Or, as one fantastic woman reviewer asked me when I told her about the lists, "Oh, are they really that bare-faced?
She had a manic tongue and a crooked smile that spread as, bare-faced and head-wrapped, she advised women on how to game the system: "Ever since I started using men, I feel so goddam powerful".
On Monday, Lukyanova posted a selfie to her Facebook page that shows her bare-faced and wearing a black bikini.
I know that for some people, the act of not wearing make-up is an insult: a sign that the bare-faced don't care about other people's good opinion.
I admire that bold, bare-faced approach and being able to go into any situation.
For all our much-touted faux-tolerance that kind of undisguised, unbridled, bare-faced, arse-out-for-the-photographer mindlessness wasn't permissible in puritanical Middle England.
The fact that everyone is bare-faced makes Brummell's remark look even ruder than it was, and less witty.
He could produce ample evidence that Catholics were bare-faced liars, cheats, thieves, adulterers, pornographers, whoremongers and gangsters, to whom the church sold forgiveness in return for hard cash.
Underneath were the words: "We apologise for the bare-faced cheek in asking like this, but there will never be a better time to beat Balls".
Lenin's niece, Olga Ulyanova, even made a public statement to the effect that it was a bare-faced lie that her uncle had wanted to be interred with his mother.
