Taylor Swift manages to front headlines for a medley of news-making topics. There's her celebrity entourage of best friends, famous ex-boyfriends (who are often the main subjects in songs), and recent obsessions with cats. And whether you love to hate her or hate to love her, it's undeniable that she's a beauty icon in her own right. Her signature look includes a red lip, winged eyeliner, and a "brond" hair hue (a brunette-blond mix). But she also manages to surprise us with her beauty choices — be it straightening her naturally curly locks and even adding blunt bangs or chopping off her back-grazing strands for a shoulder-length lob.
To top it off, Taylor, one of the hardest-working celebrities in the business, took home Billboard's woman of the year title for 2014. Somehow she does it all while always looking polished, even when she's leaving the gym! And that's why we have such a style crush on Taylor. If you, too, look to her for inspiration, then keep reading to learn eight steps you can take to copy Taylor's beauty swagger.