Welcome to Beauty Marks: the first in a new Vogue series rounding up the best in beauty each week. From shock dye jobs to sculptural nail art, bobs (and more bobs), and trend-transcending makeup looks: each new week brings something for your Pinterest board and next nail appointment.
Kicking off 2025 strong, it was a week for experimentation. Whether on the beach pretending it’s not January, or on the awards season red carpet, playfulness ruled supreme. At this year’s Golden Globes, Emma Stone—no stranger to a hair transformation—debuted a chocolate brown pixie cut. On the red carpet for the National Board of Review Awards, A Complete Unknown’s Elle Fanning leaned into the lightness in pastel Valentino and let her freckles shine with a sheer makeup base. Olympian Jordan Chiles brought a strong show of nail art to her first gymnastics meet of the year, while Ayo Edebiri brought the bling to her teeth. Keke Palmer kept her bob razor-sharp, and SZA looked every bit of a scene queen with some pink highlights. Blackpink’s Lisa was chic with reality-defying, piecey bangs, Queer’s Drew Starkey shocked stans with a double bleach job, and model Sheila Bawar accessorized her hair with seashell charms for her dreamy jaunts to the seaside. Scroll below for the best of beauty.
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1/9Emma Stone’s pixie cut
From raven hair for her turn as Bella Baxter in 2023’s Poor Things to a skunky streak as Disney’s live-action Cruella, Stone has a lot of fun with her hair transformations for each role. A newly debuted pixie cut hints at her character in Yorgos Lanthimos’ film Bugonia, which we’ll get to see later in 2025. Her longtime hairstylist Mara Roszak gave the pixie cut some beautiful definition and a soft hold using her own products, RŌZ.
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Instagram (@lalalalisa_m)2/9Lisa’s piecey bangs
Blackpink’s Lisa knows the power of a perfect fringe. Her perpetually well styled bangs define reality, and this week, she showed off a lighter, piecey cut with a straight and blown out hairdo.
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Instagram (@jordanchiles)3/9Jordan Chile’s nails
The Olympic gymnast hits 2025 with a fresh new set for her first gymnastics meet of the year. A sharp, long and square set with an exaggerated brown and gold tip stands out against her blue leotard. Her nails add extra length and drama to each slick movement in her new UCLA floor routine, soundtracked by Prince.
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Michael Buckner/GG2025/Getty Images4/9Ayo Edebiri’s grillz
Along with her stylist Danielle Goldberg, Ayo Edebiri never misses on the red carpet. This week, at the Golden Globes, while the actor’s sartorial (and auburn hair) homage to Julia Roberts was the most major talking point, it was her grillz that really gave us pause. She wore a silver custom grillz set by Florida-based jewelry designer Vanessa Leon (@mentalgardens).
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Instagram (@kekepalmer)5/9Keke Palmer’s bob
Out promoting her new film One of Them Days, the Replica Handbag Store Beauty Secrets alum showed off a coppery, super sleek and sharp bob with a dramatic middle part.
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Elle Fanning’s freckles
Elle Fanning has been exploring all the aesthetics of the ’60s, the setting of her latest film, the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. She’s tried some pretty pouffed hair and Bardot-esque pigtails, but it’s her makeup at the National Board of Review awards that was particularly enchanting this week. Chanel makeup artist Tyron Machhausen gave Fanning a soft coral lip and light-touch blush and shadow, keeping her foundation base sheer and glowy to let her freckles shine through.
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Instagram (@SZA)7/9SZA’s pink moneypiece highlights
Scene queen SZA: she’s been highlighter pink and crimson all over, but the singer has opted for fuchsia pink moneypiece highlights, which graduate through into her darker curls to add dimension and movement.
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Drew Starkey’s bleach job
Drew Starkey’s hair journey was all part of his role on Netflix’s Outer Banks, from his introduction as a dirty blonde to a buzzcut in season three. This week, the Queer actor debuted a bold bleach job, with both his hair and eyebrows. He didn’t hang around though: just a few days later at the 2025 National Board of Review Gala, his eyebrows were returned to a softer blonde. And breathe.
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Instagram (@sheilabawar)9/9Sheila Bawar’s seashell charms
The Brazil-born model and previous Replica Handbag Store Brazil cover star brought in the new year on the beach, accessorizing her braids with silver seashells.
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