Calling all Virgos, it’s our time to shine. Virgo season is well underway and one of our favorite Virgo beauties, Beyoncé, celebrates her birthday today. As the poster child for the always-evolving, creative, detail-oriented earth signs, Beyoncé is taking another lap around the sun and doing so in style.
What better way to celebrate the greatest performer of her generation, and the ones since (not up for debate), than to take a moment to highlight some of her most inspiring beauty looks to date.
Debuting 27 years ago, Beyoncé has been on mood boards since for her hair, makeup, nails, and sartorial styles. From The Writing’s On The Wall to Self-Titled and Cowboy Carter, the trailblazer has perfected her beauty routine while at the same time shifting in style through the years and her creative eras.
In the late ‘90s and early 2000s we saw her rocking the popular thin eyebrows, frosty eyelids, and microlink-like braid styles that flowed into loose extensions — arguably the precursor to the goddess, mermaid braids we see today.
Into Bey’s solo career we saw glamorous looks like the often-imitated B-Day era updo and the larger than life curls which stole the show during her 2006 BET Awards performance. Self-Titled brought us an edgy-leaning tousled bob with highlights and sultry, smokey eyes. Lemonade ushered in the eponymous cornrow extensions now referred to as Lemonade braids.
OG Beyhive remembers her peak blogger-esque Instagram era with the collages that always featured her intricate nail designs— because, in true Virgo fashion, everything’s in the details. She carried this knack into the beauty looks throughout the musical film Black Is King, which featured countless hair and makeup looks that highlighted and embraced African diasporic beauty.
The 2023 Renaissance World Tour provided a wealth of style inspo as well, with Beyoncé gracing the stage each night in soft glam, shimmery eye looks and elongated tresses of various styles. She concluded this era with platinum blonde hair that carried us into the Americana goldilocks looks of Cowboy Carter today.
In honor of the Queen Bey’s birthday, revisit some of her most inspiring, trendsetting beauty moments—from the bugaboo braids to Cecred-certified natural curls— below.
