The Beauty Looks That Ruled the 2016 Cannes Red Carpet

Offering the star wattage of the Oscars, the supermodel sightings of fashion month, and the dreamy opulence of the Met Gala, Cannes has always held a special kind of sartorial magic. But we can thank the festival’s seaside location for providing us with a summer’s worth of beauty inspiration. And true to form, this year’s red carpet saw an indelible mix of wind-whipped hair and steamy bronzed skin, punctuated by pure old-world glamour in the form of meticulously painted lips and slick hair.

Breakout red carpet star Bella Hadid sent lightbulbs popping with a ladylike updo that looked like it had been crafted in the morning, then left to unravel in the Côte d’Azur breeze, while newcomer Sasha Lane piled her dreads into a sculptural style, with shimmering nude makeup proving a stealthy high-impact makeup strategy. Meanwhile, Riley Keough and Lily-Rose Depp dressed down their red carpet coifs with a few face-framing wisps, and Blake Lively embraced Bardot-caliber levels of tousle.

But there’s more than one way to channel your inner French girl: Offering some classic Parisian yin to all the beachy yang, a string of beauties opted for crisp red lips: Marion Cotillard teamed a neat side part with a burgundy mouth, Léa Seydoux offset her rumpled bob with a fiery matte-orange shade, and Kristen Stewart showed off a cinematic pairing of sooty, silent-screen lids with a vampy blackberry lip stain.

Above, a look at Cannes’s 19 best red carpet beauty moments.

 

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