DARING TO BE BARE
DARING TO BE BARE
Hillary Clinton’s new makeup-free look signals a return to the uncompromising idealism of Hillary Rodham
In the weeks since America elected Donald Trump president, the businessman turned president-elect has largely dominated the news cycle. But his former opponent hasn’t completely receded from the national spotlight. A day after her concession speech, Hillary Clinton was spotted hiking in the woods of upstate New York. Not long after, a supporter connected with her in a Rhode Island bookstore. And there have been more formal appearances as well, like her November 16 speech at a Children’s Defense Fund event. All of these Clinton post-election sightings, though different in circumstance, are connected by a single, important thread. In a sharp break from her decades on the national stage, Clinton is no longer wearing visible makeup.
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And so on one level, seeing Clinton sans makeup feels a bit sad, like an admission that her political career has come to an end. Gone is the carefully crafted visage, the cosmetics-as-war-paint armor of a woman determined to do battle for her country. In its place is a vulnerable, unguarded woman, the “flawed candidate” the media spent months dissecting.
But there’s also something freeing—and maybe even hopeful—about Clinton’s decision to go barefaced. For almost 40 years, Clinton’s been forced to walk a very thin line: to be powerful yet feminine, beautiful yet not self-obsessed, maternal yet still able to make time for the needs of the nation. Makeup has always been a way to signal that, whatever calculating, ambitious qualities she may possess, she’s still just a mother and grandmother at heart, someone you could just as easily bake cookies with as discuss national security.
With her face unpainted, it’s almost as if Clinton is returning to an earlier iteration, reclaiming her identity as the accomplished, aggressive lawyer Hillary Rodham, who pursued success while rejecting the rules put forth by the patriarchy. And why not? For the past three decades, Clinton played by those rules with dedication and aplomb, and she still couldn’t break that highest, hardest glass ceiling. Perhaps it’s time to throw out the rulebook and start again, beginning with the conviction that women, like men, are—more than madonnas or whores or angels or sluts or any of the other categories we routinely box half the population into. If there’s any silver lining to this election mess, it’s that after 40 years of scrutiny and stricture, Hillary Clinton is finally, triumphantly, human again.
Read More: http://qz.com/848540/hillary-clinton-selfies-clintons-makeup-free-look-is-one-last-middle-finger-to-the-patriarchy/?utm_source=atlfb
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"And giving the final middle finger to the patriarchy in the process"
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Goddess I love her for this, more than ever. She is a role model for all women. Hillary is a truly courageous woman. Makes me cry for the America that was to blind to see.
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I haven't worn mascara in years.
She looks so beautiful mcar. Love her for this. 
He doesn't wear it well.
I'm so glad it was Hillary!
Another thing we can thank her for! 
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