Moms launch anti-glitzy ‘Get Un-Ready With Me’ effort to teach young girls to embrace their looks

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Sarah Lee, a joined mom of four, is taking it disconnected — each her makeup, that is. 

“Going makeup-free is truthful freeing,” Lee, 51, told The Post. “I person much absorbing and important things to lend to nan world different than conscionable my beingness appearance.”

And Lee of Sacramento, Calif., isn’t successful a unreserved to reapply her blush.

The grandma of 2 tikes nether property 5, alongside different moms and domiciled models — from mundane women to “Wonder Woman” prima Gal Gadot and “Baywatch” babe Pamela Anderson — is forging nan excessive usage of foundations, glosses and societal media filters for nan agelong term. 

And for nan liking of young girls everywhere. 

Lee, a mom and grandmother, precocious decided to extremity her decades-long reliance connected makeup. Courtesy Sarah Lee
Lee told The Post that she hopes Gen Alpha girls consciousness little compelled to perpetually doll up pinch constitution acknowledgment to movements for illustration nan “Get Un-Ready With Me” trend. Courtesy Sarah Lee

‘Know her worth’

It’s a gallant, anti-glitzy effort toward school tots and teens to clasp their God-given looks, alternatively than succumb to nan modern-day pressures of looking picture-perfect. 

Holly Jessica, a mom of two, calls it nan “Get Un-Ready With Me” movement.

Holly Jessica has virally free herself of nan coverups and cosmetics successful effort to show her girl nan value of being unafraid successful one’s earthy looks. @holly.jessica16

The “un-ready” crusade rises arsenic nan antithesis of nan viral “Get Ready With Me” aliases “#GRWM” situation — those cutesy vids from adults and children alike that return audiences connected a multistep travel done a contented creator’s primping process.

“I judge it’s OK to want to consciousness bully and put connected makeup,” Jessica, a fresh influencer from Australia, told The Post. “But I don’t judge we request it each day.”

Without shame, she’s ripped disconnected nan clone eyelashes and wiped distant nan faux glow for each of TikTok to see, hoping to animate her tween-ager, Koko, to “love herself nan measurement she is and cognize her worth.”

An ‘antidote’

The telephone for earthy beauty is getting louder. The mother-led plaything distant from constitution comes connected nan heels of nan “Sephora girls” craze, which saw small ladies nether property 13 flocking to beauty shops and cosmetic counters for primping products and anti-aging creams.

While each time is nary constitution for some, others are simply forsaking instauration successful unity for a day. Every April 26, National No Makeup Day celebrates bare-faced beauty and invites glamor gals to spell without preening products for astatine slightest 24 hours.

But nan “Get Un-Ready With Me” campaign, aimed astatine de-influencing impressionable spectators from packing connected nan look paint, is not to deter youngsters from gussying up each now and then. 

Instead, nan makeup-free inclination is meant to thief counteract nan intelligence wellness situation spurring among Gen Zers and Gen Alphas — girls and boys nether property 18. It’s a plague that’s triggered an increase successful teen body-image issues, debased self-esteem, worry and societal comparison acknowledgment to nan fume and mirrors of nan worldwide web, per caller research.

Experts pass that excessive societal media usage tin negatively effect a young person’s self-esteem and wide intelligence health. pressmaster – stock.adobe.com

Yamalis Diaz, a kid and teen scientist with NYU Langone Health, says initiatives for illustration nan “un-ready” ngo tin service arsenic a worthwhile “antidote” to nan ills of nan influential internet. 

“Young group are experiencing nan psychological damages owed to nan unrealistic beauty standards they’re seeing online,” Diaz told The Post. 

Diaz said stars who opt for fresh-faced looks connected nan reddish carpet and regular moms alike are making a large impact, too.

Pamela Anderson has famously sported a makeup-free look connected a number of chichi reddish carpets complete nan past fewer years. FilmMagic
Gadot precocious told DuJour that she often has to punctual her daughters that nan beauty standards pushed connected societal media aren’t real. Getty Images
Keys first ditched cosmetics successful 2016. WireImage

“Parents, and moreover celebrities like Alicia Keys and Pamela Anderson, who are making an effort to people correct and recalibrate immoderate of nan messaging astir earthy beauty and aging, tin thief kids amended understand that astir of what they’re seeing [on societal media] isn’t real.”

It’s a instruction Gadot, 39, wants her brood of 4 daughters, who scope successful property from 13 years aged to 12 months, to learn. 

“[My kids are growing] up pinch each these filters. With curated postings. They deliberation it’s real, not knowing that it’s been wholly filtered and retouched,” nan “Snow White” villainess precocious told DuJour Magazine. “I show them, ‘Whatever you spot retired there, it’s false, not true.’ It’s a very confusing world for a girl.”

Karp, a tegument master pinch Downtown Dermatology successful Tribeca, told The Post that she’s school her 6-year-old to admit her ain beauty earlier she’s exposed to societal media. Courtesy Anna Karp

Fancy, not pretty

Anna Karp, a mom of 1 and dermatologist successful Tribeca, told The Post she teaches her 6-year-old, Lily, that applying mascaras, shadows and goops tin make you look “fancy” — but they’re not what makes you “pretty.”

“I show my girl and my patients that it’s much important to person patient tegument than it is to screen it pinch makeup,” said Karp, a objective adjunct professor astatine NYU. She precocious ditched her regular doll-up routine to, instead, stone an untouched mug connected a regular basis. 

“I conscionable deterioration my sunscreen and consciousness very assured successful my ain skin,” added nan doc, 39. “I want nan connection to be: We’re beautiful naturally.”

For Chelsea Hollenbeck, challenging herself to spell au naturel for 40 days astatine nan apical of 2025 wasn’t conscionable to beforehand self-love and acceptance to her 3 small nieces. 

It was an enactment of self-liberation. 

Hollenbeck tells The Post she feels happy and free without nan unit of ever having to doll up pinch makeup. Courtesy Chelsea Hollenbeck
Hollenbeck says she hopes her nieces, twins property 10 and a small 1 property 6, turn up to consciousness assured and comfortable successful their ain skin. jenisesubervi.com
The minimalist stylist challenged herself to spell makeup-free successful bid to practices nan self-love and self-acceptance she preaches to her clients, friends and loved ones. @chelsea_louise_hollenbeck

“I consciousness truthful overmuch much assured astir my face”, said Hollenbeck, 31, a minimalist stylist from nan Upper East Side. “I’m much focused connected tegument attraction and tegument wellness — not really I look aliases what group deliberation astir me.”

“I’m free from nan crutch of makeup,” she gushed. “Without that burden, I happily go astir my day, enactment successful my lane and salary my rent.”