11 Celebrities Who Went Makeup-Free on the Red Carpet

Take a stroll down any pink carpet and you may overhear stars thanking their stylists and glam squads as usually as they do their mother and father or their children. But whereas full faces of make-up have turn into the customary when going through photographers, many feminine stars have embraced the pure look—and we do not simply imply choosing impartial tones. Whether they’re intentionally making an announcement about magnificence and getting old requirements or it is simply how they really feel snug, these celebrities went makeup-free on the pink carpet and appeared beautiful doing it.

Steve Granitz/WireImageNot solely does three-time Best Actress Oscar winner Frances McDormand eschew make-up for pink carpets and main Hollywood occasions (like the 2018 Academy Awards ceremony, pictured above), she’s additionally been vocal about her anti-cosmetic surgical procedure stance. In 2014, she informed The New York Times that she hadn’t “mutated [herself] in any manner” and was involved with society’s (and the leisure business’s) obsession with the phantasm of youth.
“We are on pink alert in terms of how we’re perceiving ourselves as a species,” she mentioned. “There’s no need to be an grownup. Adulthood is just not a purpose. It’s not seen as a present.”
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DFree/ShutterstockIn 2016, musician Alicia Keys wrote an essay for Lenny Letter about why she determined to embrace bare-faced magnificence and hoped to start out a #nomakeup revolution.
“‘Cause I do not wish to cowl up anymore,” the star wrote. “Not my face, not my thoughts, not my soul, not my ideas, not my goals, not my struggles, not my emotional development. Nothing.”
Since then, Keys can incessantly be seen posing for photographers sans make-up, as she did at WE Day in 2017.

Vivien Killilea/Getty ImagesIn 2015, Refinery29 requested Jennifer Garner for the greatest piece of magnificence recommendation she’d ever acquired.
“It’s not recommendation, it is extra an instance,” the actor answered. “My mother is the girl who’s the least marked by vainness of anybody I do know—however in the absolute best manner. She simply is not targeted on it, and would not do make-up and hair—she’s simply herself. So, [seeing] that allowed me to develop up with out feeling like [beauty] was one thing I wanted to do.”
Garner added that her personal common make-up routine is fairly fundamental, typically concealer solely. And whereas she goes extra glam for many carpets, as you possibly can see on this shot from the Telluride Film Festival in 2016, Garner additionally does makeup-free posing too.

taniavolobueva/Shutterstock”The fantastic factor about make-up for me is that a bit goes a really good distance,” Tilda Swinton informed Harper’s Bazaar in 2015. “So the prospects of creating new faces with it—in my work—are fairly tantalizing.”
If you are a fan of hers, you understand how true this assertion rings. While Swinton makes use of make-up and prosthetics to vanish into roles (see: Suspiria, Only Loves Left Alive, and Snowpiercer), the actor makes use of a light-weight contact when she’s out as herself, like when she attended this Venice Film Festival screening of her movie A Bigger Splash in 2015.

Featureflash Photo Agency/ShutterstockMannequin and singer Paris Jackson informed i-D in 2017 that it is massively necessary to her to assist “change this vogue / magnificence stigma, so it is not as troublesome for folks round the world to really feel stunning simply the manner they’re.”
That’s most likely one among the the reason why, that very same 12 months, she walked the carpet at a People journal occasion on this recent, all-natural look.
“I’m human. Not a dress-up doll,” she mentioned in the i-D interview. “The concept that all of us have to suit one thought of magnificence is outrageous and ridiculous as a result of ‘perfection’ is simply an opinion.”
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Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagicSinger Alessia Cara not solely accepted her MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance Video with out make-up, she additionally integrated the assertion into her efficiency.
While she sang her track “Scars to Your (*11*),” backup dancers symbolically wiped away her mascara and lipstick and took off her robe to disclose an off-the-cuff outfit.
“This is who I’m,” she informed MTV News afterwards. “Just stripping down the layers and exhibiting everybody that you would be able to achieve success and be at the VMAs simply being your self. And if your self is carrying robes like that, then do this. But if it is not, then you do not have to try this. That’s what I’m making an attempt to point out folks.”

Featureflash Photo Agency/ShutterstockCameron Diaz is one among the queens of the no-makeup selfie, and she or he’s additionally stepped out to main events with barely there make-up, together with to the 2002 Cannes premiere of Gangs of New York. As for her implausible pores and skin, Diaz swears by getting plenty of sleep and quitting smoking in the event you’ve picked up the behavior.

Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for AOLSinger Ciara has rocked some beautiful make-up seems—she even has her personal magnificence model in the works. But she additionally shares tons of makeup-free photographs on her Instagram and walked the carpet at the 2017 Makers Conference with husband Russell Wilson carrying nothing on her face however her being pregnant glow.
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John Sciulli/WireImage for OakleyMarvel actor Zoe Saldana, pictured right here at an Oakley model occasion in 2007, is incessantly bare-faced on her Instagram. She informed Byrdie in 2019 that she discovered to prioritize pure merchandise in her pores and skin and haircare routine rising up in the Dominican Republic.
“If you reside in the islands, you get a coconut, and you employ each a part of that coconut,” Saldana mentioned. “You drink the water, you make meals with the meat, you possibly can squeeze it and make coconut milk, and that milk you possibly can put on your pores and skin, on your hair. And then you can also make coconut oil and coconut butter. I grew up utilizing the atmosphere to its full potential.”

Vincent Sandoval/WireImageSuperstore star America Ferrera, pictured right here at an Outfest occasion in 2013, can be pushing again towards dangerous magnificence requirements.
“As ladies, you are taught that your worth is all about your look, not your concepts and your tenacity and your braveness and your bravery and your adventurous spirit,” she informed Redbook in 2017. “Look, I really like getting dressed up and looking out stunning. But that is one tiny piece of me.”

Jean Catuffe/GC Images”I’m not the woman who places make-up on to go to Target,” Mank star Amanda Seyfried informed Marie Claire in 2017. “I’m very snug with myself, so I do not really feel a must cowl up or conceal something.”
The star tends to go for full outdated Hollywood styling at most occasions, however at the 2015 US Open, she saved the make-up to a minimal.
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