Mila Kunis Is Makeup-Free on the Cover of Glamour
Mila Kunis on the August 2016 cover of Glamour
Wearing a gray tank top with a gold chain necklace and her hair pulled up into a mess up-do, Mila Kunis kept her beauty look simple. With just serum, eye cream, and lip balm on her face, the actress appeared fresh-faced and fabulous. (Photo: Steven Pan for Glamour)
Kim Kardashian West on the August 2015 cover of Vogue Espa?a
Kim Kardashian West, the Queen of Contouring, abandoned her signature look and posed without makeup for the cover of Vogue Espa?a’s August 2015 issue. Wearing just a tan cable-knit sweater and her massive engagement ring, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star looks maybe the least done-up we’ve ever seen. As her makeup artist and business partner Mario Dedivanovic (with whom Kardashian West is launching a makeup website sometime this summer) told the magazine, “This was the only time it literally took us a minute to prepare her face for a photo shoot!” Still, he says, his client is no stranger to going au naturel. “She spends most of the day at home with her daughter [North] without a drop of makeup, so she’s used to it. [Her face] is just as amazing without makeup because Kim is glamorous.”
Rachel McAdams on the August 2014 cover of Allure
While marketed as a makeup-free cover, she’s actually completely made up to look natural. According to Allure, the makeup artist “blended bronzer all over McAdams’s skin and put a pink-nude blush on the apples of her cheeks, then applied false lashes, mascara, and a clear lip balm.”
Marion Cotillard on the September 2011 issue of Italian Vanity Fair
Shot by Bruce Weber for Italian Vanity Fair, the French actress, wearing a Ralph Lauren dress, was supposedly unretouched in postproduction. Beautiful, sure, but true? That’s debatable.
Jessica Simpson on the May 2010 cover of Marie Claire
"I don’t have anything to prove anymore. What other people think of me is not my business,” Simpson said of going au naturel for this cover. (Of course, the perfectly unfussy waves don’t hurt, either.)
Kerry Washington on the November 2014 cover of Allure
Though readers initially assumed that Kerry Washington went without makeup for her Allure cover, the actress came clean about her fresh-faced look. It is a no-makeup look, but I do have some makeup on,” she told Rosie Perez after being complimented on her appearance. “I’m going to be honest because I think it’s unfair when we tell women they should look like something that’s not real.” (She’s actually wearing eyeliner, eyeshadow, mascara, and lip balm.)
Nicki Minaj on the March 2013 cover of Elle
This shoot was said to be largely makeup-free, but not entirely makeup-free. “When I saw myself with barely any makeup at all, it was such a … like, I’m so, so attached to my pink lipstick, it’s hard,” she admitted. “I feel that it’s become a part of me. To go in front of the camera, without pink lips or big ol’ crazy lashes — you know, nothing — I felt naked. It was scary! So this photo shoot was a real accomplishment in my eyes.”
Lady Gaga on the Summer 2014 cover of Porter
For this Porter cover, Lady Gaga shed her wild persona for a more toned down appearance. “It is often easy to forget that there is actually a young woman — and an exceptional musician — behind the wigs and the costumes, the hype and the theatrics,“ Editor in Chief Lucy Yeomans said. "With these pictures, we wanted to reveal the woman behind the Lady, the artist behind the artifice. Indeed when I first saw Inez & Vinoodh’s shot of Gaga wearing nothing but her grandmother’s vintage robe — the piece she often wears to write her music in — I just knew it had to be the cover. It felt authentic, personal and beautiful, and unlike any image I have seen of her before.”
Lady Gaga on the October 2011 cover of Harper’s Bazaar
"Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside,” Gaga told Harper’s Bazaar. “I don’t really view it as ‘natural.’” She added, “I think that artifice is the new reality. It’s more about just being honest and sincere to the core of what you do.”
Mila Kunis doesn’t wear makeup in her everyday life, so she was totally fine being photographed that way for the August 2016 cover of Glamour. “It’s not something that I associate with myself,” she told the publication. “I commend women who wake up 30, 40 minutes early to put on eyeliner. I think it’s beautiful. I’m just not that person. So to go to a shoot and have my makeup artist put on face cream and send me off to do a photo, I was like, “Well, this makes life easy.” And you’re still protected. Nobody’s there to make you look bad.”
Looking incredible with just serum, eye cream, and lip balm, she is also anti-retouching, reaffirming the fact that the look is all natural. “I hate it,” she said. “There was a company that I did a photo shoot for once that manipulated the photo so much, I was like, ‘That’s not even me.’ Like, what’s the point? You wanted my name, and then you wanted the version of me that I’m not. I absolutely hate it.“
Kunis, who stars in Bad Moms (in theaters July 29), isn’t the first star to go bare-faced on the front flap of a glossy. From Lady Gaga (twice!) to Kerry Washington, here are some of the most unbelievable — in more ways than one — makeup-free magazine covers.
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