Eva Mendes reveals shocking beauty secret

Eva Mendes just opened up about her beauty and self-care routine.

The 51-year-old actress has dropped the footsteps of her mom, Eva Pérez Suárez, who had a rather simple beauty routine.

When she wanted to treat her mother to a luxury spa day, Eva told New Beauty, "The stuff that was really important to her…”

She continued, “I wonder how the hell she did it with four kids! I have so many photos of her in curlers—the old-school foam ones. The minute she would leave the house, whether it was to the market— we didn’t have a car, so she’d walk everywhere—she would take those suckers out, shake her head and her hair was done.”

"Then, she put lipstick on. She wasn’t a foundation person or an eye person, but she always had her hair done and her lipstick applied,” the 2 Fast 2 Furious actress added.

"I have definitely not carried on that tradition. I don’t know how she did it. I really don’t. Unfortunately, I just haven’t been able to do that,” Eva confessed.

Comparing her mother’s style to her own, she also mentioned, "The thing that’s always in my head, always, is that my mother would never, ever have a facial. I had to force her to have one a couple years ago - at 80 years old. She loved it, but she wants me to spend my money on myself, not on her. She’s totally an old-school mom."

Additionally, Eva also shared some beauty advice, saying, "When I put moisturiser on, I hear her (mom’s) voice. Ever since I was a teenager, I could hear her say, ‘You always want to go up, up, up with the moisturiser.’ I don’t know where she got that from or what kind of old Cuban advice that was, but I’m always going up, up.”

"That’s one thing that’s always stayed. Oh, you know what else? You’re making me think of these fun, old things. She always told me to take care of my elbows, which, of course, I ignored,” the Hitch talent added.

"When I was in my late 30s, early 40s, I finally got it. Sorry, mom! I have to admit, she was right,” Eva Mendes concluded.