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" Before: Long before she was a fashion icon, Debra Messing attended her prom at Rhode Island&amp;#039;s East Greenwich High in a pink polyester dress with a belted waist and puffy sleeves. &amp;quot;In high school, I looked 40,&amp;quot; Messing has quipped. As a graduate student in New York City, she had a particularly unflattering haircut \u2014 &amp;quot;very, very short...I looked like Bozo the Clown.&amp;quot; Even after finding fame as a star of Will &amp;amp;amp; Grace, Messing has worked to embrace her quirky beauty. Over the years, she has been subtly \u2014 and not so subtly \u2014 pressured to have breast augmentation.  After: Messing has figured out how to make the most of what she has \u2014 and doesn&amp;#039;t have. She is unabashedly confident about her lack of cleavage, embracing plunging necklines. &amp;quot;I really like my breasts -- I just think they&amp;#039;re really pretty,&amp;quot; Messing has said. She dyed her hair red from its original brunet shade and now indulges in an eyebrow specialist. &amp;quot;Debra has thin eyebrows naturally, so we&amp;#039;ve filled them in,&amp;quot; says Valerie Sarnelle, the owner of Valerie Beverly Hills. To highlight Messing&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;huge, beautiful eyes,&amp;quot; Sarnelle adds, &amp;quot;I darkened her brows a little bit with dye so her face would have more depth.&amp;quot; Happily married to her longtime sweetheart, actor and screenwriter Daniel Zelman, Messing relished her recent pregnancy and flaunted her bigger belly.    Before: Early in her career, Kim Cattrall was best known as the sexy-yet-simple girlfriend with dirty-blond hair and a come-hither glance in movies like Porky&amp;#039;s, Police Academy, and Mannequin. She often seemed unsure of how to use her looks to her advantage. For a while, her hair was long, blond, and feathered. Then, she was a smoky-eyed brunet. As for fashion choices, Cattrall didn&amp;#039;t play it subtle: She had a fondness for the glitz and glitter of sequins. Looking back on a photo of herself from her early days in Hollywood, she has said, &amp;quot;I want to put my arms around this 29-year-old and say, &amp;#039;Hey, it&amp;#039;s going to be all right.&amp;#039;&amp;quot;   After: Cattrall was in her 40s when she was cast as the steamy, sexually liberated Samantha on HBO&amp;#039;s Sex and the City, and only then did she become an A-list beauty. Now, at 47, Cattrall looks better than she did a decade ago. The actress has a soft spot for her alter ego, calling Samantha &amp;quot;touching, heartwarming, hysterical, and tragic all at the same time.&amp;quot; Yet Cattrall, like her character, took some hits in her own life, surviving two divorces and a reportedly strained relationship with her costar Sarah Jessica Parker. These days she seems happy with who she is and what she sees in the mirror. &amp;quot;In your 20s, you&amp;#039;re trying to find your own identity and place in the world,&amp;quot; she has said. &amp;quot;In your 30s, you&amp;#039;re searching for what you think you should be in the eyes of society. But in your 40s, it&amp;#039;s all about living in your own skin.... I am still learning. The best compliment I&amp;#039;ve received lately is that I am blossoming.&amp;quot;   Before: As a child, Sandra Bullock&amp;#039;s personal style made her a target for teasing: &amp;quot;I was still in green velvet bell-bottoms when everyone else was wearing straight legs. People were kind of...abusive.&amp;quot; Even when Bullock earned a spot on Hollywood&amp;#039;s A-list, she remained slightly behind the fashion curve. Her wardrobe consisted primarily of Levi&amp;#039;s and baggy Abercrombie &amp;amp;amp; Fitch denims, with puffy down jackets and Nikes. For dressier occasions, says stylist Phillip Bloch, she&amp;#039;d opt for girlish slipdresses and vintage-style sweaters.   After: Changes in Bullock&amp;#039;s personal life led to changes in her appearance. In 2000, her mother, Helga, died from cancer. Now, it&amp;#039;s almost as if Bullock has adopted what she loved about her mother&amp;#039;s glamorous style. Her hair got shorter and sleeker after a cut by top New York City stylist Garren; her eyes have more drama, thanks to smoky makeup and beautifully groomed brows. Her wardrobe has stayed simple, but with an elegant twist, as she switched to sleeker, sophisticated outfits by Narciso Rodriguez and Marc Jacobs. Now, her jeans are by Helmut Lang, not Levi&amp;#039;s. Still, she remains a down-to-earth girl next door: &amp;quot;I know what I look good in. It&amp;#039;s not a lot of things, but I&amp;#039;ll stick with them.&amp;quot;    Barbara Gengarelly, 46, is a working mom who never pampers herself \u2014 so we did it for her. Here, takeaway tips for you from her amazing turnaround. Update your cut: Stylist Jerome Lordet of the Pierre Michel salon in New York City took off two inches from the back, then gave her ends a feathery feel. Tip: See someone with a cut you like? Ask who did her hair \u2014 then make an appointment.  Warm up your color: Pierre Michel colorist Stephen Sanna applied a golden dye all over, then added in chunky strawberry-blond highlights. Tip: As you age, too-pale shades can wash you out. A good salon can provide a color consultation. Brighten your face: Celebrity makeup artist Mally Roncal for Sephora applied sheer but punchy hues: a lime-tone eyeshadow (try Sephora All-Over Color in Sheer Green), a peachy-pink blush (try Cargo blush in The Big Easy), and coral lip gloss (try Bourjois Effet 3D Lipgloss in #14). Tip: Replacing just one neutral \u2014 like lipstick or shadow \u2014 with more color will define your features.  Dress up a little: Yes, chic can be comfy. Stylist Anne Sanderson mixed a wrap top with a graphic-print skirt. Tip: Wearing the color of the moment (right now, green) is an instant update.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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