Keira Knightley: Look Book
From crops, fringes and curls to smoky eyes, peachy cheeks and siren red lips - Keira's tried the lot. We chart the star's changing hair and beauty look from fresh-faced teen to red carpet icon.
Getty ImagesAttending the 2015 Writers Guild Awards L.A. Ceremony, Keira stunned with subtle smoky eyes and a pearlised lip.
Getty ImagesKeira Knightley can do no wrong in our eyes and this au naturel side-swept look at the 2015 BAFTAs with barely-there make-up is another winner.
Rex FeaturesAt the Critics' Choice Awards 2015 Keira looks stunning with a loose ear-covering up-do and sugar pink lips.
GettyA pregnant Keira keeps her look chic and simple with an undone up-do, barely-there eye makeup and a subtle pink lip colour.
Rex FeaturesWho needs make-up when you've got hair as glossy as Keira's? The Brit beauty keeps her look fresh and natural at an event in LA.
Rex FeaturesAt the British Independent Film Awards in London, Keira gave us a masterclass in natural but still oh-so-glam make-up with her smokey eyes, pale pink glossy lip and chic updo.
Rex FeaturesKeira's been giving us endless beauty inspiration on the Imitation Game tour, and at the New York premiere, she’d found the holy grail – the perfect pink lipstick. Feline flicks, rosy cheeks and a side-swept updo finished up her flawless look.
Rex FeaturesAnd THIS is how you do the no makeup, makeup look. Bravo, Keira.
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Between her high-shine retro waves, subtly smokey eyes and radiant skin, Keira’s beauty look for the Hollywood Film Awards 2014 was simply flawless.
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For the LA premiere of her movie The Imitation Game, Keira Knightley worked a beautiful, feminine beauty look, with a plum smokey eye, shiny pink lip and just the right amount of blusher. Her hair was pinned back into a low updo, with choppy layers at the front perfectly framing her face. Ten out of ten.
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For The Imitation Game premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September, Keira chose to leave her hair au naturel to work the red carpet, with just an effortless wave throughout her tresses. She added major drama with her make-up though, in the form of kohl-rimmed smokey eyes and a bright pink matte lip. Utterly gorgeous.
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For the London premiere of her new movie, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Keira Knightley worked a classic beauty look that never dates - kohl-rimmed eyes, a minimal base and a tomato red lipstick. Flawless from every angle.
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Keira matched her beauty look perfectly to her navy Chanel gown for the LA premiere of Jack Ryan in January. The Brit actress made her eyes the focus with blended together blues and blacks, creating a headturning look that we want to recreate for our next night out. Keira rightly keeps every other facet of her make-up pared back and frames the look with a loose, slightly tousled up-do.
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Keira once again proves her beauty credentials on the set of Can A Song Save Your Life? with an easy-breezy loose up-do, sweeping fringe and minimal make-up. She’s the English rose, personified.
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Just when you think Keira can’t go one better, she does. At the UK premiere of A Dangerous Method, Keira teams her daring, backless, red wine coloured dress with a chic and timeless up-do, complete with retro waved fringe, deep, dark smoky eyes, exaggerated lashes and that perennially flawless skin.
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Going for a natural look, Keira’s LOB is teased into tumbling curls whilst on promo duties for her latest flick A Dangerous Method in early 2012. The rosy red pout, thick layer of falsies and smudgy, black kohl liner, made Keira a Brit beauty dream.
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Nothing could have prepared us for this show stopper. Never one to put a foot wrong on the red carpet, Keira teams this unusual neckline with a dramatic side-parting and super-slicked up-do. Complete with metallic smoky eyes and typically pared-down lips, we're absolutely blown away.
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Keira debuts her take on A-list favourite, the LOB (long bob). Wearing it super-straight, we love the pronounced, dramatic brows teamed with the lightly dip-dyed ends. Perfection.
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Just weeks after announcing her split from long-term boyfriend Rupert Friend, Keira proves her natural beauty credentials when she steps out with barely-there make-up before a performance of her latest West End output, The Children’s Hour.
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Ever the master of hair reinvention, Keira goes a tad shorter with her bob, plumping for loose, nonchalant waves and smoky eyes – a winning formula if ever we saw one.
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Promoting her and Carey Mulligan's flick Never Let Me Go in London, Keira is the epitome of Brit actress-turned-global-superstar. With glossy locks cropped into a jaw-skimming 'do, Keira sports her signature make-up look and sun-kissed skin in true A-list style.
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Carefree kinks give Keira’s new bob a modern edge when she hits the Rome Film Festival at the end of 2010.
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We did a double take when we saw the newly-shorn Keira at Chanel’s Paris fashion show in October 2010 – this timelessly chic bob seemed to give her a whole new look. Straight and super-shiny, she matches the new short style with her favourite smoky eye, heavily defined brows and baby pink lips.
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Being a red carpet regular, Keira knows that a busy printed dress like this Erdem one needs a pared-back hair and make-up look to match. So at the Laurence Olivier Awards in 2010, she opts for a fresh-faced look with barely-there foundation and a simple pony.
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Two years after it made its Keira Knightley debut, the fringe makes a serious comeback at the Chanel Haute Couture Spring 2009 show. To achieve the look yourself, use curling tongs at the end of your locks to get this chic and curled-under effect.
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What could have looked harsh on some, looks achingly sexy on Keira. To get her look, use a comb to create a precise, deep side-parting, brush hair into a tight chignon at the nape of the neck and then spritz with plenty of shine-enhancing serum.
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Channelling her inner princess, Keira matches her whimsical and fairy-like up-do with a statement diamond hair accessory and a strapless gown for a red carpet appearance. A flawless foundation (as always) and a little eyeliner complete her look.
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Demonstrating the power of the eyeliner wand, Keira works some serious flicks with just a little complexion-warming blush at a premiere in 2008.
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Get thee to a salon, Keira, your locks are in need of a colourist’s helping hands. This mousey shade makes the actress look washed out at a photocall for her movie The Edge of Love in 2008.
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Simply gorgeous. A side-swept, long fringe adds face-framing shape to Keira’s barnet, and this naturally-pretty colour looks fabulous against her peachy make-up, smouldering dark eyes and monochromatic outfit.
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Keira's Vanessa Paradis-esque, parted down the middle, ombre locks are given an extra boost with loose, shoulder-skimming curls. Plus, we're giving her extra points for working the dip-dye like a pro, a whole three years before every A-lister was demanding the look at the salon.
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When you work a red carpet as well and as often as this lady, there's inevitably more room for a slip-up. Keira's slightly faltered here; the heavy lids and structured curls are a little too old for her 23 years.
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Using copper and rosy-hued tones, Keira's smoky eye is played to perfection with hair loosely pinned up and a warm lipstick.
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While the perfectly tumbling curls deserve a mention all by themselves, it's Keira’s eyeliner that we really love. Try it at home by smudging soft kohl along the under lid and just the very corner of the upper one. Finish with lashings of thick mascara and a screen siren shade of red lipstick.
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Flirty and pretty; Keira's swept-up classic chignon lets her false lashes, heavy cat’s eye liner and peachy lip colour do the talking.
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Keira gives corkscrew curls a modern overhaul on the promotional trail for Atonement in Canada. The metallic eyes makes the perfect partner to a pretty dress too, as Keira embraces her super-girly side.
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We love, love, LOVE Keira's fully-loaded, brow-skimming fringe. The brunette shade is back too, as Keira goes super-pretty to promote Atonement.
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After narrowly missing out on the Best Actress gong for Pride and Prejudice, the now fully-fledged megastar wows at the Vanity Fair Oscars party with the help of ample tanning lotion, smudgy smoky eyes (again!) and a half-up, half-down ‘do.
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Va-va-voom! A dreamy chignon with teased out strands makes the most of Keira’s warm honey highlights. Get the look at home by spraying dry shampoo through the roots of your locks before pinning in place.
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By early 2006, the length is back thanks to some golden hair extensions, as Keira goes for a mussed-up, LA-beach look, complete with sunkissed, simple make-up.
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Looking extra glam at the Domino premiere, Keira models her soon-to-be trademark thick, dark eyebrows. Brooke Shields, eat your heart out.
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Extra-short and sliced up with lots of edgy layers, this 2005 crop ia Keira’s shortest ‘do to date - which she expertly teams with Brigitte Bardot style smoky eyes and a nude lip.
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Keira goes for the chop again, this time plumping for a mussed-up, dark blonde bob.
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With another film under her belt, it's another new 'do for Keira - who debuts these tumbling beachy waves in shades of sunkissed honey while promoting Pride and Prejudice. Bronzer, thick kohl-lined eyes and a brush of tearracotta shadow complete her look.
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Keira gets herself a hot new fringe, a rich brunette colour and a perfect English rose complexion.
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Still finding her feet style-wise, Keira Knightley does a loose, unstructured up-do in a dark chestnut shade and a subtly-shadowed eye for the Pirates of the Caribbean premiere.
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Her break-out role in Bend It Like Beckham calls for a tomboyish crop and make-up-less look, but Keira still glams it up for the premiere with this glossy bob and smoky eyeshadow.
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Pre-teen (and pre-make-up artist) Keira was all about the fresh-faced, au naturel look.
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At just ten years old and make-up free – child actress Keira Knightley was a real cutie on the set of The Bill.
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