Ever watched one of those ads showing off a woman's allegedly bare face and wondered how she could possibly look that perfect with no makeup? Well, it looks like we finally have an answer, straight from the horse's mouth!
Professional model Sierra McKenzie recently busted the "no makeup" myth wide open by uploading two simple but profound photos to her Tumblr page. One side shows McKenzie's real natural face, with no Photoshopping, cosmetics, or enhancers. The other depicts her commercial natural face, which, while still relatively naked, has actually been airbrushed to look smooth and glowing. Aha! I knew all those supposed makeup-free faces were too good to be true!
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"This is hard for me to post but I feel like it is important," McKenzie wrote in a bravely honest statement alongside the photos. The model goes on to share that she remembers hating her face and skin throughout her younger years and "feeling like … a monstrosity" in comparison to the girls on TV. As she grew older, she realized that women actually relied on cosmetics and various beauty routines to enhance their looks. As for those girls on TV? She says:
After modeling … I started realizing that the photo on the right was what was in skincare ads and posted by people claiming in the caption to be wearing no makeup some of the time. The photo on the right is the bare minimum of what we expect women to look like when they wake up in the morning.
YES! Finally, someone–in the industry, no less!!–confirms what we all suspected all along. There is DEFINITELY makeup involved in that "no-makeup" look. That's not to say wearing cosmetics is bad (in fact, sometimes I think wearing it can make just as big a statement as not wearing any). But there is something wrong with trying to pass it off as natural when it isn't, especially when the images of so-called bare faces are being seen by millions of young girls around the world.
I can't help but applaud McKenzie for speaking up and calling that bluff. After all, you know what they say: a picture speaks a thousand words…and those photos just say it all, don't they?
Image via Mark Laubenheimer & Sierra McKenzie/Tumblr
