Have you ever heard of face taping?
If in case you have, it’s in all probability 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 common traits she’s really in opposition to, 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 may know me as @naturalfacebible on social media. I’m 49, based mostly in Los Angeles, and the founding father of The Pure Faces. I concentrate on a pure method to skincare, magnificence, and getting older – and I’ve by no means had Botox.
In my late 30s, lots 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. Possibly it was instinct or my pure method to magnificence and wellness.
On the similar time, I used to be beginning to really feel involved concerning the strains forming on my brow. I didn’t need to ignore them, however I additionally didn’t know what pure options had been out there. That curiosity led me to facial therapeutic massage and I grew to become immediately fascinated. I ended up enrolling in skilled facial therapeutic massage colleges 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 almost 9 years in the past and what began as curiosity become a deep ardour. I went on to check 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 wished 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 desirous to share my pure method to skincare and alternate 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 just about unknown within the U.S., and the video stirred up loads of confusion, criticism, and even hate, particularly from injectors and skeptics.
However I stored sharing what I knew and progressively 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 most important problem was sourcing my go-to face tape. It took almost a 12 months to construct the best relationships and convey the high-quality, genuine Japanese face tape I had been utilizing in my very own apply to the U.S. At present, that very same tape is trusted and cherished by 1000’s all over the world.
On the time, the pure method to skincare and getting older wasn’t almost as common as it’s now. I seen loads 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 straightforward routines and high-quality merchandise that really work. My love for holistic strategies, particularly conventional Japanese magnificence rituals, grew to become the inspiration of The Pure Faces.
You’re recognized 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 actual face taping methodology isn’t just a magnificence device but in addition a strong wellness device. When practiced accurately, it will probably supply unbelievable assist even for issues 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” pattern 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 briefly masks aesthetic issues on the floor.
I usually 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 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 might be months. The timeline will depend on many components together with your expectations, your tissue’s capacity to reply, the severity of the problem, your day by day habits that both assist or decelerate the therapeutic course of, and so on. 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 arduous! I’d need just a few but when I needed to choose only one, it might positively need to be my face tape. How may it not? It’s extremely versatile and goes manner past wrinkle management. I can use it to protect focused areas like my nostril or brow from the solar, which not solely provides me SPF safety but in addition helps forestall squinting, which ends up in frown strains and different wrinkles. If my neck will get stiff or tense I can apply the tape there for reduction, and similar 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 need to beautify ourselves, these remedies usually setback our facial tissue vitality and correct capabilities that finally result in untimely age-related adjustments. And that may even prevent some huge cash higher used for a trip.
Listed below are my free magnificence and wellness practices that can take your magnificence so much additional: Correct tongue posture, physique posture, and day by day physique motion. I additionally strongly consider in sustaining a comparatively steady physique weight all through (in fact excluding pure fluctuations like throughout being pregnant). The pores and skin is deeply affected by frequent weight adjustments (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 holding a constructive, youthful mindset. And don’t neglect to inform your face and pores and skin “thanks” and “I really like you.”
Stroll us by means of how you’d manually launch stress from the face and jaw at dwelling in 5 minutes.
When you 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 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 fully reborn.
For a good deeper launch, you possibly can comply with up with just a few buccal therapeutic massage strikes (from contained in the mouth) to focus on jaw stress, and a delicate eye therapeutic massage to assuage pressure from screens or stress (all are on my Instagram Reels). Growth, all your 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 every 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’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. 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 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 nearly every part. If we get this step proper, every part 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 wrestle 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 actually need extra individuals to grasp this.
Then comes product software, which varies evening to nighttime. I all the time begin with just a few spritzes of hydrating Japanese Toner, and comply with 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 evening 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 pressured. I by no means advocate taping the entire face however as a substitute all the time educate 1-3 focused purposes without delay. With taping, and skincare on the whole, extra is just not higher.
You received’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 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 give attention to high quality, collagen-supportive, extremely nourishing meals. Considered one of my favorites is home made bone broth that I make and drink regularly and sometimes 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 (a number of butter for me) and buckwheat.
I consider it’s essential 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 stick with heat or room temperature meals and drinks which are 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 essential 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’ pretty much 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. Folks jumped on Botox and Fillers left and proper, however many at the moment are taking a extra cautious method after many findings. We’ve been led to consider that with a purpose 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 injury, 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 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 getting older solely speed up.
Are there common 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 out a clear purpose, correct approach, or an understanding of how they really work. I actually consider each device or apply ought to have a transparent set purpose. For the best individual, on the proper time, with the best method a few of these might be unbelievable. However for others, they are often pointless at finest and dangerous at worst.
For instance, crimson mild remedy might be superb and supply a variety of advantages, however the machine kind, wavelength, depth, and protocol needs to be tailor-made to your particular targets (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 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 specialists of their discipline 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 could find me on all socials beneath @naturalfacebible! I’m all the time engaged on my model, The Pure Faces, to convey you the very best pure merchandise. Proper now, I’m centered 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 centered on educating individuals concerning the variations between the actual 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? Taking a look at Olga, the outcomes are too good to not strive it.
You should definitely comply with her @naturalfacebible for face taping tutorials, earlier than and afters and extra pure instruments to age fantastically.
x, The Skinny Confidential staff
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