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Helen Mirren‘s tip for looking great at 68: Cut your own hair.
The “Queen” star confirmed longstanding rumors that she, not a beautician, trims her silver locks in an interview in the August issue of Redbook.
”Not always, but yes, [I cut my own hair]. I can’t handle going to the hairdresser every six weeks, so I only go about once a year.
”In between, I get out the scissors and do something, usually rather disastrously. Sometimes I’ll even chop my hair the morning of a big red carpet event.”
She also admitted she still finds the huge events to be a lot of ”fun”, particularly now she’s at a stage where she can just ”enjoy” them.
She added: ”Yes, it is fun – it’s a silly, amazing moment to be caught up in, and then it’s all over.
”What’s nice is that I don’t feel nervous about it anymore. I can just enjoy it.”
And despite not having a strict ‘beauty regime’, the veteran star still puts on makeup ”every day” – although she ends up taking most of it off again.
She explained: ”I wear makeup every day. I love putting it on, and I get really into it: a little bit of this here, a little bit of that there… But then I stand back and look in the mirror and it’s awful!
”So I take it all off because I’ve gotten too anal about it. It’s absolutely true that as you get older, you have to wear less and less makeup.”
Agencies/Canadajournal
