What These Celebs Look Like With No Makeup

Jada Pinkett Smith likes to take breaks (and no, we're not talking about her marriage to Will Smith). In 2018, she told "Today" that her workplace face and the one she wears during her downtime are not one and the same. "I try to give the skin a break. Less is more," she said. The proof is on Jada's Instagram page, where she can be spied rocking little to no makeup in a sunlit selfie and a video about writing her 2023 memoir "Worthy." 

For Jada, it's important to get her face completely makeup-free after work. In a 2020 Instagram video, she revealed that one way she removes all of the residual gunk from her skin is by steaming it. "I do that at least three to four times a week," she said. Jada fills a bowl with boiling water, leans over it, and drapes a towel over her head to trap the steam. Her one-to-two-minute steaming sessions aren't the only way she uses H2O to get her dewy complexion. "I drink at least 8-9 bottles of water a day (sometimes more)," she wrote in the caption.

On YouTube, Jada demonstrated the far more complex skincare ritual she performs after she finishes filming projects that likely put her skin under a lot of stress, such as "The Matrix Resurrections" movie. In addition to steaming her skin multiple times, she uses a pre-cleanser, microdermabrasion machine, pore mask, and homemade avocado honey mask.

Gal Gadot doesn't just play a superhero; the "Wonder Woman" star possesses the superhuman ability to look refreshed and alert without the assistance of concealer, shimmery highlighter, and mascara. In 2017, she shared a photo on Instagram of her makeup-free face. She revealed that her husband, Jaron Varsano, snapped the pic while she was recovering from one of those exhausting mommy moments where chaos reigns. "Sleepless night, colic 3 months old baby and an early wake up by my 5-year-old," she wrote in her caption. "Went to the garden to get some fresh air with my coffee to help me wake up." Gadot added that she was feeling pretty blissful afterward, which may help explain why she looks so radiant. 

While the circumstances of that stressful morning likely left Gadot with little time or energy to spare for putting on makeup, she regularly forgoes cosmetics by choice. "At work they put makeup on me, but I don't like to wear makeup day-to-day," she told InStyle in 2022. However, the former Miss Israel became a global brand ambassador for Revlon in 2018, so she occasionally talks about the beauty products she uses when she does decide to apply her own makeup. "I put on [foundation] that I mix with lotion, and I just put it on with my fingers," she later told Allure. "Then I use a little bit of eyeliner, a pen eyeliner, rouge, and mascara. I just want to look fresh."

Anne Hathaway is one of those stars who possesses the rare ability to stun by spending less time on her face. When she shared a rare selfie on Instagram in January 2023, the comments section was inundated with praise for her flawless, makeup-free complexion. "The only skincare routine I need is yours, what have you done every day since your 20s," one admirer wrote. Hathaway credits the work she puts into pampering her skin for how great it looks without generously applied concealer and foundation. "I found that the longer I've made skincare a priority, the less makeup I wear," she told Vogue that August, adding, "I find that in my life, I'm really happy just being in my skin."

We're just guessing that most skincare companies considered Hathaway a big "get" due to her dermis' smooth and even appearance, and just months after she shared that fresh-faced selfie, Shiseido announced that "The Idea of You" star was its newest brand ambassador. Hathaway later told People that she's become a big fan of the high-end beauty brand's Uplifting and Firming Eye Mask, which costs $85. Eye masks are apparently a product she likes to splurge on, as she also sang the praises of Chantecaille gold eye masks ($195) in a 2019 Allure interview. The actor also shared some of her biggest beauty concerns, one of which was eye-related. "Dryness, redness, crow's-feet. (F***ers. I mean, aging is a gift.)," Hathaway said.

Grammy-winning artist Kim Petras was willing to let fans see her before she got all glammed up in a 2022 Vogue video. Like so many of our favorite pop stars, Petras likes to have fun with her makeup. The "Unholy" singer's spider-like eyeliner at the 2023 Brits was a Halloween dream, and in 2021, she celebrated her birthday in bold blue eyeshadow outlined with tiny crystals. However, for Vogue, she was demonstrating her everyday makeup look. As she applied products, Petras spoke about how her relationship with cosmetics has changed. She revealed that she used to view makeup as something she could use to alter the appearance of features that she didn't like. "I think that's definitely something I've been going through, just kind of using makeup as hiding in the beginning of my career," Petras said. "I don't do that anymore, and ever since then, I feel better about myself." Nowadays, the star uses makeup to draw attention to the features that she likes.

Petras previously told Glamour that she's obsessed with makeup for a number of reasons. "I write better songs if I have a face on," she said. The hitmaker also treasures her trove of cosmetics these days because her former school in Germany didn't let her wear makeup. "Makeup has been really important to my journey, especially being transgender," she said, adding, "It's a form of self-expression and it can change my mood."

"I Hate Love Songs" singer Kelsea Ballerini definitely doesn't hate makeup. She became the face of CoverGirl in 2022, and she filmed her first-ever makeup tutorial for her YouTube channel in 2020, revealing that it was something her fans had been asking for. The country-pop star has since become so adept at doing her own makeup that she no longer brings a makeup artist with her when she's touring. "I have picked up enough along the way where now it's something that I just enjoy having my me time doing," she told People.

While Ballerini might be stoked about doing her own makeup for performances, she later told InStyle that she doesn't like spending too much time applying it during her downtime. "I just want to protect my skin and throw on a quick brow and cheek and go," she said. One product the singer rarely goes without is mascara; it's something she can rely on to make her look refreshed when she's giving her skin a breather.

Ballerini wasn't always a fan of a quick, low-key beauty look. She struggled with feeling insecure about her appearance without makeup, so the full-on glam look became a security blanket that she couldn't leave home without. But makeup eventually became something fun, not necessary. "Now for me, there are days where I'm fine to go out with no makeup and I don't feel any less me or pretty," she told People. Ballerini proved this by posing for a bare-faced bikini selfie in September 2023.

"America's Got Talent" judge Sofia Vergara always looks glamorous while deciding whether ventriloquists, comedians, sword swallowers, and even singing dogs are some of the biggest talents in the home of the brave. But she was ill, not dressed to kill, when she took to Instagram to show off her rosy cheeks in 2017. "Hm ... I just realized that 102 fever gives u the perfect shades of pink," she wrote in her caption. The actor tagged CoverGirl to let the brand know that she would like a blush to match her feverish flush, and she used a hashtag to explain that her illness was the result of "shooting in the rain in Rome."

It appeared as though Vergara had no makeup on in her selfie, which is a rarity for the "Modern Family" star. She confessed to People in June 2023 that the natural look isn't for her. "I like it when I've done an hour and a half of hair and makeup. More is more!" she said. Vergara's also not big on experimenting with cosmetics, saying that she never jumped on board the contouring craze popularized by celeb beauty influencers such as Kim Kardashian. 

"I've been doing my same makeup since I was 15," she said. "... I always have eyeliner on, and lashes and lipstick. Even in the morning I put it on." Vergara also uses a product from her own beauty brand that keeps her cheeks from turning pink in the sun: her Toty Illumina CC cream with SPF.

Former Miss World Priyanka Chopra Jonas told Harper's Bazaar in 2018 that she learned a helpful makeup removal trick from her mother during her pageant days: She just slathered on some coconut oil and wiped her stage makeup away with a towel. Another all-natural method the "Quantico" alum still uses to clean her skin is blending yogurt and turmeric together to make an exfoliating scrub. "You'd be amazed at what it can take off your skin," she previously told Into the Gloss.

While some of us might commit the cardinal beauty sin of sleeping in our makeup, it sounds like Chopra Jonas probably isn't staining any pillowcases. "My skin is being 'traumatized' all the time with all this makeup, which is why cleansing is supremely important," she said. Like many celebs, Chopra Jonas also gives her skin an occasional break by forgoing a full face of makeup. However, she's discovered a fast way to perk up her appearance using a single product. "When I was younger, I used to take berry lipsticks like raspberry red or whatever, and I would use them as stains on my lips and on my cheeks," she said. "... I still do it now, all these years later. It's my go-to fresh face for when I don't have to wear makeup." 

But when Chopra Jonas snapped a close-up selfie in 2018 and told her Instagram followers that it was a "no makeup kinda day," it looked like she even decided to skip the red lip.

While Taylor Swift isn't afraid to post makeup-free selfies on Instagram, Swifties have grown accustomed to seeing her with her signature beauty look: bright lipstick and immaculate winged eyeliner. She has some tricks for making both look their best. In 2011, the "Anti-Hero" singer told Allure that makeup artists had taught her how to boost her lip color's staying power. "They put on the red lipstick, then blot it with a tissue, then they put powder over the tissue and sort of press it onto your lips. Then re-apply," she said. As for ensuring that her cat-eye lines are never crooked, Swift later told Redbook, "I do the outer corner flick first: I follow the curve of my lower lash line and draw it on as if it's an extension of that. Then I draw along my top lid and connect it to the flick."

Swift's eye makeup is such an essential part of her makeup look that the hitmaker once did something that she had to know was trouble. "I once used a Sharpie as eyeliner in an airplane bathroom because I didn't have any with me. I don't recommend it," she admitted Refinery29 in 2012. We assume that removing the permanent marker from her eyelids was a challenge — once she got around to trying. Swift confessed to Allure that she often forgets to wash her face before bedtime. However, Swift's makeup appeared to be missing when she dressed up like an elf for Christmas Eve 2015 in a since-deleted Instagram post. We're hoping Santa left some eyeliner in her stocking.