Pamela Anderson, Unfiltered

Hi, GLAMOUR. Hi.

[Director] Unfiltered 101. Take one.

Unfiltered is right. Take one.

Well it's much easier to be your authentic self,

to be your real self, I guess.

I just find that after the millions of photo shoots

I think I've had,

and all the retouching people do to photos,

it's like, Why am I sitting in a makeup chair

for three hours when they change your lipstick color,

they change your features,

they change everything.

So I figured I'm just gonna do my own thing.

And I can't tell you any time in the past,

recent times that I've liked my makeup.

So I'm doing my own.

I'm being a little bit rebellious.

This is my serum, Sonsie serum.

I just wanted to make...

To do something that I knew I was gonna use

and keep it really simple.

I'm not a real big regimented person.

I make my own rose hip oil from my garden,

I harvest my own rose hips

and I, you know, I'm kind of like a DIY kind of girl.

This is kind of the closest I've come to that.

And as I'm making new products,

it's kind of fun to play with.

And really, it's like the...

My moisture mask kind of acts like a good primer,

and it just kind of has this little bit of a blur

so you can...

You know, this is kind of makeup in itself.

I'm not gonna do too much more.

Should I put these little thingies in?

My hair's a little...

It's kind of a little bit humid.

I love these little things.

This is my new favorite thing, you know.

But I washed my hair last night and slept on it wet.

And then I put a couple of these things in

because I've just discovered them.

You know, people do these photo shoots

and they get so excited about coming in

and, you know, getting spoiled

by these famous makeup artists and hair people.

And I'm just being a total weirdo and doing it myself.

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So weird.

I like Victoria's line. She's...

You know, it's clean, it's cruelty free.

And it's really good.

So I like her stuff.

I don't know. I really don't know why.

I don't wanna sit in a makeup chair for three hours

when I'm going to a fashion show.

I mean, I'm not in the fashion show.

I'm not trying to be the prettiest girl in the room.

I'm trying to...

You know, I just wanna enjoy the show and...

And I think at this age, we kind of just...

It's nice to have the freedom to be yourself.

And I don't know, I'm really happy it resonated,

but I really did it for myself.

We all think everybody's judging us and looking at us,

but they're not,

they're thinking about themselves.

They're thinking about, you know, how they look.

And that was my experiment.

And so that proved to me

that I was kind of on the right track

with the self-acceptance thing, you know.

I never wore stich of makeup until I moved to L.A.

And everybody was doing my makeup

so I didn't even really know how to apply makeup myself.

And I spent a lot of my life in a makeup chair

and hair chair.

And I had a really wonderful girlfriend,

Alexis Vogel, who did my makeup,

who I thought was the best at what she did.

She's passed away since

and I feel like all these really kind of heavy makeup looks

she was doing before,

like from Barb Wire and all these other, you know,

things that I've done.

And then that kind of became in fashion just recently.

And I always like to, I guess, to do the opposite

of what's in fashion maybe.

I don't know. Is it like the little rebel in me?

But I also think as we get older,

the less makeup the better.

'Cause the powders and everything

just sink into your wrinkles.

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Who wants that?

I remember when I was on Baywatch just looking around

and then...

Or in Playboy,

and I was looking at all these women thinking,

you know, I have to compete with this.

Not really competitive,

but if everybody else is doing it, then I need to do it.

It was decisions about my body or about my face or anything,

what people were doing.

I feel like it's important no matter where you are

in your beauty journey to accept as you are.

And I'm having a big moment

with, like, accepting scars I have or imperfections

and everything.

Like here, I just like burnt myself the other day

baking bread.

I'm like, Am I covering it? No, not not gonna cover it.

[Pamela laughs]

It's just life.

And I think scars tell stories and imperfections are sexy.

My mother's gonna kill me for doing this.

[interviewer laughs]

She's gonna be like, Pamela, you know,

you've taken it one step too far.

I like my new short nails though.

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I think this process is really empowering.

What we look like underneath the mask is still good enough

for a cover of a magazine.

It's my message these days,

and it's something I'm just authentically working on,

is to discover who I am

and kind of jumping off that bridge where you're like,

Okay is...

I mean, are people just gonna be looking away

'cause it's just so bad?

Or is it just gonna be acceptance

and kind of inspire other people to, you know,

have makeup free dinner parties or something crazy.

I don't know, or something wild like that.

I'll have to do a little something.

So what I'll do is a little highlight on my eyelid.

If you're gonna choose me for GLAMOUR Woman of the Year,

I gotta be me.

I can't just come in here and fake it.

I don't wanna come in here

and just get into the, you know,

the machine and spit out something that is typical.

It's an opportunity to be brave and experiment

and try something new.

So that's why we're here.

I'm just gonna put the highlight on there,

and I actually don't like it,

so I'm taking it off.

So this is the natural look with red nails.

The nails are this crazy part.

And then later we'll do a red lip and natural nails.

Ooh, scary.

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