As her new hair range promises Jen’s luscious locks for less, ALICE HART-DAVIS reveals how you can look like a Friend on a mate’s rate budget
Ever since ‘The Rachel’ became one of the most requested haircuts of the 1990s, Jennifer Aniston has been a beauty icon.
So it’s little wonder women the world over are excited by this month’s announcement that she’s launching her own haircare brand. Thus far her LolaVie range only has one product — Glossing Detangler, which costs $25 (£18) — but it does offer a promise that we’ll finally discover the key to her much-envied style.
When it comes to beauty, there’s no doubt that Jen knows her stuff. She was an early investor in, and co-owner of, super-sciencey haircare range, Living Proof, and is also said to be a fan of the critically-acclaimed Drunk Elephant haircare products.
But it’s not just her hair she’s known for. At 52, her skin is the envy of women half her age, and while she’s always insisted that wearing SPF daily, drinking water and getting plenty of sleep are the keys to her healthy skin, there’s a bit more to it than that.
Ever since ‘The Rachel’ became one of the most requested haircuts of the 1990s, Jennifer Aniston has been a beauty icon.
Thanks to the hints and snippets she’s revealed over the years, we have a good idea of what else she relies on. The catch? Given that she’s a Hollywood superstar, it’s all expensive.
But it doesn’t have to be.
After decades of working in the beauty industry, I know how, and where, to get the budget versions of the products and treatments she swears by.
You might not have a private chef, dermatologist or her genes (she credits her Greek father for her wrinkle-free skin), but here’s how you can have what she’s having — at a fraction of the price.
EYES WITHOUT THE BAGS
JEN’S CHOICE
These hydrogel masks are infused with hydrating and firming ingredients to smooth and brighten the delicate skin under the eyes.
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THE BUDGET OPTION
Keep these under-eye gel patches in the fridge for maximum impact.
Lay them onto clean dry skin and leave for ten minutes so that the line-reducing peptides and skin-brightening ginkgo biloba extract can be absorbed and start de-puffing your peepers.
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PERFECT BROWS
JEN’S CHOICE
Jen has appointments with Anastasia Soare, the eyebrow queen of Hollywood, who keeps celebrity brows in check with her treatments, shaping and tinting (salon appointments cost from around £45).
Anastasia also has her own range of home-use products, Anastasia Beverly Hills, so it’s a fair assumption that Jen uses the cult Brow Wiz pencil from the collection
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BUDGET OPTION
Invest in a good pair of tweezers (from £22, tweezerman.co.uk) for shaping, and a Maybelline Tattoo Brow eyebrow pencil (£7.99, boots.com) which gives you thicker-looking brows for up to 36 hours.
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SCULTPED JAWLINE
Jen’s choice
Jen is a fan of Jillian Dempsey’s 24-carat gold-plated Beauty Wand
This cylinder with a T-bar on the end is battery powered and vibrates. Apply a cream, then work the wand over your face to help de-puff it.
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The budget option
I don’t normally advocate copies from the internet, but the Beauty Bar 24k Golden Pulse Facial Face Massager is a dead ringer. Perhaps it has less gold (which has no beauty benefits) and less power, but it will do the job. Keep it in the fridge to aid de-puffing.
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PLUMPED UP SKIN
Jen’s choice
As chief creative officer of a supplement firm called Vital Proteins, Jen takes its collagen supplement daily to improve her ‘wellness from within’. A month’s supply costs £40 which sounds a steal, although the website doesn’t offer any data to show their product actually works.
The budget option: Sorry, Jen’s pick is inexpensive, so it’s hard to find a cheaper one, but some have more evidence behind them. While the value of collagen supplements has been debated, they can bolster skin, hair, and nails. But you need a product containing hydrolysed collagen — where the molecule, which is too big for the body to absorb, has been smashed into pieces.
Decent products, containing 6,000 to 10,000 mg of collagen per daily dose, should show results after three months. Pure Gold Collagen (£62.70 a month, gold-collagen.com) and Ingenious Collagen (£54.99, feelingenious.com) have studies showing how effective they are
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YOUNG LOOKING FACE
Jen’s choice
Unlike Courteney Cox (who has talked about having the filler in her face dissolved), Jen hasn’t spoken about needle-based treatments apart from microneedling, which she took up a few years ago. ‘It’s a wheel that has pins. You roll it and it stimulates your collagen,’ she says.
The budget option: Compared to clinical versions, which can cost from £150, the cheap option is a £10 roller.
Jennifer is pictured with her vital proteins
But should you do it at home? In a clinic, a practitioner uses a roller to create minute punctures. This stimulates collagen production as your face races to fix the damage, creating stronger skin. At-home versions don’t penetrate deep enough; they just make holes that allow skincare products to penetrate faster.
Clinicians don’t advise at-home versions as your skin may end up looking like a scratched CD, and because most over-the-counter skincare isn’t designed to go deep into the skin so may cause irritation.
The sensible option: If you want to do home needling, do it as part of a supervised regime that uses products such as Environ, with a roller with 0.2 mm needles.
An Environ skincare consultation costs about £25 that is usually redeemable against products. Go to environskincare.com to find local stockists.
NO MORE AGE SPOTS
Jen’s choice: Jen is not beyond trying stronger tweakments for better skin. ‘I became obsessed with laser porn. I did this thing called a peel,’ she revealed on a chat show, adding that she had sun spots to deal with because, ‘as a California girl, I like the sun, and it’s a hard habit to break.
‘So I had these things zapped, and it’s intense — and then it [the dead skin] just falls off.’ A treatment like this would start from around £500, depending on the size of the area being treated.
The budget option: Laser skin resurfacing is effective, but it comes with a week of downtime. A gentler, cheaper way to improve the surface texture of your skin is to use an overnight skin-resurfacing product such as Alpha-H Midnight Reboot (£70, asos.com). Apply it instead of night cream twice a week and you’ll soon see a new radiance.
Jen is not beyond trying stronger tweakments for better skin. ‘I became obsessed with laser porn. I did this thing called a peel,’ she revealed on a chat show, adding that she had sun spots to deal with because, ‘as a California girl, I like the sun, and it’s a hard habit to break
GREAT SKIN TONES
Jen’s choice
Melanie Simon and Joanna Czech are the superstar’s facialists. Simon uses electrical microcurrents to push the skin’s cells into ‘repair’ mode for younger-looking skin. Jen also uses the ZIIP Nano Current tool created by Simon ( ‘I’ve never seen such results from a little machine,’ she’s said.
The device sends pulses of microcurrents into the skin, which stimulate collagen production while toning muscles and improving circulation and lymphatic drainage. The device is used with a conductive gel, so the electricity can pass through; the ZIIP Gold Conductive Gel will set you back £100.
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The budget option
The NuFace Mini uses microcurrents to tone and sculpt the face.
You need to use it daily with a water-based gel; I use mine with a hyaluronic acid serum (which the microcurrent drives into the skin for greater hydration); aloe vera gel (e.g. Dr Organic Aloe Vera Gel, £5.99, holland andbarrett.com) works just as well.
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