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Winnie Harlow Had To Correct a Tabloid That Said She Was Wearing Makeup & I’m Truly Shook About It

Erica Kam

You’ve heard of “no-makeup makeup” before, but probably not the reverse. Winnie Harlow is now one of the few who was thought to be wearing makeup when, in fact, she was totally bare-faced.

Harlow was leaving the gym when The Daily Mail managed to snap a photo of her and captioned it, “She highlighted her natural beauty with a palette of makeup that included a simple smoky eye and nude lip.” How you get a smoky eye from a bare face, I’m not sure, but Harlow found the whole thing hilarious.

 

“HAHA! When the tabloids assume ur wearing makeup when ur not,” she tweeted on July 26. “I’ll take that as a compliment.”

POPSUGAR and Allure are referring to her response as a “clapback,” and, uh, I wouldn’t go that far, but it is pretty funny. We’d probably all take this as a compliment too, if we were ever in the same situation. According to Allure, Harlow actually rarely wears makeup, preferring instead to focus on skincare. I guess this must be a sign that that’s paying off.

In short, is Harlow #beautygoals? I think so. If I could leave the house with nothing on my face and have people compliment my look, I’d be a very happy girl.

Erica Kam is the Life Editor at Her Campus. She oversees the life, career, and news verticals on the site, including academics, experience, high school, money, work, and Her20s coverage. Over her six years at Her Campus, Erica has served in various editorial roles on the national team, including as the previous Culture Editor and as an editorial intern. She has also interned at Bustle Digital Group, where she covered entertainment news for Bustle and Elite Daily. She graduated in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in English and creative writing from Barnard College, where she was the senior editor of Columbia and Barnard’s Her Campus chapter and a deputy copy editor for The Columbia Spectator. When she's not writing or editing, you can find her dissecting K-pop music videos for easter eggs and rereading Jane Austen novels. She also loves exploring her home, the best city in the world — and if you think that's not NYC, she's willing to fight you on it.