A simple “Turgenev girl” from Rostov (as her fans called her) managed to get into a prestigious competition, just posting the hashtag “I want to participate in the Miss Russia contest” on Instagram “. She didn’t win the crown, but she wasn’t upset at all, and on the basis of the advertising she received, she seriously took up work on the Internet – she created a youtube channel, develops accounts in social networks.
Alina Charova is now a blogger girl who received a strange but extremely characteristic compliment from one of her fans: “It doesn’t irritate. And not only does it not irritate, but gives a lot of positive and makes you want to wait for new releases on her channel and social networks.
And many “star” bloggers often not only annoy, but cause a sharp negative with their arrogant manners, handbags of five thousand euros and applications: “Where are the freshest truffles today?” And then they wonder why they have so many haters and insults in direct… Alina Charova is impossibly simple herself, and she keeps her blogs not for models and movie stars, but for “average” girls and women with not exorbitant income.
It is a rare case when a blogger does not have a single negative review! She has more than five hundred thousand subscribers on youtube and on Instagram, and each of them probably opens her pages very often to get new practical advice, watch an overview of an interesting event, or just get in a good mood.
Contents
- Official data biography
- Childhood and adolescence
- From the first steps in the modeling business to a beauty contest
- How she took part in the Miss Russia 2016 contest
- How Alina Charova became a beauty blogger and achieved success
- About her personal life
- Interesting facts about her< /h2> Alina's sister, Victoria, is an excellent hair stylist, she is a fairly well-known specialist in wide circles. It is known that Vika often has celebrity clients. For example, she conjured over the appearance of Elena Vaenga, and the famous stand-up artist Ruslan Bely visited her salon. Alina constantly emphasizes that she is not a supporter of vegetarianism, but loves meat very much. In terms of food, she also encourages viewers to eat not just properly and rationally, but to focus on a hearty breakfast. A little about Alina Charova's parameters. She likes to say, laughing: “I'm getting things from the top shelves. Expensive”. The girl is not just tall – she has very long arms and legs. She does not voice the length of her arms, and her legs are 115 cm long. The legs “let us down” not only in length: Alina has a leg size of fortieth. Blogger Charova always talks about her shortcomings with a laugh, demonstrating to fans that she is not an ideal “doll”, but a living person. For example, she is not afraid to tell that she does not know how to jump “fish” into the pool: “And this is despite the fact that I have been swimming for several years and end up swimming quite well. But I never learned how to jump “fish” – my style of jumping is called “bomb”. She is often asked standard questions, for example, about her favorite series. The answer is: “The question is straight to the soul! Because I'm a real “serial aholic”: I watch a lot of them, and I have to watch everything to the end. I may seem banal, but my favorite series is Game of Thrones. She called To Kill a Mockingbird her favorite book many times. And here's why this is her favorite book: “It's cool that the story is told from the point of view of children, and all events are shown through the prism of children's perception. This is important because any person in the soul until the end of days is a little child. But not only does she like to watch TV shows, here are Alina's words about her preferences in films: “I love (to the point of shaking) movies about huge creatures! Since childhood, I have been watching with great interest pictures about giant sharks, snakes, dinosaurs, huge monkeys. Don't feed me bread, let me watch “Jaws” or “Megalodon”. An active Internet user, the owner of a popular YouTube channel, she almost never watches other people's videos – this is a strict rule for blogger Charova: “And so I no longer watch videos on similar topics or blogs of those who do this on youtube. This is something like a professional rule, so as not to be inspired by other people's ideas. The girl constantly advises her subscribers and fans: “If you want to succeed, do not be afraid to try new things. Set up experiments, even if at first there is no understanding from loved ones. Only you are responsible for your life, and it's stupid to shift the lack of success to others without doing anything. for a day or two (or even more), remember: what is done (not even perfect) is better than the ideal, which is only in the head.
Official data biography
- Full surname, name, patronymic: Goncharova, Alina Olegovna;
- Creative pseudonym: Alina Charova;
- Place of birth: Russian Federation, Republic of North Ossetia, Vladikavkaz;
- Date of birth: 1993, October 10;
- Zodiac sign: Libra; according to the eastern calendar – Rooster (element of the year water); patron planet Venus;
- Height and weight: 183 cm, about 60 kg;
- Higher education; Graduated from the Rostov branch of the Southern Federal University, Faculty of Law. Specialization – bankruptcy of individuals;
- Type of activity: blogger in social networks, video blogger on the youtube channel, model;
- Achievements: finalist of the national contest “Miss Russia 2016”;
- Marital status: single, no children.
Childhood and adolescence
Rostov region is a place rich in beauties! Let's remember: in 2003, Victoria Lopyreva from Rostov won the Miss Russia contest, and three years later the crown of white gold and diamonds was presented to the beauty from the same city, Tatyana Kotova. Alina Charova, too, when she came to the beauty contest, was announced as a resident of Rostov-on-Don, but she was born and spent her early childhood not there, but in North Ossetia, in the city of Vladikavkaz. The Goncharov family moved from there to Rostov, where Alina went to high school. Little is known about her early years, but the girl sometimes arranges “social” video sessions in which she mentions funny facts from the preschool period and elementary grades.
For example, she once told subscribers with a laugh that she was extremely naughty little. Even when the baby got sick with chickenpox, and her parents told her sternly: “Don’t itch!” – she, as if out of a sense of contradiction, did the opposite, picking out the sores. The sad result of this disobedience can be seen even now, carefully looking at her face: the girl had small dimples on her forehead and on her cheek. More interesting information about her early years: her parents took her to both gymnastics and ballet, but in sports classes, little Alina fell painfully on her back, and since then she cannot do somersaults back – she is simply afraid. Probably because of this, she could not continue ballet classes – she almost completely lost her flexibility, she was even called “Pinocchio” because of this at home.
Alina has a younger sister, Vika, with whom the girl has always had an excellent relationship. It is not known which of them was the initiator of the idea to earn extra money, but Alina and Vika earned their first money when our heroine was only nine years old. The sisters printed the lyrics of popular songs from the Internet, then sold them on the street to passers-by. “Then there was no such immersion of the general in the Internet as it is now, and the sale of lyrics with us went very briskly, they snapped it up like hot cakes,” from her memoirs. True, parents quickly “covered up” successful commerce – a neighbor noticed the sisters who were earning their first money on the street, and reported this to their dad and mom.
But the parents, although they opposed street trading, encouraged independence in their daughter: a vivid example of this is from the seventh grade, according to her, the girl was entrusted with shaping her wardrobe herself. “Imagine now what a seventh grader can buy without parental control! And I really went shopping myself and chose absolutely everything, bought it myself. It got to the point of absurdity: trousers that were terribly short for me for my already tall height, and the top was an enormous Mickey Mouse T-shirt, below the knees, ”a fragment from her interview with Thebeauty. Now, in the same conversation, Alina commented, she has no problems choosing clothes with full compliance with size and height, but as a teenager it was a nightmare to buy trousers, a skirt, and even a dress so that they would definitely “sit down” on her 183 cm .
The future finalist of the Russian beauty contest studied very well, but here's the paradox: she almost never did her homework, and still received good and excellent marks. “I didn’t do homework, but nevertheless I have in my school luggage not only good grades, but even such a strange set of results at the olympiads: biology, social studies, history,” a fragment from an interview entitled “About beauty and not only.” In the same place, the girl explains that she has many awards from the Olympiads: “I was just looking for a way not to attend the lessons, but I was ashamed to run away. Trips to city and regional olympiads were a great excuse to leave school during class.”
From the first steps in the modeling business to a beauty contest
She began to try herself in the modeling business, while still a schoolgirl. In her portfolio on sites that provide information about models, there are photos from 2010. There, a very young beauty amazes with excellent natural data and the ability to show herself from the most favorable side. Of course, the skill of the photographer plays a big role in creating successful images, but if there is no beauty, plasticity and the ability to elegantly wear clothes, no professional will save you. And the girl’s natural data was simply magnificent: with a height of 183 cm, the parameters “92-63-93” were indicated – almost perfect numbers.
In the same 2010, Alina (so far) Goncharova entered the Southern Federal University (Rostov branch). According to her, in her student days, she was suddenly covered by a disease called “shopping”. Her story: “Study was not easy, lectures, exams took a lot of nerves, and I suddenly found salvation in becoming a real shopaholic – I didn’t miss a chance, if I lost my nerves, to calm myself with another purchase.” Relieving stress when you leave money for some little thing in the store – after all, it is dangerous in terms of emptying your wallet, and Alina tried to cope with this “ailment”. Here is another from her words: “I was saved from the fate of becoming a victim of marketing by the fact that I could go shopping for hours, try on, smell, smear something, but I began to limit myself in shopping.”
The girl not only studied well, but also continued to engage in the modeling business. Basically, these were photo sessions for advertising, images for large online services for the demonstration and sale of fashionable clothes. The most famous from that period of Alina's life are a series of photographs for the Buro Fashion project, taken in 2013. In general, in the modeling business, there is most often a clear division of the sectors in which girls work. There is, for example, the term “lingerie girl” – the one that can show underwear with the greatest success. Others specialize in footwear and accessories, or winter clothing. But Alina Goncharova turned out to be a “universal” model: winter coats, swimwear, and blouses with skirts looked equally great on her.
In 2015, she graduated from the university, and with honors. She began working as a lawyer in one of the Rostov companies, specializing in the topic “Bankruptcy of Individuals”. She has already accumulated a very large “baggage” of work as a model, and everyone around was perplexed: why does she, with such a brilliant appearance, not want to try her hand at beauty contests? Growth, however, was not very suitable for such events – the girl quite a bit, but “outgrew” the usual standards. Alina at that time did not give an answer why she refuses the prospect of becoming the first beauty, at least in our country, she explained her unwillingness to participate in such events later, after Miss Russia 2016.
How she took part in the Miss Russia 2016 contest
You can get to the main national competition in any country only by becoming the winner of a regional similar event, or if at least there is a hit among the first – this has always been an unshakable rule. To put it simply, applicants “from the street” are not taken to the contest of the rank of “Miss Any Country” and above – you must first show yourself at the regional level, successfully go through several stages. That is, for Alina, it was necessary first to win the city competition, then it was already possible to go further. But just to go to the contest “Beauty of Rostov” or the like, the girl had no desire. Here are her words about this strangeness: “Not too pleasant associations are connected with the Rostov beauty contests for those who know the whole story of the selection there. And I absolutely did not want my name to be mentioned even close to this community.
What happened in Rostov in those years during the selection of contenders for the title of city beauties, and whether the situation has changed now is a separate topic for conversation. But, as it seemed from the above, the standard way for Alina Goncharova to the Russian big stage, where the first beauty of the country is awarded the crown, was closed. And what, there are no prospects at all to show off your beauty, and besides it – to demonstrate intelligence, a sense of humor and other virtues? Without much hope for success, the girl posted a hashtag on Instagram: in a short phrase, she expressed a desire to take part in the capital's beauty competition. Imagine her surprise when it turned out that the policy of the founders of Miss Russia was not as tough as it was announced everywhere. It is enough just to meet the basic requirements to get to the casting: to be single, to have a height of 173 cm, and the last requirement is age, from 17 to 23 years old.
And one more thing stopped the beauty from applying for participation in this event – study! After all, she studied at a university until 2015, worked as a model at the same time, and quite often she received offers to work abroad. “But I refused, because the job involved going abroad for at least a month, but what about studying? I didn’t even imagine that I would risk missing a whole month of studying at the university – it was unthinkable for me, ”the girl said in her blog after the competition. First of all, studying – she had such a priority before receiving a diploma. But now she is already a young specialist, not tied to a university, and Alina decides: under her photo on Instagram, she leaves the hashtag “#becomemissrussia”. “In the depths of my soul, I hoped for luck, but at the same time I thought that this does not happen: just write about your desire, and they will take you,” from her memoirs on the youtube channel.
It is hard to believe, but literally two hours after Alina Goncharova posted this hashtag, a representative of the founders of the contest knocked on her Instagram. He asked the girl to send him the so-called snaps – photographs of different angles not processed in a photo editor in a strict black swimsuit, in heels, without makeup and complex hairstyles. Alina then shared: “I thought that everything happens in a dream: firstly, everything happened too quickly, and secondly, it happens to me, this cannot be!” The next day, the snaps were ready, she sent them, and right there – again a message on Instagram: she was invited to a casting in Moscow.
It was not the only miracle – that the girl was called to the capital without any significant victories in similar competitions before. The second miracle, which became clear upon arrival in Moscow: it turns out that Alina was invited immediately to the last stage of the casting, the final one. Getting tickets (the transfer was paid for in both directions), and now she is already on the Rostov-Moscow plane, in the company of another applicant girl from this city. Like a Cinderella from a fairy tale, she gets into a minibus with the Miss Russia corporate logo at the airport in Moscow, and she is taken directly to the casting. The chic office of Russian Standard Bank in Barvikha was where the selection of future contenders for the gold crown took place.
The girl then told how this stage of her journey went to the main Russian show, where the most beautiful girls in Russia show themselves. She clarified that each applicant was evaluated not only in appearance: they talked with the casting participants for a long time, testing their intelligence and ability to speak beautifully. Alina later shared a funny moment on her channel that happened at the end of the casting: “It all lasted until late at night, and when the last interview was over, we were all terribly hungry. The leadership of the competition, of course, understood this, and a large table with dinner was laid for us. Who would have looked at us from the side then would have died with laughter: the girls who swept everything from the plates with lightning speed were not at all like models who follow the figure!
And again, a small, but a miracle that happened to Alina when the girls were settled in rooms in one of the Moscow City hotels. It’s not even a miracle, but it’s a tiny pleasantness, but still: “The girls were assigned two by two to the rooms, but there was a terrible confusion, and someone was placed in three, and in the end I got the whole room.” Alina had the opportunity to fully relax, admire the beautiful views from the window (she was in Moscow City for the first time) and think about the future competition. And she had to think seriously: she was told at the casting that everything was fine, but there was one small thing that needed to be corrected – her weight. It's easier to say – she was given a task in the month that remained before the first stage of Miss Russia, to throw off a few extra, according to the commission, kilograms.
No one told her a specific figure by which her weight should decrease. It was even, in fact, not mandatory, Alina was announced: “If you want to go on stage the way you are now – for God's sake, but don't count on winning. There is a desire to win – do something and lose weight. But how to lose weight if at the preparatory stage those who were definitely selected were not fed dietary food at all? Cheesecakes with sour cream and sugar, porridge with milk (an example of breakfast), rather fatty soups, a second with a side dish, and bread, there was always a lot of bread! And also sweet: for example, all the girls were given a couple of chocolate bars in the morning. Alina was in real shock: “I was just ashamed if I went on stage, and they would say about me: look, what a jerboa from Rostov! But with such a diet, even exercising, it was unrealistic to lose even a couple of kilos!
One of the female trainers suggested to her an idea that was very useful, but at the same time extremely “tough” (it turned out later): in order to lose weight, you just need to cut your daily diet several times, and refuse dinner altogether. Here is another from Alina's story: “A real nightmare has begun! In the morning and afternoon there was still nothing: I ate cheesecakes for breakfast, for lunch – meat or fish without a side dish and liquid from the soup, but what about without dinner? I had to go to bed earlier with the thought that the next day would come faster, and I could eat again! The neighbor in the room was terribly surprised when I was already in bed at eight in the evening. The so-called diet (Alina described it as a real mockery) immediately began to bear fruit: after the competition, the girl found out that she had lost eight kilos! But such nutrition hit the health very hard, and blogger Alina Charova still does not get tired of repeating: “They ask me how I lost weight before the competition, I answer, but in no case do I urge anyone to do the way I do.”< /p>
Not only problems with excess weight faced the girl during the preparatory phase. All participants signed a non-disclosure document: they had no right to tell anyone, even the closest people, where they were going! “My relatives found out about Miss Russia the day before the first appearance on the stage – only then were we allowed to inform our loved ones,” Alina said. They were also given the task to prepare a creative number for a certain stage in the competition, to prepare a souvenir and a national costume. Alina's young man, according to her, helped her a lot in the last problem – he bought her a chic national costume. And finally, a serious selection began, already the official part: as a result of the work of the jury, twelve beauties received the right to participate in the superfinal, among which was Alina Goncharova.
“Was it a revelation for you – for a completely unprofessional “Miss” to go on stage at the same time as the winners of other regions?” – such a question was asked to her first later. She replied with a laugh (for the first time declassifying the method of burning excess weight in the style of “extreme”): “It was a discovery for me that I can not have dinner! I didn’t even imagine that I would be able to overcome my brutal hunger and cut my diet so much in order to look beautiful on stage. But seriously, the real discovery was that the competition is not as scary as it is described in the media.” She meant that before that she had heard all sorts of horrors: that the competing girls put glass in each other's food to incapacitate the rivals, that all the participants, like enemies, look at each other with hatred. “All this is not true,” Alina remarked: “The atmosphere was very sincere, we almost all became friends.”
“To be a queen always, and not by the fact of wearing a crown, but by lifestyle,” Alina Goncharova made such a main conclusion after visiting a beauty contest. This means: it doesn’t matter if you brush your teeth, chat with friends in a cafe, walk along the catwalk – every step must be done in such a way that people around want to take an example from you. Another lesson was useful for her: to take any criticism positively, even unpleasant ones. After all, criticism was directed towards the contestants not only from the jury: the girls-applicants received increased attention in the press, in social networks, their every step, every word was discussed in detail. And they did not always write positive things about them – there were many unpleasant attacks. Alina is convinced that you can learn to take criticism calmly if you can separate it from outright envy and special malicious slander.
And Alina made another useful conclusion for herself, having visited this competition: you need not only to be able to communicate well with people around you, but also to listen to them correctly. “Besides me, there were forty-nine more girls, beautiful, smart, and each had her own life path, her own destiny. Talking to them, listening to them, I learned a lot of useful things: any person can teach another a lot if you listen to him carefully, ”her words from an interview with the Wday resource. At the same time, the girl not only absorbed useful information, but also shared her secrets with new friends and gave good advice.
How Alina Charova became a beauty blogger and achieved success
Despite the fact that she did not even enter the top three winners, there was a huge interest in her person at the end of the Miss Russia 2016 contest, and this is deserved. Alina is indeed a rare beauty, and until now many visitors to the concert hall where the competition was held are at a loss: why did a participant from Rostov-on-Don named Goncharova not become the owner of the crown? Offers rained down on the girl, one more profitable than the other: to appear in fashion magazines, go abroad for an internship, then to become a truly professional model, become an actress or a singer! She, as you know, participated in the modeling business before the competition, but it was like a hobby: Alina studied, then went to work on a diploma profile, there was not much time left for shooting, and she didn’t really want to achieve incredible heights there.
But the video, specifically youtube, she was interested in long before arriving in Moscow for Miss Russia. Here is a fragment from her memoirs: “It was my favorite pastime almost from childhood to watch stories about beauties who talk about cosmetics, clothes, all sorts of useful things. And as soon as I started learning English and was able to watch foreign blogs, it just turned into a phobia! Without looking up, I watched how foreign bloggers share their impressions of all kinds of jars, tubes. And then she just “exploded” a direct on Instagram, and the number of posts under her photos went through the roof: everyone wanted to know what a wonderful diet Alina Goncharova used to lose weight so quickly. They did not know about her nightly hunger torment, about the skin disease earned due to weight loss (thank God, they were cured later quickly), and hoped that the beauty would teach them useful weight loss methods.
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This is how her blogging career began: Alina recorded a video about what she did during a beauty contest to lose weight. And about the fact that it is categorically impossible to do as she does, in no case! Yes, her first video was with the repeated use of the words “no”, “no way”, “very unhealthy”. A total newbie to youtube, she posted this anti-advice video and almost instantly it was viewed by more than a hundred thousand people. For a complete “teapot” on the Internet, this was a resounding success, and the girl seriously thought about creating a full-fledged channel. Moreover, she began working as a blogger in an unusual format: she placed her first videos in the “anti-beauty” section, that is, she did not talk about how to do something, but about how not to believe advertising, how not to let yourself be “dissolved”. » well-known online stores how to “not fall for” expensive luxury cosmetics.
She didn’t even tell her relatives what she started doing: her parents and sister found out about Alina’s success when the number of subscribers on her channel exceeded twenty-five thousand. Yes, she did not want to advertise her work, even on social networks for the first time she did not give a link to the YouTube channel. And from the very first steps, the girl took a clear direction in her activities: every word should be “author's”, and not peeped on someone else's channel, each experience should be personal. Not everything went smoothly at first, here are her words about the difficulties: “Although I was fond of video shooting in my youth, youtube was technically harder for me in the first moments than the same Instagram. I took a picture and posted it on Instagram, but professional editing is required in video format. class=”aligncenter wp-image-647 size-full” title=”Alina Charova: biography, personal life, family” alt=”Alina Charova: biography, personal life, family”/>
And at first she received a lot of criticism in her address, but not from subscribers, but from competitors: she was called a blogger provocateur, because she did not follow the beaten track, did not advertise blindly known and expensive brands, but often gave anti-advice, dissuaded from big spending money. By the way, she listens to criticism very carefully from the first days of the channel's existence, and she will definitely answer if she is objected to or asked to argue something weightily. Alina does not just keep her finger on the pulse of fashion trends – she knows almost all of her regular subscribers by nicknames. “I monitor channel visits and clearly see who appears often, and who just runs past, who watches everything, and who only certain topics. If the topic is interesting, and there are many visits, then the topic needs to be picked up and developed further, ”her words.
Here is her main “trick”, which so attracts the already existing fans of Alina Charova, and allows her to acquire new ones every day. This is the absolute “budget” of her tips and life hacks. If she shows how to choose jewelry for a certain dress, then she does not advertise gold and diamonds with foam at the mouth, but shows on herself … earrings from Aliexpress for sixty rubles! When talking about expensive skin care products, she will definitely mention cheaper ones, and provide evidence that it is not always necessary to spend a lot of money to achieve a great effect. A vivid example is her video called “I threw away all the micellar water”: Alina smashed the myth about the widely publicized benefits of micellar water, about its supposedly miraculous properties.
No, Alina Charova is not at all the blogger who advises with a smart look: “Do not buy face creams! Smear with river clay! Why spend money on good shoes – there are worthy copies on the market!” She simply talks to her fans as if they are friends who are unacceptable and ashamed to advise bad or something undeservedly expensive. Even showing truly elite things, she will definitely point out the expediency of an expensive purchase. Advertising, for example, outerwear of well-known companies, she will tell in detail that the expensive raincoat was worth it: it endured a huge number of washes without harm, did not change color and shape, and this model looks chic on any figure.
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Another interesting section on her channel is about what cunning tricks famous people use when caring for themselves. “In this way, I convey extremely useful information to the audience without a long and tedious search on their part. Without undue modesty: I make life as easy for girls as possible. They would know everything only by reading a ton of magazines and a bunch of sites, and I do it for them, ”her words. And at the same time as revealing the secrets of the “stars”, Alina Charova is engaged in the so-called “beauty shamanism”: she loves to experiment with different means, for example, with foundation creams, mix them, test them for herself, and be sure to share effective results. Alina's friends are already using the results of this “shamanism” with might and main: they vying with each other ask for the same magical “home-made” foundation creams.
It is quite possible that in the future Alina Charova will not only become a world-famous blogger, but will also be the founder of a new cosmetics company – this bold assumption is prompted by her constant experiments not only with foundations! For example, her videos with examples of making tonics with a peeling effect are a huge success – the girl makes them herself from succinic and salicylic acid. “They are truly magical! Their only drawback is that they deteriorate very quickly, but this is not scary with their penny cost, ”Alina says about her“ know-how ”. Who knows, maybe in two or three years her current admirers will become the first visitors to the big store “Alina Charova: medical cosmetics” or something like that.
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Without undue modesty, she also talks about personal tricks that allow her to save both time and money – the girl has a wonderful character trait not to hide her tricks, but to share them with everyone with joy. Take at least such a banality as mascara. Millions of women around the world spend ten to fifteen minutes before going to work or just before going out to make up their eyelashes. And Alina discovered the miracle of eyelash extensions, she really liked it, and she happily informed her subscribers about this convenience: “God bless the person who invented eyelash extensions!” Moreover, she voiced a shocking thing: it saves not only time, but also money, eyelash extensions, despite the high cost of the procedure, are cheaper than buying good mascara – because it is spent quickly with daily use.
