To celebrate Selena Gomez's birthday, we've rounded up her best-ever beauty looks (and trust us, there's a lot)
Selena Gomez is a red carpet veteran, with a pretty plethora of hair and makeup looks to appease our beauty-obsessed eye.
Starting her career at just 10 years old, we first met the star as a fresh-faced member of the Barney & Friends gang before she took to a starring role on the Wizards of Waverly Place. As Selena's career continued to evolve, so did her beauty looks, and the young actress began to experiment with her makeup and hair, adding streaks of red into her lengths and stepping out on the red carpet with sophisticated smokey eyes and glowing skin.
More recently, Selena has shown her penchant for blonde hair, rocking everything from balayage to a bleached bob, while always keeping her makeup classic, whether it be a bold red lip or long, fluttering lashes.
But an advocate of looking beyond beauty, Selena has absolutely no qualms discussing unrealistic beauty standards as well as how she deals with cruel trolls.
Less skinny brows and frosted tips, more crimping and butterfly clips pls.
She previously took to Instagram to say: "The beauty myth - an obsession with physical perfection that traps modern women in an endless cycle of hopelessness, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfil society’s impossible definition of flawless beauty. I chose to take care of myself because I want to, not to prove anything to anyone. Wind in her sails." Wise words, Sel.
The star has also recently launched her very own beauty line, Rare Beauty, which is named after her third studio album.
"Rare Beauty isn’t about how other people see you — it’s about how you see yourself," she revealed on Instagram Live. "I want us all to stop comparing ourselves to each other and to start embracing our own uniqueness. You are not defined by a photo, a like, or a comment.”
"I wanted to make a brand where you feel comfortable," she added. "I think people feel the pressure — I know I do — where you kind of feel like you need to look like everyone else... Sometimes that can feel a bit isolating."
“I want it to be real — real stories, real people, a place where people can feel they are in a community and not feel pressure to look like anything but themselves." Preach.
In celebration of Selena's 30th birthday, we've rounded up her best beauty looks, from Disney princess to fully-fledged Hollywood starlet.
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Cute as a button, a 14-year-old Selena Gomez hits her first red carpet after signing on to star in Disney’s Wizards of Waverley Place. The movie drew the world’s press to compare her to Miley Cyrus but, with her simple, glossy hair and barely-there make-up – just a slick of nude gloss, in fact – we don't think there was anyone comparable to the star.
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Still wearing her raven locks long and straight, Selena adds a choppy fringe to her tresses. This girl looks good however she wears her hair, but we prefer her with soft, natural waves.
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Wow! Could Selena look any more grown-up and glamorous? This ‘undone’ side bun, with loosely curled tendrils and sweeping fringe, is red carpet perfection, while the subtly-smoky eyes tick all the right beauty boxes.
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At the Teen Vogue Young Hollywood Party in LA, she proved that corkscrew curls can work, providing your hair has the health and vitality to pull them off - á la Selena, whose super-glossy raven mane is so Vogue.
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Fancy finding her style feet so young? Selena, we salute you. The body-beautiful side pony and dramatic, Cleopatra-esque eyes are winning.
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The feline flicks with the liner are cute, as is the haphazard up-do. We love Selena's glossy nude pout, too.
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Ummm… wow? Selena had often expressed her desire to try out different hair hues before she stepped out with this shock-tastic platinum look in 2009. However, we can confirm – in case you were in any doubt – that it is a WIG. A favourite wig of Selena’s, no less. The starlet sported it out a few times that year, even using it in photo-shoots and dedicating a song to it - As A Blonde – on her debut album Kiss & Tell.
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Playing it safe with a little lipgloss and a coating of mascara. We were going mad with the blue eyeshadow at Selena’s age, but not our Sel, she keeps it sleek and chic with a side-swept bob.
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Grown-up and glamorous; Selena’s elegant ‘undone’ up-do with glossy corkscrew curls at the Snowflake Ball in LA certainly made her the belle of this ball.
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Simple, yet effective: every fashionista worth her style salt knows that subtly-smoky eyes and pillar-box red lips is the fast-track route to ‘glam’, and so Selena adopted this fail-safe formula for the premiere of Ramona and Beezus, her big screen debut.
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Pulling out all the style stops for the premiere of then-beau, Justin Bieber’s pop-umentary Never Say Never, in LA, Selena rocked these corkscrew curls. Note the twisted-in chocolate-brown streaks? We approve. And we approve of the shimmering lilac eyeshadow and pop of lavender on the lips, too.
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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it – and so Selena rocked the glossy waves, lashings of lashes and red lips once more at the Disney HD Channel launch party in London.
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Elegant yet edgy; Selena gave us serious hair envy at the MTV EMAs in 2011 with this body-beautiful and oh-so on-trend side pony.
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Looking every inch the silver screen siren, Selena came over ‘movie goddess’ with these retro, Veronica Lake-esque waves, look-at-me lashes and enviably-creamy skin for the MTV Music Awards in LA.
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Flirting with the ombre hair trend at the Nickelodeon Teen Choice Awards in Hollywood, Selena’s hair looks super-glossy, and ultra-polished.
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Selena adds some sophistication to her look with an ‘undone’ up-do and barely-there make-up.
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Selena radiates effortless yet sophisticated off-duty Hollywood glamour as she poses for a portrait pic at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. What a beauty.
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Selena attended an event in Santa Monica wearing a white mini dress and sporting a pretty updo with a bold red lip.
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Selena looked almost unrecognisable at the Victoria's Secret afterparty as she experimented with blue contact lenses. We absolutely adore her glossy waved mane, too.
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Selena Gomez tied her hair back for the 2015 Billboard Awards, framing her face and highlighting her dark eye make-up.
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We are dying over this beautiful look - the stunning sunset and peach tones are summer makeup goals!
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Selena has opted for a natural wave style for an appearance on Sirius FM radio, paired with a stand-out red lipstick look and we think it looks great.
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Effortlessly chic, the Bad Liar singer has pulled her brunette locks into a high ponytail.
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BAM! What a stunning beauty look from Selena. The singer attended the The Business of Fashion 500 Gala in New York, with a tousled lob and bold lipstick - a fierce combo.
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Smoky eyes and a sleek bun will never fail you! Selena looks absolutely gorgeous with this 'do - and don't even get us started on that flawless nude pout.
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At the AMA's Selena debuted platinum blonde strands, and we're completely obsessed about her new look. How badass does she look?!
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Supporting a cause close to her heart, Selena attended the Lupus Research Alliance Gala, in bright yellow dress, golden-hued makeup, nude lipstick and sleek updo showing off her new blonde strands.
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You got to give it to Selena, her new look is just werking. The songstress showed off a relaxed updo and feline flick at the Billboard Women in Music ceremony.
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Proving the power of a power bob, Selena's glossy hair is giving us major envy.
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Selena Gomez rocked a messy bun and tendrils at the 2020 Hollywood Beauty Awards at The Taglyan.
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The star looks chic at the Global Citizen VAX LIVE Concert in California earlier this year with beached hair and a monochrome makeup look, which complemented her pillar box red dress.
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The va-va-voom look suits Selena to perfection! Here she is heading to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert with the most luscious head of sleek locks we've ever seen, along with glam red lips.
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Selena rocked a sleek bob at a promotional event for her makeup line Rare Beauty in New York City, proving she's a true hair and beauty chameleon.
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Selena oozed old Hollywood glamour at the Critics Choice Awards by styling her locks in a chic bun and enhancing her pretty features with a slick of eyeliner while keeping the rest of her make-up natural
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Selena rocks the thickest, most luscious ponytail of dreams, while her dazzling eye-shadow matches her glittering dress at the LA premiere Of Only Murders In The Building Season 2.
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We love how the casualness of Selena's beachy waves and the glamour of her red lipstick comes together for this look for another event to plug Only Murders.
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Selena may have brought some sunshine to England with her yellow dress, but we're particularly obsessed with her side-parted half pinned-back hairdo. Beautiful!
Presley Ann2022
No one does sleek locks better than Selena - and teamed with deep red/brown lipstick - this look for her Rare Beauty event takes our breath away!
Stefania D'Alessandro2022
Wow, look at that bun! Selena looks incredible at another presentation event for her new beauty line Rare Beauty in Italy.
