Have you ever heard of face taping?
You probably 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 must spend a ton of time or cash on invasive procedures.
From face taping to fashionable developments she’s truly towards, she is right here to inform us all concerning 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 getting older – and I’ve by no means had Botox.
In my late 30s, lots of my mates started exploring Botox. I didn’t know a lot concerning the attainable dangers again then, however one thing about it didn’t really feel proper. Perhaps it was instinct or my pure strategy 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 accessible. 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 finally 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 become 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 information 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 alternate 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 a number of confusion, criticism, and even hate, particularly from injectors and skeptics.
However I stored sharing what I knew and progressively a supportive neighborhood 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 start out The Pure Faces. The most important problem was sourcing my go-to face tape. It took practically a yr to construct the best relationships and produce the high-quality, genuine Japanese face tape I had been utilizing in my very own apply to the U.S. Right now, that very same tape is trusted and beloved by hundreds all over the world.
On the time, the pure strategy to skincare and getting older wasn’t practically as fashionable 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 really work. My love for holistic strategies, particularly conventional Japanese magnificence rituals, grew to become the muse 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 individuals to know is that the true face taping methodology is not only a magnificence instrument but additionally a robust wellness instrument. When practiced appropriately, it could possibly supply unbelievable assist even for issues like neck pressure, 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 yr. What units face taping aside is that by strategic and correct placement, it really works with the physique to enhance tissue features and never simply quickly masks aesthetic issues on the floor.
I typically get requested how lengthy to see outcomes nevertheless it varies. I all the time encourage individuals to take a look at the “Earlier than/After” spotlight on my Instagram to see among the actual outcomes from my neighborhood. Some individuals may have seen enhancements in just some days or even weeks, and others it could be months. The timeline will depend on many elements together with your expectations, your tissue’s means to reply, the severity of the difficulty, your every day habits that both assist or decelerate the therapeutic course of, and many others. However consistency all the time pays off!
What’s your desert island skincare product? You’ll be able to solely take one factor!
Wow that is onerous! I might need just a few but when I needed to decide only one, it will undoubtedly should be my face tape. How might 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 offers me SPF safety but additionally helps forestall squinting, which ends up 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 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 need to beautify ourselves, these therapies typically setback our facial tissue vitality and correct features that in the end 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 may take your magnificence lots additional: Correct tongue posture, physique posture, and every day physique motion. I additionally strongly imagine 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 typically attributable to yo-yo weight-reduction plan.
Lastly is retaining a optimistic, youthful mindset. And don’t overlook to inform your face and pores and skin “thanks” and “I really like you.”
Stroll us by way of how you’ll manually launch pressure from the face and jaw at residence in 5 minutes.
Should you solely have 5 minutes, right here’s a brilliant easy trick I typically do within the evenings to soften the day’s pressure away. Seize a luxurious towel and run it below scorching water, then press and maintain it towards 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 possibly can observe up with just a few buccal therapeutic massage strikes (from contained in the mouth) to focus on jaw pressure, and a delicate eye therapeutic massage to assuage pressure from screens or stress (all are on my Instagram Reels). Growth, your whole face pressure will evaporate.
What’s your morning skincare routine?
I imagine pure oral care apply is an enormous a part of skincare. A balanced mouth microbiome is deeply related to intestine well being, which is deeply related 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 every week I’ll add in oil pulling. Whereas I oil pull, I prefer 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’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 time, 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 all the time 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 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 by utilizing harsh, stripping, or poorly formulated cleansers, even probably the most luxurious lotions utilized after will wrestle to make a distinction.
After cleaning, I typically do the nice and cozy towel compress I discussed earlier. Holding pressure 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 individuals to know this.
Then comes product software, 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 time after I’m squinting typically, or the jaw space if I’m feeling confused. I by no means advocate taping the entire face however as an alternative all the time educate 1-3 focused purposes directly. With taping, and skincare on the whole, extra isn’t 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 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 concentrate on high quality, collagen-supportive, extremely nourishing meals. Considered one of my favorites is selfmade bone broth that I make and drink frequently and infrequently for breakfast. Being Russian, caviar has been a part of my food regimen since childhood and is a superfood. Different favourite pores and skin meals are good-quality butter (plenty of butter for me) and buckwheat.
I imagine it’s necessary to have a look at what you keep away from as nicely, which is why you’ll by no means catch me consuming something icy (even chilly drinks are a rarity). I follow heat or room temperature meals and drinks which might be much 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 necessary and I’m not referencing the fashionable ones. I depend on dietary supplements that really work from inside, like my beloved Spermidine and CoQ10 (for some individuals), each of which assist 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 knowledge but. Folks 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 imagine that as a way to decelerate pores and skin getting older, we have to do issues to our pores and skin, however is that really true? The established hallmarks of pores and skin getting older embrace irritation (particularly repeated or extended) and barrier harm, each of that are precisely what many magnificence procedures set off. Particularly once they’re repeated, aggressive, or finished on already compromised tissues.
Pores and skin CARE isn’t about slathering countless merchandise or procedures, however about defending, supporting, therapeutic, and strengthening the pores and skin’s barrier and pure features. As a result of as soon as these are compromised, the indicators of getting older solely speed up.
Are there fashionable procedures that you simply don’t completely love? Aka, ice baths, pink mild remedy, sauna, and many others.?
Sure, as a result of typically they’re used with no clear purpose, correct approach, or an understanding of how they really work. I really imagine each instrument or apply ought to have a transparent set purpose. For the best individual, on the proper time, with the best strategy a few of these might be unbelievable. However for others, they are often pointless at greatest and dangerous at worst.
For instance, pink mild remedy might be wonderful and supply a variety of advantages, however the gadget kind, wavelength, depth, and protocol ought to be tailor-made to your particular targets (pores and skin beautifying, deeper irritation, ache, trauma, and many others.). In any other case you might be simply sitting in entrance of pink bulbs.
What’s a ebook, podcast or useful resource you advocate? (magnificence, enterprise, self-help, philosophy)
My present favourite podcasts are The Him and Her Present, Properly with Arielle, and Biohacking Magnificence Podcast. These are nice podcasts to listen to consultants 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?
Yow will discover me on all socials below @naturalfacebible! I’m all the time engaged on my model, The Pure Faces, to carry you the most effective pure merchandise. Proper now, I’m centered on making our merchandise extra accessible to our rising worldwide neighborhood.
What’s subsequent? Simply as I launched Face Taping to the US viewers again in 2020, I’m now centered on educating individuals concerning the variations between the true face taping methodology and the various dupes which have now flooded social media. My mission is to assist extra individuals uncover and fall in love with actual face taping and proceed providing pure instruments that assist pores and skin well being and higher getting older.
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 strive it.
Remember to observe her @naturalfacebible for face taping tutorials, earlier than and afters and extra pure instruments to age superbly.
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