Stars Without Makeup - Us Weekly

Stars Without Makeup - Us Weekly

This is the largest and most recent such collection I've seen. Us did a pretty good job of presenting side-by-side pictures taken within a few months of each other, as opposed to the usual lazy trick of comparing today's Goldie Hawn without make-up to 1970 Goldie all dolled up.

Many of the pics surprised me:

Ellen Degeneres and Goldie Hawn look really, really old. (I guess because they are.)

Sophia Bush and Gisele Bundchen actually look BETTER without make-up. Reese Witherspoon and Jordana Brewster look at least as good.

I would not have recognized Hilary Swank, Snooki or Alicia Silverstone without make-up. (In all fairness, they've all been off my radar for a while.)