Meet the Beauty Team Behind Lauren Sánchez’s Signature Look

Lauren Sánchez is about to become a Bezos. The 55-year-old journalist was spotted out in Venice on Wednesday ahead of her wedding to the billionaire Amazon founder, scheduled to take place sometime between Thursday and Saturday. For the outing, Sánchez sported her signature glam; loose waves, highlighter on her cheekbones and a layer of gloss coated on her lips.

Sánchez has always maintained the same hair coloring (dark brown with golden streaks), arched brows, shimmering shadow and a pink lip shade combo — all thanks to her beauty team. Although she has worked with a range of hair and makeup artists over the years, a few have stood out as the trusted team behind her bespoke aesthetic.

For hair, Sánchez has continuously collaborated with Los Angeles-based stylist Sophie Rose, whose client list includes on-air sports reporter Malika Andrews, actor Jon Lovitz and model Rochelle Aytes. Rose has also worked on the coiled curls of Melanie Hamrick, Mick Jagger’s girlfriend, for several red carpets. The hair artist, herself, became the face of big, bouncy curls, partnering with drugstore brand Zotos Professional to launch its “All About Curls” campaign last year.

Oppositely, Rose styles Sánchez’s hair straight, adding volume in the body of her medium brown mane with much tamer, drawn-out beach waves. Lighter highlights have been invited into her deep coloring over the years and are often on full display around her face. Sánchez also prefers a side part — a controversial choice nowadays, considering much of the beauty community tired of it after its nightmare heyday in the early 2000s. Ocassionally, the media personality will wear her hair pinned back in a low bun with front pieces purposefully spilling out (see her hairdo for U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January).

Her makeup is divided among two talents: Buster Knight and Laura Mele. Knight — who works with Paris Hilton, Kris Jenner, Selma Blair and Millie Bobby Brown — teamed with Sánchez for a night out in Paris in May. Mele, on the other hand, painted Sánchez’s countenance for her Blue Origin trip to space, which saw her travel in a rocket with Katy Perry, Gayle King, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen and Kerianne Flynn for a total of 11 minutes this April.

Whether it’s crafted by the hands of Knight or Mele, her aesthetic toes the line of “natural makeup.” The product isn’t dramatic, but it’s also not completely subtle. Think Ines de Ramon, Brad Pitt’s girlfriend. Sánchez’s eyebrows are always darkened to match her hair (like de Ramon), and her cheeks are usually contoured and bronzed, putting her bone structure on full display.

Not dissimilar to her hair, Sánchez occasionally plays with Y2K makeup trends. Carved brows, smoky eyes, shimmer shadow, wispy lashes and smudged waterlines comprise her late-night looks. She also rarely strays from pink hues on her lips, adding only mauve browns around the edges.

After their two-year-long engagement, Sánchez and Bezos are tying the knot in what will likely be a sumptuous affair attended by the upper echelons of Hollywood; Washington, D.C.; Silicon Valley, and Palm Beach, Fla. Influencers, A-listers and billionaires alike have already flocked to Venice for the ocassion (the Kardashians included, of course), partying on Bezos’ superyacht, the very spot in which he first popped the question to Sánchez in May 2023.

For the most part, the details of the weekend’s festivities have been kept close-lipped. It’s certain that the pair will exchange vows during a ceremony on Friday, but everything from the menu to Sánchez’s wedding dress, makeup and hair remains an enigma.