Bridgerton’s Ruby Barker swears by a £1 hair product for fabulous curls

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Her Bridgerton character lives in high society, but actress Ruby Barker is far more down to earth in real life – revealing her go-to hair product is a supermarket steal costing just £1.

Ruby, who shot to fame as Bridgerton’s Miss Marina Thompson, spoke exclusively to OK! about her beauty secrets and how it’s taken time to learn how to look after her locks. “I used to chemically straighten my hair and it completely destroyed it,” she told us, recalling her teenage years. “I was a racial minority, all the girls had lovely straight hair but I didn't know how to do it properly. “My mum’s white so she didn’t have the skill or anything to help, and my dad’s Caribbean but he’s bald so he didn’t bloody know either!

Thankfully I found the Black hair community on YouTube and that's where I learned how to take care of my hair.” While Ruby invests in curl specialist brands these days, she’s got a favourite fallback option too. “I really like Camille Rose and Mixed Chicks, but if I’ve run out of time to order those, there’s an Alberto Balsam conditioner [£1 here] that’s literally a quid at the supermarket." “It’s in scents like coconut and strawberry and it’s the cheapest bottle you can get.

I just whack it in my hair and it's absolutely fine. You don't need to spend like an arm and a leg to have great hair.” Great hair is certainly what Ruby has now, but she admits it’s been a journey. “It was so damaged [from chemical straightening] I ended up shaving it all off and I grew it out from the start.