She’s got the right moves in and out of the pool! Two-time Olympic medalist Elizabeth Beisel definitely has swimming down — but she also has a hair and skin routine that keeps her skin glowing and hair bouncing during those rare moments out the water.
“I’m taking care of my skin so I don’t have very bad wrinkles,” she explains. “I exfoliate at night, I have an eye cream, I use like an anti-wrinkle moisturizer — on your neck as well. I heard that: Do not forget about the neck because 10 years, 20 years down the road, you’re going to be like, ‘My face looks great, but my neck … ’ So I’ve been taking care of that. Just for like a daily moisturizer, I use Clinique, and it’s great for protecting your skin.”
“The key thing is, if you’re swimmer and you’re going to go in the chlorine, you have to wet your hair before you go in, because once you wet it, it does not allow your hair to absorb the chlorine as much because it’s already absorbed moisture,” the 2008 and 2012 Olympian tells Luxury Handbag Shopping. “I always have a leave-in conditioner. I love that for after swimming.”
As for her flawless skin — which matches perfectly with her big smile — the 23-year-old explains she has a strict regimen as well.
As for keeping her skin safe from the high-calorie swimmer diets made famous by her male counterparts, that’s not as much of a concern, as she eats a much healthier and lower calorie diet. But the men’s heavy meals do remind her of a favorite Olympic memory.
“I remember in 2008, my first Olympics, in Beijing, and there was a lot of controversy of whether we were allowed to eat the food that they were serving us. And the one thing that we were told that was safe to eat was the McDonald’s in the village,” the University of Florida alum says.
“And, God help him: Ryan Lochte, one of my best friends, we’re swimming the 400 IM the same day and I am so nervous, first Olympics ever. I’m 15, bright eyes, like, ‘Oh, my God, where am I?’ And I’m told that all I can eat is McDonald’s,” she recalls.
“So I’m trying to be good, like, eat the parfaits or whatever. Ryan comes with his tray, before the 400 IM — mind you, one of the hardest events in swimming — he has like, four Egg McMuffins, hash browns, a Coke, french fries, you name it, it was on his tray,” she says. “And I swear to God, he ate a daily recommended value of calories like, times 10. Just in a breakfast — before his 400 IM final at the Olympics! And I’m sitting there and I’m 15 and I’m like, ‘Maybe this is what I should be doing?!’ And of course then he wins a gold medal and I got 4th by like a tenth so I’m like, ‘Damn it! I should have had the freakin’ hash browns!’”
To learn more about all the Olympic hopefuls, visit TeamUSA.org. The Olympics begin on August 5 on NBC’s networks.
