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# Uma Thurman Says New Look Was a Change of Makeup
by
[Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/)
## Laura Stampler
Feb 12, 2015 3:32 PM UTC
Uma Thurman attends NBC's "The Slap" miniseries premiere party at the New Museum on Monday, Feb. 9, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)
Uma Thurman attends NBC's "The Slap" miniseries premiere party at the New Museum on Monday, Feb. 9, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)Andy Kropa—Andy Kropa /Invision/AP
by
[Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/)
## Laura Stampler
Feb 12, 2015 3:32 PM UTC
“What has Uma Thurman done to her face?” [headlines](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2946833/Uma-Thurman-s-suspiciously-smooth-forehead-tight-smile-leave-looking-virtually-unrecognisable-Slap-premiere.html) across the Internet screamed Monday, after pictures emerged of the allegedly “[unrecognizable](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/uma-thurman-sports-new-article-1.2109433)” actress walking the red carpet for the premiere of her new mini-series _The Slap_.
“It looks like \[Renee Zellweger\] has company,” [_USA Today_](http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2015/02/10/uma-thurman-new-face-renee-zellweger/23191755/)wrote, in reference to the media [frenzy](http://time.com/3529377/renee-zellweger-face-plastic-surgery/) over the _Jerry Maguire_ star’s similar change in appearance, which prompted rumors of plastic surgery. (Zellweger [responded](http://www.people.com/article/renee-zellweger-speaks-out-different-look) that the conjecture was “silly.”)
Well, Thurman addressed the [crazed speculation](http://time.com/3703410/uma-thurman-face-red-carpet/) head-on in an appearance on _The Today Show_ Thursday morning with the statement: “I don’t know, I guess nobody liked my makeup.”
That’s right, makeup.
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Makeup artist Troy Surratt said that he “experimented” with the actresses’ look, in an interview with [_Refinery 29._](http://www.refinery29.com/2015/02/82087/uma-thurman-no-eye-makeup-pictures)“We did a much stronger brow and a bold lip for a French sort of feel. The way I shaded her eyebrows with the pencil, I created an uplifting effect. Then, I finished with a shimmering, silky-beige shadow on her lids, and went with no mascara at all. Sort of a reaction against all the fake lashes we’ve been seeing on the red carpet.”
“I’ve been doing this for years and years and years, people say things nice and they say things mean and it’s like whatever,” said Thurman, who has officially learned her lesson for not wearing mascara. “You take the good with the bad.”
_Read next:_ [_Speculation over Uma Thurman’s face proves how limited actresses’ options are_](http://time.com/3703410/uma-thurman-face-red-carpet/?xid=time%5Freadnext)
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