The Miss England candidate who competes without a drop of makeup

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If we think of beauty pageants, and what goes on behind the scenes, it is natural to imagine a backstage before the Miss candidates walk down the catwalk turned into

foundations, kilos of mascara, countless lipsticks...

However, and for the first time in the history of

which is where the phenomenon has occurred, a candidate has arrived willing to break the rules of this well thought out and worked beauty and fight back

It has happened in the semifinals of said beauty contest, whose final will be held in October, and the culprit is called

a 20-year-old Londoner.

The first Miss England candidate with a clean face

In the almost 100-year history of the Miss England contest, no candidate had dared to walk

But times change, and just like in the Victoria's Secret fashion shows, the canons of traditional beauty open up to a reality that

Thus, in the British beauty pageant, I had already seen in the last millennium how the 90-60-90 measurements were opened up to 'plus size' models, such as

(in 2008), or how a British army soldier rising as beauty queen in 2009,

However, a future and possible winner of

was something unprecedented to date.

And it has been Melisa Raouf who has taken the step.

The policy student has won in the

category of the contest and, for the first time, a candidate will appear without makeup in the final.

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This special category was promoted in 2019, because, according to

director of Miss England, on the pageant's website, most of the contestants sent highly retouched photographs, with a lot of makeup, and we wanted to see

behind the makeup. .

Melissa Raouf's decision

The point is that Raouf has not only entered the Bare Face category without makeup, as it should be, but also intends to

of the contest.

As she told

she started wearing makeup when she was very young and never felt that she fit into those elaborate beauty ideals.

In a work of self-acceptance, she has pointed out that she has recently accepted that she is beautiful in her own skin, hence she has launched to compete the entire contest without makeup.

Her decision, she adds, is something she has done for her, although she feels that she has also done it for all the girls, her peculiar way of

and natural beauty in an era where

prevails in social networks.

We will have to wait until October to confirm if Melisa Raouf will be the first Miss England

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