What Jamie Lee Curtis Looks Like Going Makeup (And Glasses) Free

Having been in the spotlight since the '70s, Hollywood icon Jamie Lee Curtis lands among the celebrities who are confronting aging with confidence. The makeup-free selfie she shared to Instagram in November 2024 is a testament to this, with the actor celebrating her "The Last Showgirl" colleague Pamela Anderson with the minimal-makeup snapshot. "Honoring @pamelaanderson @lastshowgirl and her no make up ownership of self," Curtis captioned the post, which doubled as a marker of the "Everything Everywhere All At Once" actor's birthday. "Let's F&@KING GO 66!"

Anderson, who similarly is still gorgeous going makeup-free, started making headlines when she appeared au naturale at Paris Fashion Week in 2023. Since then, the former Playboy model has appeared with minimal makeup in interviews and red carpet events, serving as inspiration to her fans and peers. "I didn't realise it was going to start all of this, all these people really relating to me," she told The Sunday Times. "It's a great message — we are good enough just the way we are. I have to remind myself of that every day."

Still, this wasn't the only time that Curtis ranked among older celebs who aren't playing by Hollywood beauty rules, as she went on to share a skincare selfie in March 2025. The California native explained that she had been traveling for work on the evening of the Academy Awards when she decided to try out a gifted face mask from VH Skin. With her wrinkles visible through the translucent mask and her gray hair pushed out of her face, Curtis looked uncannily stunning in the casual snapshot.

While we loved seeing Jamie Lee Curtis take makeup-free inspiration from Pamela Anderson, the star's affinity for natural and transparent beauty has a long history. In fact, she posed bare-faced back in 2002 for More magazine, sharing a throwback to the editorial spread."I decided to pose in my underwear with no makeup and no air brushing and retouching," she wrote on Instagram, sharing the unaltered image next to one of her in full glam. "It was a moment of truth that brought awareness to the ALTERED images women were comparing themselves to. ADVERTISING!"

Curtis, who revealed she's struggled with her fair share of body image issues, further reflected on the magazine shoot in a 2025 interview with People. The "Halloween" scream queen explained that the contrasting images were to be paired with information about the editorial beauty process, including how long her glam look took to create and how many people worked on it. Though she asserts that everyone should be free to do what they want, she remains wary of the negative impact of beauty standards.

"I have been a vocal critic, and will go to my grave with it, that there is a cosmeceutical industrial complex telling women they are not enough without this bulls*** idea of face augmentation, fillers, injections, lifts, all of the glow-ups that these women are doing," she told the outlet. With both her makeup-free selfies and beauty philosophy in mind, it's clear that Curtis's graceful beauty is far more than skin deep