Kylie Jenner Frees the Nipple (and the Eyebrow) at the 2026 Met Gala

To sum up Kylie Jenner’s 2026 Met Gala look, we’ll use three phrases: stylish surreal phantasm. The actuality TV star and wonder founder, a mainstay in Met Gala’s best-dressed lists, does it once more this 12 months in a Schiaparelli gown that provides fluid sculpture motion as she walks down the red carpet. “The dress feels like it’s slipping away,” movie star hairstylist Iggy Rosales tells Vogue. “It becomes this living sculpture.”

The magnificence look, in line with Rosales, needed to be an extension of the gown. To do this, he and well-known make-up artist Ariel Tejada studied the way it strikes and sits, testing varied hairstyles, textures, and brows to match. “We even tested no brows just to see how far we could push it,” provides Rosales. (Instead of no brows, she debuts bleached brows.)

For hair, Rosales wished to painting the similar rigidity the gown showcases. While it is extremely managed and exact, there’s something extra fluid and exposing beneath. “For me, it was about tension between something sculpted and something undone,” he says. “I wanted the hair to reflect that.”

He begins by giving the hair a easy blowout, utilizing the Kenra Professional Platinum Blow Dry Spray earlier than curling the hair and pinning every part to set in place; he makes use of the Kenra Professional Perfect Medium Spray to provide hair a powerful maintain that may nonetheless transfer; and after setting the curls, he takes them down and brushes and sculpts them, giving the mid-section extra exact shaping round the face and a kiss curl over the eye space. The ends are fully brushed out to provide them a softer and barely undone really feel. “It feels like it’s unraveling in a really intentional way,” he says. To end, I spritzes a contact of the Kenra Platinum Dry Texture Spray for added ethereal texture.

Working with Kylie is straightforward, says Rosales, and he loves the freedom of making one thing larger than only a fabulous hairdo. “It’s the freedom to really create something,” he says. “You’re not just doing glam—you’re building a full moment, [and] “When everything aligns (the dress, the hair, the makeup), it feels like you’ve created a character, not just a look.”

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