Red lipstick and winged eyeliner are Taylor Swift staples, but the star has proven on more than one occasion that she's just as gorgeous with little to nothing on her skin.
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00:00Red lipstick and winged eyeliner are Taylor Swift staples, but the star has proven on
00:05more than one occasion that she's just as gorgeous with little to nothing on her skin.
00:10When Taylor Swift wakes up in the morning, you can bet she won't have any leftover eyeliner
00:14or lipstick from the night before.
00:16Swift showed off her bare-faced beauty in a June 2018 Instagram selfie with her cat,
00:20Meredith Grey. She captioned it,
00:22"'Just over here daydreaming about playing Manchester tomorrow.'"
00:25Meredith is a bona fide celeb in her own right, in fact. She's appeared in Swift's
00:29Me video, along with her cat cohabitees Olivia Benson and Benjamin Button.
00:33Maybe it's because of her love for cats that Swift starred in the catastrophic musical
00:37fantasy and unintentional comedy devoted to the animal. Swift had to sit for hours in
00:41the hair and makeup chair each day when she filmed Cats, so it was probably a relief to
00:46shed the fur for a January 2019 Instagram selfie.
00:49In the pic, Swift, wearing minimal makeup, poses before a sign reading Feline Productions'
00:54She captioned it simply,
00:56"'Meow.'"
00:57Sadly, as cute as she looked in her ginger getup, the movie was a verifiable bomb.
01:01Of course, not all of Swift's roles require such intense makeup work. The star went with
01:05a minimal makeup look when she took on Cinderella for her Bejeweled video. In a promo post on
01:10Instagram, she wrote,
01:11"'Midnight. What a storied and fabled hour. On this sparkling evening, I'll be releasing
01:15my twist on a fairy tale we all know, the one about the girl and her stepsisters and
01:19the clock striking twelve.'"
01:21Swift told Jimmy Fallon that the video was created especially for the Swifties, who love
01:25glitz and glam, A-lister surprises, and Easter eggs.
01:28But I was like, I want to make a video that is just for the fans who like certain things."
01:36In December 2022, Swift rang in her 33rd birthday by doing what she loves the most — working.
01:42And work this time didn't include heavy makeup. She posted an Instagram pic of herself and
01:46her frequent collaborator, Jack Antonoff, writing,
01:49"'Thanks for all the beautiful wishes today. I spent my 33rd birthday in the studio of
01:53course. Wouldn't have it any other way. Love you.'"
01:56But it wasn't all work and no play for the birthday girl. In the evening, she made the
01:59most of being in New Orleans by living it up with friends at an intimate birthday party.
02:03In October 2023, Swift again showed off her minimal makeup skills when she hung out in
02:07the studio with Kendrick Lamar. The musicians initially collaborated on Bad Blood from her
02:122014 album 1989. He was back to re-record the track for her updated 1989 Taylor's version.
02:19Swift posted a photo of the two on Instagram. In the caption, she praised Lamar's musical
02:22skills and humble attitude, writing,
02:24"'The reality that Kendrick would go back in and re-record Bad Blood so that I could
02:28reclaim and own this work I'm so proud of is surreal and bewildering to me.'"