Model Natasha Poly: why I put fresh strawberries all over my face

As we enter week four of mold month, one of the world's driving models uncovers everything she's found out about magnificence – from kneading her face each morning to washing her hair with bubbled onion skins



I have my mom's cheekbones. She didn't make a major thing of them when I was more youthful, however. She was a working lady and didn't focus on her looks. She wore a little pencil under her eyes, yet that was it. She likewise used to make her own garments. Keep in mind: this was socialist Russia, so you had no way out.

At the point when the Soviet Union crumbled [in 1991; Poly was six], everybody was discouraged. I have a memory of everything feeling dull and dim. We didn't recognize what might happen – my grandma lost every one of her investment funds. Despite the fact that we had more "choices", we were frightened. We were accustomed to dressing the same, to being equivalent; on the off chance that you had more than another person, it felt like you were flaunting. I adore that Russian design is in form now, and that Balenciaga is doing the entire 90s babushka thing – I need to get everything. Possibly that is peculiar.

Before I turned into a model [she was explored matured 15 in the place where she grew up of Perm, 1,200 miles east of Moscow], magazines felt like an untouchable world. Models were simply pictures, they were not genuine individuals. To me, magnificence, demonstrating ... it was not a genuine calling. Excellence and design set aside a long opportunity to contact us, so I took in the greater part of my traps from a 50s book my grandma gave me, in light of discussions between two housewives. I once bubbled up the dark colored skin of an onion and washed my hair with it to color it strawberry orange. It worked. I additionally figured out how to utilize water bottles as weights to remain fit as a fiddle and how to influence a hair to cover from egg (and from lager, which noticed quite awful). One thing that unquestionably works is putting crisp strawberries everywhere all over, similar to a cover. It's incredible on sunburnt skin as a result of all the vitamin C.



My normal now is still very straightforward and characteristic. I wake up with a puffy face, so every morning I knead it for 10 minutes, constant, with Laura Mercier rose oil. It's not very exhausting – I stroll around the house and do stuff like search for my charger, on the off chance that I've lost it. On the off chance that I am voyaging, I pack with one hand while I praise my face with the other. I do the sides of my neck which is useful for lymphatic seepage. You don't get issue in your fingers like you figure you would – dislike playing PC diversions. At that point I have a vast glass of warm water with lemon and I complete a Tracy Anderson exercise on a live stream. As a model, you need to have little, slender, conditioned muscles. Tracy knows how to lift your rear. She's bossy, yet she's over yonder, on the screen, so it's OK.

I don't wear cosmetics consistently. It's great to rest. In the event that I am wearing it, the things I generally utilize are Laura Mercier's mystery concealer, which I put everywhere all over; Anastasia eyebrow pencil; at that point a touch of powder to wrap up. That is it. I feel substantially more certain. In the event that I am on celebrity central, I form with Kevyn Aucoin's units. On the off chance that I am before a glimmer, at that point it's all out molding. I do whatever it takes not to dye my hair an excessive amount of any more. Displaying will obliterate your hair. I used to go to my lodging after each show and wash my hair since it was so destroyed from pressing and back-brushing. On the off chance that I was completing five demonstrates a day, that was five washes per day.

I wasn't permitted to utilize legitimate cosmetics until the point when I was 14 – and afterward it was simply mascara. At the point when my mum had gone to work, I would put on her blue eyeshadow and pink lipstick and go to class. You need to have a full look. None of my instructors said anything, which, thinking back, was very mean. Some of the time I would take a dark pencil and draw on my eyelids. I resembled a panda.

I used to smoke. That isn't useful for your skin. I don't know why I did it – it was never my thing and it influenced me to feel so terrible. Russians aren't extraordinary with sunscreen, either. I know it's imperative now, however when I was more youthful ...

I don't drink espresso and liquor in the event that I can – they likewise crush your skin – and at the present time I am completing a veggie lover eat less carbs for 10 days. I need to – on the off chance that I don't, I will pick, pick, pick at awful nourishment. Along these lines, I simply drink juice for a bit. To begin with, it feels just as you are passing on, at that point it shows signs of improvement. Being vegetarian isn't so terrible. Breakfast can be blueberries, sans gluten muesli with almond drain, a major serving of mixed greens for lunch and cooked vegetables for supper. Could it be any more obvious? Not all that awful.