Not an ounce of pigment on the face.
No false eyelashes or pencil lines, even less foundation and especially no glitter.
Melisa Raouf competed this Monday, October 17 in the final of Miss England, the face totally bare.
A first since 1928 and the birth of the competition.
Naturally beautiful, like the thirty candidates, she is nevertheless the only one to have made this daring choice in the ruthless universe of misses.
This political science student hoped to lead young Britons in her wake to resist the standards of beauty, largely perpetuated by Instagram and TikTok.
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"
It means a lot to me because I have the impression that many girls of different ages wear make-up because they feel obliged to do so
," she confided in August to the British newspaper
Independent
, encouraging her peers to then accept flaws and imperfections “
because we know that real beauty lies in simplicity
.
»
Miss England, Angie Beasley, “
the first redhead
” to wear the crown.
Note, however, that to qualify, participants had to send a photo of themselves natural.
A step introduced in 2019 by the organizer of Miss England, Angie Beasley, in order to “
encourage women to show who they really are without having to hide behind makeup and filters on social networks.
But in the age of body positive, aesthetic injunctions still resist.
And the beauty queen celebrated for her aplomb had to bow yesterday to Jessica Gagen.
Immediately qualified by the British tabloids as "
the first redhead
" to be crowned with the rhinestone tiara.
