As a former child actress, Chloë Grace Moretz grew up in an industry chasing a digitally-altered version of herself that wasn't real, feeling increasingly obligated to hide her face behind a mask of heavy makeup. "A lot of my ideals of feminine beauty came from everything I saw in magazines and things that I learned on set and photo shoots," she told POPSUGAR.
Moved by women who appeared so effortlessly comfortable in their own skin in public, Moretz partnered with Sk-II on the #BareSkinProject, where she publicly debuted her makeup-free face in an effort to inspire others to embrace their raw beauty and radiate the same inner-confidence.
"The more I stopped hiding behind the figment of what I thought people wanted to see as Chloë Moretz and started just being myself was when I started becoming OK with all the different comments, be it negative or positive," she said. "When you become confident in who you are, you become confident with what you look like when you wake up in the morning. Then people's comments don't really affect you the way that they used to, because you're not falsifying who you are."