My mother is from Karelia. Her home town is 10 km from the border with Finland. Mother's ancestors up to the seventh tribe lived on the White Sea. There is such a nationality - pomors are blondes with brown eyes. In general, what happened with Miss Ukraine - Ksenia Kuzmenko.
Miss Ukraine - Ksenia Kuzmenko is very fond of the white nights. In them there is something fascinating, amazing and magical. In Karelia there are white nights all the time! And when I once lived with my grandmother, at first I could not fall asleep at the hour laid for the child: everything stood at the window and looked at the absolutely bright night: how we have a day, only without the sun. It's just some kind of miracle ...
Perhaps you remember these film epic with Angelica on the novels of Anna and Serge Golon - "Angelica and the King", "Indomitable Angelica" and others? So for me in the early school years, the standard of beauty was Angelica - Michel Mercier. In general, I do not like the empty, not full of beauty. I like faces ... "dramatic", if I may say so. That's how Sophia Loren. Later, I liked Linda Evangelista. Or today the same Angelina Jolie ... Kate Moss ... But it seems to me that there were no more Evangelicals than Linda. I worked for a long time in the modeling business and realized that for the model it is very important when her face can easily be changed to this or that image. And, despite the fact that Linda's appearance is bright enough: a large nose, large eyes, it is, nevertheless, very easy to change. With Kate Moss the same story.
My face is harder to change, I think. Although many tried. I remember that for a single show I was wearing a turban and wrapped in cloth, so that only my eyes and thin ankles were visible. And now I'm walking along the catwalk, but I'm screaming from the audience: "Kuzmenko, we recognized you! You're still the best! "That's me to the fact that, probably, my appearance is hard to change ...
Early interest in Angelica left an imprint on my understanding of both female and male beauty. The main male role in the film was played by French actor Robert Ossein. He was Count Geoffrey de Peyrak - so brutal enough type. Dark-haired, light-eyed ... I love these. But ... beauty, I think, is not so important. Handsome is the man who is beloved.
Miss Ukraine - Ksenia Kuzmenko lifetime is compared with the Soviet actress Anastasia Vertinskaya. It was also often said that I have a Brigitte Bardot type. But this is when I wore a bang and lifted my hair up. And sometimes they say that I look like the heroes of Japanese animated cartoons anime. Especially when I have a bright make-up.
I know that I seem "shallow". In fact, my height is -173 cm. Probably, I look small because of the small-boned and slender. When I worked as a model, I was always asked and measured my height.
Do you want to know how I feel about plastic surgery? Very positive! And I think if it does not hurt, then why not? Why not correct what nature has given you, if it really works? But I believe that making the 5th breast size is to the detriment. Or to make lips on half a face ... Yes, it is possible to correct ears if to someone they create complexes. You can, for example, remove a little nose. Recently I talked with one TV presenter, who changed her nose shape, but she had to do it on the recommendations of doctors. She says she went through such hellish torments! It was so painful that he did not want anyone else.
I remember when I came to the contest "Miss Ukraine", everyone was asking me: "Where did you do the nose plasty?" It struck me terribly, because I was only 17 years old! How can one think about operations at this age?
Very often, women , falling under the surgeon's knife, become addicted. They simply can not stop: "Why not recolour it?", "Why not take it away?" And then women become similar to each other. Did not pay attention? Very many who make a nose, lips, chest ... The same Ivanna Trump. And we, in Ukraine, have similar characters. I do not want to mention names. I would even include them in a certain sect - lovers of plastic surgery. They really are like clones! And it seems to me that men do not always like this.
I was never satisfied with my very thin ankles. And no matter how much I go to the gym, whatever exercises I do, they do not change. Probably, it is genetically so laid. And one of my acquaintances introduced silicone implants to the lower leg to increase the ankles. Her legs look good. I touched them-touched, touched-touched ... For me it looked, of course, very tempting: without any physical exercises to get the perfect legs. But then I thought, if nature gave me these ankles, then, objectively, they fit me. I still restrained myself in time.
I eat everything . But I do not overeat. For the simple reason that I do not fit in much. When a person's stomach is stretched, more food enters into him. And recently, an increasing number of people are gaining surgery to reduce the stomach. I even have a friend who made it. He used to weigh more than 100 kg, but literally for 3 months after the operation he began to weigh 65. He says: "I just do not feel hungry."
It seems to me that it is better to train not the body with diets, but the stomach: eat in a timely manner and in small portions. And then you can eat everything a little.
My parents and I are very slim, so I never really bothered with diets. Even after pregnancy, did not gain weight, like everyone else, but on the contrary-threw off! She became 5 kg lighter.
It is commonly believed that you need to change makeup to "train" the skin. But as I tried to change the day cream, I constantly returned to the same - moisturizing from Decleor. He is the only one after which my skin is comfortable. I'm glad I found it. A cream for the skin around the eyes can periodically change. At the moment it is Darphin - a pleasant consistency, leaving no traces. Night - I recently advised a friend - from Shiseido. They do not even need to use every evening - enough 2-3 times a week. And in the morning the skin is really tight, in tone. Cream for the body, too, from Darphin. I'm a fan of this brand. Miss Ukraine - Ksenia Kuzmenko has their milk to remove makeup, tonic, body oil ... Oils - it's generally very cool. But only if you do not need to go right away after applying, because the skin needs to be allowed to soak up. Sometimes I even use aromatic oils. But in general, the smells are cautious ...
There are even smells from which I faint. Yes! Two or three times in my life I fainted from the same spirits - Angel by Thierry Mugler. As for me, it's the most terrible, the most vile smell! Once in the plane a woman passed by, I caught her trail of this fragrance and immediately lost consciousness! At the contest "Miss World" my roommate - Yugoslav - tried to scent this toilet water ... Again fainted. I'm going through the shops past Thierry Mugler without looking back!
One time I went to a cosmetologist, which for some reason or another made me a chemical peel every 2 weeks. When my foreign girlfriend heard about this, she was, to put it mildly, in shock. Why should a young girl do chemical peeling so often? Then I just did not know that it could hurt my skin. In addition, I had a bad experience with cleaning my face. Therefore now I very seldom visit cosmetologists. It seems to me that often our cosmetologists offer those services that we absolutely do not need just to sell this or that makeup or make a "plan" to the salon ... If a good specialist comes across in life, then this is luck. Here I am, for example, happy with my hairdresser. I have been going to her for 8 years. Many friends, seeing my hair color, think that I am a natural blonde. Sometimes I rub in the roots of Placenta Formula, which gives a good result - hair growth. In general, I prefer cosmetics for the hair of a Japanese company Kanebo. I use their means for damaged hair, after which they are easily combed.
I really love American cosmetics Bobbi Brown. For many years I have been using only their shadows. They have unmatched brushes, which you can draw arrows, and shade shadows, and stain eyebrows ... And it does not look painted - it's natural. And the color palette is very natural: from light beige to brown, black. Lip gloss is also very good for them. Yes, and blush.
Mascara and powder are Guerlain. I do not change them. I do not use foundation creams - I have enough powder. It is thin, but it hides its shortcomings well. I use only the corrector for the skin around the eyes from Dior or YSL.
And Dior has a unique lip gloss, which actually increases their volume - Lip Maximizer.
Here he is the first to disappear from the shops. Great thing! If I see, then I buy several tubes at once - for myself and for girlfriends.
It was so long ago that I was even somewhat embarrassed when I was called Miss Ukraine. There were already so many winners after me ...
You know, I definitely remember that I was sure of my victory. Not having any acquaintances, not having rich relatives, I just came, I believed in myself and won. I was 17 years old.
I was a little engaged in design. I have a firm that does repairs from scratch. But now I'm in a limbo, I understand - I do not want this to be the work of my whole life. I continue to work, because the mechanism is running. But, most likely, I will finish those projects that should, and I will do something else. Probably, it will be show business. The program is on television. There is already a definite idea.
I was often told that with my appearance, with my ability to communicate and behave with the public - you need to work on television. At first it was very fun, because I was very interested in design. But now I listen carefully to such words. It's premature to say, of course, but for some reason it seems to me that sooner or later it will necessarily happen. In any case, I really dream about it ...