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10 Amazing Pictures Of Disney Princesses Without Makeup

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Strip away the eyeliner and blush, and Disney’s most famous royals turn out to be almost unrecognizable.

Back in 2015, a wave of digital artists started reimagining Disney’s animated heroines without their signature cosmetics, and the trend never really went away. TheThings Celebrity’s video “10 Amazing Pictures Of Disney Princesses Without Makeup” runs through the edits that made the rounds after outlets like The Huffington Post and Buzzfeed helped push the concept into mainstream feeds. The pitch sounds simple enough: what do Snow White, Cinderella, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, and Elsa look like once someone digitally wipes off the eyeliner, blush, and lipstick Disney’s animators painted onto them decades ago.

• The edits target nine core Disney heroines — Snow White, Cinderella, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, and Elsa — stripping away eyeliner, blush, sculpted eyebrows, and lipstick.
• Elsa loses her purple eyeshadow and dark liner, Snow White loses her bright red lip, and Jasmine, Ariel, and Pocahontas have their thick mascara and cat-eye lining removed entirely.
• Rather than landing as a realistic bare-faced look, many of the edits also erased the characters’ eyelashes, leaving them with a startled or unrecognizable expression that fueled mockery across social media.

The Trend’s Origins

The no-makeup-princess concept didn’t start with this video. It traces back to a 2015 viral moment when digital illustrators began circulating altered stills of Disney heroines online, and lifestyle outlets quickly picked it up as a feel-good tie-in to the broader “no-makeup movement” that celebrities and everyday women were embracing on Instagram and Twitter at the time. TheThings Celebrity’s video packages that same set of images into a countdown format, framing the exercise as a celebration of natural beauty rather than a takedown of Disney’s animation style.

That framing only goes so far once you actually look at the pictures. The joke that spread across social media wasn’t really about body positivity — it was about how strange these characters look once the cosmetic shorthand that defines them on screen disappears.

Character Specific Gameplay Changes

Elsa is probably the most dramatic case in the lineup. Her purple eyeshadow and heavy dark liner get wiped completely, which changes her face more than almost any other edit in the video. Snow White loses the bright red lip that’s arguably her most recognizable feature next to the black hair and yellow skirt, while Jasmine, Ariel, and Pocahontas all get the same treatment — their thick mascara and dramatic cat-eye lining removed to expose bare lash lines that Disney’s original character designs never really accounted for.

Cinderella, Belle, Mulan, and Tiana round out the rest of the countdown, each losing the blush, sculpted brows, or lip color that animators used to define their faces in just a handful of pencil strokes. The problem, as plenty of viewers pointed out once these images spread, is that Disney’s character designers weren’t drawing makeup on top of a “natural” face — the eyeliner and lash lines were often part of the character’s actual features, not a cosmetic layer sitting on top of them.

Wipe off the liner on Ariel or Jasmine and you don’t get a bare face — you get no eyelashes at all, and a look most commenters online just described as “unsettling.”

Unintended Reception of the Joke

The video leans on the language of empowerment — natural beauty, authenticity, embracing yourself without cosmetics — but the actual images generated a very different reaction than a celebrity au naturel photo shoot would. Because Disney’s princesses are drawn, not photographed, removing their “makeup” digitally often meant removing facial detail altogether, which is why so many of the edits read as startled or almost blank rather than simply bare-faced. That gap between the sincere framing and the actual comedic reaction is a big part of why the pictures kept getting reshared years after the original 2015 wave.

It’s a dynamic that shows up a lot with viral makeover or transformation content — the intended message and the audience’s actual takeaway end up in two different places, similar to how celebrity doppelgänger comparisons tend to generate more laughs than genuine astonishment. Disney’s princesses were built for maximum expressiveness with minimal linework, so pulling out any single element — the liner, the lash, the lip — throws off the whole face in a way real human features don’t.

Royalty, Real And Animated

There’s also something fitting about a Disney royalty gimmick catching on the same year makeup-free selfies were trending among actual celebrities. Audiences have always been curious about what’s underneath the polish, whether that’s animated princesses or the genuine article — the same appetite that keeps pieces about royal family members who are nothing like they seem in heavy rotation. Disney just gave that curiosity a cartoon face to point at instead of a real one.

Nine princesses, one shared punchline: take away the eyeliner Disney’s animators used to define an entire character in three brushstrokes, and you don’t get a more “real” Ariel or Jasmine — you get a face that barely holds together, which is exactly why these images kept getting passed around long after 2015.