Yahoo Lifestyle Kim Kardashian Said A Popular Makeup Hack Made Her Look "A Little Crazy," And 14 Other Celebs Who Admitted Their Biggest Beauty Mistakes
I'm sure most of us have at least one hair or makeup look we seriously regret. Now, imagine if there had been red carpet cameras around to capture it!
Here are 15 major red carpet beauty regrets celebs shared:
1.In 2024, Holly Madison told Women's Health that she "liked the idea behind" her Princess Leia buns at an AFI dinner honoring George Lucas because she's "a nerd," but she regretted its execution. She said, "What I hate about it is they put extensions in my hair to make the buns, and the extensions didn't match my hair."
She continued, "So I, like, had this platinum blonde hair and then, like, a yellow swirl. So embarrassing."
2.In 2019, Taylor Swift told Elle, "If you don't look back at pictures of some of your old looks and cringe, you're doing it wrong. See: Bleachella."
3.In 2019, Scarlett Johansson told People that, for the 2004 Tony Awards, she "wanted a hairstyle that looked like Jean Harlow's," but it ended up looking "electrical socket crazy."
She said, "It looked like a crimping iron. Basically, a crimping iron was taking a stand on my head."
4.At the 2018 Met Gala, Selena Gomez's self-tanner progressively darkened over the course of the evening. In 2021, she told Vogue, "I'm at the Met Gala — basically one of the most prestige, beautiful events and I'm walking, trying to look all beautiful...[Later] I look at a photo of myself when I sit down, and I am completely orange
She continued, "I was like, 'This is going to be terrible because I'm going to get eaten alive about this.'"
5.In 2023, Kaley Cuoco told People that, looking back, she thinks wearing clip-in bangs to the 2013 SAG Awards "was the worst decision [she has] ever made."
She said, "I still think this is the worst thing I've ever done. I added a hairpiece, but it was bangs...It just did not work. It looked so fake."
6.In 2015, Sarah Jessica Parker told Yahoo Style that she disliked the curly bob she had at the Wonder of the World premiere in 2001 after her hairstylist, Serge Normant, "cut it off for Sex and the City." She said it wasn't a good representation of his work.
"That's maybe time to be forgotten and to never be discussed again!" she said.
7.In 2018, Mandy Moore shared some pictures from the 2001 red carpet premiere of Original Sin on Instagram, captioning the post, "Rolling into the weekend like..... #fbf #dontdyeyoureyebrows #2001."
Mandy Moore at the "Original Sin" premiere. (Photo by Frank Trapper/Corbis via Getty Images)
8.In a 2017 post on her website, Kim Kardashian said, "Mario [Dedivanovic, my makeup artist] and I used to do really heavy baking. Back in 2009 or 2010, having a super light under-eye was the thing to do, and I absolutely loved it at the time. But looking back, sometimes I looked a little crazy — especially with the camera flashes."
9.In 2016, Gigi Hadid told Glamour that her biggest-ever beauty mistake was "wearing way too much makeup on a red carpet." She said, "I didn't do it myself; it was before I was aware of how I liked my red carpet makeup."
She continued, "It's a learning process. You have to go through it to get better, so I'm just glad I got that over with a few years ago when people cared a lot less [about who I was]."
10.In 2019, Ashley Benson told W magazine that her "biggest fashion regret" was "probably [her] style on every red carpet when [she] was younger" — specifically before Pretty Little Liars.
She said, "It was horrible. Horrendous. But I also never used a stylist. I didn't know what stylists were back then. I mean, I knew people were getting dressed and stuff, but there wasn't really a need for me to have one, because I was on a soap opera. I just always bought weird clothes to wear to premieres. But after PLL, my publicists were like, 'You need to get a stylist.' And I was like, 'Okay, this is great,' because I finally started looking nice on the red carpet."
11.In 2023, Charlize Theron reportedly told InStyle that her biggest beauty regret was "hands down, the thin eyebrows in the 1990s."
"I'm still recovering from that," she said.
12.In 2022, Heidi Klum expressed regret over her hairstyle from the 2008 Oscars. She told E! News' Daily Pop, "[John] Galliano, he made this for me. I love this dress. What I don't love is my gigantic bun."
She continued, "I had this hairdresser at the time, and I was like, 'This bun is too big.' And she was like, 'No, I love this bun. It has to be bigger.'"
13.In 2017, Nicole Kidman expressed regret over striaghtening her hair so much. She told Who magazine, "I really wanted to have that suntanned skin and long blonde hair. I wanted to conform and be the Aussie beach girl. And I was never going to be that."
She continued, "I wish I had my curls back. I tortured them to death. I always say, 'Don't ruin the ringlets!'"
14.In 2016, Lea Michele told AOL, "There was one time I went to an upfront in New York for Glee, and I had this massive bun on the top of my head — but it was all me."
"I told my old my hairdresser that I wanted to do it, and I look back, and it was a bun and a dark lip and a crazy dress," she said.
15.And finally, in 2016, Demi Lovato told Refinery29, "My ultimate beauty regret is the many shapes and forms my eyebrows have come in."
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"I've had stages where they've been so thick where people have asked if I got eyebrow extensions, and then so thin it looks like I just drew them on," they said.
