If It Were Up to Us, These Celebs Would Win SAG Awards for the Best Beauty Looks

While nominees and guests are abuzz with hours-long glam sessions and glitzy hotel room photoshoots the day of any award show, we commoners anxiously await the hour when we can plant ourselves in front of the TV and marvel at the flurry of painted faces and couture gowns sweeping the red carpet. Tonight’s occasion, if you didn’t know, is the Screen Actors Guild Awards (aka the SAG Awards)—drawing out the biggest names in Hollywood and their esteemed artists to deliver a slew of beauty looks that will set the stage for this season’s hottest trends.
With our popcorn in tow, we’re eagle-eyed on the wave of glittering eyelids, silken tresses, and eye-catching manicures (Wicked nominee Cynthia Erivo’s signature) that will surely surprise us on the red carpet tonight. Between Erivo's fellow nominee and co-star Ariana Grande, Anora’s lead starlet, Mikey Madison, and The Substance’s striking Demi Moore, we expected no shortage of newsworthy beauty moments—and that’s only naming a few. So watch this space, because we’re detailing our favorite beauty looks of the night below your scroll.
Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande donned a flurry of wispy lashes to accentuate her round eyes and deepened her chiseled cheekbones with a swirl of contour and pink blush. She tied the look together with a wash of carnation pink on her lips—a very Galinda move, if you ask us.
Keke Palmer
Keke (Lauren) Palmer plays every bit the role of Hollywood starlet with her glamorously curled, fiery red bob and ruby lips to match. Her fully-rimmed eyes are making us wonder if she watched Billie Eilish’s tour makeup tutorial, and her lashes are stacked with feathery flared falsies.
Pamela Anderson
Ever the showstopper, The Last Showgirl lead was among the sea of celebs styling their hair in a deep side part—this time with a bevy of old Hollywood waves and coiffed, side-swept bangs.
Demi Moore
Moore's star seemed to shine brighter than ever with this effortlessly glowy look—her inner eyelids highlighted with a shimmery shadow and skin aglow, flushed with a rosy-bronze blush. Her trademark tresses were worn loosely waved and down, skimming her waist.
Zoe Saldana
Saldana's mesmerizing eye makeup is a galaxy of bronze and plum-grey hues topped with a smattering of shimmers. Her bright pink lips are a welcome contrast to her sultry eyes while her dark locks were pulled back to show off that face card.
Cynthia Erivo
If we know we can expect one thing from Wicked's Elphaba, it's her buzz-worthy glam and knockout nails. Erivo's eyes are encased in molten silver eye shadow that harmonizes with her metallic fashion moment, while her nails are encrusted in glittering gemstones with plenty of emerald details.
Mikey Madison
The decorated Anora star let her lips do the talking with a bold pink-red pout that made a statement against her slightly flushed skin and brushed-out brows.
Lily Gladstone
Gladstone swept her inky tresses back into a low 'do, allowing her pale pink blush and cool-toned nude lip to take the spotlight.
Michelle Yeoh
Yeoh graced the red (err, gray) carpet with glowing, peach-blushed skin and a delicate swipe of eyeliner across her lash line.
Kerry Washington
While Washington's crystallized pink dress first drew us in, her perfectly curled, voluminous bob kept us there. Her side-swept bangs are the focal point of her classic glam, while her rosy cheeks and lips make her a vision in pink.
Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez has us running to chop our hair and buy an orange-red lip if it means we can all look like this. The Emilia Perez star deepened her brown eyes with a bronzy shadow and fluttery lashes, warming her cheekbones with peachy-pink high blush.
Elle Fanning
If anyone knows how to do a red carpet glamorously, it’s Elle Fanning. The actress put the “high contrast” makeup trend into full effect with a blue-red lip and rimmed, classic eyes to offset her swooping blond lob.
Nicola Coughlan
Much like her Bridgerton character, Nicola Coughlan’s red carpet glam is anything but basic. The Irish actress went for a sleek low bun and an intensely sharp, smoky wing.
Quinta Brunson
The Abbott Elementary star looks radiant on the red carpet with glowy skin and a combination of shimmery eye shadow and fluttery lashes accentuating her doe eyes. We’re currently fawning over her glossy brown lip— a two-tone look that has us wondering what her lip combo is.
Millie Bobby Brown
Maybe it’s because she just spent her 21st birthday on the beach, but the Stranger Things star looks as sun-kissed as ever. Millie Bobby Brown paired her beach-bronzed skin with warm-toned eye shadow and a glossy nude lip—tucking her icy blond hair into a delicately undone updo.
Sofia Carson
Sofia Carson made a case for the deep side part with this ultra-glossy hairstyle. Her eyes were warmed with bronzy pink eye shadow while her lips were accentuated with neutral pink to match her muted salmon pink gown (and yes, her baby pink nails match perfectly).
Marissa Bode
The Wicked-ly stunning Marissa Bode graced the red carpet with a deep berry lip and a sleek updo detailed with 1920s-inspired (dare we say, Ozian) finger waves.
Anna Sawai
Sawai took natural beauty to new heights with this pared-back glam, letting her glowy skin and lightly flushed cheeks take center stage. BRB—shopping for a pale pink lip liner just like hers!
Kaitlyn Dever
Dever makes us want to stay in that lavender haze thanks to her lilac eye shadow look. The actress and producer paired her statement eye with a peachy pink lip that complimented her rosy gown.
Dylan Mulvaney
Social media star Dylan Mulvaney graced the red carpet with a romantic, face-framing updo and baby bangs. While Mulvaney's eyes were kept minimal, makeup artist Laurel Charleston painted her lips a winter berry hue.
Alyssa Brascia is an associate beauty editor at Who What Wear. She is based in New York City and has nearly three years of industry experience, with rivers of content spanning from multigenerational lipstick reviews to celebrity fashion roundups. Brascia graduated with a BS in apparel, merchandising, and design from Iowa State University and went on to serve as a staff shopping writer at People.com for more than 2.5 years. Her earlier work can be found at InStyle, Travel + Leisure, Shape, and more. Brascia has personally tested more than a thousand beauty products, so if she’s not swatching a new eye shadow palette, she’s busy styling a chic outfit for a menial errand (because anywhere can be a runway if you believe hard enough).
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