The Most Creative and Unique Celebrity Makeup Looks

If smoky eyes and cat eyes had a baby, this look would be it. Makeup artist Hung Vanngo kept the edges of Bella Hadid’s wings crisp as a blade but buffed black shadow onto the outer corners of her lids to give the sharp look a smokier effect. Then, he added some glitz with a shimmery gunmetal shadow. Paired with a blindingly bright highlighter, coral blush, and MLBB lipstick, you have the perfect look for going out.

The mauve smoky eye makeup artist Rachel Goodwin created for Emma Stone would have been stunning with just Nars Velvet Shadow Stick in Reykjavic, Nars Eye shadow in Guayaquil, and Nars Hardwired Eye-shadowing Madrid, but she took it to a glamorous new level “by embellishing Lemon head LA Space jam glitter in Paradise Cove along the lid and inner and lower lids,” she tells Allure.

Makeup artists may recommend different approaches to blush application depending on your face shape, but Alek Wek ignored all the rules at the Venice Film Festival by wearing an especially hot pink shade from her bottom lip all the way up to her eyes. Instead of topping off the rest of her facial features in more subtle makeup, she completed her look with a super-dark wine lip color, its glossiness playing up the radiance of her skin.

For the 2018 iHeart Radio MuchMusic Video Awards, Los Angeles-based makeup artist Denika Bedrossian layered up Halsey’s lids in dramatic lashes and glitzy purple shadow. To make the singer’s lower lash line sparklier than an amethyst, Bedrossian shared on Instagram that she lined the area with “loads” of an unexpected product: the Kat Von D Everlasting Lip Liner in Coven. Then, she set it with the glitzy Nars Hardwired Eyeshadow in Lunar. For the wet shine on Halsey’s upper lids, the Sigma Beauty Brilliant Shimmer Cream was smudged all over. Then, Bedrossian topped off the look with falsies that you can add to your cart during your next trip to the drugstore: the Kiss Triple Push Up Collection Lash Couture in Bustier. Bedrossian called this pick her and Halsey’s “all-time favorite lash.”

Lucy Hale’s big, beautiful eyes stood out even more than usual at the 2018 Teen Choice Awards thanks to makeup artist Kelsey Deenihan’s use of three different shadows. “I applied Chanel Ombre Première Longwear Cream Eyeshadow in Verderame all over the lid and crease and under the lower lash line as a cream base for the other layers of green shadow to stick to,” she tells Allure. “I then applied the top emerald green color from the Kat Von D 10th Anniversary Palette followed by Kryolan Pure Pigments in Pure Envy to the center of the lid and inner corners of the eyes for a pop of metallic to catch the light.” She kept the rest of the look simple with a rosy blush and clear lip gloss.

For Katherine Langford’s 2018 Teen Choice Awards look, makeup artist Fiona Stiles “found these precious stars with inlaid pearls. I thought they were just the right combination of chic and cool,” she tells Allure. “I used smoky purple Swarovski crystals in a few sizes around the stars and into the eye shadow so they would create a little galaxy round her eyes. I also didn’t want them to be perfectly symmetrical so it would feel a little more runway than red carpet. The rest of the makeup was kept clean and fresh so it wouldn’t compete with the jewels.”

The Upside Down is a lot less scary when it refers to wearing a bold eye look on the lower lid instead of the upper lid. Makeup artist Kelsey Deenihan tells us that she used a mix of the red and fuchsia shades in the Vise art Editorial Brights palette under Millie Bobby Brown’s eyes, along with Dior show Pump ‘n’ Volume Mascara in Pink Pump on her bottom lashes. She kept the rest of the look simple with black mascara on the upper lashes and clear Avon True Color Lip Glow Lip Gloss on Brown’s lips.

Razor-sharp winged liner doesn’t exclusively come in black. Emmy Rossum proved that tomato-red is a fierce alternative while at the 4th Annual Sports Humanitarian Awards. Los Angeles-based makeup artist Jo Baker drew on sleek flicks with the Dior Dior-show On Stage Liquid Eyeliner in Matte Rusty and later dubbed the look “Twizzler red eyeliner” on Instagram.

Lily Collins attended the Miu Miu 2019 Cruise Collection Show in Paris wearing not only an outfit reminiscent of the mid-1960s, but a modern take on Twiggy-inspired makeup. Vincent Oquendo gave Collins shimmering lids in a pale turquoise shade. Her waterline was brightened with a white pencil, and her eyes were further opened with somewhat spiky mascara on both the top and bottom. The rest of Collins’s makeup leaned nude, with a slightly glossy beige-pink lip and matching shade of draped blush.

Posted to Patrick Ta’s Instagram, this monochromatic look on Gigi Hadid plays with pink in the most unexpected ways. Playing off Hadid’s bubblegum-colored dress, Ta used increasingly bright shades of pink starting with a muted lip, moving up to a sculpting medium-tone shade on the cheeks, and topping off a generous area of the lids with a near-neon hue. The look is pulled together with an intense highlight on the high points of Hadid’s bone structure.

For her appearance at the 2018 CFDA Awards, makeup artist Hung Vanngo created stunning bright-blue smoky eyes on Jasmine Sanders (aka Golden Barbie) with the following products from Marc Jacobs Beauty: Velvet Noir Major Volume Mascara, Highliner Matte Gel Eye Crayon in Out Of The Blue, and Eye-conic Eyeshadow Palette in Smartorial.

While at Cannes 2018, Amber Heard took a classic look, complete with cat eyes and red lipstick, and gave it a modern twist. She added a single crystal in the middle of each of her lower lashes lines, creating a simple way to try one of spring’s biggest makeup trends.

Many at the world premiere of Avengers: Infinity War felt mesmerized by Scarlett Johansson’s back tattoo, but we were fixated on her colorful eye makeup. Makeup artist Frankie Boyd swept on a variety of violet shades from the Pat McGrath Labs Mthrshp Subversive La Vie En Rose Eyeshadow Palette in a winged shape.

Neon makeup has been a growing spring makeup trend on Instagram. Now that Rihanna tried the fluorescent look out for herself, though, you’re about to see it everywhere. For a Fenty x Puma event at Coachella 2018, makeup artist Priscilla Ono covered the singer’s lashes in a shockingly bright shade of pink to match the softer variations of the hue on her lids and cheeks. Our fingers are crossed that the neon pink mascara is an upcoming Fenty Beauty launch.

At the  GLAAD Media Awards, Chloë Grace Moretz’seye makeup looked as majestic as a unicorn. Makeup artist Mai Quynh coated the actress’ lashes with a cobalt blue mascara after decking out her lids with pink cut creases and a soft blue shadow. The dreamy look was tied together with a shock of pink on the tops of Moretz’s cheekbones.

Makeup artist Allan Avendaño didn’t stop at one flick on each of Camila Cabello’s lids when she attended the 2018 iHeart Radio Music Awards. With the L’Oréal Paris Telescopic Liquid Liner in Carbon Black, he added a second wing directly underneath for a double-decker cat eye.

Taylor Hill drenched herself in coral hues from head to toe at the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party with the help of makeup artist Hung Vanngo. He tied the summery shade into her eye makeup, blush, and lipstick.

Instead of pulling out a classic black liquid liner from her kit, makeup artist Pati Dubroff etched Margot Robbie’s lids with white for the UK premiere of I, Tonya. Dubroff kept the rest of the actress’s makeup glowy and fresh with highlighted cheekbones, petal pink blush, and pink-toned nude lipstick.

With yellow eye shadow claiming real estate in palettes left and right, including one of Kylie Cosmetics’, it was only a matter of time before Kim Kardashian experimented with the unexpected hue. Makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic swept a dandelion shadow onto Kardashian’s lids before she stepped out in Tokyo with her new pink hair.

Sunset eye makeup isn’t just for Instagram. Makeup artist Sergio Lopez-Rivera transformed Viola Davis’s lids into a gorgeous ombré of colors with M.A.C.’s Pigments in Pink Bronze, Mega Rich, and Melon for the 2018 Golden Globes.