Salma Hayek Puts Mascara In Her Hair (No, Seriously) — See Video

If you were like me when you were a teenager, you were proudly eccentric and didn’t want to follow all the conventional beauty rules, but you never took seriously anything that seemed too rebellious. I had never worked on it. For example, I wanted to dye some of my hair blue, but instead used blue “hair mascara” to achieve a half-assed look throughout the day. (It was the ’90s, right? Fantasy colors hadn’t really hit the mainstream yet.) Now that I’m clearly middle-aged, I thought wearing mascara in my hair was a pre-2000 thing. However, it turns out that this was not actually the case. salma hayek For those who haven’t been teenagers in a while, this is a smart use.

Hayek has made it perfectly clear on several occasions that she is a fan of the gray hair she has acquired in recent years, calling it the “gray hair of wisdom.” But she knows it’s great to have her options, so she sometimes colors them instead of in the most traditional way. On Tuesday, February 27, she posted a reel to Instagram, sharing one of her unexpected techniques for temporarily hiding her high-contrast silver stripes.

“So what’s the secret? How can I cover it up without dyeing it?” she said while wearing a white robe during a glam session. “So when I’m alone, I just put on mascara. I clean it really well and then I just do it like this,” she explains, miming what appears to be brushing. Charlotte Tilbury’s Pillow Talk Push Up Lashes mascara on her gray. “And every little one that stands up defiantly doesn’t just turn black, it stays flat.”

Now, the reason she didn’t actually apply it in this case is that her hairstylist miguel martin perezI was on standby. loreal professional hair touch up — Basically, hair and makeup are done in a can. And considering the mascara trick only really works on very dark hair like Hayek’s, it’s good to know that this option comes in a variety of natural-looking colors. Good thing (so does its drugstore cousin) loreal paris magic root cover up).