"Some people wake up simply divine": from the top of her concealer patches, Salma Hayek's tribute to her friend Penélope Cruz

No need for makeup or corseted dresses to keep their beauty intact.

This Thursday, May 4, Salma Hayek and Penélope Cruz unveiled several photos on Instagram, captured in their hotel room before the Met Gala 2023, a ceremony they attended earlier this week.

The two actresses, aged 56 and 49 respectively, shared behind the scenes of their preparation for the event, between giggles and regenerating masks.

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"Best Pictures Ever"

The photos in which the two women appear more complicit than ever are an opportunity for Salma Hayek to praise her friend "Met Gala morning: Some of us have to go through long beauty routines to be presentable on the red carpet, when others just wake up divine @penelopecruzoficial”.

On the pictures, Salma Hayek, seated on a sofa, embraces her friend until she puts one leg over her shoulder.

Moments follow, captured as if by the minute, sometimes blurry, showing Penélope Cruz and the wife of François-Henri Pinault laughing out loud while the latter is being pampered on a treatment table.

Celebrities were quick to react to this moment of joy unveiled.

"Best pictures in the world," commented

actress Alyssa Milano.

And the model Lily Aldridge or the businesswoman Paris Hilton to complete: "The beauties", "you are magnificent women."

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Long time friends

Representatives of Latin culture in Hollywood cinema since the 1990s, Salma Hayek and Penélope Cruz have always moved forward hand in hand.

With singer Jennifer Lopez, they preferred to be friends rather than rivals, setting themselves up as models of their generation.

In 2021, Salma Hayek also explained it at the microphone of the

“Jennifer, Penélope and I have been allies from the start”.

And to continue, concerning his very deep bond with the wife of Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz: "I don't think there is anyone else in the whole world who can understand what I went through professionally. as an immigrant in another country.

No one else in the world understands me like she does."

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