The MTV Video Music Awards this weekend will be full of surprises, but one sure thing is that Rihanna will take home the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award. It’s an honor that celebrates the singer’s culture-shifting, career-spanning contribution to the genre. For each banger she has turned out since launching into superstardom, Rihanna has explored every type of music video before rewriting the rules herself—from the production value to the plot line (or lack thereof) to, of course, her boundary-pushing beauty looks, which leave no micro or macro hair, makeup, skin, or nail trend unturned.
In “Pour it Up,” she turns the classic pairing of bottle blonde and crimson pout and polish on its head, letting her talon-like manicure attach to leather gloves, the innocence of her icy dye job subverted as she throws money in the air. Then there are the Ariel-worthy Disney princess curls in fire-engine red, the slick bob, the tiara-esque layers of hair clips. Her skin has been glossy (“FourFiveSeconds”), silver (“Umbrella”), and gold (“SOS”); her eyes have been dramatic shades of black, green, and purple. And when Rihanna is torn between two equally Bad Gal hair-and-makeup motifs, she doesn’t choose—because why not make two perfectly jaw-dropping mini-movies for the exact same song (“Work”) instead? Here, a survey of the best video looks in RiRi’s repertoire.
Kendall Jenner, Cara Delevingne, and more of Rihanna’s Navy pay tribute to “Work”:
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