--- title: Makeup: Watch This Woman Transform Into Taylor Swift description: Starting with a look from 2006 canonical: https://time.com/4014012/woman-makeup-transforms-into-taylor-swift/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-27T21:23:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:23:57.273Z og:title: Watch This Woman Transform Into Taylor Swift 6 Times in 1 Minute og:description: Starting with a look from 2006 og:url: https://time.com/4014012/woman-makeup-transforms-into-taylor-swift/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This Woman Transform Into Taylor Swift 6 Times in 1 Minute twitter:description: Starting with a look from 2006 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Woman Transform Into Taylor Swift 6 Times in 1 Minute by [Lindsay Dreyer / MIMI](https://time.com/author/mimi/) ## Lindsay Dreyer / MIMI Author Aug 27, 2015 9:23 PM UTC by [Lindsay Dreyer / MIMI](https://time.com/author/mimi/) ## Lindsay Dreyer / MIMI Author Aug 27, 2015 9:23 PM UTC [_MIMI_](https://www.mimichatter.com/) _is a Time Inc. property._ With the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards right around the corner, it’s safe to say [we have Taylor Swift on the brain](https://www.mimichatter.com/taylor-swifts-vma-beauty-moments-1311638145.html). The 25-year-old “Style” singer has become a red-carpet mainstay known for her modern twist on old Hollywood glamour. But it hasn’t always been that way — before she was serving up that “[red lip classic thing that we like](https://www.mimichatter.com/best-celebrity-lipstick-969468257.html),” Swift was just a regular(ish), fresh-faced high school kid with a head full of curls. In honor of Swift’s impressive beauty transformation, MIMI teamed up with celebrity makeup artist [Stephanie Flor](http://stephanieflormakeupartist.com/) to recreate six of Tay’s most iconic looks through the years. We’re starting all the way back in 2006 during her curly-haired “Tim McGraw” days — a good three years before the infamous Kanye West incident! — and ending with the layered lob she debuted in 2014. _This_ [_article_](https://www.mimichatter.com/taylor-swifts-most-iconic-red-carpet-looks--watch-woman-transform-into-1314010707.html?xid=time) _originally appeared on_ [_MIMI_](https://www.mimichatter.com/)_._ _More from MIMI:_ * [Meet the App That’s Changing the Way You Shop Drugstore Beauty](https://www.mimichatter.com/try-it-on-makeup-app-1316381851.html) * [I Was on ‘Good Morning America’ and It Completely Changed the Way I See Myself](https://www.mimichatter.com/lindsay-dreyer-good-morning-america-date-onomics-jon-birger-book-inter-1315905640.html) * [Working With a Lot of Men Could Take Its Toll on Your Health](https://www.mimichatter.com/women-health-male-dominated-office-research-study-1315707180.html) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4014012/woman-makeup-transforms-into-taylor-swift/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4014012/woman-makeup-transforms-into-taylor-swift/"},"headline":"Watch This Woman Transform Into Taylor Swift 6 Times in 1 Minute","datePublished":"2015-08-27T21:23:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:57.273Z","description":"Starting with a look from 2006","url":"https://time.com/4014012/woman-makeup-transforms-into-taylor-swift/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","beauty","Taylor Swift","celebrity","makeup"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lindsay Dreyer / MIMI"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4014012/woman-makeup-transforms-into-taylor-swift/","name":"Watch This Woman Transform Into Taylor Swift 6 Times in 1 Minute"}}]}] ```