Ariana Grande shed tears as she opened up about her personal journey with Botox and why she decided to stop using it.
The chart-topper known for her role as “Glinda the Good Witch” in the upcoming film adaptation of the Broadway show “Wicked”, was visibly emotional as she confessed in a Vogue Beauty Secrets video on September 12 that she has abandoned the use of cosmetic injectables.
“Full transparency as a beauty person, as I do my lips,” the 30-year-old entrepreneur behind R.E.M. Beauty articulated prior to adding colour to her lips.
“I’ve had a ton of lip filler over the years and Botox. I stopped in 2018 because I just felt too much. I just felt like [I was] hiding, you know”?
As the artist behind “Thank U, Next” fought back tears, asserting she “didn’t expect to get emotional,” she continued to share that for a substantial period, beauty was “about hiding for me”.
“I, over the years, used makeup as a disguise or as something to hide behind,” Grande confessed, mentioning her frequent use of big hairstyles in a similar fashion.
“More hair, more and more, [the] thicker the eyeliner… and that can be so beautiful at times and I still do have love for it”.
Grande mentioned that her style has softened over the years, a transition influenced by her early start in the public eye when she had to navigate through others’ opinions.
“Being exposed to so many voices at a young age and especially when people have things to say about your appearance and stuff at a young age, it’s really hard to know what’s worth hearing or not”.
“But when you’re 17, you don’t really know you don’t know that yet”, Grande revealed in the Vogue video.
As her confidence blossomed, so did the evolution of Grande’s “intention” concerning the use of cosmetics.
“I don’t love [disguise] being the intention behind it anymore”, she revealed to Vogue.
“I think of it as self expression now and accentuating what is here. Our relationships to beauty are so personal, like we’re here talking about beauty secrets, isn’t the secret that we all just want to feel our best and be loved”?
Although Grande has not completely dismissed the possibility of undergoing more significant cosmetic alterations later, she holds no prejudices against individuals who opt for Botox and fillers.
“To each their own, whatever makes you feel beautiful, I do support, but I know for me I was just like, oh, I want to see my well-earned cry lines and smile lines”, Grande further stated.
“I hope my smile lines get deeper and deeper. And I laugh more and more and I just think aging can be such a beautiful thing”.
The Grammy Award recipient also voiced her wish for a more open conversation on these subjects in the forthcoming times.
“Now, might I get a facelift in 10 years? Might, yeah! But these are just thoughts that I feel like we should be able to discuss”, she stated. “If we’re sitting here talking about beauty secrets, f— it let’s lay it all out there”.
Grande posted snippets of the video on Instagram, mentioning that it was the “most nervous i’ve been in so long and definitely not the best i’ve ever done my make up but had a very lovely time. Thank you for having me @voguemagazine and for making space for my very Cancerian humanness”.
