When a middle-aged celebrity turns up to Paris Fashion Week without any make-up, you know a revolution is afoot. Pamela Anderson’s bold move set tongues wagging about her bravery, but it signals a cultural shift gaining momentum: We’re finally embracing a more natural ethos. We want skin that looks like skin. But we still want good-looking skin.
By good, I mean plump, smooth and even-toned. All of which (disappointingly) tends not to happen without some form of intervention. The “no make-up” make-up look either requires regular skincare effort or (ironically) make-up to pull it off, but nothing complicated. It should look like a second skin, just enough to add more lustre and glow than we naturally wake up with.
“Sometimes all you might need is a primer that just smooths out the skin or
