actor, producer, Glamour Cover star and reigning queen of the no-makeup selfie, Salma Hayek Pinault is many things.But there's one thing she can say with most certainty do not have? The gatekeeper of beauty secrets. And for that we are grateful.
An advocate of both embracing your gray hair and covering it up when you need to, the 57-year-old has revealed her fair share of tips for hiding them over the years. In a July 2023 Instagram post, she jokingly shared tips for keeping gray hair from showing. “Don't put glasses in her hair!” she wrote alongside a photo of her with her hair pushed back to reveal her gray hair.
Jokes aside, magic mike's last dance The star decided to post her actual gray hair cover tips on her Instagram Reels on February 27th. Stepping down from her makeup chair and donning a robe, she shared DIY-friendly tips for hiding her gray hair.
“Look at this gray hair,'' she said, combing her hair. “So, what's the secret? The secret… how can I cover it? [gray hair] Do you have to dye it once in a while? ”
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“So when I'm alone, I just apply mascara. You know, wash it really well and then do it like this,” she continued, demonstrating how to use black mascara to color gray hair. (FWIW, it's very similar to Charlotte Tilbury's Pillow Talk Push Up Lash Mascara.)
Hayek-Pinot's trick has benefits beyond coverage. “All the little rebellious children, [hairs] The ones that stick out don’t just turn black, they stay flat,” she said. So this is a hint that two of her became one. It hides unwanted colors and keeps flyaways in place.
She didn't have mascara on her hair in the video because she was attending a glam session (she prefers to use the hack when she's “on her own”), but decided to leave it to the professionals. “I have an amazing hairstylist working with me,” she said of hairstylist Miguel Martín Perez.