Skin Care Is the New Makeup: How to Go Barefaced and Love It

Last week, People published a behind-the-scenes video of its Most Beautiful cover shoot. In it, Zendaya, Susan Sarandon, Sarah Silverman, and more stars address the camera, speaking about when they feel the most beautiful without a stitch of makeup on. Not to mention that just this morning, Florence Welch debuted a short film, The Odyssey, on her band’s website, in which she wanders through streets, dances with an ensemble, and sings much of the album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, in what appears to be a gloriously bare face.

These names join a number of powerful women who go about their daily lives without foundation, concealer, or blush. Around the Vogue offices, too, legions of chic women, from Style Director Camilla Nickerson to Fashion Director Tonne Goodman and Creative Digital Director Sally Singer regularly embrace supernaturally great skin—and little else—above the neck.

And if the recent Fall 2016 collections are any indication, skin care may be the new makeup, as embodied in Diane Kendal’s well-moisturized faces at Proenza Schouler, or Pat McGrath’s gleaming, dewy cheekbones for Valentino.

In fact, according to skin care–as–makeup proponent makeup artist Rose-Marie Swift, using your skin care strategically can eliminate the need for a foundation or highlighter altogether. For example, you could warm your skin tone up with jojoba oil in place of bronzer, which, besides being incredibly moisturizing, has an almost imperceptible yellow undertone that cuts through redness. “It really gets the skin tone to glow,” says Swift of its counterbalancing effect. Ingredients like turmeric, contained in her RMS Beauty Oil, will help to correct blotchy skin and puffiness. And makeup artist Daniel Martin turns to a bit of clear lip balm, dabbed onto the eyelids for shine, in place of traditional shadow when he wants to leave the faces of clients Chloë Sevigny and Lauren Santo Domingo looking effortlessly undone.

So, for those who would rather risk exposing under-eye bags than, say, concealer on the collar of their perfect white poplin Acne tunic, here are a few of our favorite skin care–as–makeup tricks. Feel free to sleep in them.

 

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