Celebrities always seem to bring their most daring and unexpected looks on the red carpet. And while we love a bold color or floor-length tresses, we always get excited when we see our favorite ladies rock any dope protective styles on the carpet. At this year’s BET Awards we saw locs, braids and cornrows galore. Below we’ve rounded up our favorite natural and protective styles from the evening.
Ledisi wore her gorgeous locs in a waist-length high ponytail braid.
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Amandla Stenberg
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Logan Browning
Logan’s locs were absolutely stunning on the red carpet.
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Skai Jackson
Skai Jackson always brings it comes to beauty, and the BET Awards was no different. The star rocked a full pony and exposed bobby pins for a look we can’t wait to recreate.
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Storm Reid
These Bantu knots are perfection on Storm Reid.
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Dineo Ranaka
We’re really loving the various and intricate ways women are adorning their protective styles.
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Erica Ash
Our heart always skips a beat when celebrities choose to wear protective styles on the red carpet. So it’s no surprise we loved Erica Ash’s Fulani braids.
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Chloe x Halle
These sisters can do no wrong when it comes to beauty. We love seeing how they dress up their locs for red carpet events.
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Bri Steves
These jumbo locs are beautiful.
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Jasmin Brown
Locs seemed to be the style of the evening, and Jasmin shows exactly why.