Critics' Choice Awards

The most incredible hair and make-up looks from this year's Critics Choice Awards

The looks you need to know about.

8 March 2021

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We love the Critics Choice Awards – a double dose of film and TV, it brings together leading ladies across our fave Netflix box sets and silver screen smash-hits, as well as honouring the important work done behind the scenes on costume design and hair and makeup.

As with the Golden Globes, the set-up was a little different this year. The main action took place in California’s Barker Hangar, where host Taye Diggs MC’ed the awards for the third year in a row. Category presenters (including Angela Bassett, Phoebe Dynevor, Jameela Jamil and Yara Shahidi) joined IRL or beamed in via video link alongside the nominees, meaning there was lots of glam to go round.

Anya Taylor-Joy’s make-up artist guided her through her Critics Choice glam over Zoom

By Elle Turner

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Unlike legacy awards (like the Oscars), the Critics Choice always tends to be more relaxed, with experimental makeup and bold hair choices and tonight was no different. Judas & The Black Messiah actress, Dominique Fishback, studded her side-parted hair with a pretty scattering of gemstones. Mank actress, Amanda Seyfried, went bright with fuchsia-pink lips. Schitt's Creek star, Annie Murphy, served up wet-look hair, gold liner and a matte red lip. Queen's Gambit actress, Anya Taylor-Joy, even did her own makeup with help from her makeup artist over Zoom. As for our fave look of the night, it came from Yara Shahidi who rocked blue liner with matching blue fabric woven through her knotted bun. Here are all of the best looks from the night...

Yara Shahidi

Yara’s matched her slick blue liner with a show-stopping sky-high bun, woven with matching blue thread.

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Amanda Seyfried

Amanda looked like Charlie Chaplin and Liza Minnelli's love-child, channelling old-school Hollywood glam and the most incredible fuchsia-pink lip created by her makeup artist, Genevieve Herr using Lancome's L'Absolu Drama Matte Lipstick in Rose.