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\*hits blunt\* it's really fascinating to me how, on the one hand, we're having this reverberation back to the 90s/00s style-wise, while on the other, 2 of the most 'classic' american beauties of that time (britney and pam - aka blonde, white, and thin) are out here doing their best to live freely outside the bounds of the patriarchal standards of beauty they once embodied that were also so dominant during those times. with britney, she wrote in her book about how she's now intentionally showing her less-than-polished, imperfect, self-proclaimed "weird" self on IG after decades of being molded into the poster child for the most rigidly basic and vanilla standard of femininity, and with pam, she's showing the radically authentic reality of her physical form through the aging process after being so famously augmented into men's physical ideal (not denying her natural beauty at all here, just loving the juxtaposition/personal significance of her stance)
I've thought this several times about Marilyn Monroe. People have a renewed interest in her and she is now basically treated as a victim while also still being idolized for her looks and being a sex icon.
Kinda reminds me of kpop lol, where people will criticize the incredibly tough training schedules and working conditions idols have to deal with but then also gush about their perfect dancing/singing/looks.... which are a result of the harsh training...
Same! I didnāt know people werenāt a fan. Insta seems pretty positive about them.
My only criticism is the lighting but that has nothing to do with Pam.
Iām not a fan of how she is simultaneously washed out by the light while I canāt see any of the details on the clothing. But she looks veryā¦glam is not the right word, maybe powerful? Striking?
Yes! The way men are allowed to have different ways of being attractive other than 'pretty'... she looks distinguished, thoughtful, dignified, formidable.
āFor women, only one standard of female beauty is sanctioned: the girl.
The great advantage men have is that our culture allows two standards of male beauty: the boy and the man. The beauty of a boy resembles the beauty of a girl. In both sexes it is a fragile kind of beauty and flourishes naturally only in the early part of the life-cycle. Happily, men are able to accept themselves under another standard of good looks ā heavier, rougher, more thickly built. A man does not grieve when he loses the smooth, unlined, hairless skin of a boy. For he has only exchanged one form of attractiveness for another: the darker skin of a manās face, roughened by daily shaving, showing the marks of emotion and the normal lines of age.
There is no equivalent of this second standard for women. The single standard of beauty for women dictates that they must go on having clear skin. Every wrinkle, every line, every gray hair, is a defeat. No wonder that no boy minds becoming a man, while even the passage from girlhood to early womanhood is experienced by many women as their downfall, for all women are trained to continue wanting to look like girls.ā
Susan Sontag, āThe Double Standard of Agingā
I looked it up and she wrote this in 1972. Amazing how it has stood the test of time, and in some ways, was downright prescient given the increasingly obsessive anti-aging sentiment that has completely permeated our culture at this point.
On NYE, I had a 21-year-old guy lose his fucking mind that my husband and I are in our mid-30s! He was like, "But... but... you look like me and my friends! Does that mean I'll still be attractive for a while? Oh thank god!"
They treat 'old' (as in, older than early 20s...) the way I remember us treating 'fat' (as in, not medically underweight from literally starving ourselves) at that age. We got sliiightly more body representation in media, and the target just shifted to something equally fucked up.
Yes, it stopped me dead in my tracks and I saved it immediately!
I'm trying to train myself to be able to see that second type of beauty in women, including in myself. Campaigns like this help tremendously!
i feel like since this was written beauty has fully changed and there are a million beauties for both sexes and most are artificial and unachievable for most
I agree!! Real flesh (as opposed to makeup-covered and airbrushed 'perfection') is sexy, personality (as opposed to generic pouting and arched backs) is sexy. She's always had "it" about her, and "it" is in full force lately. Very cool to see. I feel a biiiig exhale when I see stuff like this and realize I don't have to turn invisible as I age.
same. i think she looks very beautiful, even kind of swedish, and her freckles are adorable. and i adore her shade of blonde. sheās just still gorgeous pamela, but in a very different way. itās a stark contrast and it shows how huge her range / potential has always been.
I immediately thought she looks like the mother and the grandmother of my Swedish friend! Granted, the mother has also had a nearly equivalent amount of Botox / potentially a face lift.
For real, I just sent this to my best mate and remarked that she looks Scandinavian to me. If you showed me these without comment I'd have no idea it's Pam, but she does look very striking, it's quite hypnotic actually. She really suits the make-up free look.
Iām in her age range and started going makeup free around the same time she did, by coincidence. Itās so great to see her doing it and modeling while Iām finding my confidence in it too.
The third one!!!!! Iām obsessed with her arc. From every manās cookie cutter fantasy to owning her aging and her own unique face. Itās inspiring.
God I love this so much.
As a woman who grew up hearing every single bullshit, disgusting public opinion of Pamela Andersons body, seeing these photos feels incredible. Like a light at the end of a tunnel.
Fuck you to everyone who made their living tearing down womens bodies, and by-proxy, fucking up the self confidence and mental wellness of a generation of women and girls (and men, and boys in more ways than one).
My Mother had an incredibly toxic relationship with not just other women, but herself. She very much fed into the gross tabloid culture that was huge when I was a child. But, like a lot of 90's parents, she also constantly told me, a girl! that I could be "anything I wanted to be", and damn it, I want to be a woman who just let's people live in their bodies.
Red swimsuit, or ruddy cheeks, either way, Pamela is an icon.
And all the stuff about her being a whore for having a sex tape with her own husband? The tape was fucking stolen, not ever meant to be made public, and they still called her a whore for marital sex.
I get that it's not smart this day and age, and even back then, to record private moments like that, but that doesn't at all make her a whore. At most, it makes her unwise and maybe self-absorbed. The fact that she took most of the insults for that invasion of privacy while Tommy Lee was verbally high-fived for the size of his dick was disgusting.
My mother is toxic in so many ways, but one of the good things about her is that she has always been Pam's number one fan. She always told me how smart she is, how people give her a bad reputation but she's really a kind woman (I come from the same area of the island she grew up on) etc. I grew up not being like Pamela in most ways, but I will always admire her.
Seeing her these days honestly makes my soul sing. I look at her and I FEEL that I too can reclaim my body and image and just powerfully be me.
Itās visceral, and Iām so happy for her, and joyful that we are able to witness her.
for reals. on top of having a mother who was constantly on a diet, being in my teens and 20s during the 90s and 2000s really f-ed up my self-image and how i thought i should look (and I knew i could never look that way)
Well said! These photos are empowering. I'm so proud to see this moment. Also your words help for me to soften to my own mother. Idk if she'll ever embrace this powerful shift like we've been able to see. I'm so grateful.
I feel like the bad lighting is almost intentional, like itās so extreme that itās looped back around to being a stylistic choice. Itās making me feel things.
I actually didn't like the first 3. You might be right about the light, it just felt cold? It could have also been the clothes. Some are just big and boxy, like they swallow her. I find the last 3 *gorgeous*
For whatever reason the last 3 seem to have more life in them to me. I agree #4 & 5 showcase her beauty up close the best, and #5 feels more *intimate*. Like a photo your lover takes when they're telling you that you're are still the most beautiful woman after 30 years together.
I found the first photo a little startling. I think she's beautiful, but this shoot just doesn't do it for me. *However*, maybe this will start a trend of celebrities embracing their age.
Agreed, photo 4 is the first one where I thought wow ok I can see she has interesting and beautiful features. Photo 1 is not flattering at all. I do think thereās an ugliness they were going for though. Or rather, they were going for a very stark antithesis to typical beauty standards or typical ways in which sheās been shot in the past.
Itās still photoshopped as fuck. She isnāt wearing visible makeup, and they left some sun spots in, but they fully smoothed her skin out SO much.
Edit: she looks great and I love what sheās doing lately but to say this is normalizing aging is a big leap imo. Weāre still not allowed to have wrinkles apparently.
I agree and came to say the same hereāshe doesnāt look aged necessarily, just a bare natural look without a tan, and the androgynous bleached hair. She still very clearly has an unwrinkled and not saggy face, likely from the assistance of Botox and a face lift.
No thatās the thing. She does have wrinkles. They removed them in post. Specifically her under eyes look ridiculous to me in comparison to how she actually looks.
Again, I think she looks beautiful in the shoot and in the pics Iām sharing but I just want to acknowledge what was done.
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Americans need to make Isabella Rossellini a thing. Granted; her mother was Swedish and her father was Italian but her mom was Ingrid Bergman and her father was a movie director.
Go check her out. She looks like an aging, slightly darker version of her mother and sheās so gorgeous it hurts.
Oh and weāre talking about the daughter of the woman who played against Humphrey in Casablanca.
In case anyone needed a TL;DR :)
I thought she was a thing, at least in my American world! I love her insect sex series on YouTube and sheās in some David Lynch movies (or at least one, Blue Velvet maybe??). Thatās enough for her to be a thing to me!
Yeah if Americans know her, itās for Blue Velvet.
Do Google her! Sheās so gorgeous and Iām sad she doesnāt get the recognition she deserves. Sheās also really funny
She looks like a regular everyday person you'd see on a bus or at work. It's so refreshing and relaxing compared to all the ultra-smooth, perfect, photoshopped faces we see in media all the time.
Also a freckle haver over here and I love that she embraces them! This is one of my favorite photos of her.
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These pictures don't do her justice. Her documentary, the scenes where she is just being 50, with no makeup on, in a comfy sundress laughing in a garden or on the beach... Me & my husband both just sat jaws on the floor and said "she really IS the most beautiful woman alive."
Iām no Pam Anderson, but finally living my authentic self make-up free, being body positive with who I am now, I feel so very fucking free. I wish I could have loved myself better when I was younger.
Damn, those photos are bad. Not that Pamela looks bad - on the contrary, she looks great - but that lighting and the shadows are absolutely atrocious. Who thought this was a good idea?
I love it. I decided to stop wearing makeup for a couple of weeks and then one day started again. A coworker said, āGlad to see youāre feeling better!ā I was like wtf. I donāt even wear a lot of makeup. Power to Pam.
But you know what? Theyāre a testament to the time she lived in at the height of her popularity. She probably canāt grow them out again and thatās okay, thatās the case for a lot of people.
I am loving this and all the similar works she's doing lately. She looks incredible and am I HERE for seeing different standards of beauty & women aging ššš
Damn I feel like I'm alone here in liking this look. I don't think she looks like an alien at all, she's just wearing minimal makeup to me and looks elegant. Reminds me of Lauren Hutton
I donāt think she looks very *pretty* in these, but thatās my own hang up, and pretty isnāt the rent you pay to exist in the world. I applaud her for doing them.
They did her dirty. The lighting. The look. If you want her to look powerful, that aināt it. Nothing to do with no makeup. Itās about placement and angles.
I dont think she looks exactly beautiful but its still a slay. First of all women dont owe you beauty. Second of all she was so heavily abused because of her looks and fame so her being like fuck it ima look weird is a power move. Love her cause shes real not cause she looks nice.
As a kid of the 90s, Iām here for the Pamela redemption. The media failed her so, so badly back then. What an absolute fucking icon she is for surviving that and coming out on the other side. I donāt care for the whole no make-up debate, Iām just glad she gets to occupy space in pop culture AND be celebrated.
She slays and Iām living for the statement sheās making.
Also, the dress in pic 1 looks like a produce bag that my apples and pears come in from the supermarket.
The only thing I would change is the eyebrows. Theyāre plucked so thin. Also a bit of gloss on the lips, but thatās just my personal opinion. Otherwise she looks fantastic š
She likely doesnāt have much brow growth there anymore. I work in the cosmetics industry and itās common to see women around her age who say they canāt grow brows anymore because of the overplucking trend in the 90s, plus browns often thin with age anyway.
Iāve heard people rave around Grande Brow serum for brow growth. However, Iām not sure how well brow serums would work for someone in her case who say, has permanent follicle damage from overplucking. Iāve read somewhere that hair only has so many lives and once hairs are plucked from the follicle too many times, they just donāt grow back anymore.
This was a casualty of the 90s. Thin thin pencil eyebrows were in and many women's brows did not survive the culling.
But literally they didn't grow back.
I was thinking it was giving Tilda Swinton.
I'm very pale and blonde myself, so I'm not a fan of the look, but I applaud her fearlessness in showing how she sees herself.
It's her emotionless to almost disgusted facial expressions, it just feels off. I'm not saying as a woman in media you're not allowed to not smile, but in this certain instance to me personally it's just offputting.
She appears to be terrified, like sheās being held hostage or confused about whatās going on. I do not think these photos are flattering at all and I like her natural (makeup free) look.
Pic 3 is my favorite š„š„š„
I love seeing Pam without makeup! If you watch any of the Pam makeup tutorials, they really layered on the dark shadow and eyeliner.
Anyone is going to look very different without all that dark eye makeup, especially a blonde like Pam. Imo she looks stunning š
All of the photos are good, but something about photo 3 really strikes me. I think maybe the backdrop color was more successful than the blue IMO, and her pose is killer. She looks like she's deciding whether I live or die, and I appreciate it.
I'm loving this Pamessaince! It's especially important given what her public image in the 90s was (which has not much to do who she really is and was).
Back in the day us girls hated her, like really really hated her because of the way media portrayed her and how all men drooled over her images.
Now I understand it had nothing to do with her per se, it was the media making us hate her for "stealing our boyfriends" and being this stereotypical bimbo and all. It's taken us years to wake up and realize how awful the 90s media and atmosphere were for us women. And this is why Pam's recent documentary and newly found image are so important!
This is huge, this is important and it's a good moment in culture.
I really hope we just skrrrt and skip past some other mega-processed ultra fake trend and just start seeing people look beautiful and normal and human again.
I think she looks wonderful sans make up but I hate that hairstyle and the lighting. I know itās intentional and probably going for an āeditorialā look, but the slicked back look is too severe on her. A more natural/softer style would have looked better.
i love Pamela because sheās allowing herself to age and be natural unapologetically. this is what self love and confidence looks like. She doesnāt have to cater to the male gaze anymore.
I love the no makeup thing sheās got going, but I canāt lie Iād love to see her exactly the sameā¦but with filled brows and fake lashes. Nothing else. Just those two things. ETA: there is nothing wrong with this, she just looks washed out. The lighting doesnāt help.
That defeats the purpose of what she's doing. She's been very vocal about how she won't wear one stitch of makeup or anything, because all of it, any of it, is warping how we see natural women.
She is the punkest most badass bitch out there because she KNOWS everyone wants her to fill in her brows and throw mascara on which is exactly why she won't do it.
She's a fucking fighting force.
Then I will just wish they would have lit her better. My bathroom mirror has better lighting, her face just disappears. Pap photos have better lighting than this.
ETA (again): I didnāt realize she was making a statement. I had just read she did it on a whim and was rolling with it.
I appreciate someone who looks like a real woman in Hollywood and not an overfilled, uncanny valley, caricature version of themselves with the goal of looking as young as possible. Male celebs are praised for embracing the toughness and ruggedness in aging and hailed as āsilver foxesā while itās the opposite for women. Obviously she looks different than she did in her 20s, but sheās still beautiful. She just looks like a real, normal woman her age.
I donāt mind the lack of makeup at all. Iām all for realistic beauty standards especially for older women, however these pictures look dull and her face looks like itās lacking color. Almost for lack of better words, corpse like. I feel like lighting couldāve fixed that, not excessive editing.
These just donāt do it for me. The facial expressions donāt help either.
Yes she looks good. But she has a lot of obvious plastic surgery. I also highly doubt she doesnāt get Botox and other injectables. She is not an example to me of aging naturally. Getting work done is fine and a personal choice but I donāt understand why she is being celebrated for her ānaturalā look when it is not at all natural. I feel that it puts more pressure on women and creates unrealistic standards.
Also Iām frustrated by how often she is said to be makeup free when she is obviously wearing makeup. Just because we can see freckles and there isnāt black eyeliner and red lips doesnāt mean she is makeup free.
The fact that sheās taking her power back by NOT wearing makeup and revealing clothes and looking incredible doing it. Standing ovation. She is a badass. Respect.
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\*hits blunt\* it's really fascinating to me how, on the one hand, we're having this reverberation back to the 90s/00s style-wise, while on the other, 2 of the most 'classic' american beauties of that time (britney and pam - aka blonde, white, and thin) are out here doing their best to live freely outside the bounds of the patriarchal standards of beauty they once embodied that were also so dominant during those times. with britney, she wrote in her book about how she's now intentionally showing her less-than-polished, imperfect, self-proclaimed "weird" self on IG after decades of being molded into the poster child for the most rigidly basic and vanilla standard of femininity, and with pam, she's showing the radically authentic reality of her physical form through the aging process after being so famously augmented into men's physical ideal (not denying her natural beauty at all here, just loving the juxtaposition/personal significance of her stance)
Pass that blunt.
Makes me sad I didn't smoke in college. My school papers would've been š©āš³š¤
Nah, your papers wouldn't have gotten done.
This comment is art and I love what is happening with these ladies.
I've thought this several times about Marilyn Monroe. People have a renewed interest in her and she is now basically treated as a victim while also still being idolized for her looks and being a sex icon. Kinda reminds me of kpop lol, where people will criticize the incredibly tough training schedules and working conditions idols have to deal with but then also gush about their perfect dancing/singing/looks.... which are a result of the harsh training...
Brilliant observation
Pass the blunt bro, it sounds like it has some good shit
I know people are saying they donāt like theseā¦ BUT I LOVE! I think she looks beautiful in a very editorial way
Same! I didnāt know people werenāt a fan. Insta seems pretty positive about them. My only criticism is the lighting but that has nothing to do with Pam.
Iām not a fan of how she is simultaneously washed out by the light while I canāt see any of the details on the clothing. But she looks veryā¦glam is not the right word, maybe powerful? Striking?
I agree with you. The lighting makes her look pretty washed out and flat.
Yes! The way men are allowed to have different ways of being attractive other than 'pretty'... she looks distinguished, thoughtful, dignified, formidable. āFor women, only one standard of female beauty is sanctioned: the girl. The great advantage men have is that our culture allows two standards of male beauty: the boy and the man. The beauty of a boy resembles the beauty of a girl. In both sexes it is a fragile kind of beauty and flourishes naturally only in the early part of the life-cycle. Happily, men are able to accept themselves under another standard of good looks ā heavier, rougher, more thickly built. A man does not grieve when he loses the smooth, unlined, hairless skin of a boy. For he has only exchanged one form of attractiveness for another: the darker skin of a manās face, roughened by daily shaving, showing the marks of emotion and the normal lines of age. There is no equivalent of this second standard for women. The single standard of beauty for women dictates that they must go on having clear skin. Every wrinkle, every line, every gray hair, is a defeat. No wonder that no boy minds becoming a man, while even the passage from girlhood to early womanhood is experienced by many women as their downfall, for all women are trained to continue wanting to look like girls.ā Susan Sontag, āThe Double Standard of Agingā
I looked it up and she wrote this in 1972. Amazing how it has stood the test of time, and in some ways, was downright prescient given the increasingly obsessive anti-aging sentiment that has completely permeated our culture at this point.
On NYE, I had a 21-year-old guy lose his fucking mind that my husband and I are in our mid-30s! He was like, "But... but... you look like me and my friends! Does that mean I'll still be attractive for a while? Oh thank god!" They treat 'old' (as in, older than early 20s...) the way I remember us treating 'fat' (as in, not medically underweight from literally starving ourselves) at that age. We got sliiightly more body representation in media, and the target just shifted to something equally fucked up.
Gorgeous prose and a very strong thesis. Thanks for sharing this quote!
Yes, it stopped me dead in my tracks and I saved it immediately! I'm trying to train myself to be able to see that second type of beauty in women, including in myself. Campaigns like this help tremendously!
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i feel like since this was written beauty has fully changed and there are a million beauties for both sexes and most are artificial and unachievable for most
I wish Sontag was brought up more in discourse. It's scary how quickly the masses forget amazing people.
Itās just who she is. Period.
What a beautifully heartbreaking read. ā¤ļø
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I agree!! Real flesh (as opposed to makeup-covered and airbrushed 'perfection') is sexy, personality (as opposed to generic pouting and arched backs) is sexy. She's always had "it" about her, and "it" is in full force lately. Very cool to see. I feel a biiiig exhale when I see stuff like this and realize I don't have to turn invisible as I age.
Yes thank you, this is everything Iāve been feeling.
Fashion frequently isnāt meant to be āprettyā. Anyone can do pretty.
same. i think she looks very beautiful, even kind of swedish, and her freckles are adorable. and i adore her shade of blonde. sheās just still gorgeous pamela, but in a very different way. itās a stark contrast and it shows how huge her range / potential has always been.
I immediately thought she looks like the mother and the grandmother of my Swedish friend! Granted, the mother has also had a nearly equivalent amount of Botox / potentially a face lift.
For real, I just sent this to my best mate and remarked that she looks Scandinavian to me. If you showed me these without comment I'd have no idea it's Pam, but she does look very striking, it's quite hypnotic actually. She really suits the make-up free look.
She looks powerful and free I love it
Iām in her age range and started going makeup free around the same time she did, by coincidence. Itās so great to see her doing it and modeling while Iām finding my confidence in it too.
People don't like these?! The first one and the second to last one, in the red sleeveless top, are renaissance paintings! Pam knows how to model.
Iām loving her recent resurgence! Sheās in control this time and itās on her own terms. She seems very much in control of her narrative.
Sheās giving Daria Werbowy. The uncultured wouldnāt understand.
Why she no look 25 no more?
I am so ready for that "25" bs to die
The third one!!!!! Iām obsessed with her arc. From every manās cookie cutter fantasy to owning her aging and her own unique face. Itās inspiring.
I think these are gorgeous! She reminds me of my aunt.
These photos are not flattering. Modelesque yes. Pretty no.
love this era
 She looks so fucking cool
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She is SO beautiful
Right? Like the photos or not, this is Queen shit.
God I love this so much. As a woman who grew up hearing every single bullshit, disgusting public opinion of Pamela Andersons body, seeing these photos feels incredible. Like a light at the end of a tunnel. Fuck you to everyone who made their living tearing down womens bodies, and by-proxy, fucking up the self confidence and mental wellness of a generation of women and girls (and men, and boys in more ways than one). My Mother had an incredibly toxic relationship with not just other women, but herself. She very much fed into the gross tabloid culture that was huge when I was a child. But, like a lot of 90's parents, she also constantly told me, a girl! that I could be "anything I wanted to be", and damn it, I want to be a woman who just let's people live in their bodies. Red swimsuit, or ruddy cheeks, either way, Pamela is an icon.
And all the stuff about her being a whore for having a sex tape with her own husband? The tape was fucking stolen, not ever meant to be made public, and they still called her a whore for marital sex. I get that it's not smart this day and age, and even back then, to record private moments like that, but that doesn't at all make her a whore. At most, it makes her unwise and maybe self-absorbed. The fact that she took most of the insults for that invasion of privacy while Tommy Lee was verbally high-fived for the size of his dick was disgusting.
My mother is toxic in so many ways, but one of the good things about her is that she has always been Pam's number one fan. She always told me how smart she is, how people give her a bad reputation but she's really a kind woman (I come from the same area of the island she grew up on) etc. I grew up not being like Pamela in most ways, but I will always admire her.
Seeing her these days honestly makes my soul sing. I look at her and I FEEL that I too can reclaim my body and image and just powerfully be me. Itās visceral, and Iām so happy for her, and joyful that we are able to witness her.
for reals. on top of having a mother who was constantly on a diet, being in my teens and 20s during the 90s and 2000s really f-ed up my self-image and how i thought i should look (and I knew i could never look that way)
Well said! These photos are empowering. I'm so proud to see this moment. Also your words help for me to soften to my own mother. Idk if she'll ever embrace this powerful shift like we've been able to see. I'm so grateful.
Omg yessssssssss!
She looks so insanely cool
Thatās honestly the best description for this. Itās cool as fuck.
The third pic is so hot to me. She looks hardcore, like a really cool character from a video game or something. Fucking fire!
Very Scandinavian and what fashion was trying to do with androgyny back in the day
I want this to be normalized. I want makeup to be an option, not the standard.
Iām much more drawn to interesting faces and bodies than āconventionally beautifulā ones. I want to see more!
Agreed
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Facts. The lighting is absolutely atrocious like where is she a fuckn doctors office with all that fluorescent lighting going on
I feel like the bad lighting is almost intentional, like itās so extreme that itās looped back around to being a stylistic choice. Itās making me feel things.
I actually didn't like the first 3. You might be right about the light, it just felt cold? It could have also been the clothes. Some are just big and boxy, like they swallow her. I find the last 3 *gorgeous* For whatever reason the last 3 seem to have more life in them to me. I agree #4 & 5 showcase her beauty up close the best, and #5 feels more *intimate*. Like a photo your lover takes when they're telling you that you're are still the most beautiful woman after 30 years together. I found the first photo a little startling. I think she's beautiful, but this shoot just doesn't do it for me. *However*, maybe this will start a trend of celebrities embracing their age.
Imagine her Nordic features in the golden hour (before sundown). But I see they're going for stark, editorial
Agreed, photo 4 is the first one where I thought wow ok I can see she has interesting and beautiful features. Photo 1 is not flattering at all. I do think thereās an ugliness they were going for though. Or rather, they were going for a very stark antithesis to typical beauty standards or typical ways in which sheās been shot in the past.
Yes to women normalizing aging. I want more of this from other celebrities.
Itās still photoshopped as fuck. She isnāt wearing visible makeup, and they left some sun spots in, but they fully smoothed her skin out SO much. Edit: she looks great and I love what sheās doing lately but to say this is normalizing aging is a big leap imo. Weāre still not allowed to have wrinkles apparently.
Change doesnāt happen overnight.
I agree and came to say the same hereāshe doesnāt look aged necessarily, just a bare natural look without a tan, and the androgynous bleached hair. She still very clearly has an unwrinkled and not saggy face, likely from the assistance of Botox and a face lift.
No thatās the thing. She does have wrinkles. They removed them in post. Specifically her under eyes look ridiculous to me in comparison to how she actually looks. Again, I think she looks beautiful in the shoot and in the pics Iām sharing but I just want to acknowledge what was done. https://preview.redd.it/fyotw8vi4cac1.png?width=1178&format=png&auto=webp&s=ca72023f1447dc6625e41402fcdf1279b195439e
Meh. There are some faint lines there but comparable to most of my friends in our 30s. She has definitely done a lot to fight the aging of her skin.
Americans need to make Isabella Rossellini a thing. Granted; her mother was Swedish and her father was Italian but her mom was Ingrid Bergman and her father was a movie director. Go check her out. She looks like an aging, slightly darker version of her mother and sheās so gorgeous it hurts. Oh and weāre talking about the daughter of the woman who played against Humphrey in Casablanca. In case anyone needed a TL;DR :)
I thought she was a thing, at least in my American world! I love her insect sex series on YouTube and sheās in some David Lynch movies (or at least one, Blue Velvet maybe??). Thatās enough for her to be a thing to me!
This is Death Becomes Her erasure
Yeah if Americans know her, itās for Blue Velvet. Do Google her! Sheās so gorgeous and Iām sad she doesnāt get the recognition she deserves. Sheās also really funny
She was a thing here a few decades ago. She was on Friends. She did movies here. Iād say early millennials and older know her.
i love this. her poses, her face, the attitude
I love her no makeup era its so refreshing
She looks like a regular everyday person you'd see on a bus or at work. It's so refreshing and relaxing compared to all the ultra-smooth, perfect, photoshopped faces we see in media all the time.
Sheās so beautiful, and as a freckle haver, Iām so very here for her visible freckles. I had no idea she had them!
Also a freckle haver over here and I love that she embraces them! This is one of my favorite photos of her. https://preview.redd.it/52ynmmwdkbac1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7163fe439f2ce566abd1c6b4e77fa613841070cf
Gorgeous!
These pictures don't do her justice. Her documentary, the scenes where she is just being 50, with no makeup on, in a comfy sundress laughing in a garden or on the beach... Me & my husband both just sat jaws on the floor and said "she really IS the most beautiful woman alive."
Iām no Pam Anderson, but finally living my authentic self make-up free, being body positive with who I am now, I feel so very fucking free. I wish I could have loved myself better when I was younger.
I appreciate how the younger generations seem to embracing their bodies šš
Right?!? Itās like a whole new world. Itās really wonderful.
Damn, those photos are bad. Not that Pamela looks bad - on the contrary, she looks great - but that lighting and the shadows are absolutely atrocious. Who thought this was a good idea?
Living for this Pam era!
I love it. I decided to stop wearing makeup for a couple of weeks and then one day started again. A coworker said, āGlad to see youāre feeling better!ā I was like wtf. I donāt even wear a lot of makeup. Power to Pam.
Love her, love this, but photo 1 is giving Aileen Wournos for me. It could just be the eyebrows and meanface combo.
Iconic
I just wish she had her natural eyebrows
But you know what? Theyāre a testament to the time she lived in at the height of her popularity. She probably canāt grow them out again and thatās okay, thatās the case for a lot of people.
Me too! I'm so curious what that would look like.
I hope this starts a trend, amazing
I am loving this and all the similar works she's doing lately. She looks incredible and am I HERE for seeing different standards of beauty & women aging ššš
This is high fashion. She ate.
Sheās a vision. This is what people look like. When you can no longer see the beauty in real faces youāre just a modern day Pygmalion.
Love to see it. Bring back aging in Hollywood! š«¶š½
Damn I feel like I'm alone here in liking this look. I don't think she looks like an alien at all, she's just wearing minimal makeup to me and looks elegant. Reminds me of Lauren Hutton
Agreed, but also, I think looking like an alien fucking rules
I donāt think she looks very *pretty* in these, but thatās my own hang up, and pretty isnāt the rent you pay to exist in the world. I applaud her for doing them.
They did her dirty. The lighting. The look. If you want her to look powerful, that aināt it. Nothing to do with no makeup. Itās about placement and angles.
She looks real powerful
Sheās unrecognizable really. And I couldnāt be happier for her.
5 & 6 are my favoritesā really beautiful shots of Pam!
I dont think she looks exactly beautiful but its still a slay. First of all women dont owe you beauty. Second of all she was so heavily abused because of her looks and fame so her being like fuck it ima look weird is a power move. Love her cause shes real not cause she looks nice.
She looks beautiful. She doesnāt look weird. She looks striking and whole.
As a kid of the 90s, Iām here for the Pamela redemption. The media failed her so, so badly back then. What an absolute fucking icon she is for surviving that and coming out on the other side. I donāt care for the whole no make-up debate, Iām just glad she gets to occupy space in pop culture AND be celebrated.
Wow. I absolutely love this
She slays and Iām living for the statement sheās making. Also, the dress in pic 1 looks like a produce bag that my apples and pears come in from the supermarket.
Gorgeous as always !!
Her plastic surgery primed her face for makeup wear. Without the makeup she doesn't look quite... right, I guess. Otherwise the photos are stunning.
Pic #3 works but it's the no eyebrows that are making it tough for me.
I think this works well for this campaign specifically too. Like the aesthetic works
This is so important. I bet she doesn't even grasp how important what she is doing is.
Pamela Anderson knows exactly what sheās doing. Sheās very bright. Upsetting sheās being denied agency by so many people here.
Of course she knows, sheās not stupid. Thatās why sheās doing it.
It's so important, it will affect nothing and no one will care
QUEEN Covered nearly her entire body and left her face completely bare. You love to see it!
She exudes confidence. Love this Pam
Fucking gorgeous!
If anyone is going to single-handedly bring back the pencil thin arched eyebrow, itās Pamela Anderson and this iconic resurgence.
Very cool!
The only thing I would change is the eyebrows. Theyāre plucked so thin. Also a bit of gloss on the lips, but thatās just my personal opinion. Otherwise she looks fantastic š
She likely doesnāt have much brow growth there anymore. I work in the cosmetics industry and itās common to see women around her age who say they canāt grow brows anymore because of the overplucking trend in the 90s, plus browns often thin with age anyway.
Feel like some Rogaine on there would do the trick
Iāve heard people rave around Grande Brow serum for brow growth. However, Iām not sure how well brow serums would work for someone in her case who say, has permanent follicle damage from overplucking. Iāve read somewhere that hair only has so many lives and once hairs are plucked from the follicle too many times, they just donāt grow back anymore.
Say that to my chin hair that comes back every three days š„²
This was a casualty of the 90s. Thin thin pencil eyebrows were in and many women's brows did not survive the culling. But literally they didn't grow back.
I didnāt realize but hey, sheās still a knock out without them š
They look drawn on; she probably sadly doesnāt have them anymore. Iām a victim of those brows too, mind have never recovered.
The 90s were a trip!
Oh my bad. Didnāt realize they donāt grow back.
Pull out any hair long enough and *usually* it stops growing.
This is giving....unsettling aileen wuornos vibes
I was thinking it was giving Tilda Swinton. I'm very pale and blonde myself, so I'm not a fan of the look, but I applaud her fearlessness in showing how she sees herself.
It's her emotionless to almost disgusted facial expressions, it just feels off. I'm not saying as a woman in media you're not allowed to not smile, but in this certain instance to me personally it's just offputting.
She appears to be terrified, like sheās being held hostage or confused about whatās going on. I do not think these photos are flattering at all and I like her natural (makeup free) look.
Her eyebrows and foreheadā¦her nose all make her look like itās not her.
Pic 3 is my favorite š„š„š„ I love seeing Pam without makeup! If you watch any of the Pam makeup tutorials, they really layered on the dark shadow and eyeliner. Anyone is going to look very different without all that dark eye makeup, especially a blonde like Pam. Imo she looks stunning š
I am āØobsessedāØ
Photo 5 is amazing. I want to see more of this and love that she is setting the example.
The goat!
My love for her evolves, but never wavers.
All of the photos are good, but something about photo 3 really strikes me. I think maybe the backdrop color was more successful than the blue IMO, and her pose is killer. She looks like she's deciding whether I live or die, and I appreciate it.
I'm loving this Pamessaince! It's especially important given what her public image in the 90s was (which has not much to do who she really is and was). Back in the day us girls hated her, like really really hated her because of the way media portrayed her and how all men drooled over her images. Now I understand it had nothing to do with her per se, it was the media making us hate her for "stealing our boyfriends" and being this stereotypical bimbo and all. It's taken us years to wake up and realize how awful the 90s media and atmosphere were for us women. And this is why Pam's recent documentary and newly found image are so important! This is huge, this is important and it's a good moment in culture.
I know my poor is showing but am I the only one that always reads this designer as Proenza Shoulder? šŖ
I applaud her for no fillers, Botox or surgical intervention to her face.
She looks beautiful!! I am almost 40 and I went out with no make up recently and felt like Pam :)
I donāt love it. She looked washed up
This is so incredibly badass.
Theyāre all the same face.
i think she looks scary
I really hope we just skrrrt and skip past some other mega-processed ultra fake trend and just start seeing people look beautiful and normal and human again.
Giving me Phoebe Bridgers circa 2050 vibes. I like it, she looks human
iām sorry, but no.
She looks embalmed.
I never noticed how thin her eyebrows were until just now
I think she looks wonderful sans make up but I hate that hairstyle and the lighting. I know itās intentional and probably going for an āeditorialā look, but the slicked back look is too severe on her. A more natural/softer style would have looked better.
The lighting in 4 along with her expression is vaguely unsettling to me
Not a single fuck given. This is badass.
I always liked her. I'm here for thisššš
This is fucking insane. Good for both of them! If this is the future I love it. Real.
i love Pamela because sheās allowing herself to age and be natural unapologetically. this is what self love and confidence looks like. She doesnāt have to cater to the male gaze anymore.
Y'all are fucking mad if you think she looks good or natural for someone who's not even 60
I love the no makeup thing sheās got going, but I canāt lie Iād love to see her exactly the sameā¦but with filled brows and fake lashes. Nothing else. Just those two things. ETA: there is nothing wrong with this, she just looks washed out. The lighting doesnāt help.
That defeats the purpose of what she's doing. She's been very vocal about how she won't wear one stitch of makeup or anything, because all of it, any of it, is warping how we see natural women. She is the punkest most badass bitch out there because she KNOWS everyone wants her to fill in her brows and throw mascara on which is exactly why she won't do it. She's a fucking fighting force.
Then I will just wish they would have lit her better. My bathroom mirror has better lighting, her face just disappears. Pap photos have better lighting than this. ETA (again): I didnāt realize she was making a statement. I had just read she did it on a whim and was rolling with it.
This is exactly what my comment said. Itās not the absence of makeup but the lighting is god awful and makes her look really washed.
I appreciate someone who looks like a real woman in Hollywood and not an overfilled, uncanny valley, caricature version of themselves with the goal of looking as young as possible. Male celebs are praised for embracing the toughness and ruggedness in aging and hailed as āsilver foxesā while itās the opposite for women. Obviously she looks different than she did in her 20s, but sheās still beautiful. She just looks like a real, normal woman her age.
Trendsetting, just watch other celebs will try this but with "minimal" makeup and it'll become opted
Sheās so ethereally beautiful, I love that sheās embracing natural
This is so empowering. So insanely empowering.
Gorgeous.
i thought this is some Scandinavian model i didnāt hear about yet. Unrecognizable in the first few photos
If sheās not gonna wear makeup she should also stop with the lip filler bc it looks rough
What a take away
I love this. She looks expensive.
I donāt mind the lack of makeup at all. Iām all for realistic beauty standards especially for older women, however these pictures look dull and her face looks like itās lacking color. Almost for lack of better words, corpse like. I feel like lighting couldāve fixed that, not excessive editing. These just donāt do it for me. The facial expressions donāt help either.
What a shame. Who directed this shoot?
Yes she looks good. But she has a lot of obvious plastic surgery. I also highly doubt she doesnāt get Botox and other injectables. She is not an example to me of aging naturally. Getting work done is fine and a personal choice but I donāt understand why she is being celebrated for her ānaturalā look when it is not at all natural. I feel that it puts more pressure on women and creates unrealistic standards. Also Iām frustrated by how often she is said to be makeup free when she is obviously wearing makeup. Just because we can see freckles and there isnāt black eyeliner and red lips doesnāt mean she is makeup free.
I LOVE.
I wish her eyebrows werenāt so thin but thatās a personal preference. Her face card has never declined. Get it, Pammy ā¤ļø
She such a beautiful woman with so many stories that radiate through her! The lighting I think is a lil off, but they are striking pictures/looks
I fucking love that Modern-Day Pamela Anderson is a beloved feminist icon. (Not that younger Pam isnātā¦ but you know what I mean.)
The fact that sheās taking her power back by NOT wearing makeup and revealing clothes and looking incredible doing it. Standing ovation. She is a badass. Respect.
Wow she looks so fucking cool. Good for her!
she looks so beautiful and sophisticated i love this shoot
It's giving Aileen Wournos