Salma Hayek's 25-step beauty regimen is a little rich for our blood, but she slips in some affordable picks that will still make your skin feel like a million bucks. (Getty)
Earlier this month, Salma Hayek shared her soup-to-nuts beauty secrets with Vogue, including highly specific makeup and skin-care techniques and the exact products she uses. It's a fascinating watch. In the 13-minute video, the 58-year-old starts out in a sheet and eye mask and takes her bare skin from fresh-faced to full-on glam. Most of what she reveals is what you'd expect from a celebrity who has sat in the chairs of some of the most talented makeup artists in the world. She favors the highest of high-end beauty lines, including Gucci, Chanel, Sisley Paris, La Mer and Yves Saint Laurent.
By my count, her skin and makeup routine is 25 steps with multiple luxury serums, high-end concealers and overpriced lip tints. Here's the kicker: If you were to invest in all the products, they would set you back a whopping $1,780. Obviously, we regular folk don't need all that! Still, not everything she uses is out of reach. If you consider both value and quality, here are the best affordable beauty products of Hayek's bunch.
Hayek wears these retinol- and collagen-infused patches overnight and credits them with depuffing her eyes by morning.
Got a few silver strands you want to hide quickly? Hayek uses Benefit's Roller Lash mascara to temporarily cover her face-framing grays. It's an ideal choice as the formula is water resistant (it stays on all day!) and contains vitamin B5 to condition her roots. It's also just a really good mascara.
Hayek says that her mature skin is textured and uneven, with visible pores. (Join the club.) Fresh's rose-infused spritz is made to refresh and tighten skin and minimize the appearance of these annoying skin dugouts.
Hayek calls this award-winning, easy-to-apply blush stick "so natural" and loves it so much that she uses it at two different points in her makeup routine (the formula is layerable). It leaves a subtle pop of color, and the creamy, moisturizing formula makes mature skin glow.
If you're looking for more, here's Hayak's entire makeup and skin care tutorial.
