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Later that day, alone in the bathroom, I scrutinized myself.
FIRST BLUSHSarah, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1981.
Ironically, 25 years later, my freckles are about the only physical trait I doshare with models.
Chloe Oh says that in high school she tried to get rid of hers but now cherishes them.
Makeup artists have been employing this trick for years, of course.
Where does Westman think the current appreciation comes from?
Blame TikTok, with its endless tutorials on how to achieve subtleand not-so-subtlereplicas.
But she also believes we are celebrating individuality as a whole.
See also: the unkempt hair and bold brows on recent runways.
Darling, Im obsessed with freckles, saysCharlotte Tilbury, who launched her eponymous cosmetics brand a decade ago.
They always remind me of my dear friendTwiggy.
(Mine come out in the sunshine, like flowers, says Twiggy herself.)
I have in the past experimented with a light brown eye pencil, which smudged or faded near immediately.
The results were cute, if a bit cartoonish, a little too Annie-in-the-school-play.
I smudged them and went about my day, checking again in the late afternoon.
They were holding up admirably, and I liked them very much.
There seemed something damningly Irish about them, which is to say parochial and unsophisticated.
I judged freckles lovely on others before I found them lovely on myself.
