BeautyBeauty newsBeauty / Beauty newsFans are here for Fenty’s unretouched images of Aweng’s facial scars‘As a girl with scars, this really touches my heart’ShareLink copied ✔️June 10, 2019June 10, 2019TextOlivia Edwardes Unretouched photographs of model Aweng Mayen Chuol, her facial scars gloriously visible, are currently making the rounds on social media, and fans couldn’t be more excited. Shot by Nigerian photographer Ruth Ossai, the images are part of the new campaign for Rihanna’s freshly launched fashion line with LVMH. In the images, we see Dazed 100-er Aweng showcasing a snake inspired earpiece and crisp white shirt, both from the debut collection. However, it is the model's scars on show that has captured the attention of social media and fans have taken to Twitter to show their support. i love that the images used on fenty are not retouched, and that the models skin is not perfect by societal standards pic.twitter.com/8iDQ9BgUz0— Farah | فرح (@xfarahalyx) May 29, 2019Wow! As a girl with scars, this really touches my heart. I’ve never had any reason to feel less terrible about my scars until seeing this.— Aughra Ptolemy (@Human47118627) May 29, 2019 Aweng herself couldn’t be more proud of her scars, which were the result of a childhood chicken-chasing accident. “I know my facial features are different, but to me that’s beauty,” she told Dazed Beauty last year. “They are part of who I am. I had it instilled in me from a young age that my scars made me beautiful. They were normal in my culture. They’re seen as a sign of coming of age or becoming a woman.” The Fenty images come as part of a growing number of brands ditching Photoshop. Last year, for example, CVS, the second largest beauty retailer in the US, announced it would stop photoshopping its beauty ads and label campaign images to make it clear whether the images had been digitally altered as part of their “Beauty Unaltered” initiative. Brands including CoverGirl, Neutrogena, and Revlon are said to be updating their imagery to meet CVS’s new guidelines and we hope this is just the beginning. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREBeauty gift guide 2025: Dazed editors share their wishlistsThe sweat-drenched world of Sukeban wrestling takes Miami Jean Paul GaultierJean Paul Gaultier’s iconic Le Male is the gift that keeps on givingMeet the braider behind the Afro-textured hairstyles at PFW SS26‘Accept your ugly’: I tried ‘beauty shadow work’ to help my self-esteemHoroscopes December 2025: Expect fun, flirting and major plot twistsThis film is an intimate portrait of Black hair and identityHow tech-inspired SFX is revealing our anxieties about a cybernetic futureBleach play: How halo rings and ghost roots are taking over hair trendsEcho Seireeni’s prosthetic creations are warping realityMy year of divesting from beauty cultureCan psychedelics enhance your workout?