Does This Uncommon Picture Present Dolly Parton With out Signature Make-up?

In 2023, a split-screen picture circulated on the social media platform Pinterest, purportedly that includes two images of nation music icon Dolly Parton. Proven beneath, the picture on the precise featured the singer’s recognizably glamorous look of platinum-blond wig and full face of make-up, whereas the picture on the left allegedly depicted Parton dressed uncharacteristically casually in a white tank high, her face unadorned with cosmetics, her pure hair pulled again from her face. 

The caption accompanying the photographs acknowledged: “Dolly with out make up.”

(Diane Di Leonardo/Pinterest) 

A number of commenters identified that the lady on the left was not Parton, however fairly British-American model-turned-actress Nicollette Sheridan, who starred in early-2000s comedy-drama sequence “Determined Housewives.”

“That is edie Britt from determined housewives,” one follower identified, referencing the identify of Sheridan’s character within the ABC sequence, whereas one other agreed, “This isn’t Dolly. She has tattoos of butterflies on her arms.”

These commenters accurately recognized the lady on the left as Sheridan, not Parton. Subsequently, we’ve rated this declare as “Miscaptioned.” 

To verify the lady on the left as Sheridan, we took a screenshot of the picture and performed a Google reverse-image search. We discovered the identical picture on French-language leisure web site Purepeople and in addition in a Daily Mail article printed in 2008. The headline on the Day by day Mail story confirmed: “Barefaced not stylish: Determined Housewives star Nicollette steps out with out her make-up.”

Parton, 18 years older than Sheridan, is legendary for her high-maintenance fashions and isn’t seen in public with out full make-up — or sporting one in all her many wigs.

In October 2023, the “Jolene” singer instructed People magazine whereas selling her model memoir “Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones” that there is just one motive she would ever be caught in public with out make-up: “Dying!” Per Folks:

“You’d simply must see me laid out on a stretcher,” jokes Parton, earlier than providing up a extra critical state of affairs: “No, if my husband [Carl Thomas Dean] was sick, or if there was an emergency, in fact, I might [leave the house without makeup].”

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“If I acquired arrested for a nasty tag or no matter, I do not desire a mugshot trying like a few of the stars I’ve seen,” she says. “I will clear up slightly if I am going exterior, except there’s an absolute emergency, and it must be fairly critical. I might do it then, however that will be the one means.”

Whereas the picture incorrectly figuring out Sheridan as Parton confirmed the previous’s naked arms which are visibly freed from tattoo ink, Parton has typically been the topic of rumors concerning her apparently secret tattoos, which she hides underneath lengthy sleeves and stage costumes. 

In one other function from People magazine in 2020, the nation music legend revealed, “I do have some tattoos, that is true,” including, “However they’re tasteful. I am not a tattoo lady.” In keeping with the outlet:

“My tattoos are fairly, they’re suave they usually often began out to cowl some scar, to not make an enormous assertion,” she says. “Ribbons and bows and butterflies are the issues that I’ve. I used to be very sick for some time and I needed to put on a feeding tube. It left slightly indention in my aspect and I did not prefer it as a result of I am so honest that scars flip purple on me.

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“I wish to make positives out of negatives. I had slightly beehive tattooed over it — slightly yellow-and-brown beehive with a tiny little bee on high of the hive. The mouth of it’s that little sinkhole.”

Interested by whether or not Parton has had any beauty tattooing to her face (similar to microbladed eyebrows, eyeliner and lips), Snopes reached out to her crew, who didn’t instantly return a request for remark.

Having lengthy been the topic of rumors claiming she goes to bed in her makeup and removes it within the morning for recent software, in a 2019 interview with The New York Times, Parton admitted that it is true, even whereas touring between live performance stops whereas touring: “I clear my face within the mornings. You by no means know if you are going to wreck the bus, you by no means know if you are going to be someplace in a resort and there is going to be a hearth. So I go away my make-up on at evening and clear my face within the morning.”

In 2020, Parton was interviewed by drag queen and TV character RuPaul for Marie Claire. Once more addressing the chatter that she sleeps in her make-up, she instructed the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” creator and host, “I’ve to all the time keep prepared—road prepared, I all the time say. I’ve to maintain my make-up on and preserve my hair carried out. Like, after I’m in L.A.—I’ve instructed you about it—if it will earthquake, if we get an earthquake, I am not working out on the street trying such as you look now. I’ve to be ambulance-ready always, if I get sick or one thing. However I really do put on excessive heels more often than not. They don’t seem to be all the time as excessive as those I put on for present. However I am little. I am quick. And I’ve to put on heels as a way to attain my cupboards.”

In sum, given the intensive proof indicating that the split-screen picture doesn’t function Parton with out make-up and is as an alternative a photograph of actress Nicollette Sheridan, we fee the declare as “Miscaptioned.” The picture doesn’t signify a uncommon sighting of the singer with out her signature full face of beauty merchandise, and Parton has all the time taken nice pains to not be seen in public trying something aside from camera-ready.

Snopes has beforehand reported on Parton, together with the time she covertly entered a Dolly Parton look-alike contest and lost to a drag queen, and the satirical declare that she recorded songs for a new album with the heavy metal band Slipknot.

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