The New Trend with Arabic Singers and Less Makeup

Of course, many of you have noticed this, but is there a specific reason? Watching all these video clips, it is interesting to watch these famous singers that have enough confidence to confront their fans and to be watched by millions of people all around the world looking less beautiful than their usual overflowing beauty, and at the same time showing people a new appearance of them. I have been greatly noticing the less makeup being used within each clip.

First, we see Diana Haddad for example in her clip “Law Ma Da5alet Bi Rasi" with hardly any makeup. Then we see Elissa in her clip “Kol Yoom Fee Omri" with a small scene in the clip where she has no eye makeup, keeping in mind that Elissa is very famous for her striking black eyes...

All of us know deep inside that it is black makeup all the time when we see Elissa's eyes, but sometimes we want to overlook that. Anyway, Elissa seems have enough courage to appear on public TV with no makeup. That's great! Certainly, we can't forget to mention Nancy Ajram. As for the queen Nancy, she didn't want her fans to get really surprised to see her without makeup. So, her smart technique was to introduce a little bit of herself in “Oul Tani Keda" with a mixture of no makeup in some scenes and full makeup coverage in other scenes. Afterwards, she throws it all out at us in “Enta Eih". Knowing the Nancy is famous for her beauty, she showed a lot of courage to reappear to all her fans with hardly any makeup dominating the entire clip. And the amazing part is that the clip was a success, and everyone acts like Nancy looks the same. Well, she looks very different, compare her to her clip “Lawn 3younak" and you will see a big difference. The less makeup trend is being used rather smartly by our dear singers to the point that when I see other singers like Asala and Sandra (who put a lot of makeup), I can notice how much makeup they have on compared to what we see in Nancy, Elissa, and Diana's clips.

Okay, we looked at some examples that prove that there is a trend with Arabic female singers using less makeup. Now the question comes to be: What is/are the reason(s)? Do you think that putting less makeup plays a part in making the story in the video clip look as realistic as possible? Or is it that these Arabic female singers have done so much cosmetic surgery on themselves that they feel they can appear in public without makeup? Or, is it that these female singers want to show us that they are confident that they are naturally born beautiful, and that makeup is not the key for their beauty? Or, has cosmetic surgery caused these singers to have doubt about how beautiful they look that they want to prove to themselves they are beautiful even without makeup, and at the same time prove the public wrong, which have been accusing them of fake beauty.

Likewise, today we are in a world that revolves around beauty. If you have all the talents in the world and you are not beautiful, you will definitely fail. The biggest example is Nancy Ajram. Would Nancy have accomplished this success if she had never changed the way she looks to be more beautiful? The answer of course is NO! Nancy was never famous until she changed to be more attractive, the same applies for Suzanne Tamim. Both of these singers had nice voices, but they never got famous until they became attractive. SO, my point is that it's not only the singers; it's how society views talent and always seems to essentially associate beauty with singing.