Oscars 2016 Red Carpet: The Best Hair and Makeup Trends

Don't get us wrong—the hair and makeup at the Oscars is always good. There's always much to swoon over. But confession: This is the one night of the year when our bar for beauty is set almost unfairly high. (To see why, revisit our all-time favorite Academy Awards beauty looks.) We don't just want to see the usual red-carpet prettiness and perfection. We want to feel like we did when we first glimpsed Michelle Williams at the 2006 Oscars, or Lupita Nyong'o in her princess headband two years ago. At last year's show, the beautyscape was lovely but lacking in those jaw-dropping, instantly iconic moments. Our gut feeling, though, was that 2016 was going to be an on-point year—and from Alicia Vikander working a black-tie hun (a.k.a. half-up bun) to Lady Gaga's rose-gold eyes to Kerry Washington's killer cat eye, we weren't wrong. Come along with us as we review our favorite hair and makeup looks of the 2016 Oscars red carpet, broken down by the biggest beauty trends of the night. Punchy Lips: Raspberry, cranberry, tangerine—on a night when we usually see lots of classic red lipstick (not to mention one that happens in the dead of winter), these

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