The Best Beauty Looks From The 2022 Met Gala Scream Gilded Age

 

Big hair, tiaras, and gold lids…

The annual Met Gala is the Superbowl of fashion. Every year, the most stylish celebrities turn up to Manhattan's most famous steps and bring their style A-game. Of course, their hair, makeup, and nails are all part of the overall look, and no detail is overseen.

The theme for the Costume Institute's 2022 event is In America: An Anthology of Fashion, part two to September 2021's A Lexicon of Fashion, which pays homage to the fashion history of the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Met Gala royalty Blake Lively and red carpet co-host Vanessa Hudgens were expected to make a

statement on the red carpet — and that they did. Of course, they're not the only celebrities who understood the night's assignment and really went there with their beauty looks.

From Kaia Gerber and Venus Williams to Kacey Musgraves and Maude Apatow, here's our list of the most memorable beauty looks from the 2022 Met Gala.

Blake Lively

This year's co-chair wore the night's hottest hair accessory: a tiara. To draw attention to her crown, makeup artist, Kristofer Buckle sculpted her cheekbones using Charlotte Tilbury's soon-to-launch Beautiful Skin Sun-Kissed Glow Bronzer — and she's the first person in the world to wear it on

Isabelle Boemeke

Eyeliner: check. Intricate manicure: check. Sleek updo: check. The multi-hyphenate talent brought it all, and then some. 

 Venus Williams

Leave it to the G.O.A.T. to turn up the heat on the red carpet. Her hip-grazing braids by Nikki Nelms deserve a moment of their own. 

Kacey Musgraves

Bottleneck bangs have never looked so chic. To achieve the elevated look, hairstylist Giovanni Delgado used Oribe products to help sculpt this polished style, and he describes it as "a late 1800s reference through a 1960s lens."

 Jodi Turner-Smith

Jodi Turner-Smith fully stepped into this year's Met Gala theme. The combination of neutral makeup, with a few rhinestones under her purposefully thin eyebrows, and her finger wave updo gave us show-stopping glam on the red carpet. 

 Alicia Keys

Umm, wow. We know that ponytails are Alicia Keys' thing, but this one is unbelievably good — and it was created by the hair goddess herself, Fesa Nu. For the rest of her glam, makeup artist Ayako Yoshimura gave the singer a glitzy cat eye and a wash of subtle color using new offerings from Keys Soulcare.  

 Megan Thee Stallion

Leave it to Hot Girl Meg to murder us with the tip of her winged look. "For Megan's Met Ball look we were inspired by liquid medals and whimsical glamour," says makeup artist Lauren Child. "We used molten metal shades on her eyelids, surrounded by midnight black eyeliner, accentuated her dreamy skin with even more bronzes and golds, and finished with a classic nude lip."Amongst the products used were some of Megan's favorite Revlon products, including the So Fierce! Prismatic Palette, ColorStay Looks Book Eye Shadow Palette, and  So Fierce! Chrome Ink Liquid Liner.

 Winnie Harlow

"Our inspiration was a high-fashion ballerina this year," says celebrity hairstylist Davontae Washington of this show-stopping hairstyle. The sleek, twisted bun was inspired by the booming fashion era of the late 1800's, and to achieve it, Washington first prepped Harlow's wig with UNITE HAIR's LAZER Straight Relaxing Fluid to smooth the hair. Then, she all in place with a paste and extra-strong hairspray. To wrap it up, she used UNITE's  7SECONDS Glossing Spray "to give the style a shiny, polished look." used water, 7SECONDS Detangler, and U Oil seal, nourish, repair and protect the hair from heat. Once the hair was styled, Washington kept it

Kiki Layne

Think pink! Makeup artist Billie Gene decorated the performing artist's lids in complementing tones to match her custom Prabal Gurung gown and pink choker. To top of the look, hairstylist Tish Celestine took Layne's locs and gave her a glorious Afro. 

 

 

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