NY Fashion Week is coming up and we’re ready to see our favorite celebs in the front row. But for many of them, it took some time and the help of a stylist to make it there. Check out these celebrities who struggled with style before hiring some of the top stylists in the biz.

Just in time for the Oz The Great And Powerful, Snakkle unearths some Before They Were Stars gems of the celebrity cast. This photo gallery will definitely get your heels clicking for more!

Time to put on that lip ring and dust off that copy of Donnie Darko while you fire up some punk metal! Before these celebs were famous—and glamour-pusses on the red carpet— they had donned goth clothes, punky hair, and some seriously alternative looks. Now excuse us while we put on The Cure and curl up into the fetal position.

One of the added benefits of being a Hollywood director is the instant access it offers to some of the world’s most beautiful, talented, and sought-after women. Take a look at some noteworthy (and a few surprising) director/actress love affairs.

If you want to make it in Hollywood, sometimes the only way to get your pretty face in the door is to do it via the magazine spread. It might surprise you how many of today’s Hollywood acting elite got their first gigs for looking pouty and artsy in fashion magazines or hawking products on their very chiseled bodies. Snakkle’s reveals some eye-opening shots of quite a few model beginnings…