Jamie Lee Curtis Thinks Pamela Anderson Is Leading the Makeup ...
Let’s play a game. Don’t worry, the rules aren’t hard to understand—it’s for kids. In the classic board game “Guess Who?” two players use a series of yes-or-no questions to figure out who their opponent is thinking of out of a lineup of figures.
“Does your person have long hair?”
“Yes.”
Flip flip flip, all the people with shoulder-length hair or shorter, they’re not it. They are not “who,” not today.
“Does your person have makeup on?”
“No.”
Flip—wait, Pamela Anderson, what are you doing here? Don’t you usually have a full face? Not today!
Anderson, who’s been known in the past for her over-the-top beauty, smoky eye, teased hair, Baywatch silhouette and all, has recently embraced a makeup-free aesthetic, including at a Paris Fashion Week Isabel Marant show on September 28.
Jamie Lee Curtis was wowed by Anderson’s low-key appearance, judging by an Instagram post she shared Monday of Anderson sitting front-row in a yellow gown at the show, free of makeup and with her hair down in waves.
“THE NATURAL BEAUTY REVOLUTION HAS OFFICIALLY BEGUN!” Curtis wrote in the caption.
She wrote that she was “so impressed and floored by this act of courage and rebellion.”
“@pamelaanderson in the middle of fashion week with so many pressures and postures, and and and, this woman showed up and claimed her seat at the table with nothing on her face,” she gushed.
In the comments, fellow celebrities like Chelsea Handler, who called it “pretty iconic,” agreed. Selma Blair wrote, “Love this. Beautiful self assuredness.”
Others, like The Mindy Project costumer Salvador Perez, pointed out that it’s uncomfortable to characterize showing your face as “brave.”
“it’s sad that it is being referred to as an act of courage to be natural,” he commented on the post.
In August, Anderson said that she felt “a little rebellious” about her recent barefaced outings, and that after her beloved makeup artist Alexis Vogel died of cancer in 2019, she started going without makeup more often. She’s also recently had an era of public personal disclosure, publishing both a memoir and participating in a documentary sharing her life from her own perspective. Embracing her own face and age are part of that, she said.
“I did notice that there were all these people doing big makeup looks, and it’s just like me to go against the grain and do the opposite what everyone’s doing,” she said. “I think we all start looking a little funny when we get older. 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.”
