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Want a deep dive into how artistic swimmers keep their hair and makeup intact in the pool?<\/p>\n
Well,\u00a0Daniella Ramirez<\/strong>\u2014who made her Olympics<\/a> debut at the 2024 Paris Games and took home the silver medal with her team\u2014is bringing them to the surface.\u00a0<\/p>\n Let\u2019s start with hair: As Ramirez has explained on TikTok<\/a>, she\u2019ll often style her hair into a braided bun<\/a>, which she secures with hair ties, bobby pins and a hair net. To ensure her strands are glossy and don\u2019t budge, the 22-year-old then adds layers of a key ingredient: gelatin.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s to keep the hair in place while we swim, and it\u2019s purely for aesthetic reasons,\u201d Ramirez\u2014who uses either Knox Gelatine or Synkro Lovers that\u2019s been heated with hot water so it looks like honey\u2014explained in one clip<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s sticky and dries hard.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s a solid option (check out Ramirez\u2019s \u201cASMR hair<\/a>\u201d videos to see just how solid).<\/p>\n \u201cWe could use swim caps, and we do at practice,\u201d the athlete\u2014who finishes her hairstyle with a decorative headpiece\u2014continued, \u201cbut it looks better to swim this way to fit a theme.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n