TV journalist removes make up, grows armpit hair to make a point

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Australian journalist and TV presenter Tracey Spicer is on a mission to tear down the long-held beauty ideals of women. Over the last year, she has removed the paint from her face, let her hair run wild and neglected to pluck hairs out of her chin — all to prove a point about expectations.

In a comment piece on the Daily Life , Spicer stepped into the spotlight without a scrap of make-up on her face.

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"After 30 years on television, I had become what I despised: a painted doll who spent an hour a day and close to $200 a week putting on a mask," she wrote. In showing her new unkempt appearance to the world, she said, she hopes to be the new norm — a woman without armour. Read more...

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