Drew even took out her own hair extensions on air, while she, Pam and guests Valerie Bertinelli, Gillian Anderson, Gayle King and Dr. Kameelah Phillips were barefaced.
Pamela Anderson started a movement in The Drew Barrymore Show.
In Tuesday’s new episode, Drew, her guests and the entire studio audience go makeup-free, according to the show, while Barrymore joins the Baywatch beauty, Valeria Bertinelli, Gillian Anderson, King Gayle and OB-GYN Dr. Kameelah Phillips (who some of you may also recognize from The real world: Boston).
According to a press release, all of the women will sit down for “a candid conversation about embracing their natural beauty as they age,” before Mally Roncal and Chris Appleton help the viewer adopt a more natural appearance.
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In a preview for the episode below, Anderson opens up to Barrymore about her decision to rock a more natural look and really take a step back from the makeup she used to hide herself.
As Barrymore noted, Anderson has been wearing minimal makeup for years, with Drew calling her “the pioneer of what we’re certainly doing here today” by removing ink.
“I loved it. It’s amazing. Isn’t it freeing? Doesn’t it feel free?” Anderson asked the other women. “I mean, I feel free. It took a while, I went on my little journey with it…we’re all our own worst critics.”
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According to Anderson, she started to feel very comfortable with her choice during a recent Paris Fashion Week.
“I decided I was just going to a fashion show, I didn’t need to compete with anyone. Like, why am I wasting three hours in a makeup chair when I’m wearing these beautiful Vivienne Westwood clothes?” she said she thought to herself, thinking no one “would notice” her simple fare.
“So I thought yeah, when people started coming up to me and talking about it, I thought, well, this is a great message to really find out who I was again,” continued Anderson, who remembers playing at being his idea of ”what is a model or a Playmate or a rock star wife” for years.
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“I’ve been playing these characters along the way and it occurred to me a few years ago and I was like, you know, just shaking my head and thinking, who am I?” she said. “And that’s when I came home to my garden and started planting things and getting out into nature and going back to the trees that I’ve known since birth. I bought my grandmother’s property and renovated it and started taking everything out and then I started sneaking around without makeup.”
After all, she started to feel “great like me,” said the 57-year-old actress. “I don’t want people to think of me as the other, all those cartoon characters I created for protection, that’s why I think I did it.”
She then concluded: “but this is the best moment of my life. I feel so empowered, so free and so excited about life again.”
Barrymore was certainly feeling empowered, too, when she began removing her hair extensions on camera.
“So another really amazing symptom of perimenopause is that you start to lose your hair,” the host explained, as Anderson told her that she had “beautiful” hair. The footage ends with Drew telling the women, “And if you’re having a great hair day, you feel so much more confident wearing less makeup because you feel so good about your presentation that everything else falls into place.”
Watch the conversation continue when The Drew Barrymore Show airs on Tuesday.
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