Elizabeth Taylor's Changing Looks

01 of 25

1947

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The ravishing child star star, born Feb. 27, 1932, made her transition to teen flicks with Cynthia and Life with Father. She passed away March 23, 2011.

02 of 25

1949

The teenaged Little Women star began to make her transition into adult roles with buoyant waves and a come-hither stare.

03 of 25

1953

Taylor drew attention to her strong brows and famous violet eyes with a trendy pixie style in The Girl Who Had Everything. Offscreen, she gave birth to Michael Howard Wilding, her son with second husband Michael Wilding.

04 of 25

1953

Taylor posed with her hair swept seductively to the side.

05 of 25

1954

The star of Rhapsody and Elephant Walk pushed back her short locks with a sweet band of flowers.

06 of 25

1954

Classic screen siren Taylor wore her hair in a wavy pageboy the year she starred in The Last Time I Saw Paris and Beau Brummell.

07 of 25

1957

At the Cannes Film Festival, she wore a diamond tiara courtesy of third husband Mike Todd.

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1960

The star of Scent of Mystery hit the town in a flower-covered chapeau alongside fourth husband Eddie Fisher.

09 of 25

1963

Her stylish turn in Cleopatra proved she could carry even the wildest of onscreen looks.

10 of 25

1963

Taylor starred alongside fiance Richard Burton in The V.I.P.s. To play a wealthy socialite, she adorned her glossy bun with her own emeralds.

11 of 25

1964

For her first wedding to Burton, Taylor topped her ringlets with a headband decorated with daisies.

12 of 25

1966

She chose a dramatic beaded turban for an Italian awards show.

13 of 25

1967

Taylor wore a fur hood to an N.Y.C. press conference for The Taming of the Shrew.

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1967

Assuming the role of a bored millionairess in Boom!, she wore a fanciful floral headdress courtesy of Tiziani of Rome designer Karl Lagerfeld. (Offscreen, she picked up her second Oscar from her role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

15 of 25

1969

The mother of four adopted a bohemian look that included a crown of braids coiled over loose locks.

16 of 25

1970

Even the 69.42-carat Taylor-Burton diamond couldn't compete with her violet eyes.

17 of 25

1985

With her salt-and-pepper pouf and well-defined brows, the 53-year-old took on the '80s looking better than ever.

18 of 25

1986

Perhaps as a nod to her recent nuptials (to seventh husband, Larry Fortensky), Taylor added fresh flowers and trailing white ribbons to her short coif.

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1986

A colorful scarf brought out her vibrant lip color in There Must Be a Pony.

20 of 25

1992

The breathtaking 60-year-old presented at the Academy Awards in fuchsia lipstick and lavender lined eyes.

21 of 25

1993

She borrowed a Van Cleef & Arpels diamond daisy necklace in which to receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Oscars. After the evening, "Elizabeth Taylor decided it was her good-luck necklace and bought it," the jeweler's Muffie Potter once told InStyle.

22 of 25

1998

Stylish even in strife, Taylor let her hair go strikingly silver following a surgery to remove a benign brain tumor. "True glamour comes from within," she said at an event thrown in her honor by the CFDA. "It radiates from the soul."

23 of 25

1999

She accepted a British Academy Fellowship Film Award with her platinum locks styled in a tousled bouffant.

24 of 25

2002

She returned to the Cannes Film Festival with an apricot-hued coif.

25 of 25

2007

She turned 75 as a cinema legend, the head of a billion dollar fragrance empire, and a tireless fundraiser for AIDS research. Naturally, she wore bombshell red lipstick to her birthday party.