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6 Celeb-Loved Beauty Looks That Audrey Hepburn Did First

See the icon's best beauty looksas well as Hollywood's modern interpretations.
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Decades after the height of her career, we're still constantly inspired by the beauty of Audrey Hepburn—and we're clearly not the only ones. In honor of what would have been the icon's 85th's birthday, we rounded up six of Hepburn's best beauty looks that more than fifty years later, modern starlets still count as their go-tos.
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6 Celeb-Loved Beauty Looks That Audrey Hepburn Did First, Perfectly

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Bold Brows

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In Sabrina, in 1954.
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Bold Brows

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As Lilly Collins, Cara Delevingne, and Keira Knightley illustrate, there has never been a bigger moment for highly-defined statement brows—that is, since Hepburn flaunted her iconic pair.

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The Classy Red Lip

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Posing for a portrait in 1955.
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The Classy Red Lip

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Red gets a sultry rap, sure. But Hepburn showed that there's something incredibly sophisticated about a correctly-styled scarlet lip—something that Scarlett Johansson, Joan Smalls, and Miranda Kerr understand as well.

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The Breezy Long Bob

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Writing a letter in a palm grove in 1955.
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The Breezy Long Bob

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The long bob is quite the phenomenon as of late—just look at Nicole Richie, Kate Mara, and January Jones for stellar examples. When Hepburn did it in 1955, her hue may have lacked the ombre tinge of today, but that doesn't mean it didn't look just as—if not more—effortless.

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The Pixie With Long Bangs

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Swimming with actor Albert Finney in 1966.
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The Pixie With Long Bangs

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When done right, this is no mom haircut—and Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Lawrence, and Michelle Williams definitely pull it off. But Hepburn set the bar for the modern gamine.

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The Smoky Cat Eye

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A portrait taken in 1975.
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The Smoky Cat Eye

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Amanda Seyfried, Angelina Jolie, and Kim Kardashian are just three of many celebs who frequently flaunt a hazy, sultry spin on the classic cat eye. Hepburn used it as a dramatic go-to throughout her career.

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The Short and Whispy Bang

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Posing with her Best Actress Oscar for Roman Holiday, in 1954.
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The Short and Whispy Bang

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Hepburn's pixie bangs stuck with her when the rest of her locks were both long and short. It's a tough look to pull off, but Penelope Cruz, Zoe Kravitz, and Krysten Ritter are three stars brave enough to give it a try.

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