Lto 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival 2023 is at the start: from Tuesday 16 to Saturday 27 May 2023 the spotlights are turned back on one of the most awaited and celebrated cinema events. And it has always been staged in Cannes also the show of beauty: between sparkling hair and make-up, let’s go over some of the most memorable beauty looks ever.
Best of beauty in Cannes: hair, head shots
La Montée des Marches has always been an opportunity to show off hair that leaves its mark. As Helen Mirren or Tilda Swinton who over the years have chosen hairlooks that have gone down in history.
Memorable the cotton candy pink hair of the Mirren in 2019, coordinated with the dress, as well as the carrot-colored pixie cut by Tilda Swinton, muse of short cuts, in 2013. The English actress has been queen of transformations several times in Cannes: from futuristic peroxide blonde to side shaves, to pomaded and swept up looks. The 2022 version is memorable: a rockabilly hairstyle complete with an Elvis-style banana.
Over the years, the Cannes Film Festival has always been an opportunity to show off bold, sometimes even princely, beauty looks that have certainly gone down in history (Getty Images)
Also Kristen Stewart is a point of reference when it comes to head shots. In 2017 he paraded with a completely shaved head, Citing a even more legendary buzzcut, that of Natalie Portman at the premiere of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sithin 2005. Almost a regular guest at the Festival, over the years Kristen Stewart has sported bobs, long bobs and very long hair between scandi blonde and coppery red always surprising the fans.
In Cannes 2023, the tribute to Catherine Deneuve’s hair
The manifesto of the 2023 edition is a tribute to beauty, in particular to the hair of yesteryear. Protagonist is Catherine Deneuveblonde-vanilla hair par excellence of transalpine cinema, photographed in black and white in 1968 during the filming of La Chamade on Pampelonne beach.
In the image, the actress plays with her legendary mane as she ties it into one half ponytail, a semi-tail much loved by Deneuve and shown several times on the Croisetteso much so that it has become a hairlook symbol of Sixties beauty à la plage.
Not just Catherine Deneuve. The “fountain” queue that Claudia Cardinale chose for the 1963 edition has gone down in historyas well as the bob with retro waves by Grace Kelly in 1955. Tres chic.
Not to mention the hair, also blonde but much more rebellious, of Brigitte Bardot who in 1956 chose a jagged fringe on a very long hair. All timeless icons, which, we bet, will be mentioned among the hairlooks of this edition.
Headbands, turbans and crowns, the unforgettable hair accessories
Not just hair in the wind of the Côte d’Azur. There are also some unforgettable accessories. As Diane Keaton, who arrived in 1987 with her blonde hair wrapped up in a checkered cloth tied by a large bow under which a full fringe poked out.
Sophia Loren between the fifties and sixties she styled, braided, curled her hair, often decorating it with flowers, crowns and imaginative turbans like the one chosen in 1965. But the real one coup du théâtre was the braided updo and embellished with a princely Elizabeth Taylor tiaraa gift from her husband Michael Todd and worn in Cannes in 1957.
From Cannes, make-up over the years
Orange look or two layers of black, purple or carmine lips en pendant with manicure. In Cannes it’s not just a question of hair but also of make-up.
If the eyeliner line is the most dotted and mascara coats abound on the Montée des Marches, sequins, glitter, sequins and glossed reflections are often the protagonists.
Like the emerald green ones applied manually along the lower lashline Andie Macdowell at the closing night of the 2022 edition or as lo smoky eyes shimmer in Kristen Stewart’s forest green shade in 2018.
And if Lupita Nyong’o in 2015 chose an intense purple lipstick, in 2013 Cara Delevingne focused on glossy cardinal lips in perfect matchy matchy with a manicure.
Coco Rocha’s 2021 make-up is unforgettable: metallic red gaze that fades towards black and accompanied a hairstyle of tribal braids for a sculptural and futuristic beauty look.
But still: Barbara Palvin in 2013 he focused on an orange eyeshadow applied liberally on the fixed and mobile eyelid. Penelope Cruz has always been the queen of minimal: in 2000, even before it became a must have, the Spanish actress chose an extremely natural and very copied nude look in the following years. Also in Cannes. And now, the games reopen.
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