On the show “One to One” the singer easily performs complex acrobatic numbers and is not afraid to show her slender legs in shorts, and also believes that the absence of makeup does not add her years at all. Few know, while others, if they know, then hardly believe that Sviridova will soon be 52 years old. Antenna learned from the singer how she manages to look so young and fresh.
5 May 2014
I have not been involved in any kind of sports professionally. Only at the institute by swimming (the singer graduated from the music and pedagogical department of the Minsk Pedagogical Institute. – Approx. “Antenna”). But since childhood, she has always been the first in the class in terms of sports results. All the time I am drawn to the street – to run, play badminton, go ice skating. And I am so glad that I have just such a relationship with sports – in a playful way. Because if you keep a casual approach, with pleasure, it doesn’t bother you. But take, for example, a gym – here immediately the regime, approaches and so on. Plus it takes so much time – already on the road …
I often leave the car and go on foot – about forty minutes. We have a restaurant next to the house. Once I came there, the waiter said to me: “Oh, and we are watching you as you run.” I thought: where am I running? It turned out that when I go to the garage, I switch from a quick step to a run and do not notice! I run up the stairs too – I forgot about the elevators. Until now, the feeling that I am full of strength, and I try to maintain it.
Of course, when I was twenty, I didn’t have to do anything on purpose – I naturally got rid of the energy that was overflowing. Now sometimes I understand that I somehow pulls on the sofa with a book, a serial … And then I have to fight with myself: “Well, I got up quickly! Well, let’s go from home! ” This is not surprising – you get tired faster with age. But for now I have enough sleep to be ready to run again. Ideally, you need nine hours, but so that you will be in bed no later than eleven.
I haven’t practiced yoga yet. Mass psychosis for any reason has always aroused mistrust – and now everyone around is as if obsessed with yoga. I perceive this as an advertising attack. And I immediately want to do the opposite. But I love going to Thai massage. There you are stretched well, and it feels like you have worked out. When I am in a session, I always try to remember exactly how it is done. Then I try to repeat it at home – everyone is delighted. Everything crunches, falls into place!
I started a rug and a ball at home, I try to do exercises. Of course, it often depends on the daily routine … After all, the shooting is late, and in order to take your child to school, you have to get up at half past seven in the morning. But I advise everyone to follow the regime whenever possible. Because he is the key to everything! I remember that Boris Yeltsin told me – just at the moment when he pulled himself up well – that he had an iron daily routine, like in a pioneer camp. Therefore, at least on vacation, when there are no household chores, responsibilities, I get up at sunrise and go to bed at sunset.
Folk recipes – just for fun
When it comes to facial and décolleté skin care, I am always packed with all sorts of new products on the cosmetic market. Some I buy myself, others send or donate. I try to use a variety of means so that, on the one hand, the skin does not get used to it, and on the other hand, so as not to miss the “bomb”. Now pets have a moisturizer. As they say, I woke up, washed my face, pets-pets – applied the cream with a wide smear and ran. This is when there is no filming and heavy makeup – in this case, a whole arsenal is needed for the skin.
The make-up for the project “One to One” is plastic, the feeling is that it needs to be removed almost with acetone. In addition, my skin has a strange property – it practically does not sweat, which means that the make-up keeps to death! You have to rip it off, and it’s like epilation – they rip it out with a fuzz on your face.
I do not believe in urgent masks for skin rehabilitation. If you don’t get enough sleep, you have low blood pressure, nothing will help, no matter what you smear on yourself. But if I manage to sleep a couple of hours during the day, I wake up a different person.
Since the days of the Island project, where we had no cosmetics for 21 days, I fell in love with coconut oil. There we got it straight from coconuts. I smeared everything with it – face, body, hair. The effect was wonderful. Therefore, now it is always on my shelf. For the rest, modern cosmetology has bypassed all folk recipes. Unless I can also rub my skin with a cucumber – it narrows the pores. But, you know, if you smear the skin with any fruit, you will feel a fresh feeling. It’s rather funny – what I plucked in the country, I smeared it.
I have very thin skin, so I am afraid of any cleansing. And the trip to cosmetologists is tedious: you lie there, do nothing, time is running out. If I had walked, maybe it would have been more beautiful. I have a mirror that enlarges everything, I call it a black hole. And if I go up to him, it’ll be fucked up. All the horrors of “our town” are visible. Cleaning takes place on its own … I strongly advise against following my example.
Of course, the condition of the skin depends on what is included in the diet. But here I just try not to overdo it with sweet and fat. And the best thing, of course, is to listen to the body. Recently, I was struck by buckwheat. I cook it in a double boiler every day. And with a squeal I can eat all day. With olive oil and nuts. It’s hard for me to limit myself in something. Last year I tried to observe the fast and could not – immediately faded. And now I don’t eat meat easily. I think it is necessary to give the body what it wants. True, once he really wanted a bun … I ran to the bakery for a week until I started to vomit. And so the products in my refrigerator are always the simplest: fish, turkey, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggs, white cheese such as feta cheese.
For the last two years, I have not used makeup at all in my ordinary life. Because I noticed: in many ways, how you look depends on the color of the clothes you wear. I prefer light-colored things, they refresh me – I look like a normal, healthy person. The main thing is that the hairstyle is in order.
Here I take care of my hair in the most thorough way – much more than my face. And masks, and oils, only high-quality shampoos and balms. I came to the conclusion that when the hair is beautiful, well-groomed and styled, you can refuse to use decorative cosmetics – maximum lip gloss. As for filming, I already facilitate the work of makeup artists on them, because my hand is so full that ten minutes is enough for me to put on makeup for a photo shoot. I found the type of makeup that suits me best – a la the golden age of Hollywood. This is an arrow – not so thin enough, sculptural makeup of the eyelids – to lighten-darken, and no decorative flowers – shadows.
If the build-up, then only temporary
The only thing that make-up artists do for me is they glue my eyelashes. I don’t know how to do this myself. With artificial eyelashes, of course, the look becomes more open and, as they say, “sexy”. I consulted about eyelash extensions and realized that you can’t sleep with your face in a pillow, rub your eyes, wash yourself in a special way – it’s too much discomfort for me. Moreover, I already had an experiment with hair extensions. Nightmare. I lasted two weeks. I felt like I had, as I called it, the hair of a dead woman. Feeling of something alien. When they hit the neck, it was terribly unpleasant – as if the body had rejected them.
Plastic is scary. Of course, you start to think sometimes. Especially when the make-up artists begin to offer: “Let us braid your braids tightly, the skin will tighten.” This is a provocation to go to a plastic surgeon! I have seen many victims of plastic surgery and I do not want to be among them. But I have been doing Botox injections and fillers for a long time. I am lucky that I have a naturally thin face, it does not get better, so for now there is nothing to sag – there is no meat. And because of Botox, there are no wrinkles. When someone tells horror about Botox – muscle atrophy, motionless facial expressions – I correct: it’s a matter of quantity. But the mentality of a Russian person is this: he cannot do something in moderation. In addition, you need to contact professionals. I trust my doctor, the Frenchman Jules-Jacques Nabe. No matter how much they invite me to. Once every six months, a year, I come to him when he comes to Moscow. And for many years I have been asking, they say, maybe something new has appeared? And every time he answers: “Nothing.” Botox remains the most effective treatment. By the way, the doctor does everything so correctly that when I leave his office, you can even go to the ball right away. There are no bruises and swelling. If they are, it is not normal …
