Golden Globes Beauty by the Numbers: How to Predict This Year’s Winners by Their Red-Carpet Hair and Makeup Looks

This weekend’s Golden Globes will set the tone for the rest of the awards shows to follow, especially when it comes to the Best Actress film nominees. For these nine women, Sunday will reveal who is poised to become the season’s darling—that golden girl who will take home the coveted statues and top the Best Dressed lists. For such an honor, much of the work has already been done: Dresses have been chosen, speeches have been written, and the performances for which they will be judged have been filmed, edited, and released in theaters. But, according to the great lineage of Golden Globes Best Actress winners, there may be one last stealth way for the 2015 nominees to gain a last-minute competitive edge—by choosing the right acceptance hair and makeup. In the service of discovering a fail-safe formula, we looked back at the past 36 years’ worth of winners and ran the numbers. The results are in. Few things, it seems, win over the Hollywood Foreign Press Association like the demure pairing of an evening updo and natural makeup—just ask Meryl Streep. To take the guesswork out of deciding between lipstick colors, whether or not to wear glasses, and of course, how to wear one’s hair, here is a statistical look back at the Best Actress Winners’ most successful beauty looks.

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