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6:18 pm - 04/26/2012

People magazine's natural beauties

People magazine's Most Beautiful issue features Beyoncé on the cover, but inside, there are pages and pages of more Beautiful People, including a 10-page spread of female celebrities photographed wearing "not a drop of makeup." Ben Watts shot intimate, natural portraits of Rose Byrne, Julie Bowen, Paris Jackson, Zooey Deschanel, Lily Collins, Jessica Paré, Sandra Lee and Paula Patton. And they all look beautiful, sure. But of course they're not on the cover. The cover sticks to formula: Makeup, hair, lighting, Photoshop.

A couple of years ago French Elle ran some covers of stars SANS FARDS, and I had mixed feelings then, as I do now. Unlike Star magazine, where the celebs are mocked for daring to appear in public without spackle, the People editors gush, "bare is breathtaking," and declare that the women are showing off "natural beauty." And they are. They are.

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coffeenmorphine 27th-Apr-2012 01:06 am (UTC)

Paris Jackson looks gorgeous. Zooey... I don't know how to say this delicately.

mari_lyn00 27th-Apr-2012 01:14 am (UTC)

Zooey looks weird for a few different reasons, mostly of course is that she's not wearing her signature fake eyelashes and eyeliner, and besides the fact that she's not wearing concealer (and showing her age because of it), this is horrible lighting and pose.

Plus, we're so used to seeing her eyes huge that now that they're normal looking, the rest of her face looks disproportionate, like it makes her nose appear bigger, but that's only because her eyes don't look huge as usual.

luckystar246 27th-Apr-2012 01:20 am (UTC)

This is such a perfect analysis.

captchasucks 27th-Apr-2012 01:28 am (UTC)

wow

what_the_chelle 27th-Apr-2012 02:21 am (UTC)

I don't understand the point of this. The whole reason one wears make up is to look more attractive. So yeah other than the tween these folks will kirk better with cosmetics

zigzagzap 27th-Apr-2012 02:23 am (UTC)

Paris is so gorgeous.

thelovehater 27th-Apr-2012 02:36 am (UTC)

So people are criticizing the women over 30 and praising the looks of a girl barely into her teens.

Sounds like a day that ends in y to me.

winegums 27th-Apr-2012 11:43 am (UTC)

yepppp. I think it's shady as fuck to include the 14-year-old, but the accompanying shade for grown women (who look fine, if different from usual) makes me want to hang my head.

totalroyalty 4th-May-2012 02:22 am (UTC)

SERIOUSLYYYYY

not to mention that the angle of Paris/lighting is superior. Zooey's shot is especially unflattering.

& now to be a hypocrite, I honestly I thought Paris was in her late 20's/early 30's from first glance. I don't think she looks especially young. So now I'm confused. People are just wowed by her eye color, which is brought out by the shot of her being more flattering than the rest. They didn't include the chick from Mad Men's age, maybe they shouldn't have posted ages.

Perhaps people are giving the grown women shit because said women are an actual sexual threat ("with makeup") so people enjoy them looking more, errr, normal? The media's obsession with youth is really strange to me. It has rubbed off onto me, and I thought everyone was obsessed with it (in particular, guys) but I was wrong. It's a sicknesssss.

Although super young people look better without makeup, of course, they're still less sexually attractive unless you're a pedo or an hebe or whatever. lol