15 Pics To Remind Us What These Stars Look Like When They Wake Up

Thanks to the regular use of things like Photoshop, airbrushing, filters, and makeup artists, we're used to seeing our favourite stars in all their primped-and-preened glory. We've become our own makeup artists in order to achieve the flawless look that comes so naturally to celebs, purchased ring lights and special phone cases to ensure our highlight is poppin', and spent loads of money on products that promise to eliminate our acne/dark circles/puffy eyes/pores for good. Magazines are a major culprit in our pursuit of beauty, as naturally gorgeous models and actresses are airbrushed within an inch of their lives to become some version of creepy otherworldly perfection.

Well, now's the chance to learn that celebrities are, in fact, just like us! (Albeit blessed with bigger bank accounts and international recognition.) They get zits and shiny skin, they have bags under their eyes and can get caught from the wrong angle. They're humans too! With these 15 celebrities - who are frequently cited among Hollywood's most beautiful - we aim to show you what they look like when they wake up and how they're still gorgeous, but perhaps in a way that will make us take a harder look at the expectations that have been put in front of us to be something that doesn't actually exist.

15 Olivia Wilde

Olivia Wilde is blessed with sharp bone structure and humongous green eyes, which means she looks just as gorgeous with a bare face as she does with a face full of makeup. Her strong features ensure that the star doesn't get lost when she steps out with a naked complexion, which is an attribute few are graced with. The actress is no stranger to being spotted out and about with no makeup, and clearly it's done wonders for her skin, which looks better than most of us can hope to have, even with a heavy dose of foundation.

However many times she's been caught sans concealer, though, it doesn't look like Olivia is too thrilled to be snapped by yet another paparazzi without looking her normally glam self, but we have to tell her, if we just woke up looking like this, we'd have absolutely no complaints! Gorgeous done up to the nines or going au naturel, this beauty slays!

14 Jennifer Lawrence

When Jennifer Lawrence first burst onto the scene, she was only a teenager, and prone to the baby-faced softness that colours most of our high school yearbooks. Now at 26, she still has the rounded cuteness that she started out with, even when she glams it up for award shows and premieres. It's interesting to note that, despite her youthful looks when she goes without makeup, Jennifer is often cast in in roles that are for women decades her senior, like American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook, and Joy, which saw her character traverse many years throughout its 124 minute runtime.

With makeup, JLaw's features are allowed to be played up a little more, particularly her cat-like eyes, which can appear to shrink without the help of some eyeliner and artistic shadowing. On-screen, she's a goddess, and the highest-paid actress since 2015. Off it, she looks like your best girlfriend you'd want to grab brunch with. (She's also walking proof that Hollywood status doesn't make you immune to the occasional blemish!)

13 Gigi Hadid

You'll often find models walking the streets of New York and Los Angeles with a bare face, and it's usually because casting calls and go-sees require their models to be clear of all makeup, to get a better idea of the blank canvas designers and makeup artists will have to work with. With a bare face, you can't accentuate or hide certain features - not that Gigi Hadid needs to! On the red carpet, Gigi doesn't spackle on the product, but she does know how to smize for the camera and draw more attention to her gorgeous features, while also appearing a fair bit older than her 22 years. When she's on the street, however, Gigi looks much younger, owing to a shiny face, messy, pulled-back hair, and makeup-free complexion.

It's refreshing to see Gigi rock the natural look and proving to us all why, even without the facepaint, she's still one of the most in-demand models in the world!

12 Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

It shouldn't be any surprise that you'll find a couple models on this list (for the reasons we mentioned in the last entry), but Rosie Huntington-Whiteley definitely has a talented makeup artist on her team to help bring attention to her beautiful eyes while downplaying some of her more unconventional features.

Obviously, Rosie is a beauty, who has graced many magazine ads and walked the runway as a Victoria's Secret Angel (while also being the long-term love interest of action star Jason Statham), but when she goes all natural, she looks more girl-next-door-cute than lingerie-clad vixen. As you can see from these photos, some contouring has happened to streamline Rosie's nose, but it is still wider (and more natural) than some of the pinched noses we see so often among the Hollywood set - although, to be fair, many do think that Rosie has had a nose job, although the results and differences are pretty minimal, keeping her natural beauty exactly where it should be.

11 Demi Lovato

Demi Lovato has been vocal about body acceptance and body positivity since finishing rehab, where she entered voluntarily for drug use, self-harm, and bulimia. Owing to that, it's no surprise that the actress and singer has bared it all in a makeup-free selfie - and we love her all the more for it! In fact, Demi's choice to go bare was also part of a launch of her skin care line, called Devonne by Demi. For weeks, the star regularly posted a #NoMakeupMonday selfie, along with some confidence-boosting messages to tell her fans that they should feel comfortable in the skin they're in.

Since Demi tends to layer it on for events and TV appearances, with a lot of colour and a lot of product, as we can see here, it's a breath of fresh air to see her in her natural skin, freckles and rosacea and all! Clearly, the woman knows what she's doing when it comes to skin care, because even with some beautifully-placed natural redness, she looks absolutely flawless!

10 Amanda Seyfried

She doesn't wear an awful lot of makeup when she's working a red carpet, but Amanda Seyfried sure know how to bring attention to a feature she loves to show off, namely, her lips. Her fiery pout ensures that everyone's eyes are drawn to where she wants (and it doesn't hurt that the shade happens to match her dress). When she's out and about, though, Amanda prefers to go without the eye-catching colour, and prefers a makeup-free face. While her pale skin and fair colouring might make her features blend into one another, Amanda is lucky enough to have a generous mouth and wide eyes. Off the red carpet and without the mascara and lipstick, she looks like any neighbourhood girl out walking her dog or grabbing something from the store.

There's no doubt that Amanda is still as beautiful without the warpaint as she is with it, but she's definitely more relatable and accessible looking all stripped down.

9 Beyoncé

Well, really, could Beyoncé ever look anything but ~flawless~? The woman glows when she's heavily pregnant and looks phenomenal after a workout - perhaps even more gorgeous than she does when she's all done up for some Hollywood event! Beyoncé is obviously blessed when it comes to her looks, and thanks to her killer genes, she could probably pull an Alicia Keys and show up bare-faced to most high-profile events from now on!

Like Demi Lovato, Beyoncé has used her social media to show off her makeup-free face more than a few times, which offers us a peek at her cute freckles, and clearly letting her skin breathe from time to time has done wonders for the superstar and veritable Queen. While you could argue that Queen Bey has some dark circles under her eyes (she does have a young child to run around after), we'd point you to the fact that her skin looks luminous without the help of highlight or even sunlight!

8 Emilia Clarke

She's called the Mother of Dragons for a reason - girl looks fierce AF! While we're used to seeing Emilia Clarke done up for an event, with a colourful smokey eye like the one seen here, or in all her platinum glory on HBO's Game of Thrones, it's rare to see her completely undone like this, but we totally love it! Thanks to her full lips and defined brows, Emilia doesn't really need anything to prove that she's got it going on, but we also love that she looks a little tired in this photo. We know that GoT's filming schedule is pretty rigorous, so it's nice to see the actress giving us proof of how exhausting working on the show can actually be.

We know that there's a filter on this photo, perhaps warming up her naturally pale skin tone, but we think that either way, makeup-free or with a heavy dose of winged eyeshadow, Emilia looks like the kind of queen all of Westeros should bow down to!

7 Mila Kunis

Proof that bad angles can happen to anyone, here's a shot of Mila Kunis caught unaware and looking like all of us after a rough night out. We're sure that most of us can relate to having a terrible photo taken of us, but at least we're fortunate enough not to have the celebrity status that broadcasts it everywhere - we just untag ourselves and hope it disappears into the bowels of the Internet. Mila, however, shows that while bad angles happen, they don't erase the fact that, at all other times (namely, when we're not going makeup-free in a hoodie), we can look like absolute goddesses.

As the mom of two young children, it's not surprising to see that Mila looks tired and unamused at the paparazzi's antics, but we really know that this photo is owing to sleep deprivation and unflattering placement (and lighting). If you've ever second-guessed how you look in real life based on one bad photo, just look to Mila and see that sometimes bad photos happen to good people!

6 Jessica Chastain

The curse of many redheads is that their features tend to fade away when they don't have makeup on. Fair eyelashes and nonexistent eyebrows make the face blend into one pale mass most of the time, but Jessica Chastain is proof that even little blonde hairs won't stop her from looking absolutely gorgeous! Sure, without a little bit of definition in the brows and some expertly applied eyeliner, Jessica looks a little weary and pale, but her strong features ensure that she won't be suffering from a lack of definition in photos. Her excellent jawline and wide mouth take up a lot of real estate, and make sure that the actress won't get lost under her bright red hair. But hey, even without bold brows and styled hair, we have to admit that Jessica looks pretty excellent (and is proof that you don't need makeup when you're heading into the studio to voice an ANIMATED character!).

5 Rihanna

Rihanna excels at wearing bold looks that few among us would ever dare to attempt, which is why it shouldn't come as a shock that the singer is just as fearless when it comes to going out without a slew of products applied on her face (although we will admit that it looks like she has some shiny lip balm or gloss on in the first photo).

Naturally, Rihanna is a total badass with or without makeup on, but it's nice to see the famously outlandish star looking like a normal girl with her hair scraped back and oilier skin. Her bare face really draws attention to her youthful features and shows that she doesn't need a scrap of product to look phenomenal - even though she rocks bright and bold lip colours better than the rest of us! She may have been a “Good Girl Gone Bad”, but we also like to think that she's a “Good Girl Gone Bare”!

4 Miranda Kerr

The final model on our list, Victoria's Secret Angel Miranda Kerr is here to show you that you can be all sorts of gorgeous with tons of expensive products at your fingertips and still suffer from a shiny face when you've stripped off all your mattifying cosmetics. However, while her skin looks pretty shiny (especially along her T-zone), we can't deny that it also looks remarkably clear - and there's a reason for that! Miranda actually has her own all-natural skincare line, Kora Organics, which takes her face from oily to dewy, using foaming cleansers, night creams, and her personal favourite, a rosehip oil, which she says keeps her skin hydrated and looking younger. We can't deny that the 34-year-old looks easily a decade younger (not that 34 is old, of course), and so we assume she knows exactly what she's doing!

Another few secrets of Miranda's for looking just as beautiful sans makeup? Exfoliation, water, and the celebrity standby: green juice!

3 Kim Kardashian

We all know how much the Kardashian-Jenner clan adore their makeup and Photoshop (Kim has been dogged for years about rumours of her retouching photos to look slimmer). We also know that they aren't ashamed to admit to a few nips and tucks in order to keep everything on-brand. However, while Kim Kardashian has undoubtedly had a little help from a surgeon's scalpel in order to look her best, we have to admit that the entrepreneur and mother of two looks pretty dynamite wearing a lot less than we usually see her in (and this time, we're not talking about her clothes).

Since her traumatic Paris robbery, Kim has laid off some of the highly contoured glam that was her signature, opting instead for a more toned-down look in both fashion and makeup. As we can see from the first picture, though, she should've done this ages ago, because the girl looks gorgeous! With her high cheekbones and full lips, Kim doesn't need all the facepaint she usually spackles on - she looks absolutely divine going au naturel!

2 Blake Lively

Blake Lively first got people talking about her ethereal beauty when she appeared as the impossibly gorgeous Serena Van Der Woodsen on TV's Gossip Girl. As a character whose looks were pretty much her defining feature, Blake was able to work her leggy blondeness and become the subject of much fantasy and envy - for characters and audiences alike.

Since then, though, Blake has settled more into her mom role, as the mother of two daughters with husband Ryan Reynolds, but that doesn't mean she's stopped being gorgeous - she's just eased up a little when it comes to looking super glam all the time. Blake knows that running to the store or travelling between airports doesn't require a ton of makeup, and so we appreciate the fact that she's letting her skin breathe, even if she does look a little tired (remember those two kids we mentioned?). Even all stripped down, though, we imagine that the people of the Upper East Side would be fuming about how Blake manages to still look gorgeous without the effort.

1 Kylie Jenner

It's pretty rare to see the beauty mogul without a ton of makeup on, but Kylie Jenner easily takes 15-20 years off her face when she chooses to go without cosmetics (although, yes, we know that she seems to have kept the fake lashes or lash extensions for this photo). Kylie, who has her own cosmetics line so that all her fans can look exactly like the heavily made-up starlet, chose to let her skin breathe in this photo, which gives us a glimpse of her adorable freckles! With all the facepaint she usually slaps on, Kylie not only looks an awful lot older, but she covers up this feature that makes us remember that the successful businesswoman (and youngest member of the 2017 Forbes 100 list) is actually only 19!

Her lips are still pouty, thanks to those long-denied lip injections, but Kylie looks much more fresh-faced. Since women much older than her are on a quest to look younger, it's interesting that Kylie would age herself up with cosmetics, when she looks far more beautiful without them!