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 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 in style tendencies she’s really towards, she is right here to inform us all concerning the energy of pure options to realize 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, based mostly in Los Angeles, and the founding father of The Pure Faces. I specialise in a pure strategy to skincare, magnificence, and growing old – and I’ve by no means had Botox.
In my late 30s, a lot of my mates started exploring Botox. I didn’t know a lot concerning the doable 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 wish to ignore them, however I additionally didn’t know what pure options have been obtainable. That curiosity led me to facial therapeutic massage and I turned 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 was a deep ardour. I went on to review a wide range of superior strategies 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 an overview 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 way 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 quite a lot of confusion, criticism, and even hate, particularly from injectors and skeptics.
However I saved sharing what I knew and steadily 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 most important problem was sourcing my go-to face tape. It took practically a yr to construct the correct relationships and convey 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 1000’s around the globe.
On the time, the pure strategy to skincare and growing old wasn’t practically as in style as it’s now. I observed quite a lot 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 simple routines and high-quality merchandise that really work. My love for holistic strategies, particularly conventional Japanese magnificence rituals, turned 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 device but additionally a robust wellness device. When practiced appropriately, it could actually provide unimaginable assist even for considerations 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 capabilities and never simply briefly masks aesthetic considerations on the floor.
I typically get requested how lengthy to see outcomes but it surely varies. I at all times encourage individuals to take a look at the “Earlier than/After” spotlight on my Instagram to see a few of the actual outcomes from my group. Some individuals could have seen enhancements in just some days or perhaps weeks, and others it could be months. The timeline depends upon many components together with your expectations, your tissue’s capability to reply, the severity of the difficulty, your each day habits that both assist or decelerate the therapeutic course of, and many others. However consistency at all times pays off!
What’s your desert island skincare product? You possibly can solely take one factor!
Wow that is laborious! I’d need a couple of but when I needed to decide only one, it could positively must be my face tape. How might it not? It’s extremely versatile and goes manner 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 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 reduction, 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 remedies. As a lot as we wish to beautify ourselves, these remedies typically 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 below are my free magnificence and wellness practices that may 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 typically 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 really like you.”
Stroll us by way of how you’ll manually launch pressure from the face and jaw at house in 5 minutes.
For those who 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 an opulent towel and run it beneath 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 utterly reborn.
For an excellent deeper launch, you may comply with up with a couple of buccal therapeutic massage strikes (from contained in the mouth) to focus on jaw pressure, and a mild eye therapeutic massage to appease pressure from screens or stress (all are on my Instagram Reels). Growth, all your face pressure 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 related to intestine well being, which is deeply related 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 instances per week I’ll add in oil pulling. Whereas I oil pull, I wish 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 based mostly 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 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 nearly 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 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. Retaining 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 evening to nighttime. I at all times begin with a couple of spritzes of hydrating Japanese Toner, and comply with 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 once I’m squinting typically, or the jaw space if I’m feeling pressured. I by no means suggest taping the entire face however as a substitute at all times educate 1-3 focused purposes directly. With taping, and skincare basically, extra shouldn’t be 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 respect overstimulation at evening.
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. One among my favorites is do-it-yourself bone broth that I make and drink regularly and infrequently for breakfast. Being Russian, caviar has been a part of my eating regimen since childhood and is a superfood. Different favourite pores and skin meals are good-quality butter (a number of butter for me) and buckwheat.
I consider it’s vital to take a look at what you keep away from as nicely, which is why you’ll by no means catch me ingesting something icy (even chilly drinks are a rarity). I stick with heat or room temperature meals and drinks which can 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 vital 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 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. Individuals jumped on Botox and Fillers left and proper, however many at the moment are taking a extra cautious strategy after many findings. We’ve been led to consider that as a way to decelerate pores and skin growing old, we have to do issues to our pores and skin, however is that really 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 once they’re repeated, aggressive, or accomplished 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 capabilities. As a result of as soon as these are compromised, the indicators of growing old solely speed up.
Are there in style 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 and not using a clear aim, correct method, or an understanding of how they really work. I really consider each device or apply ought to have a transparent set aim. For the correct individual, on the proper time, with the correct strategy a few of these will be unimaginable. However for others, they are often pointless at greatest and dangerous at worst.
For instance, pink mild remedy will be wonderful and provide a variety of advantages, however the system sort, wavelength, depth, and protocol needs to be tailor-made to your particular objectives (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 e-book, 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 discipline and are extremely instructional.
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’ll 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 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 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 attempt it.
Be sure you comply with 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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