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Best In Beauty: The Evolution of Sevyn Streeter

Essence Music Festival headliner, Sevyn Streeter, has got a lot going for her in addition to enviable talent and good looks. The über cool songstress is one of our favorite celebs when it comes to beauty. Find some of her best moments here.
By Virginia Lowman · Updated October 27, 2020
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Metallic Envy

At the 2013 Black Girls Rock! Awards, Sevyn opted for a nude lip and dramatic eyes. To get the look, up the ante on a basic smokey eye by patting a metallic shadow on the inner corners of your eyes. Complete the look with a set of feathery falsies.

Best In Beauty: The Evolution of Sevyn Streeter
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Beauty Basics

At the Equinox Celebrity Basketball Spectacular, Sevyn kept her look simple. Sporting a red lip and a simple cat eye, she enhanced the look by blending a shimmer shadow from the inner corners of her eyes onto her lower lash line.

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Coral Frenzy

Coral shadow is the beauty perfect pick-me-up for the summer months. Take a cue from Sevyn at our 5th Annual Black Women in Music event; dust a shimmery coral shadow on your lower lash line as well as your lids and blend upwards.

Best In Beauty: The Evolution of Sevyn Streeter
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Marvelous Mauve

For a look that is effortlessly sexy, go for a bold lip and keep makeup minimal. Sweep a barely-there grey shadow over your lids and apply a simple yellow shadow to the inner corners of your eyes. Complete the look with a dark mauve matte lip.

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Date Night Belle

For an appearance on 106 & Park, Sevyn opted for a romantic look that paired flushed cheeks with shimmering eyes and berry lips. 

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60s Glam

Channel the disco era with full lashes, glossy lips, and bright eyes. Get this look by applying a shimmery metallic on the base of your lid. Apply a complimentary dark neutral to your crease and blend upward. Sweep a bright shimmer shadow along your lower lash line and into the inner corners of your eyes; and finish with lush falsies.

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Graphic Liner

At the 2014 BET Awards, Sevyn rocked an upgraded cat eye with bold lashes and pink lips.

Best In Beauty: The Evolution of Sevyn Streeter
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Ombré Eyes

Try this look for your next girls night out. Concentrate a metallic shimmer shadow in the center of your lip and inner corners of your eyes. Create a smokey cat eye by blending purple shimmer shadow upward from your crease and outer corners of your eye. Create the same ombré effect for your lower lash line. Complete the look with liquid liner and lengthening mascara.

Best In Beauty: The Evolution of Sevyn Streeter
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Evergreen Beauty

The trick to a flawless face is having killer skin. Sevyn serves up a lesson in fresh-faced beauty sporting glowing skin, rosy cheeks, and lengthy lashes.

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Haute Pink

At BET’s 2013 Rip The Runway event, Sevyn proved that all smokey eyes are not created equal. Turn down the sexy by opting for a bright lip and flushed cheeks. 

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A Perfect 10

Red lips are still the ultimate beauty accessory. Sevyn pairs lush lashes with a neutral smokey eye and keeps her lips matte. 

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Feeling Vampish

Dark matte lipstick is the ultimate beauty necessity. Channel your inner vamp like Sevyn did at the 4th Annual WEEN Awards.

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Red Hot Summer

Sevyn pairs a matte red lip with contoured cheeks and a glamourous smokey eye at the Warner Music Group Grammy Party. 

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Sunrise Shadow

Here’s a look you can rock all summer long! Compliment your glow with a red-orange shadow; pat a vibrant hue onto your lid and blend a neutral shadow upward from the crease. Top off the look with lengthy lashes, liquid liner, and rosy cheeks.

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K-Beauty Brows

At season 5 of Verses and Flow, Sevyn paired shimmering eyes with nude lips and Korean-inspired straight brows.

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