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 must spend a ton of time or cash on invasive procedures.
From face taping to standard developments she’s truly in opposition to, she is right here to inform us all in regards to the energy of pure options to realize 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 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 focus on a pure strategy to skincare, magnificence, and ageing – and I’ve by no means had Botox.
In my late 30s, a lot of my pals started exploring Botox. I didn’t know a lot in regards to 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 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 had been accessible. 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 almost 9 years in the past and what began as curiosity changed into a deep ardour. I went on to review 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 information 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 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 just about unknown within the U.S., and the video stirred up a variety 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 start out The Pure Faces. The most important problem was sourcing my go-to face tape. It took almost a yr to construct the suitable relationships and convey the high-quality, genuine Japanese face tape I had been utilizing in my very own follow to the U.S. At present, that very same tape is trusted and beloved by hundreds all over the world.
On the time, the pure strategy to skincare and ageing wasn’t almost as standard as it’s now. I seen a variety of artificial, low-quality merchandise being marketed to youthful generations and I wished 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, 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 need folks to know is that the true face taping methodology is not only a magnificence software but in addition a strong wellness software. When practiced accurately, it could possibly supply unbelievable assist 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 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 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 folks 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 folks can have seen enhancements in just some days or even weeks, and others it could be months. The timeline is determined by many elements together with your expectations, your tissue’s capability to reply, the severity of the difficulty, your every day habits that both assist or decelerate the therapeutic course of, and so forth. However consistency at all times pays off!
What’s your desert island skincare product? You possibly can solely take one factor!
Wow that is arduous! I’d need a couple of but when I needed to choose only one, it will undoubtedly need to be my face tape. How might 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 offers me SPF safety but in addition 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 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 features 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 rather a lot additional: Correct tongue posture, physique posture, and every 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 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 holding a optimistic, youthful mindset. And don’t overlook to inform your face and pores and skin “thanks” and “I like you.”
Stroll us by means of how you’ll manually launch stress from the face and jaw at residence in 5 minutes.
In the event you solely have 5 minutes, right here’s an excellent easy trick I typically do within the evenings to soften the day’s stress away. Seize an opulent 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 observe up with a couple of 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, your whole face stress will evaporate.
What’s your morning skincare routine?
I consider pure oral care follow 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 at all times begins with tongue scraping, adopted by brushing with a pure toothpaste, and some occasions every 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 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 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 at all times 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 every thing. If we get this step proper, every thing 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 typically do the nice and cozy towel compress I discussed earlier. Holding 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 evening to nighttime. I at all times begin with a couple of 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 evening 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 a substitute at all times train 1-3 focused functions without delay. With taping, and skincare basically, extra is just not higher.
You received’t discover me layering ten merchandise (tape, patch, masks, and so forth…) 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, vitality and pores and skin?
I give attention to high quality, collagen-supportive, extremely nourishing meals. One in all my favorites is home made bone broth that I make and drink frequently and sometimes 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 (numerous butter for me) and buckwheat.
I consider it’s necessary to take 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 follow 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 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 assist collagen manufacturing, mobile well being, and longevity.
Is there a skincare follow or secret that’s ‘nearly’ nearly as good as a process?
I believe 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 knowledge but. Folks 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 with a view to decelerate pores and skin ageing, we have to do issues to our pores and skin, however is that really true? The established hallmarks of pores and skin ageing embody 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 carried out on already compromised tissues.
Pores and skin CARE isn’t about slathering limitless 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 ageing solely speed up.
Are there standard procedures that you simply don’t completely love? Aka, ice baths, crimson mild remedy, sauna, and so forth.?
Sure, as a result of typically they’re used with no clear purpose, correct method, or an understanding of how they really work. I really consider each software or follow ought to have a transparent set purpose. For the suitable individual, on the proper time, with the suitable strategy a few of these will be unbelievable. However for others, they are often pointless at finest and dangerous at worst.
For instance, crimson mild remedy will be superb and supply a variety of advantages, however the gadget kind, wavelength, depth, and protocol needs to be tailor-made to your particular targets (pores and skin beautifying, deeper irritation, ache, trauma, and so forth.). 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, Properly 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 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 at all times engaged on my model, The Pure Faces, to deliver you the perfect 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 folks in regards to the variations between the true 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 assist pores and skin well being and higher ageing.
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.
Make sure you observe 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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