It is a real revolution in the world of beauty pageants. For the first time in almost 100 years of history, a makeup-free contestant competed in the Miss England final.
If as part of her competition, Miss England has included an “uncovered face” test since 2019, Melisa Raouf, a 20-year-old British student, is the first beauty queen to participate in the entire competition without wearing a single ounce of hair. . make-up.
“I wanted to show that we have a choice. We don’t have to wear makeup if we don’t want to,” she said. bbc newsensuring that she would not have put on makeup for the Miss World contest either.
“I am beautiful in my own skin”
Like many young people her age, Melisa Raouf began to put on makeup from adolescence, a habit that the British wanted to abandon to participate in Miss England.
“I never felt that I met the beauty criteria. I recently accepted that I was beautiful in my own skin and that’s why I decided to compete without makeup,” she said, explained in an interview with the Independiente media.
In France, the use of make-up is not mentioned in the recently amended Miss France contest rules. However, candidates must be over 18 years of age, be at least 1.70 meters tall and be female in marital status.
The “no makeup” trend
If this gesture did not allow Melisa Raouf to win the British beauty contest, it is nevertheless part of a current trend to show off more easily with a natural face. A practice called “no-makeup” and accentuated in particular on social networks during confinement.
Thus, personalities such as Adele, Beyoncé, Cameron Diaz, Kim Kardashian, Madonna, Sharon Stone, Lily Allen or Lady Gaga no longer hesitate to appear without makeup to normalize their natural skin.
In 2017, singer Alicia Keys also spoke out on the subject in a column titled “Time to Uncover” as well as in her song When a girl can’t be herself.
“In the morning, as soon as I wake up / What if I don’t feel like putting on all that makeup / Who says I have to hide what I’m made of / Maybe all that Maybelline is covering up my self-esteem”, he sings in this title .
Source: BFM TV
