Secrets of how Jane keeps her mane so amazing, even at 70
IN ROLES from Bond girl to Medicine Woman, Jane Seymour’s luxuriant hair has almost become a star in its own right.
Now the actress has shared the secrets of how she keeps her long, chestnut locks looking so fabulous – especially for a grandmother who recently turned 70.
She says she washes and conditions it every day – but, perhaps reassuringly for mere mortals, there is a little more to her regime than that. Ms Seymour, who barely seems to have aged during 50 years in the limelight, does admit that she needs a little help from the colour bottle.
‘I do have some grey there but I’m not fully grey,’ she reveals.
‘It needs colouring… I get my hair coloured with Goldwell products every three or four weeks by my hairdresser.’
Ms Seymour has been getting her hair enhanced by Marie Ferro of Malibu, California, for almost a quarter of a century. ‘She uses a natural weave of three different colours,’ the actress says.
In other tips, she tries to avoid heated styling tools; says she
could not live without her $130 (€110) Mason Pearson hairbrush; and uses Phyto shampoo and volumiser, priced at a surprisingly affordable $20 and $30 a bottle respectively; a $37-abottle daily hair mask; and Ouai leave-in conditioner, priced at $25 a bottle.
And there’s certainly no sign of her exchanging those long locks for the easy-to-keep pixie cut or tight bob favoured by many women of her age, hard as it is to believe she’s in her eighth decade. She attributes her youthful complexion to not having a facelift and abandoning a short-lived dalliance with Botox.
‘I don’t want to do anything permanent,’ she says. ‘I’m a sculptor, so I know that once you change one thing, you want to change another and then you’re chasing some kind of Barbie-doll illusion.’
Perhaps implausibly, she insists: ‘Anyway, my face is crooked. I have two completely different coloured eyes, crooked smile, crooked whatever… And I’ve got some wrinkles.’
The actress, who starred in Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman throughout the 1990s, is enjoying a career renaissance with two films, a comedy and a drama series in the pipeline.
Yet she almost gave up acting soon after appearing in the 1973 Bond film Live And Let Die when a powerful producer tried to force himself on her.
When she spurned him, he threatened to destroy her career. ‘The person had that power,’ she says. ‘It was so traumatic for me that I gave up acting for a year.’
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