The beauty tricks that our mothers and grandmothers taught us... and are still a success today

• The best places to cut curly hair or how a hairdresser changes your life (users' words)

• The definitive tricks to have hair with more volume once and for all

• Not using cleanser in the morning and other mistakes we make when removing make-up (and facial cleansing)

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we have been following the

for years every time we have to attend an event and we don't want to spoil

when putting on a

that requires going over the head.

Consuelo is the wise mother of a colleague who, for as long as she can remember, uses her own patented method of covering her hair with

just before putting on her dress so that not a single strand falls out of it. her perfect updo.

Simple?

very simple.

I insist, we are fans here.

By the way, take note: Consuelo also puts on

-"Piece of cloth as a cape, of a greater or lesser size, that is attached to the neck and falls on the shoulders and that serves to protect the clothes when combing, shaving or cut someone's hair", RAE dixit- when brushing.

and few on the floor, which then has to be swept.

Although today we have

on hand at all times

the vast majority share their secrets 24/7 on social networks), the reality is that

or ditto tricks many We 'suck' them at home.

Who more who less had

whom he was observing in

and who taught him to take the first steps in what we now call self-

For example, my

was my beauty reference without me knowing it.

Over the years I have understood that that little pink fluted box that accompanied her everywhere - I imagine that she did not leave it even when she went down to the Club Marítimo de Santander, where she played bridge with her friends, dressed in her 'Chaneles' and smoking his cigarettes with a mouthpiece - and that was applied not only on the lips, was

a multi-purpose beauty product where there are still today.

Nor was it far from a little white box with the letters c and d screen printed on it, neither more nor less than the

in 1963 as a revolutionary care for nails and cuticles just because, nothing like moisturizing these areas daily so that the manicure will last much longer (ask manicurists if you can live without

such a popular cosmetic today...).

our mothers and grandmothers are not only about moisturizing the cuticles

, and surely not all of them work, but these that we have compiled are still beauty essentials today, who knows if they will go viral

on

the face in a bucket full of ice -something that

The mix of oil and cream, holy hand

Adriana tells me that her mother, the one who doesn't even know the name of the cream she uses, so she is free of any suspicion of being a 'beauty addict', has solved her life in her eternal struggle to

She has very dry skin and any texture, no matter how dense and nutritious, falls short for her.

Add a few

that she usually uses.

For her it has been the panacea, but... does it make any real sense?

These two steps as the closure of the daily care routine are very common in skin prone to dryness, something that gives rise to the concept of 'home made' emulsions, which consists of combining

with a series of

turning the two steps in one in a kind of 'beauty mayonnaise'.

"Since they are the last two steps of the daily facial, it is a more than successful bet, because the cream itself is designed to provide nutrients in the long term and, hand in hand with an oil,

on the skin that will ensure that the skin maintains its hydration or moisture levels for longer," explains cosmetologist and head of training at

Do not touch your eyebrows, it is better that they are left over than missing

Eyebrows, it's better to pluck them just enough... and leave the design in the hands of a professionalSHUTTERSTOCK

Except

which for her was the sacred beauty ritual every weekend, which I have proudly inherited, my mother was not exactly given to 'beauty' routines, nor did she do anything beyond trying on

-oh, lucky generation that was already born with the ghd in hand so that hair straightening was not a nightmare-, very occasionally, with not very favorable results, it must be said.

She gave me one beauty piece of advice, which I followed to the letter, luckily for once in my life I listened to her.

She was referring to

them

without rhyme or reason, seeing how my eyebrows were leafy, powerful,

. thickness and take them thicker but never achieved

Something similar happened to

who confessed to the

in July that she destroyed her eyebrows in an effort to

(having red-haired eyebrows was not the norm) based on endless tints and waxing.

she says, and getting them to look natural again hasn't been easy.

In addition to the difficulty of returning to a bushy eyebrow after having defined it excessively,

is due to the fact that, if worn very sharp and angular, it leaves

on the face, hard and severe.

On the contrary, there are those who defend that, if the shape is well defined, a threadlike eyebrow manages

and leave a luminous effect on the face, and hence the rise, 'again', of thin eyebrows.

Be that as it may, and regardless of trends, it is better to pluck your eyebrows with a head than to face irreparable damage.

More volume in the eyelashes?

curl them

It's scary, okay, we admit it, but using an eyelash curler is an infallible gesture, our grandmothers already knew it...LAUNCHMETRICS SPOTLIGHT

It was not my mother, but it was that of my cousins;

On summer afternoons, when we shared a summer residence,

before going to have the chocolate with churros and right there, as if nothing had happened, in the living room, she would take out her eyelash curler and give her her special touch to the look.

Today it seems to us that the eyelash curler is an instrument of the devil invented by a torturing mind.

And yet, for professional makeup artists, using it guarantees a volume that even the best mascara does not.

This is confirmed

who emphasizes that the curling iron, when used properly,

all in one gesture.

"The curling effect is actually more effective than mascara alone, as the pigment in some is so heavy that it's hard to lift and curl your lashes to their fullest glory."

Are you afraid to use it?

The best thing is to go with a firm hand and be very precise and "

that is, start to feint, without closing the curling iron completely, further, towards the tip, and get

to get familiar with it.

the tool," says Gómez.

Brush at night, brush with panache

Who has not seen their mother or grandmother

To them and to so many actresses from the golden years of Hollywood on the big screen, sitting at their marvelous dressing tables,

their long, wavy hair.

Well, this gesture also makes sense and is a

Brushing our hair contributes to its care, but it also helps it grow stronger.

"It is essential for the health of the hair. It is best to do it twice a day, especially at night. This is a

because with it we remove dirt particles, remains of finishing products, excess fat, etc. At the same time we

", says

"The ideal is to do it first

and then from the roots, and with a suitable comb or brush: one with

and another with

one ", he advises.

Against wrinkles, sleep on your back

Elena's grandmother slept on her back,

like Dracula in her coffin, and she fought all night against herself not to change her position.

To her granddaughter, one of those young women who, more than sleeping, seemed to fight with the bed every night in a fight to the death, since she could not hold her position for even three minutes, found it incredible and incomprehensible.

There she discovered

's trick to

because that was the hidden reason for always sleeping facing the ceiling.

And Elena's grandmother was right.

Dr.

clinics

(Murcia), tells us that wrinkles from sleeping, unlike dynamic ones (from gesturing), are static, that is,

and are usually of the type vertical.

The ways to avoid them happen, among other things, through the position we choose when sleeping, better

of course, or changing position from time to time during the night.

And perhaps something that Elena's grandmother did not know and completes the trick: "The fabric has an influence, yes,

are pleasant and produce fewer folds," confirms

Sleep with curlers for a leonine mane like Cindy Crawford

Cosmic curls in the movie 'Grease'.

Have you seen your grandmother sleep with curlers?

Mine, both of them, one with her short, teased hair and the other with very long hair à la Ángela Molina, would not go to sleep without hers well on, if not even covered with a net.

Although it may seem somewhat comical and very retro to you, which is very reminiscent of Frenchy's 'hairdresser' essays

curlers are still infallible today if what you are looking for is hair with

A red lipstick does everything

If we talk about the

today we have primers, bases with different coverages and textures, concealers of different types and colors to neutralize various types of imperfections (pimples, dark circles, blue veins), highlighters, sun powders, mattifying powders, shadows in a thousand and one finishes and formats, eye and lip primers, bars, eyeliners, blushes, mascaras...

Well, my grandmother, and yours, and my partner Silvia's, and surely my husband's, worked almost exclusively with a red (or carmine) lipstick, in addition to my aunt's already mentioned eyelash curler.

Even the grandmother of make-up artist Iván Gómez, as she told us some time ago in an Instagram direct for Yo Dona, she also used the lipstick to give

If it was already possible then, with today's textures, more evolved, then even more and with better results.

And how to do it right?

If we want to use the lipstick as a perfect blush, it is enough to

and blend with the fingertip.

If it is 'stretched' a little towards the temples, the result is more sophisticated.

If the color is left right in the center area, what makeup artist

calls the apple of the cheek, it leaves a fresh, natural look that is very rejuvenating.

And to make up the eyelids?

Yes, lipstick could also be used to make up the eye.

For Iván, the ideal is to stain the fingertip (or give a touch of color directly with the product) and

near the eyebrow.

This gesture gives light and depth.

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