Salma Hayek took a page out of the Kylie Jenner playbook and conducted a hair experiment on Sunday night. The 50-year-old actress showed up at the Women in Motion event, held as part of the Cannes Film Festival, with pink locks. The pink hue matched the flower designs on her black Gucci gown. Salma walked the red carpet at the event with husband François-Henri Pinault, whose company, Kering, threw the shindig.
Salma showed off her new look on Instagram, giving props to her beauty squad, including celebrity hair colorist Aura Friedman, who was responsible for the color, and hairstylist Jennifer Yepez, who curled her hair into bombshell-worthy waves. Her posts from the event generated positive feedback from her fans.
Salma’s rose-hued look, of course, was achieved with a wig. If you watch RuPaul’s Drag Race enough, you can tell a lacefront wig – even a good one – pretty easily. I’m sure she’s wise enough to not bleach her hair. As a bottle blonde myself, I can attest that as you get older, it gets harder and harder to keep light, healthy locks. Besides, Salma’s natural hair color is gorgeous and I’d hate to see her damage her long hair.
I have no issue with Salma giving pink hair a go, I mean, if Cher can rock it (and did), so can Salma, but it really doesn’t fit this occasion. I can see the pink hair, but please, Salma, never again try the gaudy pajamas/over-the-top sunglasses look you showed off on Instagram after the event.
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The color doesn’t suit her but I really like her dress.
She’s having fun with her hair and it is irrelevant as to whether or not it suits her. Changing it up and doing something different is exciting and fun.
Its not entirely irrelevant as the headline of the article is posing the question of whether it suits her or not.
I dont think it suits her but I completely agree that it is exciting and fun and, tbh, I wish I could die my hair pink or violet but my conservative job would frown upon in.
I think it’s just a wig, she doesn’t look bad in it but I don’t think it will be a regular feature.
What is she doing to her face, I didn’t recognize her, I thought she was young Paris Jackson.
Her dress is stunning. Somehow the pink wig makes her look angelic. She’s just playing around and probably whipped that thing off her head before she hit the sheets.
I agree with you completely. She looks great and nothing wrong with playing around with your looks. As a FIFTY year old woman she looks great and has maintain her beauty in such a great way, without overdoing it. For someone who has access to any beauty product whether it is botox, fillers, surgery she has shown restrain throught the aging process looking lovely and just great . I am not crazy about her fashion clothing style but as a woman who is in her 40’s also looking for an youthful change in clothes….I think she looks great
LOVE it. Love that she’s fifty and still looks sexy and regal but that she doesn’t need to be dressing like a teen to accomplish those things. Honestly she makes me less afraid of getting older.
OMG is crazy how she never looks stylish. Head to toe designer and always looks a mess.
I am sorry but Mediterranean women do not look good with platinum blonde hair. Her natural brown hair looks best. She doesn’t look horrible but it is not the best look for her.
I get what you’re saying but she’s Mexican not Mediterranean…
She is Mexican but her father is of Lebanese decent and her mother’s family is from Spain.
She was born in Mexico. Her mother is Spanish but her father is Lebanese.
I’m actually working on an article about fancy hair colours and older women (and Salma is older; black probably isn’t her natural colour any more either). Lots of women who have grey coming in are looking to fancy colours because why the hell not? If you’re in an artistic field, you can totally get away with it.
Unfortunately, you DO have to be careful about which colour. Warm skin like Salma’s does better with warm colours, like a rose gold instead of a pink. Cool skin does well with cool colours like mauve or blue. And of course you’ve got to change your makeup, which she has done really well here. But the cool pink wig does not work with the warm olive tones of her skin.
Honestly the best Salmas looked in a long time. Seriously. Look at all those bad outfits.
The hair is cute, and the dress is pretty and fits. She doesn’t look like a principle.
Go for fun hair if you want! I think the pink looks good on her.
No.
No. Unless the goal was to age herself about 10 years in one evening.
I hope that it is true that it is a wig and that she wasn’t foolish enough to do this to her hair for real.
+1, let’s hope it’s a wig because it ages her like crazy and looks cheap. Not good.
She looks much better with dark hair.
Her instagram profile is very millennial-esque and dare I say it….. A bit lame.
No. It clashes with her skin tone.
Oh, god no.
I hate it when people say this but she is too old for this.
+1
It’s okay.
Remember Gucci Premier? What happened to that because it was one beautiful, well-fitting dress after the next.
Her hair and makeup seem Kyle Jenner inspired and, honestly, I really, really dislike that whole vibe. It just gives me the sads.
I don’t hate it, it looks like a wig but she’s deliberately going for a costumey look so it’s ok by me.
She looks like Kylie Jenner circa 2045.
No way Kylie’s gonna age that well. She already looks like melting wax
Her newish eye job looks good.
Love the wig! She looks amazing and while she is for sure helped along by an expert plastic surgeon, she has managed to restrain herself from going into plastic territory.
Just because you are 50 that doesn’t mean that you can’t indulge in the odd spot of funfashion. I also disagree with the comments of it not going with her skin tone. Unlike platinum blonde, this look makes her glow. Of course her natural hair colour looks best, but this is a fun temporary departure.
I didn’t even recognize her!
She is one of the most beautiful women in the world. Had she made her Hollywood debut like this, they’da picked the pink-haired last and we might have never heard from her. Next!
I think she looks shy and relatively insecure, kind of like she’s doing it for someone else, not for herself.
No it doesn’t suit her!
She truly has the worst taste in clothing. It’s surprising that her awful clothes not only are awful but ill-fitting. I just don’t get it.
The whig: naaah. It’s not something about her age, it’s that I do not think she pulls it off effortlessly .
I used to like her, but in the last years…I do not know, I cannot remember anything interesting about her work (but maybe is it me not too well updated?) and her dress choices are getting really worst (here: I love the first dress but I do no think it suits her, the others are really bad). Aggravating factor: you’r ridiculously rich, Salma. You could buy anything.
I love the hair
It’s for a movie role, isn’t it? She plays Donatella Versace.
I liked her before, well I like her now to BUT she has achieved a smugness that comes from being part of the 1%.
The wig part it’s ok for a fun night, go for it. As for her clothes it looks like she can’t get it right most of the time. It seems she goes for the most expensive stuff money can buy and the most exclusive but….like designers are trolling her
Hell no girl this ain’t a anime movie!!! How old are you? Or is it for a movie??
I thought she was Paris Hilton. Enough said. lol