Want to Know What the Miss Universe Candidates Look Like Without Make-up On?

If you still can’t get over the Miss Universe fever, here’s a treat for you. How about seeing those impossibly gorgeous women without layers of stage makeup on? You know that presentation is everything for beauty pageant contestants – hair, clothes, body, and makeup that enhances the best of their features. Everything is done just to make sure that they are totally camera-ready from all angles. So you may be curious if these ladies without makeup on are as beautiful as they are when they are primped to the highest level.

As part of the pageant’s social media campaign using the hashtag #ConfidentlyBeautiful, some of the contestants shared selfies of them wearing little or no makeup to encourage women all over the world to embrace their inner beauty.

Surprisingly, most of these ladies look even lovelier without make-up on. Check it out!

Paulina Vega of Colombia, Miss Universe 2014

Claudia Barrionuevo, Miss Argentina

Monika Radulovic, Miss Australia

Hilda Frimpong, Miss Ghana

Laura Spoya, Miss Peru

Clarissa Molina, Miss Dominican Republic