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From singing to performing to magnificence, Brandy has lengthy been in a league of her personal. That is why she’ll be honored at our Black Girls In Music luncheon this Sunday in the course of the Essence Competition, only one night time after performing with Monica, with whom she lined our Fall/Winter 2025 challenge. From the start, the singer entered the stage together with her signature braids and unforgettable smile, redefining what it meant to merge artwork and authenticity.
In 1995, Brandy lit up the MTV Video Music Awards crimson carpet with a daring crimson lip that matched her monochrome look, giving us one among her first and most iconic magnificence statements. The next 12 months, on the twenty third Annual American Music Awards, she leaned into her signature tresses and gentle glamour, carrying glittery brown eyeshadow with pink lipstick that completely highlighted her youthful glow. In 1998, in the course of the premiere of I nonetheless know what you probably did final summer seasonBrandy confirmed off her playful facet by sporting a two-toned lip look with liner and a contrasting colour, lengthy earlier than the pattern took over.
In 2001, she introduced again her signature braids to the thirty second Annual NAACP Picture Awards, pairing them with gold highlighter, copper eyeshadow and shiny lips. Just a few years later, in 2004, Brandy was all about Y2K glow when she appeared for an look on MTV’s TRL, the place her honest pores and skin, shimmery shadow, and lip gloss epitomized pure magnificence in popular culture.
In 2008, across the time of her album Human, she turned heads on the Sony/BMG Grammy After Occasion together with her lengthy hair styled in a playful pouf and bronzer swept throughout her face for a heat, sun-kissed look. And in 2012, on the BET collection premiere on the Hollywood Roosevelt Lodge, Brandy closed out the night time with a glamorous second that turned heads. Suppose: full bangs, copper eyeshadow, pink highlighter and shiny lips. In different phrases, this look was proof that just about 20 years into her profession, her magnificence evolution was nonetheless serving.
Then, late final 12 months, on our fall/winter 2025 cowl, she sat angelically alongside her sister-friend Monica with silky onyx locks, full lashes and a flawless base. And most lately, she lastly obtained a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame. She graced the second with an auburn bob with curls, a grey prime with ruffled sleeves, black gloves and a beret.
Forward of her Essence Competition takeover, take a look at a few of our favourite magnificence moments from the singer under.
386837 09: Grammy Award-winning singer/actress Brandy stars as Moesha Mitchell in United Paramount Community’s standard half-hour comedy collection “Moesha.” (Photograph by Getty Photographs)
Cognac (Photograph by Steve Granitz/WireImage)
Brandy on the thirty second Annual NAACP Picture Awards – Music on the Common Amphitheater in Common, California, United States. (Photograph by J. Vespa/WireImage)
Brandy on the ninth Annual Soul Practice Music Awards on the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, United States. (Photograph by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Assortment by way of Getty Photographs)
Brandy on the twenty third American Music Awards on the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, United States. (Photograph by SGranitz/WireImage)
Brandy on the New York Premiere of ‘Beloved’ held on the Ziegfeld Theater in New York, New York, United States. (Photograph by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Assortment by way of Getty Photographs)
Brandy at Ray J’s Life debut in New York, New York, United States. (Photograph by Steve Eichner/WireImage)
Brandy on the 2004 “As we speak” Present Summer time Live performance Collection – Brandy at Rockefeller Plaza in New York, New York, United States. (Photograph by Derek Storm/FilmMagic)
Singer Brandy arrives on the Sony/BMG Grammy After Occasion held on February 10, 2008 on the Beverly Hills Lodge in Beverly Hills, California. (Photograph by Mark Sullivan/WireImage)
Brandy arrives at US Weekly’s Scorching Hollywood “Stars Who Care” occasion at The Colony on November 18, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage)
HOLLYWOOD, CA – JANUARY 05: Actress/recording artist Brandy Norwood arrives on the premiere of BET’s “The Recreation” and “Let’s Keep Collectively” on the Hollywood Roosevelt Lodge on January 5, 2012 in Hollywood, California. (Photograph by Allen Berezovsky/WireImage)
LOS ANGELES – 2002: Singer and actress Brandy Norwood poses for a portrait in 2002 in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Harry Langdon/Getty Photographs)
Brandy throughout Brandy visits MTV’s TRL – July 1, 2004 on the MTV Studios, Occasions Sq. in New York, New York, USA. (Photograph by James Devaney/WireImage)
NEW YORK, NY – DECEMBER 02: Actress Brandy Norwood attends the 2015 Alvin Ailey Opening Night time Profit Gala in Downtown New York on December 2, 2015 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Ron Adar/Getty Photographs)
Singer Brandy arrives on the Clive Davis & The Recording Academy 2016 Pre-Grammy Gala in Beverly Hills, California on February 14, 2016. AFP PHOTO/ MARK RALSTON (Photograph by MARK RALSTON / AFP) (Photograph by MARK RALSTON/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA – FEBRUARY 11: Singer/actress Brandy attends Major Wave’s eleventh Annual Pre-GRAMMY Occasion at London West Hollywood on February 11, 2017 in West Hollywood, California. (Photograph by Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic)
ATLANTA, GA – SEPTEMBER 20: Singer Brandy attends the “BET Her Fights Breast Most cancers” Particular Occasion at Riverside Epicenter on September 20, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photograph by Marcus Ingram/Getty Photographs for BET)
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 14: On this picture launched on October 14, Brandy poses backstage on the 2020 Billboard Music Awards, which aired on October 14, 2020 on the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Amy Sussman/BBMA2020/Getty Photographs for DCP)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 29: LOS ANGELES, CA – NOVEMBER 29: On this picture launched on November 29, Brandy attends the 2020 Soul Practice Awards offered by BET. (Photograph by Leon Bennett/STA 2020/Getty Photographs for BET)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 26: Bran’ Nu performs onstage in the course of the 2022 BET Awards at Microsoft Theater on June 26, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Leon Bennett/Getty Photographs for BET)
Brandy Norwood on the premiere of “Descendants: The Rise Of Pink” on the Walt Disney Studios on July 10, 2024 in Burbank, California. (Photograph by Michael Buckner/Selection by way of Getty Photographs)
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 30: Brandy attends her Hollywood Stroll of Fame induction ceremony on March 30, 2026 in Hollywood, California. (Photograph by Kevin Winter/Getty Photographs)