Fashion’s Biggest Night Out Is Here—the Met Gala Beauty Looks That Held Their Own

Though we wait with bated breath for practically every red carpet event, there’s no date that we look forward to more than the first Monday of May. The 2025 Met Gala theme, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, is a celebration of Black dandyism, with a corresponding exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that “chronicles the ways in which Black people have used dress and fashion to transform their identities,” according to a press release.

We expect no shortage of ensembles that are master classes in tailoring and bevies of reimagined suits, but we beauty editors have our sights set on far more than the results of impeccable patternmaking. Renowned makeup artists, manicurists, hairstylists, and facialists fly from around the world to primp their celebrity clientele to the nth degree for fashion’s biggest night, and their handiwork was enough to steal our attention from the custom couture.

Join us as we immerse ourselves into a night that honors the cultural and fashionable sensation that is the Black diaspora, and the beauty looks that did their designs justice. From the celebrities walking the Upper East Side carpet to the very products they used, your 2025 Met Gala beauty news awaits below.

Coco Jones

Coco Jones arrived at the 2025 Met Gala trailing a shin-grazing plait with hair artistically swooped over her hairline. Her makeup, a gorgeous natural glam look, allowed her hair to do the talking.

Ego Nwodim

Saturday Night Live star Ego Nwodim is adding two new titles to her résumé: Met Gala host and purveyor of one of our favorite hair looks to date. This sculptural, ultra-sharp updo is about to live rent-free in our minds for weeks.

Teyana Taylor

Fellow host Teyana Taylor is coming in red-hot. Her hair is laid in stunning swirls along her cheekbones while her bronzy makeup and smoky wing add a sleek yet sultry flair.

Sydney Sweeney

Sydney Sweeney’s decadent look is tied together with looped, artfully styled face-framing pieces and dramatic double liner that makes her eyes look larger than life.

Emma Chamberlain

Emma Chamberlain is serving—and not only as a red carpet correspondent. Her dimensional gray eye shadow, high blush, and spiky pixie play perfectly with her custom Courrèges pinstriped dress.