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Transformation: Kate Bosworth

"I'd rather see somebody wearing too little makeup than too much," Kate Bosworth has said and it's no wonder. With her pale locks and heterochromic eyes—one blue, one hazel—the 21 star's striking enough to go without. Born in Los Angeles and raised in New England, the former equestrian has played everyone from a surfer girl to Superman's girl. But it's her clean all-American style that has landed her contracts with both Revlon and Calvin Klein Jeans. "The hair is always beautiful, the makeup, the nails—she's never overdone," Calvin Klein designer Francisco Costa has said. "There is this casualness about her." Sounds just right.

—Betony Toht
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2000

2000: The teen plunges into acting with roles in Remember the Titans and Young Americans. "It's so weird how life works out," Bosworth told GQ. "When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a waitress on roller skates."

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2002

2002: Following a breakout role in Blue Crush, Bosworth darkens up. "I felt more solemn as a brunette," she told In Style. "It doesn't make sense, but I don't take things as seriously when I am a blonde."
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2004

2004: "Less is more," the Beyond the Sea star has said. "I never want to look done up."
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2005

2005: "I am super-conscious of my skin," the Bee Season beauty told In Style. "I don't think I have ever gone to bed without washing my face and taking everything off."
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2006

2006: She plays Lois Lane in Superman Returns and goes platinum. "[Her hair] is more movie star, like a young Marlene Dietrich," hairstylist Renato Campora has said.
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2008

2008: "I'm not sensitive about having one brown eye and one blue eye," the 21 star has said. "I actually love it. It's a good conversation starter."