Salma Hayek Pinault Shares Her New Beauty Gig with Merz Aesthetics’ Ultherapy Prime Helped Her Feel ‘Seen’ (Exclusive)

Salma Hayek Pinault has major beauty news: the award-winning actress has been named a global brand ambassador for Merz Aesthetics’ Ultherapy Prime treatment.

For the award-winning actress, 58, this is the result of a manifestation.

“I completely think [I did],” she assures during a sit-down with PEOPLE in New York City. 

The star has been serious about skincare ever since her grandmother — a trained cosmetologist — began slathering homemade creams on her in her early teens. Eventually, Hayek Pinault stepped up her routine with tools. 

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However, she’d long evaded trying other skincare routines, but a recent development sent her into research-mode. 

“The turkey neck,” she says, motioning to herself.

“I will tell you, I had been very conservative, doing the same thing and very little for a very long time, which was just working with energy and frequency [devices]. Nothing else, and I was doing really well,” she explains. 

“Then one day, it kind of plateaued. So I started researching, and it was terrifying, because for a moment, I thought, ‘oh my God, this is the only choice — the knife,’ which, I'm terrified of pain. I am a chicken. My threshold, it's low. And as I'm researching, I get a call from Merz,” she says.

After learning about Ultherapy Prime, a skin-lifting ultrasound treatment that’s FDA-cleared to lift the brow area and the skin under the chin and on the neck as well as improve the look of lines and wrinkles on the décolleté, she decided to give it a try. 

“I said, ‘Okay, I will always do it, universe.’ If it works, then we can continue the conversation." And it did. 

While patients are told it can take two to three months to see the full results of the non-surgical, non-invasive treatment, Hayek Pinault says she saw them in, “two to three weeks.”

One of her famous friends noticed a difference.

“Victoria Beckham. She’s got an eye, that one,” Hayek Pinault says. 

“She told me, ‘You did something,’ and I go, ‘No, I haven't done anything. … Oh yes, I did!' I forgot for a moment," she laughed. When Hayek Pinault asked her "What do you notice?" she says Beckham replied, "This whole thing here, this is different." 

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Hayek Pinault admits she had some trepidation about the treatment, which launched in September and utilizes real-time imaging for personalized results, as she entered the room. 

“The first thing that goes through your head is, ‘I hope I'm not going to do something that is going to have some irreversible [effect],’ because one of the things that was really exciting for me was that I manifested the newest technology that nobody knew about, and it came to me. I had this insight into something that wasn’t even on the market. And then when I was doing it, I said, ‘Idiot, you are the guinea pig!" Hayek Pinault laughs.

But the experience turned out to be well worth it for her. “It just made [me] feel seen as an individual. Everybody has to look for what works for them. I definitely think this one worked for me. And also, I'm very lazy, so it works for me because it's once a year.” Results can last up to one year or longer depending on the individual.

“You know when you do something that makes you feel great, you see a little difference, and it just gives you energy? That's how I felt when I started seeing the results. So I'm proud to partner with them,” she says.

Though any journalist who’s interviewed Hayek Pinault in person will tell you she looks as though she’s drinking from the fountain of youth, the star says she’s not so sure she would if she could.

“It depends what it means, and it depends what's the price to pay.”

She continues, “I don't mind getting older. I don't think that because the time passes, I lose my youth. Like beauty, youth is not just in the surface. I know people who are young who are very old, and I know people that have collected a lot of years and they are young.”

“I just want my husband [François-Henri Pinault] to still go, ‘Wow’ when he looks at me. I still want to feel good about the way I look, but not necessarily because I want to look 20. I'm okay. I'm more excited about being 50 and 60 and looking good at 50 and 60. It's a different kind of beauty.”