These Are the 15 Best Braided Looks of the Last Decade

Rihanna's bright red braid from the 2011 Met Gala has stuck in our heads for years.

Lively's fishtail pony from the premiere of Savages in 2012 still gives us chills for being one of the hottest hairstyles we've ever seen grace the red carpet.

The next time we're invited to a wedding, we're going to try to re-create Lucy Liu's beautiful fishtail braid from 2013.

At the MTV Movie Awards in 2013, Selena Gomez wore this edgy braided ponytail that went down the center of her head.

At the Teen Choice Awards in 2014, Mitchell arrived with a sexy messy braid on one side of her head.

At the 2015 Golden Globes, Emily Blunt wore messy-cool milkmaid braids.

We still want to re-create Vanessa Hudgens's crown braid from 2015, which was perfectly boho and adorned with small pins.

Zoë Kravitz's braids at the Mad Max: Fury Road premiere in 2015 were one of her prettiest hair looks of all time.

At the 2015 BET Awards, Janelle Monáe wore one of the most epic braids we've ever seen. It featured a huge mohawk-like braid down the center of her head and had smaller braids throughout her head.

In 2017, Skai Jackson styled her box braids into the prettiest updo.

At the premiere of The Lion King in 2019, we couldn't take our eyes off the detailed, braided finger waves Beyoncé was wearing.

Amandla Stenberg's finger wave braids were like no other style we had seen before on the star.

Celebrity hairstylist Larry Sims created this stunning look by placing cornrows at the front of Gurira's head before adding single braids to the back half. The finishing touch was topping it all off with a gold headband.

Storm Reid looked simply angelic with these milkmaid braids in 2019.