If your favorite season is awards, you’re not alone.
Here at Page Six Style, we’re constantly chronicling the best red carpet looks at the Grammys, SAG Awards and every ceremony in between.
And while celebrities’ designer gowns will cost you thousands — provided they’re not custom creations or archival pulls, that is — their pre-show beauty routines are often peppered with actually affordable products.
So before awards season comes to a glamorous conclusion at Sunday’s Oscars, we scoured years’ worth of A-list events to find stars’ most frequently used beauty staples — from luxury skincare to an $8 body oil.
Stars shine a little extra thanks to this bronzing beauty buy, which is also a Page Six reader favorite. Kendall Jenner, Elle Fanning and Camila Cabello all wore the glow booster for the 2024 Met Gala, while Jane Fonda and Monica Barbaro tried the new Lumi Le Glow Tint (which offers a little extra coverage) for the 2025 SAG Awards.
Martha Stewart’s also a fan; her makeup artist, Daisy Toye, told People she uses Lumi Glotion “every day” on her star client. (“It’s how she gets that dewy look, like she just got a facial,” she added.)
Stars are wowed by this viral smoothing spray. Celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton, the brand’s global ambassador, had spritzed the frizz-busting find on famous clients like Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez ahead of everything from the Met Gala to the Super Bowl halftime show, respectively.
When it comes to splurging on skincare, Hollywood’s obsessed with Augustinus Bader. This awards season alone, celebrity facialist Lord Gavin McLeod-Valentine’s used its product line — including this richly hydrating moisturizer — on Zoe Saldaña, Colman Domingo and Sharon Stone. (He got celebs like Naomi Campbell, Phoebe Dynevor and Chris Hemsworth camera-ready for the 2024 Met Gala with the same pampering process, too.)
“Celebrities don’t have the luxury of time, despite what we are told, to do all of these beauty treatments and invasive procedures,” McLeod-Valentine told Page Six Style in 2022. “They need simple but highly effective products that immediately improve the skin but will lead to accumulative transformation.”
Copy Taylor Swift’s red lip classic thing with Pat McGrath’s Elson, one of her go-to shades. Named after flame-haired supermodel Karen Elson, the blue-based crimson lipstick has also popped up on Nicole Kidman, Nina Dobrev, Christine Baranski and Nicola Coughlan. The hot hue regularly sells out, though, so if you find a tube in stock, we’d suggest snapping it up ASAP.
Plenty of stars are eyeing Lumify’s under-$20 eye drops for on-camera days. Jessel Taank told us they’re “magic,” while “Las Culturistas” co-host Matt Rogers said he uses them before taking photos for “an extra pop in your eyes.”
Brooke Shields is also obsessed, telling us, “My eyes get really red. This is the only one that has cleared them up almost instantly, and it’s non-addictive.”
Even Taylor Swift’s longtime makeup artist, Lorrie Turk, is a fan; she said on Instagram Stories that it’s “excellent for whitening eyes.”
Plenty of stars go from red light to red carpet with skincare gadgets like this CurrentBody mask. Halle Berry used it to prep for the 2023 Oscars, while Serena Williams included it in her Vogue “Beauty Secrets” episode.
Meanwhile, Kim Kardashian’s such a fan, she gave out the masks as Christmas gifts in 2023, raving on Instagram, “I’m obsessed with these.”
In addition to the two clinically recognized light wavelengths featured in the original — red and near-infrared — the brand’s Series 2 Mask boasts a third deep near-infrared wavelength, along with added lip, nose and chin coverage.
Armani’s smooth-finish foundation just might be an awards show good luck charm. Sabrina Carpenter wore it for the 2025 Grammys, while Cynthia Erivoo, Ayo Edebiri and “Anora” star Mikey Madison all have worn it to various ceremonies this season.
While stars have access to pretty much any product under the sun, Isabel Alysa’s Dolce Glow line’s among their favorites for a sun-kissed glow. The celebrity spray tan artist’s worked with everyone from Kim Kardashian to Selena Gomez to Miley Cyrus, the latter of whom even invested in her brand.
“When you’re looking at someone on the red carpet …. 99% of the time I’d say it’s because they got a good spray tan,” Alysa told us, noting that beyond bronzing, the sunless glow functions like a “filter on your skin” to “help tone, reduce appearance of cellulite [and] blur imperfections.”
When it comes to heated hair tools, Dyson’s are among the (figuratively) hottest in Hollywood. The brand’s multi-styling Airwrap comes with multiple attachments to curl, shape, smooth and dry hair.
Sabrina Carpenter reached for the TikTok-loved tool before the 2024 Met Gala, while Jeremy Allen White used it to perfect his curls prior to the Golden Globes the same year.
Khloé Kardashian’s also a Dyson devotee; in 2023, she told the Hollywood Reporter it “gives you that beautiful blowout look that we all long for, and it’s super easy to use.”
From red carpets to royal weddings, 111Skin is a pre-event staple for scores of stars. Sydney Sweeney and Lady Gaga have both snapped selfies in the brand’s sheet masks, and Priyanka Chopra used this exact version before Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s nuptials in 2018.
Plenty of celebrities use these wands to add a little shimmer in the spotlight — from SZA and Kacey Musgraves at the 2025 Grammys to Lana Del Rey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Demi Moore and Emily Ratajkowski at the 2024 Met Gala.
Michaela Jaé Rodriguez told us it’s one of her most tried-and-true products, specifically in the shade Peachgasm.
After head-turning dye jobs, stars often treat their tresses to Olaplex products like this top-rated hair treatment, which has nearly 100,000 (!) five-star ratings on Amazon.
At the 2024 Golden Globes, the formula emerged as one of the most-used products of the night; Jennifer Lopez, Margot Robbie, Carey Mulligan, Emma Stone, Julianne Moore and Riley Keough all used it before hitting the red carpet.
This creamy, travel-friendly formula does double duty as blush and lipstick. Stars like Reese Witherspoon, Greta Lee, Ayo Edebiri, Clairo and Kacey Musgraves have all taken advantage of its multitasking powers for awards shows over the years.
“[It] was a beautiful touch for a soft whisper of a glow,” Musgraves’ makeup artist, Moani Lee, said in a press release after the 2024 Grammys.
From fashion fixtures like Linda Evangelista and Pamela Anderson to Gen Z pop stars like Addison Rae, plenty of famous faces have used this buildable, serum-like foundation for major red carpets (often applied by McGrath herself).
Celebrity makeup mogul Charlotte Tilbury starts off every look with this moisturizer, which she once told us features “cushion and ‘lift mesh’ technology, so it immediately plumps … the skin and smoothes it.”
And while it’s been used on everyone from Emily Blunt to Demi Moore, leading ladies aren’t the only ones who swear by the stuff; “George Clooney loves it just as much as Amal Clooney [does],” Tilbury told us exclusively.
Cardi B and Keke Palmer reached for this no-frills formula prior to the 2024 Met Gala and 2025 NAACP Awards, respectively.
The latter star’s makeup artist wrote on Instagram that she combined it with the brand’s Radiant x Firm Body Lotion for “a hydrated, camera-ready finish.”
A-list aesthetician Joanna Czech combines her famous facials with this FDA-cleared at-home laser; prior to the 2024 Met Gala, she used the buzzy device to prep Cynthia Erivo, Phoebe Dynevor and Lily Aldridge.
“The Lyma Laser is the most effective skincare tool that I know of that’s suitable for at-home use,” Czech said in a press release at the time. “I have never seen anything so powerful, or able to deliver such amazing results.”
From Jane Fonda to Elle Fanning, plenty of stars have put the finishing touches on their red carpet looks with a swipe of L’Oréal’s powdery matte lipstick.
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This article was written by Hannah Southwick, Commerce Writer/Reporter for Page Six Style. Hannah spies deals on actually affordable celebrity-worn styles, puts Hollywood’s favorite labels to the test and finds the beauty products that keep stars red carpet-ready. She consults stylists and industry pros — including celebs themselves — for firsthand product recommendations, trend predictions and more. In addition to writing for Page Six since 2020, her work has been featured in USA Today and Parade.
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