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Melissa Raouf Breaking the beauty pageant tradition that has lasted for nearly 100 years Miss England By competing without makeup, not even eye concealer, and reaching the final.
The young woman became the first beauty queen to compete in the English beauty pageant with a natural face, in her 94-year history.
This is Melissa Raouf, the beauty queen who competes without makeup
Melissa Raouf She is a 20-year-old political student, who resides in Battersea, South London, and is preparing for the Miss England final, where she also plans to compete without a drop of makeup.
Next October, 40 other women are scheduled to compete, and one of her goals in the competition, in addition to winning, is to enhance the natural beauty of women.
“I am going to the final with my face bare. I would like to use my Miss England stand to enhance natural beauty and remove this toxic mentality,” she said in an interview with The Independent.
Raouf, who has more than 10,000 followers on her social networks, also explained to the mentioned medium that competition without makeup is very important to her, because in her opinion many women wear makeup because of social pressure and not for fun.
“It means a lot to me, because I feel like a lot of women of all ages put on makeup because they feel pressured to do it,” she said. He added, “If you’re happy with your skin, you shouldn’t have to cover your face with makeup. Our imperfections make us who we are and that’s what makes each individual unique.”
anyway Melissa Raouf She started applying makeup at a very young age and recently accepted her natural beauty and decided to compete without it.
She explained, “I’ve never felt like I meet the standards of beauty. I recently accepted that I’m beautiful in my own skin and that’s why I decided to compete without makeup.”
In an interview with CNN, Miss England manager Angie Beasley revealed that in 2019 the contest took a round of Top Model Bare Face in 2019 (without makeup), to see the contestants’ true face, with some sending in edited photos with lots of makeup on.
“We wish you good luck Melissa Raouf in Miss England. It’s a very brave thing to do while everyone is wearing makeup, but it sends an important message to young women,” Beasley added.
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