pay tribute to the body, because with all the pofigizme he lasted well.
Until recently, my care consisted of fragrant soap and fluffy towels. When I realized that my skin was prone to dryness, I excluded the products containing soap and began to exfoliate it and moisturize it humanly. Now I try to adhere to the following scheme: washing with foam or hydrophilic oil, tonic, moisturizing cream for the face and skin around the eyes. Periodically add masks, serums, etc., depending on the condition of the skin. But in general, if at my work schedule the hands reach the mask, then this is, of course, a holiday. Sometimes I get so tired that I fall asleep with my face on the pillow, then I wake up in the middle of the night and go to wash myself.
About make-up and creative freedom
In my everyday make-up, if his hands reached him, it is imperative to draw eyebrows and apply blush. In general, my features are bright, and I like to emphasize the contrast between a pale face and black eyes and eyebrows. I don’t use the foundation, but under the eyes I apply concealer. Blush pick up under the shade of hair. I do not use complicated ways of shading shadows, because with such make-up I feel like a crazy empress, but I like techniques that make my eyes “sharp”: colored thin arrows, colored upper and lower eyelashes, eyelid laid out with glitter. I love glitter - I can fill up all my cheeks and go to work.
Previously, I would not allow myself such make-up courage, but it is worth driving a couple of times to “Armu”, and you are already in captivity! It’s great that we lived to see the time when a bold and brilliant ideas finally had an understanding viewer. Every time I stop in delight when a radiant alien woman swims past me to the music. Sequins and raves - a huge love.
About colored hair and self-expression
Unusual perception of the world - part of my profession, and it implies an unusual appearance. You come, for example, on the fourth floor of the institute, and there hair of all colors of the rainbow, tattoos on faces, bruises under the eyes, like oceans, and you understand - artists. However, in the most rebellious time of my youth, I sang in the church choir and dreamed of painting icons, so my only makeup tool was hygienic lipstick, which I smeared fatter to make it shine. Only closer to the end of the art school, I decided to cut off my braid to the waist, after which my parents told me not to show their eyes until the hair grew back.
I really came off when I entered VGIK and understood that there are no limits to my creativity and self-expression. I wanted a fire in my head - I became red, I wanted lightness - I became blonde and cut my hair "under the pot." I wanted to bring attention to myself to the point of absurdity - I painted my head in acid-pink and realized that nothing had ever happened to me better. Colored hair is a powerful therapy, at first it works as a cool way of dealing with complexes, and eventually it becomes a way of life. I tried all shades from crimson to lavender and stopped on pale pink. It's nice that after washing your head you get a new shade. Now I paint myself, mixing the balsam with the tone, and it turns out even better than in the salon. The quality of the hair, of course, suffers from lightening, but now there are a lot of means to minimize losses. I don’t understand how they used to live without Olaplex: I don’t know how this thing works, but it really gives a new life.
Experiments with appearances were never a protest for me. As an artist, it has always been pleasant to me to make things my own, to paint them in a special way, to expand the scope of my work, therefore I also perceive the body as a canvas. Make-up, piercing, colored hair, clothes, tattoos - these are all the materials with which you write yourself, your main picture, if you want. The main thing is to achieve harmony between the external and the internal, to feel comfortable in your image, then it will be perceived as an extension of the personality.
