Beauty Marks is back again: the next instalment of Vogue’s series that distils the best in beauty each week. We’re over halfway through January and plowing into 2025—and still, new year, new me seems to be the resounding mantra for celebrities’ latest looks.
This was a week for big beauty decisions: Julia Fox put the “girl, don’t do it…” audio to a TikTok that saw her brandish a pair of scissors. Lo and behold, she went and did it: an Ace Ventura-esque chop. FKA twigs is counting down the days to her next album Esexua, and so gave her skullet a trim refresh. Nail art also dabbled in the extremes: “Messy” artist Lola Young left the expanse of her XXL nails bare, and celebrity nail artist Mei Kawajiri—whose clients include Blackpink’s Lisa, Sabrina Carpenter, and Addison Rae—had fun with socks and Statue of Liberty appliqués. More subdued but no less lovely: British breakout pop star Rose Gray did the monochromatic trend with her red hair and Britney-esque catsuit, while Cameron Diaz cosplayed as an English Rose once again with a blush pink lip. Rihanna took a casual trip to Target and debuted cornrows with curled ends, and Bad Bunny had some face grooming. In the world of sport, tennis star Naomi Osaka exuded power and positivity with sunflowers pinned through her braids, and Vogue cover star Angel Reese posed for her Rose Basketball Club looking sweet as anything with a half-up half-down hairdo.
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Bad Bunny’s beard
Appearing on Jimmy Fallon to promote his latest album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, Bad Bunny—AKA Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio—hit the couch with a fresh beard trim. Only Benito could pull off the coiffed goatee, mustache, and chin fuzz trifecta.
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Julia Fox’s crop
“Girl, don’t do it…”—well, she did. The actor took to TikTok with a set of scissors to show a dramatic before and after of the DIY hair chop she did on her silver blonde hair. She told press at the premiere of her new film Presence that she is channeling the sleazy energy of Ace Ventura with the full look. We’re getting a bit of David Bowie too.
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Cameron Diaz’s rosy lips
Cameron Diaz made a return to Britain to promote her new film, Netflix’s Back in Action, her first acting gig in 10 years. The Holiday actor looked every bit of an English rose with a blush pink lip. I’m going to make an educated guess and say it’s a Westman Atelier number (Diaz’s go-to makeup artist is the founder, Gucci Westman, who has also been doing amazing things for Babygirl’s Nicole Kidman’s red carpet appearances).
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Courtesy of Instagram (@sadboi)4/11SadBoi’s braids
Ebhoni Cato O’Garro—AKA the Atlanta-based artist SadBoi—has a lot of fun experimenting with her look: grillz, pastel eyeshadow, plaits to her knees. This week, she wore her tight braids in slick, whippable bunches.
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Courtesy of Instagram (@rosegray_)5/11Rose Gray’s monochromatic hair
Currently in the whirlwind of releasing her stellar debut album Louder, Please, British pop star Rose Gray stays true to her burnt red hair for a monochrome look that matches tresses to a Britney-esque leather catsuit.
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Courtesy of Instagram (@lolayounggg)6/11Lola Young’s nails
There’s lots of things to love about the “Messy” singer’s look this week—the multi-dimensional mullet, the extreme ’90s lipliner, all-over blush and overt freckles. But it’s the XXL soap nails that really caught my eye. Messy, clean, soapy.
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Courtesy of Instagram (@FKAtwigs)7/11FKA twigs’ skullet
There’s just days to go before the avant-pop star drops her album Esexua, and of course, it requires that she keeps on top of her extreme hairdo. While twigs usually works with French hairstylist Louis Souvestre—who has crafted sculptural braids and gravity-defying ponytails for her—this time, she acted as her own barber to touch up her skullet. Read: a more extreme version of the mullet.
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Courtesy of Instagram (@naomiosaka)8/11Naomi Osaka’s hair clips
The tennis star shone in the third round of her Australian Open run, going up against Czech Karolina Muchova. She debuted her collab shoe with Nike, which features sunflower details. Osaka wove the floral theme through her fit and into her hair, with sweet little sunflower hair clips that matched the blonde through her braids. Sunny!
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Courtesy of Instagram (@angelreese5)9/11Angel Reese
The Vogue cover star, WNBA athlete, and burgeoning fashion icon posed in photos for Rose Basketball Club, looking sweet as anything with her curly hair in a bouncy half-up, half-down do.
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Photo: Backgrid10/11Rihanna’s cornrows
Relaxed and casual, Rihanna made the run to Target and debuted a new hair look: her tight cornrows cascaded into long braids that ended in curls.
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Courtesy of Instagram (@nailsbymei)11/11Nails By Mei’s ode to New York nails
Nail artist Nails By Mei (AKA Mei Kawajiri) is the cosmically talented woman behind the dreamiest decals and three-dimensional nail art embedded with lace and pearls on IG. And, a go-to for celebrities from members of Blackpink to Sabrina Carpenter, Dua Lipa, and Cardi B. This week, she’s played around with a cutesy Statue of Liberty nail on artist Isabelle Brourman, as well as some playful and impressively detailed, sock-studded nails.
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