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Painful Admissions: Without Hooker Heels And Make-Up, Gwyneth Paltrow Is Still A Knockout
Posted by Molly Friedman at 9:30 AM on July 16, 2008
We've given Gwyneth Paltrow some flack lately for her sudden determination to vamp up her prim and proper image using everything from dominatrix footwear to bizarre backless jumpsuits but, with the need to promote Iron Man no longer an issue, the mother of Hollywood's most promising cross-dressing duo is back to basics. And as it turns out, all those goopy mascara-drenched lashes and see-through mini-dresses pale in comparison to the makeup-free, covered up version of Gwyneth 1.0. In these photos, taken over the weekend at a party in the Hamptons, see why the Madonna make-out partner should give up the hooker heels for good and stick to (painful as it may be to admit) her lucky genetic makeup-free makeup:
Attending a charity dinner hosted by huggy bear and lovable eccentric extraordinaire Barry Sonnenfeld, Paltrow ditched her splashy call girl aesthetic in favour of a simple baggy black dress and according to that incredibly silly quote-heavy Brit tab we rarely trust but always adore, The Mirror, "despite the mouth-watering dinner most of the guys spent the night feasting their eyes on her." Okay, it's more than plausible that the new and improved Gwyneth caught a few glances from male attendees, but nobody except the annoyingly and totally unrealistically articulate self-obsessives of Dawson's Creek speaks like this. That aside, we're tempted to officially join Team Gwyneth in lieu of her return to makeup-free living, especially after noticing her favourite accessory, a glass of red, in her hand amid a display of water bottles.
[Photo credits: Splash via Celebitchy, FilmMagic]
- EXCLUSIVE: PICTURES OF GWYNETH WITHOUT ANY MAKE-UP [Daily Mirror]
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EuroDad
Posted 10:14 AM 16/7/08
she looks amazing au naturale; i wish more girls/women realized that less is more - i'll take natural beauty any day, thanks!
EuroDad
Huge Tracts of Land
Posted 9:54 AM 16/7/08
She's the human equivalent of warm, un-sugared overcooked oatmeal.
Huge Tracts of Land
Old No.7
Posted 9:53 AM 16/7/08
Lenscrafters is having a sale. You might want to stop by this weekend, because you obviously need your eyes looked at.
Old No.7
Huge Tracts of Land
Posted 10:30 AM 16/7/08
@EuroDad: Yes, being au naturale in our Pussycat Dolls climate is indeed an admirable. Being a snobby, pointy nosed git is another thing. Wait, am I gonna end up in that Gawker tabloid gossip crimes against womanhood thing now?
Huge Tracts of Land
BScrivner
Posted 10:28 AM 16/7/08
Her nose is red and so are her eyes. And why a post on how a woman looks?
BScrivner
raincoaster
Posted 11:18 AM 16/7/08
@BScrivner: Because this is not Jezebel?
This is proof that good bones go a long way but once you get too thin, a little makeup goes farther. When gauntness is in, so is heavy makeup, because your skin goes blotchy and you get the dark circles etc.
raincoaster
Wendy_Kroy
Posted 10:59 AM 16/7/08
I've always hated her because she seemed like the type of chick who wouldn't let me sit at her cafeteria table in high school, and because she's a crappy actress with an Oscar on her mantle. Then I saw her out and about in NY a couple of times, and had to admit that she was drop-dead gorgeous with no makeup and messy hair - and, naturally, I hated her even more. She's rich, famous, married to a hot husband (whose music sucks, but still), she has two adorable kids, AND she looks better rolling out of bed in the morning than I do with a coat of spackle and forgiving lighting. She better have worked with lepers or saved a bunch of children from a burning building in a former life, 'cause that's the only way to justify showering all that luck on a single skinny blonde.
Wendy_Kroy
Tiger_Tanaka
Posted 12:50 PM 16/7/08
On the left she looks like an au pair, and on the right she looks like the woman who hired her, confident that her husband wouldn't even dream of shtupping her.
Tiger_Tanaka
Losin_it
Posted 12:45 PM 16/7/08
@BScrivner: Because in Hollywood, looks are irrelevant.
Losin_it
JudyPaceFace
Posted 2:52 PM 16/7/08
Wow, I have never understood what people meant when they said she is beautiful. Still don't. But to each his own, I guess.
JudyPaceFace
DrFeelgood
Posted 4:09 PM 16/7/08
She looks like she has a yeast infection.
And that's the most positive thing I can come up with.
DrFeelgood
Beppo
Posted 4:35 PM 16/7/08
"... and stick to ... her lucky genetic makeup-free makeup"
You've lost your fucking mind.
Beppo
Kdoggy
Posted 4:26 PM 16/7/08
She has the same smile as Chris Wallace on Fox News...only he looks better in makeup. Dude, you must have posters of Jeanine Garafalo on your wall. How this chick works as a sexy lead is beyond me.
Kdoggy
mothrafairy
Posted 1:31 AM 17/7/08
@Wendy_Kroy:
Tomorrow will be a better day, baby. I promise.
Gwynnie doesn't seem (to me) all that handsome, with or without the war-paint.
I don't even know whether to give her kudos for NOT wearing make-up. Should I? Should I not?
Gwynnie inspires a certain vacancy of committed thought.
mothrafairy
lrubemp
Posted 4:20 AM 17/7/08
Doesn't matter what she wears, she's got SNOB plastered across her forehead. Can't stand her and her airs. Let's move on.
lrubemp
shag_carpet_bomb
Posted 9:08 AM 17/7/08
I think she's a dipshit. She's like Hollywood version of George Bush, born on third base and thinks she hit a triple.
shag_carpet_bomb
Molly Friedman
Posted 1:18 PM 19/7/08
@Old No.7: Can't win with some of you! If I write a post with the slightest negative commentary on a celeb's appearance, I'm called bitchy and "Too Jezebel." Then again, writing about how great I think a celeb looks? I'm called blind and insane!
@Beppo: Then again, writing about how great I think a celeb looks? I'm called blind and insane!
@BScrivner: Because an actress' appearance might as well replace their "résumé" when it comes to getting gigs?
Molly Friedman