Anna Semenovich: beauty secrets

Glitter and well-groomed eyes.

If so, then the woman needs to understand what makes her unhappy and change her life. If the wrong man is nearby, then you need to find another. If she is tired, she must go to rest. You must first of all love yourself, not the environment. In an ordinary, average family, a woman lives according to the principle “everything for her husband, everything for the children.” She thinks about herself last, and this is wrong. You can read psychological books, do yoga, oriental dances, lose weight or gain weight (who needs what), do what has always been postponed until tomorrow. Stop postponing desires! Life is fun!

Actually, I’m an optimist, but, of course, you need to create the mood yourself. Waking up in the morning, no matter what happens – I didn’t get enough sleep, I got sick, I am late for work – I try to smile and enjoy the new day. I get up, make coffee, pour a bath, lie in it, and my mood improves.

Necessarily with baths and face masks. I need them to wake up just like my morning coffee. I pour sea salt into the bath. I buy one of the cheapest that is sold in pharmacies. Such a bath improves metabolism and draws out excess water that is retained in the body during sleep. While I lie in the bath for 20 minutes, I put a mask on my face. Every day I choose different ones: cleansing, moisturizing, lifting. I really love the Valmont collagen mask. Then I apply a moisturizing or firming cream from the same company. I switched to Swiss brands of face products for a long time. At one time I tried Japanese, but they did not suit me.

I love the smell of lavender, but in general I think that the cream should be with natural ingredients, so it can be completely odorless or with a slight natural scent. I use body cream both in the morning and in the evening. I love Biotherm Body Moisturizer with an invigorating orange scent.

Yes, I use products for the décolleté area, they are present in any decent brand, but I don’t have one favorite. I change creams all the time, because the skin gets used and the effect decreases. It is advisable to change cosmetics every three months or at least every six months.

Yes. But I was lucky, friends recommended both the salon and the beautician. I have been going to the beauty club “Place in the Sun” for about ten years.

Once a week. Every time a beautician selects a program for my face. Be sure to do a moisturizing, or firming, or lifting mask and massage, such as Spanish. With it, the effect goes to the deepest muscles of the face. I clean my face once a month. Recently I tried mesotherapy and hyaluronic acid injections. They perfectly regenerate the skin after a long winter.

Depends on genetics. The girl is 25 years old, and her skin, alas, can be like that of a 35-year-old. And someone can start injecting at the age of 25, while it is too early for someone at 40. In general, I do not see anything wrong with applying moisturizing injections or botox. Plastic surgery is another matter. About ten years ago, many girls walked around with the same doll-like faces: big silicone lips, small nose, redrawn cheekbones. You come with your friends to an expensive restaurant and see: only clones are sitting around. A frightening sight. I am against such plastic. A person is interested in his individuality. And to rejuvenating plastic procedures, for example, to a circular lift, I believe, it is necessary to resort to already at a very mature age. And that’s okay too. All people want to look younger than their age.

I use a hand scrub three times a week, apply cream in the morning and evening, and once a week I do a manicure in the salon. I like either a jacket or a flesh-colored varnish. It’s more cultural. I rarely wear dark or bright varnishes, especially I do not like red, fuchsia. Now the trend all over the world is to take off the tinsel and be natural.

I love wraps with spirulina algae, it removes excess water, toxins, moisturizes the skin, improves blood circulation and promotes weight loss. After wrapping – massage. Since I, like a former athlete, have a fairly pumped-up body, my muscles require a strong impact. Once a week, I definitely do a full body sports massage.

As the host of the “Young Lady and the Culinary” program on the “TV Center”, in each issue I advise women some folk recipes for self-care. For example, I recommend banana masks. They may not work as efficiently as the already prepared cosmetics, but they still help. And there are those that work even better. When I need to quickly get rid of swelling, I rub half a potato, put this gruel on my face and lie down for 10 minutes. The swelling goes away. No professional mask gives such a quick effect.

Smooth tail. I believe that long hair adorns a woman. I don’t have a hairstyle per se, but my hair length allows me to style them in different ways, to let them loose.

Almost every day. Now I use shampoo and conditioner from the English professional brand Philip Kingsley. They have a good moisturizing Elasticizer mask. I put on different masks twice a week, one moisturizing, the other nourishing, so that my hair gets complete care. My second favorite hair cosmetics is French Kerastase. Artists rarely go to the hairdresser, they are combed and styled on the set. When I need to dye my hair, I go to the French salon Dessange.

Giorgio Armani Excellent Sense Foundation

If I just go to the store, I don’t put on makeup, I just powder my face a little bit with a large brush so that it doesn’t shine, and put on lip gloss. I have a good saturated pigment, and I do not like brightly painted lips, so more often I even use lip balm rather than gloss. If we are going with friends to a concert, to an exhibition, to a cafe, then I apply a light Giorgio Armani foundation on my face, it evens out the skin, on the cheekbones – a little pink MAC Extra Dimension Blush, on the eyelashes – Chanel mascara. Chanel recently released an interesting mascara, very thin, it only slightly tints the eyelashes without overloading them. I try to look natural and never paint my face brightly. And for filming, where it is necessary to increase the volume of eyelashes, I use Diorshow mascara from Christian Dior.

La Prairie Moisturizing Hand Cream with light texture and natural alpha hydroxy acids, Clarins powder, natural lip color matching gloss and MAC balm.

La Prairie Cellular Hand Cream

I always have my usual packages of cosmetics with me. I think that it is unacceptable even for one day not to make a face mask or not to smear a face with cream. I am indifferent to smells, especially since I am allergic to them. Heavy, harsh, especially vanilla, can give you a headache. But I use a light perfume, lately I like perfume from Cartier.

Economy class salons are normal

There is only one diet for everyone – shut your mouth and exercise. I’ve been on a diet all my life. I do not eat after seven in the evening, excluded sweet, flour, fried. I love the salmon and cod steamed fish cakes that my assistant prepares. If we suddenly overeat, then the next day I sit on kefir and green teas. You can drink two liters of kefir per day. I have a cool attitude to alcohol, especially since it consists of carbohydrates and sugar and retains water. I drink once or twice a week a glass or two of dry red wine, no more.

I work out at home on a treadmill and simulators. When I have time, I set aside 1,5 hours for classes – I walk along the path for an hour, and then I swing the muscles of the body, especially the press, back, hips.

I like Asia – Bali, Thailand, good spas in the Maldives. On vacation I try to go to procedures every day that give an opportunity to rest both my nerves and my body. In Bali or Thailand, it is good to do a four-hand massage and on the points of the legs. The meridians of our internal organs are located on the feet.

Breathing has been harmful for the last hundred years. Everything should be done in moderation. Since I am dark, I rarely get burned. But I use sunscreen, try to sunbathe – before 12.00 and after 15.00. I take different sunscreens for every trip: Clarins, Sisley, Shiseido. I smear my face with a cream with a protective factor of at least 30 and sunbathe with glasses so that there are no wrinkles under the eyes. I put a bandana on my head.

Take care of yourself. A woman with unwashed hair and peeling manicure looks extremely unattractive. There are a huge number of cosmetic lines that are sold in pharmacies, there are economy class beauty salons. They do the procedures no worse than in expensive salons. Take time for yourself!

Wash your face morning and evening with unsweetened black tea. Use a soda solution as a whitening lotion: stir 6 teaspoons of baking soda in a glass of water and rub it over your face a couple of times a day. Also scrub. Grind the eggshells thoroughly (preferably with a coffee grinder) and mix with milk until the consistency of sour cream. After scrub, wash with warm water and apply cream. This face scrub contains a lot of calcium and is good for whitening the skin, removes age spots and leaves your face clean.

For a firming and moisturizing hair mask, mix 2 egg yolks, 2-3 teaspoons of lemon juice and a few drops of burdock or olive oil. If your hair is brittle, rub a mixture of equal parts kale, lemon and spinach juices into the hair roots. Well washed and nourished hair decoctions of chamomile, nettle, coltsfoot. To prepare such a decoction, pour 500 g of medicinal herbs with 0,5 liters of boiling water, leave for 15–20 minutes.

Since I was part of my life all the time on skates, my legs hurt a lot. My grandmother told me: “You take the onions, scald them with boiling water, divide them into leaves, put your legs and bandage them for two hours.” And it works!