Bare-faced beauties of Tel Aviv

If you’re looking for some examples of bare-faced beauty, photographer Miri Davidovitz captured a slideshow’s worth for this week’s issue of New York Magazine.

Davidovitz, who has lived in Tel Aviv for most of her life, said she went out to the streets to look for the definition of Tel Aviv beauty.

“It wasn’t simple,” she said, with a laugh.

“I think that Tel Aviv is one of those places with many beautiful people, and it has a lot to do with the vitality of the people and the mixing of origins,” she said. “You see very bright eyes, very shiny skin, very energetic people. And in Israel, the summer is long, and you see a lot of bare skin. This really makes people look more vital.”

That vitality is something that Davidovitz said she sees throughout Israel, whether up north, in the center or down south. What Tel Aviv offers is people with more style, probably because the beauty and fashion industries, as well as the media and advertising industries, are all centered in the city, she said.

“There’s more motivation for people to get dressed, to be more cutting edge,” she said. “But that’s not beauty, that’s more style.”

Tachlis, what’s the real reason Israeli women get away with little makeup? It could be the youth of Davidovitz’s subjects, as one commenter wrote.

Or just a quintessentially Israeli quality, said Davidovitz, who feels there is something “refreshing and invigorating about Israelis,” she said. “They’re very full of life.”