Who would have thought that ’90s bombshell Pamela Anderson would sometime turned the face of all-natural magnificence? Although she spent the majority of her profession closely shellacked in product, the Baywatch star discovered, in her 50s, a liberation in going makeup-free, and her bare-faced appearances and posts are a welcome breath of contemporary air within the age of filler and filters.
In August 2023 she shared that her no-makeup period was impressed, partly, by the dying of her longtime make-up artist Alexis Vogel in 2019. “She was the best,” Anderson said of Vogel. “And since then, I just felt, without Alexis, it’s just better for me not to wear makeup.
“I think we all start looking a little funny when we get older,” she added. “And I’m kind of laughing at myself when I look at the mirror. I go, ‘Wow, this is really...what’s happening to me?’ It’s a journey.”
However there’s a distinction between ditching the allover glam and going actually bare-faced to a style occasion. Of her natural-beauty second at Paris Style Week in October 2023, Anderson later mirrored, “Something just kind of came over me and I was dressing in these beautiful clothes and I thought, I don’t want to compete with the clothes,” she explained in her newsletter. “I’m not trying to be the prettiest girl in the room. I feel like it’s just freedom. It’s a release.”
She later told Allure that the choice to go make-up free was one thing she did for herself, not a stunt. “It wasn’t to make a political statement, I just wanted to have my little weird face sticking out of the top of those great clothes,” she stated. “And the funny thing was I would come back from the shows wearing all these clothes and a big funny hat and everything and there were all these paparazzi and then I went in one door and changed into my jeans and T-shirt and no makeup and walked out the door right through the same crowd that had been chasing me and no one noticed.”
She additionally revealed what she does do to her face, and it’s a fairly wholesome routine. “My beauty ‘routine’ is pretty simple these days,” Anderson shared. Having “weeded out” merchandise which might be “too complicated,” she is not “hovering over the sink with multiple steps” to do skincare. She has just some merchandise and shared, “I plant things where I'll see them and [apply them]…. A rose hydration spray in the fridge that I use every time I open it…a lip balm in my bag that I apply all day long, especially in the winter.”
Pamela Anderson additionally makes use of a home made rose hip facial oil that she says she applies whether or not she’s utilizing cosmetics that day or not: It “sits on my vanity for before makeup or just ‘as my makeup’ these days.”
Right here’s each time she’s skipped the cosmetics aisle: