The internet multi-hyphenate returns to the 2024 Met Gala carpet as Vogue’s special correspondent to interview some of the starriest guests of the gala in a look that she says “has a bit of spookiness to it.”
“I think every year I feel more and more prepared,” Emma Chamberlain says of returning to the 2024 Met Gala carpet as Vogue’s special correspondent to interview some of the starriest guests of the gala. It’s the internet multi-hyphenate’s fourth time attending, and she’s exuding the kind of confidence that comes from becoming the internet’s favourite meme thanks to her still-viral interaction with Jack Harlow. “I literally could have never predicted that in a million years,” she says, counting Harlow as one of her favourite interviews of all time. This year though, for her take on “The Garden of Time” dress code tied to the museum’s “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” exhibition, the process of selecting her beauty look has been similarly unpredictable, leaving plenty of room for any “genius” epiphanies. She’s been “mood boarding for it for months and months and months.”
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“It has a bit of weirdness to it,” she says of the fully smoked, moody shadow she and makeup artist Kelsey Deenihan created to play off of her chocolate lace, thorn-wrapped Jean Paul Gaultier dress and “looser bun” by hairdresser Sami Knight. Even her nails match the gown, with pieces of the actual lace covering each fingertip. “It has a bit of spookiness to it,” says Chamberlain. It’s a bit goth, it’s “a little weird. It’s a little extreme, but it’s all neutral colours,” she says. “It’s still smoked out, but it looks reflective and dynamic.” To create the drama, Deenihan started with the deepest shades of Lancôme Hypnôse Palette in 02 Beige Brule “in the crease, outer corners, and below the lower lash line,” and pressed the metallic shade into the centre of the lid for the reflective drama, then tripled the coats of mascara.
The lip was no surprise: “I tend to do the same lip a lot just because I tend to like a 90s pinky, nude-y brown, the perfect pink nude brown lip,” says Chamberlain of sticking to what works with “that perfect shade that’s like, I don’t know, let’s say three shades darker than my lip.” Deenihan lined lips with the Lancôme Le Lip Liner in 283 Amandelle and “then, for a light wash of colour, I gently pressed Lancôme L’Absolue Rouge Drama Matte lipstick in 510 Divine Idylle,” says the artist. And while the lip is predictable for Chamberlain, what the night will hold isn’t. “I'm excited for the unknown,” she says. “I mean, I never know who I’m going to see,” she admits. “I don’t really know who I’m going to be talking to – every year it’s an exciting mystery. That is the fun.”
