Actor, producer, Glamour cover star, and reigning queen of makeup-free selfies, Salma Hayek Pinault is many things. But one thing she is most certainly not? A gatekeeper of beauty secrets. And for that we are grateful.
An advocate for both embracing your grays and covering them if you want to, the 57-year-old has divulged her fair share of gray-hair-hiding tips over the years. In a July 2023 Instagram post, she jokingly shared a tip to avoid showing your gray strands. “Don’t wear your glasses on your hair!” she wrote, alongside a photo of her hair pushed back exposing her grays.
Jokes aside, the Magic Mike’s Last Dance star decided to drop some real gray-covering tips in an Instagram reel on February 27. Mid-glam from a makeup chair and wearing a robe, she shared her DIY-friendly tip for covering up gray hairs.
“Look at all these white hairs,” she said while combing through her hair. “So what is the secret? The secret…how can you cover [gray hair] sometimes without having to dye it?”
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“So, when I’m on my own, I just put mascara. You know, you clean it really well, and then just go like this,” she continued, demonstrating how she paints over her gray hairs using black mascara. (FWIW, it looks a lot like Charlotte Tilbury’s Pillow Talk Push Up Lashes Mascara.)
Hayek Pinault’s trick has more benefits than just coverage. “All the rebellious little [hairs] that stick up not only go black but they stay flat,” she said. So really, it’s a two-in-one tip: Conceal any unwanted color and keep your flyaways in place!
Because she was in a glam session, she didn’t apply mascara to her hair in the video (she prefers to use the hack when she’s “on her own”) but decided to leave it to the pros. “We have an amazing hairdresser working with us,” she said, referring to her hairstylist, Miguel Martin Perez.
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