Beauty. As women, it’s all we have. Perhaps not all. But the transparent, real, makeup-free face is trending everywhere from model instagrams to the Styleite offices, where on some days we CBF to care about it.
And go figure. Tyra Banks and Chrissy Teigen just made the news for daring to go make-up free on camera. The horror THE HORROR! Spoiler: they’re naturally modelesque, but real talk: we do need these women to show us their reality face without photo filters, contouring, or an emergency staff of people to make their eyelashes stay in line. These pictures are a tonic to the image altering so often required of women, and it’s refreshing.
One thing though. Sometimes when young women look at Photoshop-free images of women, it’s even worse on the old self-esteem because some people really do wake up like they slept in a rosebud. We simply cannot win, you guys! But at least we have these make-up-free pictures to rely on as proof that your favorite celebrities are all human women.
See below for some of the splashiest make-up free selfies from Laverne Cox to Zendaya.
1. Tyra Banks
2. Olivia Wilde
3. Chrissy Teigen
4. Zendaya
Sofia Vergara
6. Kendall Jenner
7. January Jones
8. Laverne Cox
9. Lady Gaga
10. Heidi Klum
11. Lorde
12. Rihanna