Mariah Carey without makeup — we should all be so lucky

Sure, it was Mariah Carey’s birthday this week — strike that, her “anniversary” — but she was the one doling out a present to fans: a shot of herself without makeup and looking lovely.

“Love to all the lambily!!! #WWLD,” she wrote on Instagram just hours before it was her birthday on the West Coast, captioning the shot of herself with a fluffy stuffed lamb in honor of “Worldwide Lamb Day.” Mariah’s fans, dahhhhling, make up the “lambily,” of course, and Worldwide Lamb Day suspiciously resembles the diva’s birthday.

Carey turned 43 on Wednesday, a performance night on “American Idol” that found the diva wielding a flashing plastic “magic wand,” tweeting at Ryan Seacrest while on the air and getting bleeped a la Steven Tyler.

But back to the picture: Does Mariah look closer to 43 or 23? You be the judge, and let us know in comments.

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