Have you ever heard of face taping?
If in case 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 turning into obsessive about pure magnificence practices, Olga is proof that you simply don’t have to spend a ton of time or cash on invasive procedures.
From face taping to common traits she’s truly in opposition to, she is right here to inform us all concerning the energy of pure options to attain youthful, wholesome wanting pores and skin.
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Introduce your self to The Skinny Confidential viewers.
Olga: Hello beauties! I’m Olga however you may know me as @naturalfacebible on social media. I’m 49, primarily based in Los Angeles, and the founding father of The Pure Faces. I focus on a pure method to skincare, magnificence, and growing old – and I’ve by no means had Botox.
In my late 30s, a lot of my associates started exploring Botox. I didn’t know a lot concerning the potential dangers again then, however one thing about it didn’t really feel proper. Perhaps it was instinct or my pure method to magnificence and wellness.
On the identical time, I used to be beginning to really feel involved concerning the traces forming on my brow. I didn’t need to ignore them, however I additionally didn’t know what pure options had been obtainable. That curiosity led me to facial therapeutic massage and I grew to become immediately fascinated. I ended up enrolling in skilled facial therapeutic massage faculties 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 almost 9 years in the past and what began as curiosity was a deep ardour. I went on to check a wide range 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 wished 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 desirous to share my pure method 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 just about unknown within the U.S., and the video stirred up plenty of confusion, criticism, and even hate, particularly from injectors and skeptics.
However I stored sharing what I knew and step by step a supportive group shaped. As curiosity grew, so did the questions on what merchandise I used and the place to get them. That’s what impressed me to start out The Pure Faces. The largest problem was sourcing my go-to face tape. It took almost a yr to construct the appropriate relationships and produce the high-quality, genuine Japanese face tape I had been utilizing in my very own follow to the U.S. At this time, that very same tape is trusted and beloved by 1000’s world wide.
On the time, the pure method to skincare and growing old wasn’t almost as common as it’s now. I observed plenty of artificial, low-quality merchandise being marketed to youthful generations and I wished to supply an alternate. I noticed a rising want for a extra pure method to magnificence, one that’s rooted in simplicity. I created my store to share simple routines and high-quality merchandise that truly work. My love for holistic strategies, particularly conventional Japanese magnificence rituals, grew to become 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 methodology isn’t just a magnificence instrument but in addition a robust wellness instrument. When practiced accurately, it could supply unimaginable help even for issues like neck rigidity, 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” pattern that’s sadly taken over social media within the final yr. 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 issues on the floor.
I usually get requested how lengthy to see outcomes however it varies. I at all times 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 can have seen enhancements in just some days or even weeks, and others it might be months. The timeline is determined by many elements together with your expectations, your tissue’s means to reply, the severity of the problem, your each day habits that both help or decelerate the therapeutic course of, and many others. However consistency at all times pays off!
What’s your desert island skincare product? You may solely take one factor!
Wow that is arduous! I might need a number of but when I needed to choose only one, it will positively must be my face tape. How might it not? It’s extremely versatile and goes approach past wrinkle management. I can use it to defend focused areas like my nostril or brow from the solar, which not solely offers me SPF safety but in addition helps stop squinting, which results in frown traces and different wrinkles. If my neck will get stiff or tense I can apply the tape there for aid, and identical for TMJ aches and complications. I may even use a small piece for mouth tape at evening.
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 need to beautify ourselves, these therapies usually setback our facial tissue vitality and correct capabilities that finally result in untimely age-related modifications. And that will even prevent some huge cash higher used for a trip.
Listed here are my free magnificence and wellness practices that can take your magnificence quite a bit additional: Correct tongue posture, physique posture, and each day physique motion. I additionally strongly consider in sustaining a comparatively steady 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 conserving a optimistic, youthful mindset. And don’t neglect to inform your face and pores and skin “thanks” and “I like you.”
Stroll us by way of how you’ll manually launch rigidity from the face and jaw at residence in 5 minutes.
If you happen to solely have 5 minutes, right here’s an excellent easy trick I usually do within the evenings to soften the day’s rigidity away. Seize a luxurious towel and run it beneath scorching 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 utterly reborn.
For a good deeper launch, you may observe up with a number of buccal therapeutic massage strikes (from contained in the mouth) to focus on jaw rigidity, and a mild eye therapeutic massage to appease pressure from screens or stress (all are on my Instagram Reels). Growth, all your face rigidity will evaporate.
What’s your morning skincare routine?
I consider pure oral care follow is an enormous 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 at all times begins with tongue scraping, adopted by brushing with a pure toothpaste, and some occasions per week I’ll add in oil pulling. Whereas I oil pull, I wish to multitask with mild “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 am 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. Total it’s a easy 2–4 product routine.
What’s your night skincare routine?
Within the evenings I at all times begin with face cleaning, which is probably 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 pieces. If we get this step proper, all the pieces else we apply after will add to the skincare recreation. But when we mess up the Cleaning step by utilizing harsh, stripping, or poorly formulated cleansers, even probably 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 rigidity 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 actually need extra folks to grasp this.
Then comes product software, which varies evening to nighttime. I at all times begin with a number of spritzes of hydrating Japanese Toner, and observe up with one chosen product, both a cream or oil, combined 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 evening and relying on what my wants are. For instance, I’ll tape the frown space extra in summer season after I’m squinting usually, or the jaw space if I’m feeling harassed. I by no means suggest taping the entire face however as a substitute at all times train 1-3 focused purposes without delay. With taping, and skincare generally, extra is just not higher.
You received’t discover me layering ten merchandise (tape, patch, masks, and many others…) and posting a morning shed video within the morning. Our facial tissues and receptors don’t recognize overstimulation at evening.
How do you eat and drink for magnificence? What makes a noticeable distinction within the well being of your physique, power and pores and skin?
I deal with high quality, collagen-supportive, extremely nourishing meals. One among my favorites is do-it-yourself bone broth that I make and drink regularly and sometimes for breakfast. Being Russian, caviar has been a part of my weight loss program 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 vital to have a look at what you keep away from as effectively, 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 way more supportive for our intestine well being and due to this fact, 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 vital and I’m not referencing the stylish ones. I depend on dietary supplements that actually 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 follow or secret that’s ‘virtually’ nearly as good as a process?
I feel skipping a process or two is the key and sometimes 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 method after many findings. We’ve been led to consider that with a purpose 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 injury, each of that are precisely what many magnificence procedures set off. Particularly after they’re repeated, aggressive, or accomplished 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 common procedures that you simply don’t completely love? Aka, ice baths, crimson gentle remedy, sauna, and many others.?
Sure, as a result of usually they’re used and not using a clear aim, correct method, or an understanding of how they really work. I really consider each instrument or follow ought to have a transparent set aim. For the appropriate individual, on the proper time, with the appropriate method a few of these might be unimaginable. However for others, they are often pointless at greatest and dangerous at worst.
For instance, crimson gentle remedy might be wonderful and supply a variety of advantages, however the machine sort, wavelength, depth, and protocol needs to be tailor-made to your particular targets (pores and skin beautifying, deeper irritation, ache, trauma, and many others.). In any other case you’re simply sitting in entrance of crimson bulbs.
What’s a guide, podcast or useful resource you suggest? (magnificence, enterprise, self-help, philosophy)
My present favourite podcasts are The Him and Her Present, Nicely with Arielle, and Biohacking Magnificence Podcast. These are nice podcasts to listen to specialists of their subject and are extremely academic.
For books, I extremely suggest 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 could find me on all socials beneath @naturalfacebible! I’m at all times engaged on my model, The Pure Faces, to convey 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 concerning the variations between the actual face taping methodology and the numerous 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 satisfy 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 strive it.
Be sure you observe her @naturalfacebible for face taping tutorials, earlier than and afters and extra pure instruments to age superbly.
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