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 changing 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 in opposition to, she is right here to inform us all in regards to 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 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 concentrate on a pure method to skincare, magnificence, and growing older – 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 in regards to the attainable 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 similar time, I used to be beginning to really feel involved in regards to the traces forming on my brow. I didn’t wish to ignore them, however I additionally didn’t know what pure options have 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 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 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 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 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 quite a lot of confusion, criticism, and even hate, particularly from injectors and skeptics.
However I saved sharing what I knew and regularly 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 begin The Pure Faces. The most important problem was sourcing my go-to face tape. It took practically a yr to construct the precise relationships and produce the high-quality, genuine Japanese face tape I had been utilizing in my very own observe to the U.S. At the moment, that very same tape is trusted and liked by hundreds around the globe.
On the time, the pure method to skincare and growing older wasn’t practically as in style as it’s now. I seen 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 method 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 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 folks to know is that the true face taping methodology is not only a magnificence software but additionally a robust wellness software. When practiced accurately, it will probably supply unimaginable help 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 usually get requested how lengthy to see outcomes nevertheless it varies. I all the time 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 may have seen enhancements in just some days or perhaps weeks, and others it could be months. The timeline will depend on many components together with your expectations, your tissue’s skill to reply, the severity of the difficulty, your each day habits that both help 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 exhausting! I might need a number of but when I needed to choose only one, it might positively should be my face tape. How might it not? It’s extremely versatile and goes means 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 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 aid, and similar 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 wish to beautify ourselves, these therapies usually setback our facial tissue vitality and correct capabilities that in the end result in untimely age-related adjustments. And that can even prevent some huge cash higher used for a trip.
Listed here are my free magnificence and wellness practices that can take your magnificence lots additional: Correct tongue posture, physique posture, and each day physique motion. I additionally strongly imagine 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 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 really like you.”
Stroll us by how you’ll manually launch pressure from the face and jaw at dwelling in 5 minutes.
For those who solely have 5 minutes, right here’s a brilliant easy trick I usually do within the evenings to soften the day’s pressure away. Seize an opulent towel and run it below 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 fair deeper launch, you’ll be able to comply with up with a number of buccal therapeutic massage strikes (from contained in the mouth) to focus on jaw pressure, and a mild eye therapeutic massage to assuage pressure from screens or stress (all are on my Instagram Reels). Growth, your entire face pressure will evaporate.
What’s your morning skincare routine?
I imagine pure oral care observe 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 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 normally 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 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 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 the whole lot. If we get this step proper, the whole lot 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 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 actually need extra folks to grasp this.
Then comes product software, which varies night time to nighttime. I all the time begin with a number of 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 night time 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 burdened. I by no means suggest taping the entire face however as an alternative all the time train 1-3 focused purposes directly. With taping, and skincare on the whole, extra just 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, power and pores and skin?
I concentrate on 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 (a number of butter for me) and buckwheat.
I imagine it’s necessary to take a look at what you keep away from as properly, 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 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 folks), each of which help collagen manufacturing, mobile well being, and longevity.
Is there a skincare observe or secret that’s ‘virtually’ 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 knowledge 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 imagine that with a purpose to decelerate pores and skin growing older, we have to do issues to our pores and skin, however is that really true? The established hallmarks of pores and skin growing 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 performed 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 older solely speed up.
Are there in style procedures that you simply don’t completely love? Aka, ice baths, purple mild remedy, sauna, and many others.?
Sure, as a result of usually they’re used and not using a clear purpose, correct approach, or an understanding of how they really work. I actually imagine each software or observe ought to have a transparent set purpose. For the precise particular person, on the proper time, with the precise method a few of these might be unimaginable. However for others, they are often pointless at greatest and dangerous at worst.
For instance, purple 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 objectives (pores and skin beautifying, deeper irritation, ache, trauma, and many others.). In any other case you’re simply sitting in entrance of purple 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, Effectively with Arielle, and Biohacking Magnificence Podcast. These are nice podcasts to listen to specialists of their subject 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?
Yow will discover me on all socials below @naturalfacebible! I’m all the time engaged on my model, The Pure Faces, to deliver 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 folks in regards to the variations between the true face taping methodology and the various 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 older.
Hope to satisfy 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 attempt it.
You’ll want to comply with her @naturalfacebible for face taping tutorials, earlier than and afters and extra pure instruments to age fantastically.
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