Perrie Edwards deserves a prize for services to freckles because her latest post makes me want to cry at just how beautiful her freckle-covered skin is. The singer is on a family holiday with fiancé Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and their baby son Axel, and shared a carousel of gorgeous photos.
If I were being completely honest about the one thing everyone was commenting on, it would be just how much Axel has grown and just how cute he is. But between the cooing baby comments, there was also a flood of comments about Perrie's stunning sun-kissed freckles covering not only her face but her shoulders, chest, arms and legs too.
One fan poetically wrote in the comments; "Honestly I always liked freckles but on Perrie I'm truly appreciating the beauty of freckled skin. The 9th slide is what you call natural beauty 😍 truly chef's kiss 💋," while another went for one of my fave shouty caps style compliments; "FRECKLED QUEEN😍😍😍😍😍😍"
As the woefully freckle-less daughter of a redhead, who treasures my three freckles that are most probably hyperpigmentation, I couldn't agree more with comments like; "In love with your freckles."
Even bandmate Leigh-Anne Pinnock dropped a comment to say; "Your freckles mannn 😩😍😍"
It's lovely to see freckles truly being appreciated for their beauty in the last few years, and not just the ones scattering across the bridge of the nose. Gorgeous with and gorgeous without.
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Elena Chabo is Cosmopolitan UK's former beauty writer, working on everything from buzzy celeb news and trending beauty, to sincere first-person reviews and engaging video content for social media. She also creates meatier features and expert-led how-to guides, for print and online. Her passion for Black beauty, textured hair, and the ways beauty interacts with culture, society, identity and relationships, quickly took over her writing career and led her into beauty journalism. Following an MA in Magazine Journalism in 2017, she cut her teeth across various roles at Stylist Magazine, before taking on a Digital Writer role at Good Housekeeping. It was here that beauty took centre stage and she launched and ran the site's first stand-alone beauty section. Remaining at Hearst, she joined the Cosmo beauty team in 2022. Find her on LinkedIn.
