What is your name and where are you based today?
My name is Nadiya Kochanyk, I live and work as a skin therapist in the city of Uzhgorod, which is located in western Ukraine.
How long have you been working with Meder Beauty?
I have been working with Meder beauty since 2015.
What do you like about being a skin therapist?
In my work, I am most fascinated by the moment when I see how women’s eyes light up because they are satisfied with the health and beauty of their own skin and like themselves.
What are the challenges you’ve found in your career?
During the lockdowns, my patients experienced a lot of stress, and with the beginning of the war, this problem became even more pronounced. This greatly affected the condition of the skin – increased sensitivity of the skin and aggravated chronic problems, primarily such as rosacea and acne. And here the wonderful Meder Beauty products, designed specifically to work with these problems, provided a great help.
It was necessary to change the tactics of treating patients, first of all, to restorative and supportive ones, and active stimulation due to injuries, such as acid and retinol peels, for example, to be postponed until better times.
It was a very difficult task to provide all our customers with the means to which they were accustomed, and which became even more necessary during the period of acute stress at the beginning of the war.
After all, the logistics of many companies were simply paralysed. I am infinitely grateful to the company Meder beauty and personally to Tijna Meder for such important and timely support of our consumers who were forced to find themselves abroad, for the opportunity to get cosmetics in any corner of Europe.
How has your life changed in the past year?
We have all aged for a lifetime. Over the past year, I have heard so many terrible stories of people’s experiences, both in my office at the reception and at home, because a family from Kharkiv lived with us for three months. So many mutilated destinies, so much pain and hatred… And this will remain with me forever.
What are your hopes for the future?
I look to the future with a burning desire to wait for the end of this nightmare as soon as possible and to see the restoration and flourishing of our beautiful Ukraine. And it will be so, I believe in it with all my heart.
What is the most important piece of advice you’ve been given?
To survive stress more easily – you need to act, help those who need it as much as you can. Our unity is our great strength that makes us an invincible nation.
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