These days, it’s rare to see Pamela Anderson with a full face of makeup. She’s addressed her evolving beauty routine in numerous interviews over the years, most recently during a conversation with Glamour for the magazine’s Women of the Year issue.
“I’ve just done it and I’ve played with it,” she told the outlet, implying that her perspective on makeup has changed over time. “I’ve nothing against makeup, but I felt like it just looked better on me in my 20s than it did now.”
“You’re going to hit a crossroads in your 50s, and you go, ‘Am I going to chase youth? Am I going to be miserable? Or am I going to be self-accepting?'” she added. “And it’s a practice. And it’s hard to say that you’re attempting all this if you’re still doing the red carpets and the covers of magazines plastered in makeup.”
Embracing makeup minimalism, she continued, “is really empowering. I know it seems a little bit crazy. I’m also trying to find myself and who I am, kind of, underneath it all and trying to peel back the layers. And we’re women or whoever, anybody—what we look like underneath the mask is still good enough for a cover of a magazine.
It’s important, no matter where you are in your beauty journey, to accept yourself as you are,” she continued. “I think, instead of trying to be this polished person, I’d rather be raw. One eye is smaller than the other, my nose is crooked, my lips are weird. Everyone is weird. Everyone has imperfections.”
In a 2021 interview with Elle, Anderson elaborated on her shift away from glam after the passing of her makeup artist, Alexis Vogel, from breast cancer. “She was the best. And since then, I just felt, without Alexis, it’s just better for me not to wear makeup.”
She also echoed a similar sentiment to her most recent interview: “I think we all start looking a little funny when we get older,” she said. “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. I feel rooted for. I feel good. I’m in a good place.”
