Olga From The Pure Faces on Pure Options For Youthful Pores and skin

Have you ever heard of face taping?

When you have, it’s most likely due to Olga, founding father of The Pure Faces aka @naturalfacebible. After intuitively avoiding Botox 20 years in the past and changing into obsessive about pure magnificence practices, Olga is proof that you simply don’t must spend a ton of time or cash on invasive procedures.

From face taping to standard traits she’s truly in opposition to, she is right here to inform us all in regards to the energy of pure options to attain youthful, wholesome trying pores and skin.

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Introduce your self to The Skinny Confidential viewers.

Olga: Hello beauties! I’m Olga however you would possibly know me as @naturalfacebible on social media. I’m 49, primarily based in Los Angeles, and the founding father of The Pure Faces. I concentrate on a pure strategy to skincare, magnificence, and growing old – and I’ve by no means had Botox.

In my late 30s, lots of my pals started exploring Botox. I didn’t know a lot in regards to the attainable dangers again then, however one thing about it didn’t really feel proper. Possibly it was instinct or my pure strategy to magnificence and wellness.

On the similar time, I used to be beginning to really feel involved in regards to the strains forming on my brow. I didn’t wish to ignore them, however I additionally didn’t know what pure options have been out there. That curiosity led me to facial therapeutic massage and I turned immediately fascinated. I ended up enrolling in skilled facial therapeutic massage colleges and ultimately touring to Europe and Russia for hands-on coaching. It was throughout these early programs that I used to be launched to face taping and I used to be hooked from day one.

That was practically 9 years in the past and what began as curiosity became a deep ardour. I went on to review quite a lot of superior methods together with buccal therapeutic massage, face taping, osteopathic strategies, and craniosacral remedy. Seeing the transformation in my very own face and well-being made me a real believer within the energy of pure magnificence practices, and I knew I needed to share my data with others.

Please give us a top level view of your journey and the way Pure Faces got here to be?

I began a TikTok account in 2020 eager to share my pure strategy to skincare and options to Botox. One of many first movies I posted was on face taping, a technique I had been utilizing for years. It went viral however not with out controversy. On the time, face taping was nearly unknown within the U.S., and the video stirred up a number of confusion, criticism, and even hate, particularly from injectors and skeptics.

However I saved sharing what I knew and progressively a supportive group fashioned. As curiosity grew, so did the questions on what merchandise I used and the place to get them. That’s what impressed me to begin The Pure Faces. The largest problem was sourcing my go-to face tape. It took practically a 12 months to construct the suitable relationships and convey the high-quality, genuine Japanese face tape I had been utilizing in my very own apply to the U.S. Right this moment, that very same tape is trusted and cherished by hundreds world wide.

On the time, the pure strategy to skincare and growing old wasn’t practically as standard as it’s now. I observed a number of artificial, low-quality merchandise being marketed to youthful generations and I needed to supply another. I noticed a rising want for a extra pure strategy to magnificence, one that’s rooted in simplicity. I created my store to share straightforward routines and high-quality merchandise that truly work. My love for holistic strategies, particularly conventional Japanese magnificence rituals, turned the inspiration of The Pure Faces. 

You’re identified for face taping. What would you inform somebody who’s simply getting began? How lengthy till they’ll see outcomes?

What I would like folks to know is that the actual face taping technique isn’t just a magnificence instrument but additionally a robust wellness instrument. When practiced accurately, it could possibly provide unimaginable help even for considerations like neck stress, TMJ ache, complications, post-op swelling, and a lot extra. However that’s the important thing – it must be actual face taping and never the face patch “stickering” development that’s sadly taken over social media within the final 12 months. What units face taping aside is that by strategic and correct placement, it really works with the physique to enhance tissue capabilities and never simply quickly masks aesthetic considerations on the floor.

I usually get requested how lengthy to see outcomes but it surely varies. I all the time encourage folks to take a look at the “Earlier than/After” spotlight on my Instagram to see among the actual outcomes from my group. Some folks could have seen enhancements in just some days or perhaps weeks, and others it could be months. The timeline is determined by many elements together with your expectations, your tissue’s capacity to reply, the severity of the difficulty, your every day habits that both help or decelerate the therapeutic course of, and so on. However consistency all the time pays off!

What’s your desert island skincare product? You possibly can solely take one factor!

Wow that is exhausting! I might need just a few but when I needed to decide only one, it might undoubtedly should be my face tape. How may it not? It’s extremely versatile and goes method past wrinkle management. I can use it to defend focused areas like my nostril or brow from the solar, which not solely provides me SPF safety but additionally helps forestall squinting, which results in frown strains and different wrinkles. If my neck will get stiff or tense I can apply the tape there for aid, and similar for TMJ aches and complications. I may even use a small piece for mouth tape at night time.

Are there any wellness practices or habits that you simply swear by to maintain a youthful look?

Completely. Behavior quantity #1: Keep away from pointless magnificence procedures or therapies. As a lot as we wish to beautify ourselves, these therapies usually setback our facial tissue vitality and correct capabilities that finally result in untimely age-related modifications. And that can even prevent some huge cash higher used for a trip.

Listed below are my free magnificence and wellness practices that may take your magnificence lots additional: Correct tongue posture, physique posture, and every day physique motion. I additionally strongly consider in sustaining a comparatively secure physique weight all through (after all excluding pure fluctuations like throughout being pregnant). The pores and skin is deeply affected by frequent weight modifications (and I’m not referring to 5-10 pound fluctuations), however the extra substantial ones usually brought on by yo-yo weight-reduction plan. 

Lastly is preserving a optimistic, youthful mindset. And don’t neglect to inform your face and pores and skin “thanks” and “I like you.”

Stroll us by how you’d manually launch stress from the face and jaw at residence in 5 minutes.

For those who solely have 5 minutes, right here’s an excellent easy trick I usually do within the evenings to soften the day’s stress away. Seize a luxurious towel and run it underneath sizzling water, then press and maintain it in opposition to your jaw space, cheeks, and my private favourite is over your eyes. Let the warmth soak in and repeat because the towel cools down. It’s quite simple however in just some minutes you’ll really feel fully reborn.

For a good deeper launch, you’ll be able to observe up with just a few buccal therapeutic massage strikes (from contained in the mouth) to focus on jaw stress, and a mild eye therapeutic massage to appease pressure from screens or stress (all are on my Instagram Reels). Growth, your entire face stress will evaporate.

What’s your morning skincare routine?

I consider pure oral care apply is a giant a part of skincare. A balanced mouth microbiome is deeply linked to intestine well being, which is deeply linked to pores and skin well being. So my morning routine all the time begins with tongue scraping, adopted by brushing with a pure toothpaste, and some instances per week I’ll add in oil pulling. Whereas I oil pull, I prefer to multitask with light “wake me up” rituals like a fast scalp therapeutic massage, neck stretches, or no matter my physique feels prefer it wants that morning.

Then onto the face. I by no means cleanse within the morning and often don’t wash my face both. I’m going straight into hydration by spraying a Japanese Hydrating Toner, gently wiping my eyes, after which one other spherical of misting. From there, I apply my chosen merchandise for the day primarily based on the season, climate, or how my pores and skin feels. Within the dry winter months, I lean into richer, extra nourishing textures like a Collagen Cream enhanced with Japanese Pearl Powder. Within the humid summer season, I’ll attain for a lighter cream or serum. General it’s a easy 2–4 product routine.

What’s your night skincare routine?

Within the evenings I all the time begin with face cleaning, which is essentially the most foundational step in any skincare ritual. For years now I’ve rotated between a Japanese Rice Bran Cleanser and Oil Cleaning. Cleaning is sort of all the things. If we get this step proper, all the things else we apply after will add to the skincare sport. But when we mess up the Cleaning step through the use of harsh, stripping, or poorly formulated cleansers, even essentially the most luxurious lotions utilized after will battle to make a distinction. 

After cleaning, I usually do the nice and cozy towel compress I discussed earlier. Conserving stress away from facial tissues and boosting circulation is extra highly effective for pores and skin longevity and vitality than any fancy or superior lotions on the market. I really need extra folks to grasp this.

Then comes product utility, which varies night time to nighttime. I all the time begin with just a few spritzes of hydrating Japanese Toner, and observe up with one chosen product, both a cream or oil, blended with Japanese Silk or Pearl Powder for final luxurious and advantages.

I’ll then apply my Japanese face tape if I’m utilizing them that night time and relying on what my wants are. For instance, I’ll tape the frown space extra in summer season once I’m squinting usually, or the jaw space if I’m feeling harassed. I by no means advocate taping the entire face however as an alternative all the time train 1-3 focused purposes directly. With taping, and skincare on the whole, extra will not be higher. 

You gained’t discover me layering ten merchandise (tape, patch, masks, and so on…) and posting a morning shed video within the morning. Our facial tissues and receptors don’t admire overstimulation at night time. 

How do you eat and drink for magnificence? What makes a noticeable distinction within the well being of your physique, vitality and pores and skin?

I deal with high quality, collagen-supportive, extremely nourishing meals. Considered one of my favorites is home made bone broth that I make and drink regularly and infrequently for breakfast. Being Russian, caviar has been a part of my food plan since childhood and is a superfood. Different favourite pores and skin meals are good-quality butter (plenty of butter for me) and buckwheat. 

I consider it’s necessary to take a look at what you keep away from as properly, which is why you’ll by no means catch me ingesting something icy (even chilly drinks are a rarity). I keep on with heat or room temperature meals and drinks which might be much more supportive for our intestine well being and subsequently, for the pores and skin. I additionally am cautious about sugar because it causes pores and skin glycation, which damages collagen.

Dietary supplements are additionally necessary and I’m not referencing the stylish ones. I depend on dietary supplements that really work from inside, like my beloved Spermidine and CoQ10 (for some folks), each of which help collagen manufacturing, mobile well being, and longevity.

Is there a skincare apply or secret that’s ‘nearly’ nearly as good as a process?

I feel skipping a process or two is the key and infrequently higher than the procedures themselves, particularly new ones that haven’t had an opportunity to gather sufficient information but. Individuals jumped on Botox and Fillers left and proper, however many are actually taking a extra cautious strategy after many findings. We’ve been led to consider that with a view to decelerate pores and skin growing old, we have to do issues to our pores and skin, however is that truly true? The established hallmarks of pores and skin growing old embody irritation (particularly repeated or extended) and barrier harm, each of that are precisely what many magnificence procedures set off. Particularly after they’re repeated, aggressive, or completed on already compromised tissues.

Pores and skin CARE isn’t about slathering infinite merchandise or procedures, however about defending, supporting, therapeutic, and strengthening the pores and skin’s barrier and pure capabilities. As a result of as soon as these are compromised, the indicators of growing old solely speed up.

Are there standard procedures that you simply don’t completely love? Aka, ice baths, crimson mild remedy, sauna, and so on.?

Sure, as a result of usually they’re used with no clear purpose, correct approach, or an understanding of how they really work. I actually consider each instrument or apply ought to have a transparent set purpose. For the suitable individual, on the proper time, with the suitable strategy a few of these may be unimaginable. However for others, they are often pointless at greatest and dangerous at worst.

For instance, crimson mild remedy may be superb and provide a variety of advantages, however the gadget sort, wavelength, depth, and protocol needs to be tailor-made to your particular objectives (pores and skin beautifying, deeper irritation, ache, trauma, and so on.). In any other case you might be simply sitting in entrance of crimson bulbs.

What’s a e book, podcast or useful resource you advocate? (magnificence, enterprise, self-help, philosophy)

My present favourite podcasts are The Him and Her Present, Effectively with Arielle, and Biohacking Magnificence Podcast. These are nice podcasts to listen to specialists of their area and are extremely instructional. 

For books, I extremely advocate The Oxygen Benefit by Patrick McKeow, and Breath: The New Science of Misplaced Artwork by James Nestor.

The place can everybody discover you? And what are you as much as subsequent?

You’ll find me on all socials underneath @naturalfacebible! I’m all the time engaged on my model, The Pure Faces, to deliver you the perfect pure merchandise. Proper now, I’m targeted on making our merchandise extra accessible to our rising worldwide group. 

What’s subsequent? Simply as I launched Face Taping to the US viewers again in 2020, I’m now targeted on educating folks in regards to the variations between the actual face taping technique and the various dupes which have now flooded social media. My mission is to assist extra folks uncover and fall in love with actual face taping and proceed providing pure instruments that help pores and skin well being and higher growing old. 

Hope to fulfill all of you on my Instagram! 

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Would you ditch Botox for face taping? Olga, the outcomes are too good to not attempt it.

Be sure you observe her @naturalfacebible for face taping tutorials, earlier than and afters and extra pure instruments to age fantastically.

x, The Skinny Confidential crew

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