Few people have a beauty archive quite as lethal as Catherine Zeta-Jones. Since her breakout in the 1990s, the actress has set trends and gifted us with hair and makeup inspo every decade for the past 40 years. Whether you've followed CZJ since she was first sprouting in British comedy, The Darling Buds of May, got on board when she went global in the Mask of Zorro, jumped in with her ‘90s romcoms (or her noughties romcoms for that matter), showed up for Chicago, locked in for her rendition of Wednesday’s mum, Morticia, or are deep into her latest spin as on-the-run former cocaine dealer, Jackie Price, in Kill Jackie, Catherine Zeta Jones has been serving up top tier looks since before some of us were even born.

She's taken on the nineties skinny brows and grungy colour palette, the noughties side fringe and heavy liner, the 2010s cut crease eyeshadow and the 2020s dark feminine energy. Through it all, Catherine has remained true to an old-school level of glamour that feels equal parts vintage and timeless.

Below we've rounded up some of our favourite beauty looks to save for our next glam occasion.

The 1990s saw CZJ start-out in the industry, and become a household name in the UK, courtesy of The Darling Buds of May. Before we knew Catherine as Elena from Zorro or Wednesday Adam's mum, the triple threat actress, singer and dancer released a song, For All Time, in 1992 (before reminding us a decade later what a top tier singer she is when she took on her Oscar-winning role of Velma Kelly in Chicago).

In the music video, Catherine gave us one very vintage 1940s inspired-look with side-flipped Hollywood curls and a red lip, and one very modern ‘90s look with a graphic half updo bun on top of her head, sheer ’90s grungy eyeshadow and '90s chunky French tip nails.

In the middle of the decade, Catherine kept things classic with her hair worn loose and lightly blow-dried or up in a sleek updo with a tendril left loose.

Defined eyes have always been a trademark of CZJ and she's rarely seen without a black liner framing them. For the Men In Black premiere in 1997 she wore her hair in signature ‘90s face-framing layers, while for the Mask of Zorro premiere, she paid homage to her latin character Elena with a low flamenco bun. She kept the ’90s influence with her sheer smoky eye.

For the Air Force One premiere Catherine kept her makeup high contrast with a classic '90s berry lip set against her fair skin. Her hair felt polished without being overly groomed.

For the screening of The Haunting, Catherine opted for a cool-toned dark blue smoky eye and a sleek centre-parted bun. At the MTV music awards, at the end of the decade CZJ wore her hair loose with lightly defined makeup.

The noughties saw CZJ take home awards for her role as Velma Kelly in Chicago, as well as giving us romcoms like Intolerable Cruelty and No Reservations, and favourites like The Terminal and Oceans Twelve.

In 2002, Catherine flirted with a slightly lighter hair colour, mixing in some blonde highlights, but for her Oscars win for Best Supporting Actress in Chicago, she had returned to her roots, wearing her dark hair in a low centre-parted chignon with defined eyes and a brick red lip to claim her award.

By 2003, Catherine had adopted the noughties side fringe and experimented with colourful eye makeup, courtesy of a shimmery green eyeshadow at the premiere of Intolerable Cruelty. At the Venice Film Festival, Catherine chose a more classic look with black liner, inner eye highlight, rosy cheeks and lips and a bouncy blow-dry.

For the 2004 premiere of The Terminal, Catherine wore one of her most signature looks, a light smoky eye with nude lips and her hair loosely curled. For an Elizabeth Arden campaign the same year, CZJ shape-shifted with a much shorter curly lob, a side fringe and minimal eye liner.

Catherine was a repeat guest at our own Glamour Women of the Year awards throughout the noughties. In 2005 she wore her long, layered hair curly and flicky with a purple smoky eye. Later that year she paired her teal blue dress with a matching sheer teal smok eye and long side-parted waves.

At the 2006 Glamour Women of the Year awards, Catherine chose to wear her hair in a statement, sleek beehive with a '70s curtain fringe, then in 2008 she remixed her classic smoky eye with a midnight blue rendition.

Proving you don't have to choose between lips or eyes, Catherine regularly gives us both, with loads of liner, loads of lashes and a statement red lip. At the 2009 Glamour Women of the Year awards at the end of the decade, Catherine wore her hair scooped up off her face with a navy blue eyeshadow that matched her dress.

The 2010s gave us Rock of Ages, Playing for Keeps, Red 2 and Dad's Army, alongside a more established beauty blueprint.

Catherine regularly wore her long hair softly curled and side-parted or centre-parted with her trademark framing liner, lashes and nude lipstick.

For the 2015 Golden Globes Catherine wore her hair tucked neatly behind her ears, with the rest tumbling behind her and paired a very smoky kohl eye with nude lips, while later that year she swapped in a deep red lip and loose curled hair for another appearance.

For the Los Angeles Mission Legacy of Vision Gala in 2017, CZJ wore a rosy makeu-up look with her glossy hair softly parted and blow-dried, while in 2018 Catherine remixed her go-to nude lip with a fuchsia shade and very sultry black liner to match a black lacy OOTD.

The 2020s have brought Catherine to a whole new audience and matriarch, Morticia Addams, alongside her on-screen daughter, Jenna Ortega in Wednesday on Netflix. (It's given us lots of method gothic and dark feminine makeup moments) and most recently, she starred as cocaine dealer, turned art dealer turned hit-mob target in the Amazon Prime series, Kill Jackie.

During a 2022 appearance on The Kelly Clarkson show, Catherine mixed things up with a lilac lip colour before returning to her tried and true formula for a red carpet appearance in 2024.

Last year, Catherine went method with some of her beauty looks for Wednesday, like the blood red lip she wore to one premiere and the inky black liner and dark cherry lip she wore to another, she even traded in her loose curls for a slick high bun.

At the 2025 Emmy Awards she paired a sheer, black lace bodice with a sheer black smoky eye and for the 2026 Kill Jackie premiere she teamed a blue-silver ensemble with an eye that referenced the shade in a classic CZJ move.