Ariana Grande promoting her beauty brand R. E. M’s sweetener foundation in August. Photo: @r.e.m.beauty/Instagram

“Being exposed to so many voices at a young age, especially when people have things to say about your appearance, it’s really hard to know what’s worth hearing and not,” she continued. “But when you’re 17, you don’t know that yet.”

US musician Ariana Grande at the 2012 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California, in 2012. Photo: FilmMagicGrande, who rose to fame as a teenager playing Cat Valentine on the Nickelodeon series Victorious, has since become a Grammy-winning musician. She’s also a successful creator in the beauty world, with multiple bestselling fragrances and cosmetics brand R.E.M. launched in 2021.

Ariana Grande at the Grammy Charities Signings during the 62nd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, in January 2020. Photo: TNS

The musician said that over the years, she “used make-up as a disguise or as something to hide behind”. This included fuller hair and thicker eyeliner.

“And that can be so beautiful at times and I still do have love for it and appreciation for it,” Grande added. “But I think as I get older, I don’t love that being the intention behind it any more. I think of it as self-expression now, and accentuating what is here.”

Ariana Grande is redefining what beauty is for her. Photo: @arianagrande/Instagram

As Grande began applying her lip products in the video, she said: “I’ve had a tonne of lip filler over the years and Botox,” and explained why she chose to get enhancements and what made her want to give them up.

“I stopped in 2018 because I just felt so … too much,” she said. “I just felt like hiding, you know?” While speaking, the Grammy-winning singer’s voice began faltering. “Didn’t expect to get emotional,” she said.

Ariana Grande recently revealed she stopped getting lip fillers and Botox in 2018. Photo: @r.e.m.beauty/Instagram

“For a long time, beauty was about hiding for me, and now I feel like maybe it’s not,” Grande continued.

“Since I stopped getting fillers and Botox and maybe I’ll start again one day, I don’t know, to each their own. Whatever makes you feel beautiful, I do support,” she said. “But I know for me, I was just like, ‘Oh, I wanna see my well-earned cry lines and smile lines.’”