Could be a cultural thing, but I prefer the before photos for most of these. Make-up should be subtle and enhance natural features, not completely dominate and change the face.

Most of these have still been filtered. You can’t flatten lines and wrinkles with makeup. Once again it proves that what society says is “ attractive” is still not possible even with a fabulous make up artist. It’s all so fake

With or without makeup, everyone is beautiful.

I hope that they were happy with the makeup the artist did for them. It's really uplifting when you do something special for yourself. In the end, it's about what they think and how it makes them feel and to heck with what anyone else thinks.

I feel like we need to stop telling women both that they look “sick” without makeup- and normalize natural faces- but also we need to stop telling women that they have “cake faces” or “are wearing too much makeup.” Makeup is a form of art, and nobody gets to decide how much makeup a women wears except her. If she wants to walk down the red carpet after just waking out of bed, good on her, natural beauty is beautiful. If she wants to go to the supermarket in a full face of makeup with neon eyeshadow and hot pink lipstick, we need to also support her, because that’s how she chooses to express herself. Make up should be whatever the person wearing it wants. These same rules apply to men, theyre beautiful with and without makeup. In the end, anybody and everybody has the choice whether or not to wear makeup, and as long as we can say that they’re still stunning without it, we can say that they’re beautiful with it too.

These are fine as an extreme example of red carpet makeup. I'm more interested in seeing how a person (male or female) might use much less to achieve much more. The full on makeup would look ludicrous during the day or at work.

I would just like to say all of the people featured here are beautiful with or without makeup and whichever one they prefer is their choice and opinion. And their opinions are also the only ones that matter. And to anyone who says that they are ugly in either the before or after photos, please keep that to yourself.

came to the comments just to say that it's so sad that this list is a mile long and all it shows is how hard it is to be a female in a world where make-up is believed to be what makes these women beautiful.

In my opinion, No matter how little or natural type of makeup goes on your face -- you still look a little different. I'm not into makeup stuff in general, but I've heard of something called the "no-makeup" makeup look where it enhances your actual face instead of looking like a frickin Bratz doll. What I want to know is what's the purpose in injecting your lips ? Dumdums.

I like most of them. Some I personally would find overwhelming, as I prefer a more natural approach.

I HATE everything about this thread. Most of this "makeup" is poorly done Photoshopping, and consists of simply deleting signs of humanity.

Im all for makeup to enhance one's beauty NOT reinvent a whole different person. Embrace your uniqueness don't hide it for society!

Absolutely amazing make up work! I loved every one of the looks. But my favorite one is #4. I love purple/teal eye shadow and purple hair combination.

It would be nice to see all of these without the additional filtering that was applied. So just with the make up.

You'd think there was one Black woman you could find to round out this list.

Yeah, I went the opposite way. During quarantine I didn't wear makeup because I was at home. Now that I'm back in the office...I still don't wear makeup. I haven't used anything for over a year and a half. My skin is softer and I look younger from not putting all that crap on my face. Won't be going back to makeup.

Pretty before - and assuming they asked for the makeup - pretty after. But the after does have extra lighting etc to make the make overs pop extra. And I like the soft glam make overs better than those extravagant bridals

Photoshop and good lighting can make anyone look good