She’s nudged Nicole Kidman, Eva Longoria, Drew Barrymore, Ashley Judd, Uma Thurman and Jon Hamm right out of the running for the top spot.

Angelina Jolie is now the global poster child for that dreaded white-powder makeup mishap — we can now forevermore call it The Angelina Jolie White Powder Incident.

And we’re a bit shocked on this side of the screen. We didn’t think this powder-face thing could happen again.

the angelina jolie white powder incident

We covered exactly this kind of celebrity white powder mishap in April of 2011, in this Ashley Judd post here (which includes avoidance tips) and this mystery-solved post here (which includes a why-this-happens video).

The white powder face topic is a big one on the Interweb.

I confess, I’d actually missed this the early news of this latest celebrity dust-up (see what I did there?). I only realized a big new white powder thing must have happened again because the 2011 post were suddenly the hottest Beautygeeks items of the day.

I put it together when I heard my friend Jill mention something about it this afternoon. (Worth mentioning: underneath the powder, Angelina’s makeup is so beautifully simple.)

Makeup mishaps like this Angelina Jolie White Powder incident are usually blamed on featherweight, finely milled silica powder that only shows up when the light from a camera flash bounces off it. It looks well blended to the naked eye, but *snap* and yikes!

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