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'Wash your hair in beer': Elle Macpherson reveals her more unusual beauty tips... but regrets spending too much time in the sun

By Sarah Dean

Published: 06:38 EDT, 21 April 2014 | Updated: 10:46 EDT, 21 April 2014



She's worth an estimated $60 million but Elle Macpherson still loves a cheap option when it comes to beauty treatments.

The Australian model, 50, has confessed she treats her envied long blonde locks to a slightly unusual home remedy - a refreshing dose of beer.

'My mum always said to wash your hair in beer to make it shiny,' she told Yours magazine. Beer-soaked: Elle Macpherson reveals she keeps her long blonde hair shiny by drenching it in booze

The famously tanned star also claimed she no longer spends hours lounging in the sun and regrets not protecting her skin more in her youth.

She advised to stay out of the sun, or at least be responsible.

She added: 'Today, protecting my skin from the sun is so important. I wish someone had told me that when I was much younger.' The Body: Despite being known for her famous beach figure in Sports Illustrated shoots, the 50-year has suggested avoiding the sun to stay young

Elle, nicknamed The Body thanks to to her famous Sports Illustrated shoots, lithe limbs and golden glow, previously got behind safe tanning when she became the face of a top-selling Australian sunscreen company, Invisible Zinc, in 2008.

In 2011 she told of her regret of not using sunscreen as a teenager.




'If there's any young girls out there; I wish somebody had told me to start using sunscreen when I was younger because I grew up in the Seventies... and at that time I used to coat my body with baby oil,' she told a crowd at Sydney's Myer store while promoting Invisible Zinc. Natural beauty: The supermodel said she uses fake tan to stay bronzed in appearance, pictured in Paris in January

She admitted, however, that for the colour of her skin to 'be anything other than pale' she uses fake tan.

Contrastingly, Elle advises that when it comes to the rest of her look 'natural is best'.

She explained: 'Reading my child a story makes me feel great; doing my hair nicely doesn't.'

Her other little-known top beauty tips include not wearing heels, always wearing matching underwear and doing an hour's exercise a day, five days a week. Cover girl: Elle listed her top 10 little known beauty secrets in Yours magazine

She recommends eating to your blood type, not looking in the mirror too much and scrubbing your skin a lot.

Elle also emphasised the importance of rest.

She said she believed any woman who drank three litres of water every day for a month and slept for seven hours a night would see themselves lose weight, look better and feel better.

The mother-of-two recently claimed that at age 50 'feeling good on the inside is more important' to her than looking good.

She added: 'My secret? Love, laughter...and my super greens.'



Elle Macpherson reveals her more unusual beauty tips at 50
