Salma Hayek may be one of Hollywood’s most glamorous stars, almost an untouchable some might say. But she has well and truly proved she’s just like the rest of us with the most budget hair hack we’ve ever seen.
Salma, 57, is one of the most candid actresses of our time and is known for sharing makeup-less selfies and other insights from her real life on social media – much to the delight of fans.
And now, in her most real-life moment yet, the Frida actress has shared a new video on Instagram in which she offers up the best yet most basic beauty advice ever – mascara on the hair to cover greys.
We thought that was just us who did that in a moment of panic with our Benefit lengthening mascara, but apparently not.
In the clip, wearing a dressing gown while hair and makeup artists style her for a public appearance, Salma states that she often uses mascara to conceal and flatten her wiry grey hairs.
However, when working with a hairstylist in this instance she offers the gift of a different trick for hiding her greys to her 28 million followers.
Proudly sharing her basic mascara-based method, she says: ‘All the rebellious little ones that stick up not only go black but they stay flat.’
The latest video shows Salma’s hairdresser applying a spray she described as ‘hair makeup’ to the actress’s grey hair.
The Oscar-nominated actress specifies in the video that she doesn’t mind her grey hair but sometimes she’s expected to cover it up, noting: ‘I don’t mind it, but sometimes who I’m working with, they do mind.’
While speaking to the camera, her dressing robe comes open, revealing a slip that was blurred out before the video was uploaded.
However, Salma, ever the professional, seemed unconcerned about the malfunction, merely tugging the cloth back up before continuing to speak to the camera.
Salma’s 28.2 million Instagram followers loved her tip, but many also said she was ‘beautiful’ whether she had grey or black hair.
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‘I think your grey are fabulous specially how they are growing. But I completely understand besos,’ ‘Giovanny George shared in the comment section.
Echoing Giovanny’s sentiment, Luis Sanchez added: ‘I fall more and more in love with you each and every time.’
Sharing a different take, EssyDubz remarked: ‘Is she not the most fun human being!’
Even her celebrity friends couldn’t resist heaping praise on Salma, with Eva Mendes admiring: ‘So it’s official, right? You’re the most beautiful woman in the world ? Creo que si. Coño-que belleza! Wowwwwww x.’
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Kate Hudson, meanwhile, simply enthused: ‘ILYSM.’
Hayek has long embraced her greying hair, referring to it as ‘the white hair of wisdom’ in a 2020 post.
Salma provided another advice for greying hair on Instagram in 2023, with a series of pictures showing various quantities of white hair around her temples. She says in the caption that not wearing sunglasses on your head is an excellent technique to conceal signs of ageing in one’s hair.
Aside from mascara, Salma owes her young beauty to one thing: meditation.
She said of the practice: ‘I really believe it is. People say it’s exercising. I think it’s meditation.
‘You have to find your way. For me, exercising is hard,’ she continued to Entertainment Tonight.
‘It’s really, really difficult to have the discipline to do it. But meditation is a walk in the park, because it’s my own form of it.’
Source My Celebrity Life.