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As the youngest of the Desperate Housewives, Eva Longoria's got a unique set of problems. She has to have the same amount of war paint as her co-stars require to hide their own imperfections, otherwise she'd look out of place. There's no doubt that she's gorgeous to the tenth power, but even without the gigantic fake eyelashes, you get the impression that there's about an hour spent concealing, contouring and blending before she ever leaves the house. In fact, without makeup, supposedly she looks like this, but in reality she is practically unrecognizable. She's still a very beautiful woman, just not, you know, Eva Freaking Longoria (and the pollsters at Team Sugar agree, with a whopping 80 percent of the respondents simply voting for "OH MY GOD!"). Need more convincing? Check out the difference between her face and her arm... it's bad when you could take foundation lessons from drag queens.

The thing is, wearing makeup all the time isn't a good thing. Your skin is an organ; it needs to breathe, and I get the feeling that Eva's pores are absolutely starved for oxygen. I can feel girlfriend's addiction to the colors--after all, I look like I'm the living dead if I go without eyelid foundation and a very thin streak of eyeliner along my top lid. But a simple tinted moisturizer can serve as a foundation methadone for Eva's addiction. On Saturdays, I can usually cover my rosacea with Dr. Perricone's Active Tinted Moisturizer and the Allure editors are loving Kiehl's budget-friendly version, so Eva should have no problem evening out her mottled complexion in seconds and then wouldn't have to rely on the cosmetic version of the bag over head. For the smoothing, airbrushed quality, she's can dabble with Perfekt Skin Perfection Gel too. Of course, sometimes a girl needs to go glam, but her untouched candids reveal some congestion that might be caused by make up residue. I can't fault a girl for going to bed without properly scrubbing at the hairline (man, haven't we all?), but Caudalie's Cleansing Water makes it so easy: no face dunking or splashing required, and it doesn't leave the skin feeling tight and irradiated either. Of course, she may need a gradual makeup recovery program, like I did, but there's nothing more empowering than going out with a naked face and looking radiant and gorgeous and also, recognizable.