Read About Polina's Beauty Products,
A Small Interview From a Fashion Show Backstage:

No casting without:
Shu Uemura Pro Concealer.

My obsession:
Tea or herbal tea, to keep myself hydrated. I drink so much tea throughout the day, and I vary (camomile, jasmine, green tea, black...). It is the only way which I found to drink 1,5 liter of water per day.

My snobbery:
The Shiseido skincare. Every morning when I wake up and before going to sleep, I apply the Hydro-Refining Softener Lotion, followed by Day Essential Moisturiser or Night Essential Moisturizer.

My SOS:
Origins Perfect World moisturizer with White Tea.

In my city-bag:
Nuxe Rêve de Miel hand cream.

The secret of my model form:
Kick-boxing, bikram yoga and cardio. "Unlike running on a treadmill or ecliptic machine, kick-boxing constantly keeps my mind involved because I have to act quickly and move around fast, trying to predict my opponent's next step, which makes it perfect for people like me, who get bored with one type of exercise."
(Source: elle.fr | courant.com | 2006)

Vogue Russia Tells About Their New Modeling Sensation In 2004:

Polina is only seventeen and already a model with experience and reputation. Miu Miu made her their face for the campaign in past season and Hugo Boss the present. Polina starred in the January cover of Russian Vogue and appeared three times in British Vogue, twice in V magazine and eight times - in Numéro.

It's been an outstanding beginning of the career, and not what Polina once thought about her model-future.

She was sure that she would not become taller than one meter sixty four. And her face, she considered it like rabbit's. It turned out that all this was in vain. "It all began, when I went to the Slava Zaitsev model-show with my friend - says the stunning beauty with the "rabbit's face" - they there convinced me to make a couple of photographs, which I did. It all led to this, and it's something I could've never visualized.

First serious photo-shoot was arranged by the Russian Vogue, and this is our small pride. Polina then worked with the American celebrity photographer Max Vadukul. It took place in a museum and during the shoot, the strict ladies of the museum made Polina wear protective slippers.

Her biggest beauty secret: "I use each free minute for sleep. Once I fell asleep in a Haute Couture show backstage, just before the show was about to begin." When not working, Polina never wears make up, and she is surprised how willingly the photographers want to take her pictures without any make up.
(Source: Vogue Russia, March 2004)

From Elle UK

Name: Polina Kouklina

Provenance: She's from Moscow, but now based in hotel rooms in Paris, London and New York.

Career high so far: Ad campaigns for Miu Miu and Hugo Boss, plus 25 S/S 2005 catwalk appearances including Calvin Klein, Chanel, Lanvin and Louis Vuitton.

She's hot because: She sums up the doll look du jour. Just as well - her name, Kouklina, means little doll in Russian.

Discovered: When she accompanied a friend on a casting in Moscow. An agent persuaded Polina to visit Paris. She would have refused if her mother hadn't been so excited.

Need to know: Polina loves African music. 'When I listen to it, I go wild!'.

Her this season lust-haves: 'Anything by Chloé, Costume National and Zac Posen'.

A year from now?: 'I'll be jumping out of a plane, free flying'. 
(Source: Elle UK, 2005)