Half of my favorite Hollywood couple, Megan Mullally, is deservedly featured in PEOPLE’s Beautiful Issue this week. In real life, the 59-year-old actress has a very different take on makeup than her on-screen alter ego Karen Walker on Will and Grace. And, if you ask me, and her wonderful husband Nick Offerman, she’s just as lovely without the war paint.
Megan Mullally Says Husband Nick Offerman Loves When She Goes Makeup-Free https://t.co/nW0fZGFEYt
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Megan showed off her makeup-free face in the magazine and confessed, “I’m just lazy, I just don’t have time to wear makeup.” She went on to add, “I feel like I have the only social media account of 5,000 selfies with no makeup cause I just don’t care.” That’s not entirely true, her Instagram feed also features behind the scenes pics from the W&G set, plugs for her band Nancy and Beth and, fortunately for all of us, lots of photos of Nick.
As for her hubby, he loves Megan’s natural look. She humbly noted that “He tells me every minute that I’m the most beautiful, sexy, incredible woman in the world, which couldn’t possibly be true, but it’s nice.” And, in fitting with his woodworking, manly man demeanor, Megan added that Nick “always prefers me without makeup, you know, a flannel shirt and a pair of jeans.”
If you want to follow Megan’s beauty regimen, you’re in luck, because it’s pretty simple. And I can’t believe she admits that she didn’t use moisturizer until she was 40.
“I didn’t do anything, I didn’t have a facial,” she says. “I try to get facials although lately I’ve been busy and I haven’t been able to, but every night I wash my face and I put on a toner sometimes, it depends on much time I have or how tired I am. Sometimes I do like a little serum or something, but I always do a moisturizer and I feel like, the goopier the better.”
She said that her skincare “must have” is lip balm, stating, “I’m addicted to it. I can’t not have lip balm on for more than like 20 seconds or I become homicidal.” Even though she’s a beautiful woman, she admits it was hard for her to accept that fact when she was younger, recalling,
“I learned to love everything over the years because I don’t think I liked anything for a long time,” she says. “Part of that was because during my upbringing there was a significant person in my life, who [thought nothing] was ever right, including my looks. Not my mother, I will say, I don’t want anyone to think it was her. So I felt like nothing was ever good enough and I was in a ballet company. So you know, that’s brutal too.”
She adds, “I think back on how cute I was — I see pictures and I think, ‘Oh my God I was so cute,’ but I didn’t think so at all. I hope that everybody could just embrace everything about themselves physically and just feel really great about yourself, from the switch, because later it’ll make for such an easier life.”
As with many of us, it took age to come to the realization that beauty is more than skin deep. Recalling the epiphany she had when she she hit the mid-century mark, Megan said, “I wish it was sooner than that, so I would say to everybody that I hope they can feel like looks aren’t everything from the time they’re 2. I didn’t get there quite that fast but I’m glad I got there at least.”
I love Megan and I think she’s lovely. I do wish I could get away with living a life less reliant on face paint. For me, I’m bare faced at the gym or in bed, and nowhere else. My boyfriend marvels that I have to apply a full face of makeup just to go to Walmart. If I had a little of Megan’s self confidence, maybe I could face the world with a clean face. Of course, I haven’t hit 50 (just) yet.
Photos: Getty Images, WENN.com
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