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Teri Hatcher wants to get real. “I kind of haven’t been keeping up on myself,” she tells Glamour from her home in Los Angeles. “I don’t know if other people feel that way, but before COVID, I exercised regularly and ate healthy, but it’s been easy to let things slide.”
Which, to be clear, is perfectly okay. But after months of uncertainty, the 55-year-old actor says she’s rediscovered why it’s important for her mental health to keep up with the self-care routines she had before the pandemic. “When you do little things to take care of yourself, whether it’s eating right, taking a walk, drawing a bath, or even getting the gray out of your hair, it’s just a great boost of confidence,” she says. “Then you feel like you do everything else better. I get reminded of that every time.”
That’s why Hatcher, who’s best known for her leading roles on Desperate Housewives and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, is now working with Madison Reed, the at-home hair-color brand you’ve probably heard ads for on your favorite murder-mystery podcast. “I’ve been using store-bought color for years, mostly being a single mom and working and not having time to go to a salon,” she says. “It was just easier to dye my hair on my own terms, which is usually late at night while I’m bingeing a TV show with a glass of wine.” Relatable.
She’s one of the many who have taken up coloring their hair at home this year—and has even been talking her friends through the process. “I’ve never heard so many women talk about their gray hair before,” she says. “One of my girlfriends was freaking out and sending me pictures of her gray hair, and I said, ‘I’ll shoot a video so you can see how to do it.’” (And in case you’re wondering, Hatcher swears by the Radiant Hair Color Kit in Sandrio Brown 6.5 for “a really great medium brown.”)
Now she’s hoping that by putting it all out there, women—and men—will know that doing it yourself isn’t as scary as it looks. “I get that you might think you don’t know what you’re doing and you don’t want to mess up your hair, but the instructions make it easy,” she says. “The truth is it’s hard to mess it up.”
With that in mind, Hatcher was game to play Glamour‘s Big Beauty Questions, where she gave us her refreshing take on hair campaigns, beauty advice, and the perfect inexpensive way to re-create a spa experience at home.
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Glamour: Since your hair always looks amazing, what other products do you swear by?
Teri Hatcher: I use Madison Reed’s de-frizzing, smoothing cream called Tame that I really like, because I have frizzy, curly hair. And I use its espresso reviving gloss, which really helps with brassiness after swimming so much this summer. Shu Uemura also makes a nourishing oil for your hair that I’ll use a dime-size of, and then I use dry shampoo a lot since I only wash my hair two times a week.
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You’re stranded on a desert island. What are the three products you bring with you?
I would definitely bring sunscreen. I love EltaMD’s tinted moisturizer. And Pixi’s lengthening mascara, which doesn’t even look like you have mascara on—it just gives you a boost. And then, of course, I’d have to bring Madison Reed Radiant Hair so that I’d have confidence while I was flirting with dolphins.
What is your favorite way to take a moment for yourself?
I try to walk a couple miles every night either by myself or with a friend. I don’t look at it as exercise even though I walk a few miles, because it’s just kind of that time to be quiet and notice the birds and the sunset. I really like slowing down and being in nature.
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Jessica Radloff is the West Coast editor at Glamour. Follow her on Instagram @jessicaradloff14.
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