Pamela Anderson is challenging the beauty standards by going makeup-free. She is 56 years old now, and while she no longer wears the iconic red lifeguard bathing suit from Bay Watch, she has also decided to forego the fake eyelashes and goes makeup-free.
Anderson explained that several people asked her if she felt “vulnerable” or “exposed” during her barefaced moment, to which she disagreed.
“I think, well, I was doing it for me. Can I walk out the door like this? Like, I’m fine the way I am,” she said. “And I just didn’t want to get into the whole glam thing and play the game.
“I just want to flip the script; I want to challenge beauty,” the model continued, adding her sons and managers were insistent that she needed a glam team. – Page Six
I’ve been following her Instagram for a few months now, and I admit when I first saw her without makeup, it took my breath away. She looked pretty different, but she was stunning to me!
One time, on an X-Space, I brought it up in conversation to get men’s reactions and responses. Needless to say, they were not impressed. So I say in my best feminist voice, who cares what men think what we look like at age 56?
Life humbles you.
As you grow old…
you stop chasing the big things
and start valuing the little things…
Alone time,
enough sleep,
a good diet,
long walks,
and quality time with loved ones.Simplicity becomes the ultimate goal… ✨🤍 pic.twitter.com/BEwkzyZp3z
— Pamela Anderson (@pamelaanderson) March 3, 2024
Yes, ma’am. Agreed! Life humbles us, doesn’t it? And it’s not a bad thing either. I know that with the birth of my grandson, my life views have changed for the better. It made me stop and slow down to enjoy every second with him. I think when my kids were growing up, I was too busy with working and surviving, and now that I am older, I feel like I ignored them! I will have to live with this; fortunately, they are still in the same area as me, and I can still have a relationship with them.
Naturally, your wants, desires, and ambitions change as you age. For me, they have gotten smaller, easier, and simpler. Of course, it is different for each person. Some women my age are still getting after it and making stuff happen! That’s good; we need them, too.
But I am getting away from the original point about breaking beauty standards.
During COVID, I went an entire year without wearing makeup and didn’t wear my contacts either. This is when I still had hair, and I didn’t do much with it either, only because my Alopecia was starting to get worse at this time, so I just wore my hair back in a ponytail.
My skin felt great without makeup that year, but I started wearing it again. Honestly, the first few times I put it on, it did feel gross, but I got used to it. Now, I always wear makeup because I have a bald head. I feel better wearing makeup with my bald head. Makeup makes me feel beautiful and feminine, and with a bald head, I need all the feminine help I can get.
In the Page Six article (linked in the quote above), Pamela talked about how when she first started going makeup-free, no one looked at her when she began going makeup-free and said, “Aagh!”
I had to giggle at that because that’s what I’ve experienced with my bald head, too. No one cares! No one is looking at you! They are too busy thinking about themselves.
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I don’t know if Pamela always goes makeup-free, which doesn’t matter to me. I say good for her, though, for doing it publicly. I’ll be cheering her on.
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