EXCLUSIVE: Getting Ready with Constance Wu for the Met Gala
By way of makeup artist Molly Greenwald’s iPhone camera roll.
06 May, 2019
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10 November, 2021
Imagine if the theme of your first-ever Met Gala was as outrageous as one could be. Even by Met Gala standards. Read: ambiguous. Like Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion, for a very relevant example. That was the case for Constance Wu. But, guess what? She got this. She’s a gothic flapper, after all.
Draped in Marchesa-strung pearls and tulle and with glossy finger waves (and a particularly stunning chain-link hairpiece) by Derek Yuen, her makeup, at the hands of Pat McGrath Labs makeup artist Molly Greenwald, pulled it all together. “The incredible beaded-and-pearled vintage feeling of the Marchesa gown was very much the inspiration, turning her into this dramatic actress of the ’20s felt on theme in a more classic, retro way,” Greenwald told us of the look she did on Wu for the evening. “Working within the direction of the dress and hair, I implemented small touches of character, like the rosebud lip shape and the longer, skinnier, straighter brow.” Keep reading for a peek inside the dressing room via Greenwald’s camera roll.
Draped in Marchesa-strung pearls and tulle and with glossy finger waves (and a particularly stunning chain-link hairpiece) by Derek Yuen, her makeup, at the hands of Pat McGrath Labs makeup artist Molly Greenwald, pulled it all together. “The incredible beaded-and-pearled vintage feeling of the Marchesa gown was very much the inspiration, turning her into this dramatic actress of the ’20s felt on theme in a more classic, retro way,” Greenwald told us of the look she did on Wu for the evening. “Working within the direction of the dress and hair, I implemented small touches of character, like the rosebud lip shape and the longer, skinnier, straighter brow.” Keep reading for a peek inside the dressing room via Greenwald’s camera roll.
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“Using MOTHERSHIP III Subversive Palette, we smoked out her eye to look every part [the] 1920s movie star. We finished with loads of FetishEYES Mascara and rimmed her waterline.
“We shaped the perfect ’20s pout with the lip liner and the amazing, creamy Luxetrance in Deep Void.”
“We shaped the perfect ’20s pout with the lip liner and the amazing, creamy Luxetrance in Deep Void.”
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