4 Easy Ways to Highlight Your Natural Beauty
See how these four women have learned to appreciate what makes them unique and find out how you can do even more with your own natural assets.
By Megan Deem
Fab Freckles
Gladys Torres
Actress, 25
"I was raised in Puerto Rico, where a full face of freckles like mine isn't common. I'd sometimes cover my face with heavy makeup to hide them. I never felt very attractive."
How She Learned to Love Her Look
Five years ago, Gladys moved to New York City. "Here, everyone is different," she says. "It allowed me to appreciate the particular kind of different I am."
Making the Most of It
Gladys should play up those freckles. "Because they're common in kids, freckles signify youth," says Chicago plastic surgeon Steven Dayan, MD. "Usually freckles are combined with a genuine flush, also common when we're young. So the overall effect is a bright, attractive vitality."
Easy Enhancement: Blush
Dress, Banana Republic, $178. Necklace, Maro Bicego.
Actress, 25
"I was raised in Puerto Rico, where a full face of freckles like mine isn't common. I'd sometimes cover my face with heavy makeup to hide them. I never felt very attractive."
How She Learned to Love Her Look
Five years ago, Gladys moved to New York City. "Here, everyone is different," she says. "It allowed me to appreciate the particular kind of different I am."
Making the Most of It
Gladys should play up those freckles. "Because they're common in kids, freckles signify youth," says Chicago plastic surgeon Steven Dayan, MD. "Usually freckles are combined with a genuine flush, also common when we're young. So the overall effect is a bright, attractive vitality."
Easy Enhancement: Blush
Dress, Banana Republic, $178. Necklace, Maro Bicego.
From the May 2015 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine