08-05-2025
Best Beauty at the Met Gala 2025
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For the 2025 Met Gala celebrating 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style' the beauty looks felt just as precise as the tailoring.
Callum Turner, Dua Lipa at The 2025 Met Gala Celebrating 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style' held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York, New York.
Take the hair of the evening, with barely a strand out of place between the night's attendees. Among them, Dua Lipa and Gabby Thomas taking curlicued inspiration from Josephine Baker. Megan Thee Stallion also referenced the starlet with a slicked-back updo.
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Makeup also took an extravagant and referential turn, especially those under the touch of Dame Pat McGrath, which included Chappel Roan, Alex Consani, Tyla, Amelia Gray and more.
Tyla at The 2025 Met Gala Celebrating 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style' held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York, New York.
'For Tyla's makeup, we were channeling vintage Hollywood glamor – icons like Josephine Baker, Dorothy Dandridge and Jean Harlow – with a modern twist,' McGrath said of Tyla's makeup.
On the more minimal side, Cynthia Erivo's Joanna Simkin relied on Clinique for a full-faced glow and a touch of products from the brand's Black Honey range. Similarly, Chanel makeup artist Nick Barose said that for Lupita Nyong'o, 'to align with the Dandy theme, drawing from Lupita's Little Richard-inspired vibe, I crafter a makeup look that exudes rockstar glamor.'
Lupita Nyong'o at The Carlyle Hotel before the 2025 Met Gala: 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style' held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2025 in New York, New York.
That sort of classic-with-a-twist ethos extended to Madonna's makeup look, the work of makeup artist Marcelo Gutierrez, who used Tom Ford Beauty products. 'Tonight's look on Madonna is both timeless and modern — a perfect marriage of luxurious Tom Ford Beauty formulations and the sensuality and power that Madonna brings to every aspect of her life,' Gutierrez said via email.
Also keeping things a bit natural on the hair front were Laura Harrier and Hailey Bieber with loose waves. On the more sculptural side, Doechii sported an afro.
A$AP Rocky at The 2025 Met Gala Celebrating 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style' held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York, New York.
Grooming had a lot of intricate touches, with A$AP Rocky donning curled braids. Though many men picked chapeaux to accentuate their red carpet garb, even Bad Bunny left his slicked hair curled upwards at the end for a sharp finish.
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