The Best Style Tips From Rashel Díaz

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From dancer in Cuba to presenter of A New Day, do you remember your first steps on television? I danced flamenco professionally in Cuba for a company called Conjunto de Danza Española. [When I got to Miami] I started dancing at various restaurants. In one of the places where I danced, a giant Saturday production company came, saw me and said: 'I would like to try you for the program, we are looking for girls who dance and sing.' And I said to him: 'Look, I don't sing anything, I don't sing' Happy Birthday ', but dancing I do dance.' They accepted me and I stayed.

So you really was dancing. It was and still is, it is my great passion and I think it is my gift. My daughter also dances flamenco, it is something that I carry in my veins.

Now where do you find the motivation? God first of all. I became a Christian four years ago because of certain difficult stages in my life. Second, my children. I feel like I was born to be a mother. From a young age that was my dream and I wanted to have four children. Of course when I understood the reality of life I stayed in two and stopped.

You also love fitness. You do a lot of exercise, right? I would spend the whole day in the gym. Exercise takes stress away from me, I like it. My body is a typical body of a Latin woman, not that I have a striped abdomen, nothing like that. I do it for health and I feel that it does me a lot of good physically, but also internally, to release the stress that is experienced in this country and [the] responsibilities that accumulate on a daily basis.

Classes, weights … what is your

favorite type of exercise ? I have practiced all kinds of routines from yoga, pilates … [but] that type of routine does not give me the same result as others where physical activity is more involved and faster, such as boxing, extreme bicycle spinning or training with dumbbells. I have a coach, I have been with him for a year and the change has been very, very incredible.

How did you find? Gaby Espino had told me about him, [the stylist] Claudia Zuleta, who is a great friend, too. My achilles heel or the part I have wanted to transform the most are always my arms and Gaby told me: 'This coach, César, is going to change your arms, I tell you.' I started a November and was delighted with her type of training. It is never the same, it pushes you to always give more. I train double, I go with him to do weights or whatever he has [prepared] and at night I return to do classes.

How do you choose your looks for A new day? Karla Birbragher has been my stylist for quite some time now and she takes us all on the show. She is the stylist for the show. We are all very different. I am much more daring, I really like colors, I'm not afraid of fashion. Maybe other people on the show are more conservative.

Do you have a favorite garment in your wardrobe? I'm well off with those things. When I go to spend something on designer [clothing] I think about how many universities and how many classes I can pay my children and I don't buy it. I am not a brand, in Cuba there is no such custom, there is no possibility, so it is not within me because I became a grown-up, 21 years old. I am more emotional.

In what sense? [For example], I have only one tattoo on my body and it has to do with my children. We are three seagulls, I go ahead and my children behind. I have the same symbol on a gold chain that I ordered myself to make and that I never take it off, ever.

How do you think being Cuban influences your way of understanding style and beauty? Oops, a lot! I am very colorful, very

Caribbean, very Cuban, I love skirts, […] large necklaces. Back there [in Cuba], obviously, there was no such variety, [it was] the same lipstick for everything, you had to make it stick with all the clothes you wore, there was no blow dryer… When we wanted our hair to stay straight, we made a dubi [a homemade technique to smooth without iron or dryer].

How is your beauty routine every morning? I'm going to be ten years old, I wake up at four in the morning and that affects your skin a lot, it affects your entire system. What I did was create a routine with specialized people. I have the person who makes my facials, Mariela Alcalá. I go once a month for oxygen treatments, a facial to clean …

As for skin care products, what are the ones that cannot be missing in your toiletry bag? Some time ago I was given a La Prairie cream for a birthday and my skin changed so much during the time that I used it that I said 'it is an investment and I have to do it' because I have my fears of surgery. I am turning 45 in July and I have to make an investment. I never go to bed with makeup, even if I arrive at two in the morning […] I also use natural things. If I have a photo shoot, I put very cold cucumber slices on my eyes and that refreshes a lot.