Katy Perry has done the unthinkable and appeared completely (?) make-up free in a new video for her upcoming Part of Me 3-D concert movie. Unlike the movie’s trailer, it sure looks like Katy’s entirely bare-faced in this promo, which is a far cry from both her overly underdone “minimal” music video Marine look as well as Katy’s usual excessive war paint and drag-queen makeup tendencies. Here’s the video clip, and it’s actually rather endearing to watch if one ignores Katy’s quirky face pulling:
See? She looks like of cute here and much better than I expected after Russell Brand posted that really awful photoon Twitter of Katy waking up from a nap. While I really like Russell, that was a d-ck move. Here Katy looks so much younger without all of those false eyelashes and piled on face paint. While I understand her need to do so onstage, she could easily afford to go a bit more casual on a day-to-day basis. Considering how much makeup Katy usually wears though, she looks surprisingly decent here though, right?
Screencaps courtesy of YouTube
she looks goofy
She does look goofy. Pretty but goofy. She has no eyebrows. Usually she has nice shaped ones, and now i realize they are drawn on.
Judging from the pictures, she HAS eyebrows, they’re just very light. My own brows are pretty full, but the hair is so light they look patchy sometimes, so brow powder is a must. Good for Katy Perry for figuring this out. Now if someone would just pass the tip on to Britney…
Hey, don’t hate on the light eyebrows! I have blonde eyebrows, and without adding some brow pencil or powder, they look non-existent… not everyone has dark, full, bushy eyebrows(;
Isn’t she a natural blonde or light brunette?
Mine are as dark as Katy’s hair dye but thankfully they are on the thinner side so I don’t have Madonna brows. EWW! I’d rather have to do some extra painting.
Well her eyebrows look better when she pencils them in. Eyebrows make a huge difference to someone’s face. She still looks pretty though.
She’s cute! Almost completely unrecognisable too. She should lighten up a bit more often when she’s not onstage – I bet she wouldn’t even get papped.
I think she looks adorable. She looks like a real person that you would want to have as your really good friend. The over made-up look made her seem like Barbie and not real. I love this look but I get that she has to do the Barbie look or close to it for her work.
+1
She looks younger and fresher. Crazy how make-up can change a face.
She looks a bit like a young Ange Jolie!
Very cute and very fresh. Amazing the ton of paint she wears on a regular basis though. I would not have recognized her walking on the street with that fresh face.
Next up, Lady Gaga? Or over her dead body?
Here’s Gaga naked:
http://anythinghollywood.com/wp-content/2011/09/lady_gaga_au_naturel_harpers_bazaar.jpg
your link sends me to Google home page…
I remember though the VF spread, yeah she was naked, but wasn’t she wearing make-up as well? I was talking about her naked face… not ass. We’ve seen that too many times in her ass-less pants.
Eh. I actually expected her to be much prettier without war-make up, like most women are.
She does look younger (seriously, no eye make up can make any woman look five years younger, and much more sunny/innocent), but not as pretty as I thought she would be.
Eeeeyuk. Better apply two coats next time. A “2” at best.
Looks like a completely different person.
Soo much prettier! She usually wears so much eye make-up and weirdly it makes one of her eyes appear much larger than the other.
All she needs is to paint in her eyebrows slightly and put on a bit of mascara. But I guess that doesn’t go with her whole bubble gum pop image.
She really does look like a different person, like anyone I’d see walking around the mall.
She has great skin (hard to believe, with all the makeup she wears), & a pretty face. She’s annoying as hell, but I have to give her props for being brave & self-confident enough to actually ‘expose’ her real ‘self’ to the world. Other celebs who’ve claimed to be makeup free have usually looked like they were lying, but Katy definitely isn’t.
amazing!
i didn’t realize that makeup ages her sooo much.
she looks completely fresh-faced here.
she’ll fit right in with the sophomores going to uni or something. she looks the part (not too freshman-like, but not yet haggard like seniors)
and i’m so glad that all the makeup and paint she slathered her face with haven’t done any lasting damage yet). i hope she’ll read all the positive comments and not become a paint junkie.
(i have a cousin, not very much older than me, who is “addicted” to makeup. basically it damaged her face and now she has to put on even more makeup to cover up. it’s a vicious circle)
She had pretty bad skin. She has here makeup no makeup – at least foundation and concealer. Her skin is too smooth and there is no any discolorations or redness. Too perfect to be real.
yeah I was going to say the same. not to sound rude but, I feel she’s still wearing the foundation and concealer… or maybe her skin in Just super amazing ?
Yes, she must be wearing concealer/foundation and it is heavy for the stage.
she looks cute. she should go natural more often
She has TERRIBLE skin, are you kidding me? That’s why she piles on the makeup. She’s not bare-faced here either, I believe, just went lighter on the makeup.
I’m not judging her for having bad skin (it happens, we all know), just that, I’m sure, she could find a better stylist to help her cover whatever problems she has.
I agree. She’s wearing concealer here.
Ummmm, are you guys who are saying she looks good for real?
She’s as plain as a pumpkin! Plainer!
In America you say ‘homely’. I LOVE that word. We say plain. It’s the same thing, just not as descriptive ; )
i guess so 🙂
i like plain.
better than looking older than her age, and much-contrived, excessive makeup.
she’s a singer anyway, not a beauty pageant contestant
unless she needs to look beautiful to be able to sing.
+1. I like plain much better than a chick looking like a crayola gang banged her face (I know it’s crass, but I heard someone else say that and it cracked me up).
She kinda looks like a young Rob Schnieder.
She looks super cute and young. How old is she anyway ?? I think she has a really nice body too.
I’m surprised she looks this good without makeup. Not because I think she’s ugly (I think she’s pretty) but because she wears such heavy eye makeup and all the women I know who wear heavy eye makeup look like trolls without it.
I want her boobs… That is all.
She looks alot like Lily Allen in these pics.
I couldn’t figure out the resemblance but you nailed it! I think she looks like a little girl!!
Yup! I was just coming here to say that. It finally hit me who she looks like…
omg thats it!!! thank youuu! she really does look like lily allen here
She’s gorgeous. Im not understanding the nasty comments on this one!
Yeah, I don’t understand the negativity either. I mean, don’t get me wrong…not a fan, but she looks far better w/out makeup than I thought she would.
I think she looks really good w/out all the makeup. I honestly thought she was “hiding” something because she not only wore makeup, but ALOT of makeup.
It’s nice to know/see that she really doesn’t have to wear makeup if she doesn’t want to.
She’s fine. Pretty average looking.
I think she looks incredibly average. It highlights evern more the amount of makeup she wears to make herself presentable. She does look better though than that awful photo Russell tweeted of her.
She’s cute! She looks a lot younger without all the make up. But I understand how it’s part of her “persona” and why she wears it.
As for those wondering about her terrible skin- she is a proactive skin care spokesperson. So maybe it really has helped her skin. It works for many people.
I wish she’d get rid of the purple hair she’s sporting lately. I don’t think it’s flattering to her (as well as the dark lipstick). I think she’s so cute with black hair.
I think she looks cute and younger, and with a little makeup she looks very pretty. With tons of it she just looks tacky.
Those eyebrows are killin me
Lol I can SO relate to her plight. Katy is naturally dark blonde and dyes her hair black. I have medium brown hair and dye my hair black. We are both pale with blue eyes and light, barely-there eyebrows. If I don’t fill mine in, I look like Katy does. Cuz the thing is, the eyebrows ya DO have get washed out by the flash of the camera. It IS pretty amazing how she looks like an entirely different person. I’ve said it before, but there are precious few celebs who can pull off the no makeup thing and look pretty and like themselves: Jessica Simpson, J. Lo, and Jennifer Love Hewitt come to mind. Without the makeup, they still look like cute women, just less made-up versions of themselves. Katy looks totally different.
There have been pap photos of Katie without/minimal make-up and she does look pretty. Everybody looks horrible when they first wakeup in the morning. It was rude for Russell to do that.
Umm…she looks unrecognizable. :// Ah well…claps for the people who do her make up. They did a really great job making her look like a diva.
ORDINARY!
PILE the MAKEUP back on Katy!!!
We don’t like our pop stars to look like US!
I wonder how long she spends in the makeup chair everyday? Taking her from *this* to her usual ‘look’ seems as though it would take awhile. & does she wear her stage makeup out on off days?
Oh my, she looks exactly like my teacher (my teacher’s gorgeous). That’s a good thing. She looks fine, not stunning, just ok pretty. I thought she looked plain when she posed next to VS models on their fashion show. VS models aren’t conventionally pretty but they are super stunning. Also, remember her make-up less face Russel Brand posted on his twitter? She looks so ordinary there. She looks so cute on the youtube clip above. So yeah, better than expected… better than Zooey Deschanel sans fards (sorry Zooey).
Forget Katy. I want to see Dita von Teese unmade.
I actually think she looks really cute! But maybe she shouldn’t thin out her eyebrows that much at the end there.
I wished I looked that cute without makeup. I have super white eyelashes, which makes your eyes all about disappear, so I do not leave the house without eyeliner and mascara. Lucky bitch.
Yup, same here! I do leave the house without make up for small errands, but I have blonde brows and lashes that can’t be seen without make up. My eyes are big and kind of round… so without mascara, I look like a fish!!
Sorry, if you hadn’t told me who she was- I wouldn’t have recognized her. People can still tell who I am without my makeup, and I wear A LOT of makeup.
She looks really, really pretty without makeup on. Not understanding the negative commentary.
I didn’t even recognize her! Unless she is on stage (if she must), maybe she should lighten up on the make-up. She is very cute without makeup. I wonder if the Katy Perry’s and Lady Gaga’s, who generally look like the average woman, hide behind their makeup and crazy outfits because of their insecurities. It’s a shame because it would be nice to see these successful women looking more like average girls. Even Adele piles on the makeup and I think she doesn’t need that much either.
I think I remember reading somewhere about Adele being self conscious all the time (about her weight, mostly). But she’s also a very private person who runs from the spotlight (enough so to wear a trench coat & PJ bottoms on an outing so no one would recognize her xD)
But I think Adele keeps it pretty tame compared to Katy & Gaga.
The difference between Katy and Gaga is that Katy still seems human with the make up. Gaga seems so alien that I couldn’t careless about her life. Zzzzz….
My thought was Katy has guts because now she will be recognized on the street when she runs around without make up.
Of course I’m anti-social (hate people in the way Britney does) so to me having a normal face to hide behind were I famous would be a necessity.
I wish I had one to hide behind in real life.
It’s nice to see I’m not the only ‘anti-social’ person here. xD I’ve muttered ‘I hate people‘ so many times, when seeing someone do something asinine, &/or piss me off.
It’s true, about Gaga. Katy’s makeup can be extreme, but the only time she looked alien (to me) was for that music video.
She’s hideous inside, that is what matters.
lulz
She looks good, despite using that crap ass Proactiv!
I blame that crap for my sun-damage splotches. In 2004 I had lovely even toned skin. In 2005 I worked for them and had free or really cheap Proactiv up the wazoo. I wore SPF60+ that I ordered from Europe and everything like I normally do but by 2006 my face was as mottled as Michael Bay’s – coincidence? I think not.
Now I need to get lasered – sigh.
Ugh! I used it around the same time, and ended up with the same problems! My skin was red to begin with and it got even more irritated. I think when they tell you a product will basically bleach your towels, you should stay away from it!
I think she looks completely different and way better with makeup. Without it she is average at best, and that’s only because she still has youth going for her. Tons of college girls look so much prettier that these photos. Her jawline is very unattractive.
That’s what I’m thinking. I’m in college and most of my friends are way prettier than she is without makeup. It annoys me that we covet her beauty when she’s really just an average girl with great makeup artists.
Without makeup katy looks like Kim Kardashian.
i think she looks much cuter and fresh-faced this way! i don’t know how, because that photo that russ tweeted as well as her beach photos revealed a much manlier and older looking mug. whatever she had done looks good and natural and i say good riddance to the clown make-up complete with ridiculous doll eye-lashes.
Foundation and concealer on for sure. Just no heavy eye or cheek makeup.
Yes she looks younger, but average at best. There are millions of cuter girls out there.
If she did put on skin makeup/concealer for these pictures, why did she leave out her puffy, dark circles under her eyes?
And it’s true, but no matter how gorgeous someone is, there’s always going to be someone out there that’s even more beautiful.
I think she is wearing foundation and concealer.
She’s not makeupless. She has makeup. It’s just so natural and that kind of “without makeup look” style that as a contrast to her normal clown-face, she looks makeupless and fresh. But she still has makeup.
While I think she looks good without the face paint, I’m very concerned by the fact that KATY PERRY has got a movie coming out. Things have really come to this?!!!
Is it a Movie-Movie or a Justin Beibereque concert movie. It seems like her spectacle might translate well to 3D.
I’m not a fan or a not fan, I just think her act is colorful.
She looks like a completely different person…and also very ordinary (I’m being nice). I bet she doesn’t get recognized when she goes out like that.
Yikes..
I thought it was Kelly Cutrone ب_ب
I agree with those who have said she’s not completely without makeup here. She’s at least wearing concealer or light foundation, and some light lip gloss. No way would KP ever go completely bare-faced if she knew she was being filmed. But still, it’s effectively the same thing, right? She’s not “done up” so we can actually see what her real face looks like.
I remember when she & Russell were married, he said in an interview that he thought she looked the best without makeup, and that he loved her first thing in the morning when she woke up “all confused and annoying” (he said this with affection). So however ill-advised it was for him to tweet that infamous photo, I honestly don’t think he meant it to be as much of a “dick move” as it seems.
Kinda looks like Maggie Gyllenhall
She’s beautiful without makeup, but I would NEVER recognize her. She looks like a completely different person.
For tv/film especially HD, you need make up – its compulsory, because the camera picks up every single flaw whether u have good skin or not! Working in film myself you tend to get used to the hours of make up that music artists put on.
So no she isn’t make up free at all, it looks like she has two different foundations on and heavy concealer – just ‘make up less look’ which is popular.
Very average looking and it looks like she has a thick coating of foundation on.
Last pic reminds me of Lily Allen
She’s cute, but she’s def noit as hot as everyone tries to make her out to be. Even with the 40 lbs of makeup.
Hmm, It’s her sister I think if you read this article?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2151227/Katy-Perry-lookalike-Angela-Hudson-shows-facial-features-pop-star-sister-Part-Me-trailer.html
She’s cute but very plain/average.
Of course she looks average – so what? I don’t think she’s trying to look beautiful, just human. She looks friendly and nice. What’s wrong with having average looks? She took those average looks and average to below-average voice and created an enormously successful career.