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How Jeremy Allen White Got Ready for Another Big Win at the Emmys 2024

Jeremy Allen White, whose winning streak now includes a best-actor trophy at the Emmys 2024, finally wore the closest thing to chef’s whites on Monday’s red carpet. His custom Armani suit conveyed a gentlemanly polish, every detail just so. The imagined Calvins underneath reverberated in the mind’s eye of his very devoted fan base. And above that pert black bow tie, White modeled his usual cherubic looks, skin youthfully aglow and tendrils coiled at his forehead.

That visage and hair are the purview of KC Fee, the celebrity groomer who reconnected with White for The Bear’s season one premiere and has accompanied his wild ride ever since. Arguably there are similarities between the high-stress environment of a restaurant kitchen and the awards-season gauntlet. “This is something I’ve witnessed with all my clients: It’s an experience nobody knows unless they have to go through it,” Fee says. “There is a lot of wear and tear, and there’s a lot being asked of them. It can be draining, but at the same time, positive, wonderful things are happening.”

The day’s lineup of Aesop skin care, ahead of the Emmys red carpet.

Courtesy of KC Fee.

That, in microcosm, sums up the scene at White’s house on Monday, where, amid the pre-show swirl of activity, the actor dipped into a state of relaxation. “My thing is I always do a very calming facial massage—doing a lot of still hand-placing on the face, and then working in the products,” says Fee, who used an array of Aesop skin care. First came the Parsley Seed serum, kneaded into the face and neck; the B Triple C gel, designed to help even the complexion, followed. The Seeking Silence hydrator locked in moisture. “Then I go in with some tinted moisturizer and concealer just to correct the skin tone and under-eyes and stuff like that”—an appreciated, if unseen, level of finesse for the camera.

The unwind continues with White’s hair, as Fee multitasks a scalp massage while applying product. “At this point with his hair, I just intuitively feel what it’s doing when I show up and kind of go with it,” she says. “[Tonight] we leaned into the curls he had at the moment.” She singles out RŌZ’s Milk hair serum as a favorite, created by hairstylist Mara Roszak, whose own red-carpet weekend took her from Emma Stone for Critics Choice to Juno Temple for the Emmys. The lightweight leave-in can be cocktailed together with RŌZ’s Santa Lucia styling oil: “That’s what I use in my hair. I swear by them,” adds Fee.

White at home, soaking in the pre-show relaxation.

Courtesy of KC Fee.

However much White’s own vibe is “super chill,” per the groomer—music playing and candles burning as he prepped for the Emmys—the internet is aflame after the recent Calvin Klein campaign dropped. “It’s hilarious. I have my [working] relationship with him, so when I see all this, it’s kind of like, ‘Okay, this feels weird!’” Fee laughs—a normal response when you catch sight of a colleague in their underwear. For now, with a break before next month’s SAG Awards, Fee will be cheering him on from afar and getting back to her day-to-day, with kids and a soon-to-arrive puppy. “I am the chef in my own life,” Fee says. “Everyone is ‘Yes, Chef’-ing me.”

The actor at the Emmys, shortly before claiming his latest best-actor award for The Bear.

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January 16, 2024
Meet Makeup’s Hottest Brand: Patrick Ta Beauty

When I’m doing my makeup, I act like I’m filming a Get Ready With Me-style TikTok. I introduce my products to the nonexistent camera and explain my application process to an imaginary audience. My views are always skyrocketing. My subscribers always begging for more. Just ask my fans: I’m the next big influencer

If you’re anything like me, you’ve been watching makeup tutorials since the YouTube days. Yes, when Jeffree Star’s honest beauty reviews were all the rage and people still used the James Charles x Morphe palette. NikkieTutorials and Jaclyn Hill were go-to makeup artists filming “easy” eyeshadow looks that never quite looked the same on me.

Now, the format has been replicated on TikTok. We doom-scroll through TikTok to consume 1-10 minute videos of everyone plugging new products and delving into makeup secrets. This content format is an even bigger marketing tool than we could have ever imagined— one used by celebrities, brand owners, and musicians flock to connect with new fan bases and become the Next Big Trend.

Times may change, but the goal stays the same: achieving celebrity-level makeup. How can I get the cheekbones of Kim Kardashian and the Kylie Jenner ombre blush? How do I make it look like I got my makeup airbrushed on my face?

Enter Patrick Ta: the longtime celebrity makeup artist for the likes of Bella and Gigi Hadid, the entire Kar-Jenner clan, Chrissy Teigen, Emily Ratajkowski, Shay Mitchell, and more. In 2019, after about six years as a MUA in Los Angeles, Ta launched PATRICK TA BEAUTY.

What is PATRICK TA BEAUTY?

Using formulas that are both good for your skin and perfect for the red carpet in inclusive shade ranges, Patrick Ta has created the beauty brand of your dreams. His makeup is the most viral brand of 2023, with his cream-over-powder blush method taking the world by storm.

I love a good celeb makeup artist’s brand: Mario Dedivanovic’s Makeup By Mario, Patrick Starrr’s ONE/SIZE, Pat McGrath, Charlotte Tilbury, the list goes on. So I don’t know why it took so long for me to do a full haul of Patrick Ta, especially since it feels like everyone has already tried it.

And unlike many celeb brands, it’s not just snake oil in luxury packaging. You actually get your money’s worth with his products — which often come with a powder and cream in one tin. Every influencer out there has raved about Patrick Ta, and for good reason. He even has his own TikTok to show the best ways to use his products. But is it all too good to be true? It was time I tried it for myself.

What Are The Best PATRICK TA BEAUTY Products?

Major Skin Creme Foundation and Finishing Powder Duo

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Not enough is said about this foundation and setting powder duo. It’s a full-coverage foundation in a pan, which already minimizes my waste — and there’s a protective cover over the creme foundation so it’s mess-free. Good enough to cover my imperfections while giving my skin this diffused, airbrushed look…and no primer is needed.

Major Sculpt Creme Contour + Powder Bronzer Duo

@patrickta @Patrick Ta Beauty Looks So Good On @Derek Chadwick ✌🏼 Foundation: Major Skin “Light Med 3” Contour: “Shes Sculpted” Blush: “Shes Flushed” Brows: Brow lamination Gel #mensmakeup ♬ LALA – Myke Towers

Nothing excites me more than contour and bronzer in one product. Contour for sculpting, bronzer for warming the face-up. Easy for beginners, this duo is all you need for a facelift.

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October 16, 2023
This Season’s Moody Makeup Delivers Glamour With Bite

When the vampires are played by Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie—chiseled features, haute froideur—it’s hard not to side with the bloodthirsty. The Hunger, Tony Scott’s 1983 directorial debut, opens in a New York nightclub, as Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy sings the propulsive “Bela Lugosi’s Dead.” The lovers select their prey: a sunglasses-at-night guy and a redhead with slashes of eyeliner and crimson lips. She dances, unaware that she exits the film in six minutes flat.

A speed-walking cast of models made a similarly fleeting appearance at Marc Jacobs’s fall 2023 show. The designer’s ode to the ’80s manifested as bleached wigs, cropped black stockings, a striped suit fit for Beetlejuice. But it was the drained faces and brusque red mouths, together with show notes credited to OpenAI and ChatGPT, that brought The Hunger to mind—as if updating the plot for an era of vampire electronics. “We wanted a futuristic vibe, so that’s why we went for that gaunt look,” says makeup artist Diane Kendal, who hollowed models’ eye sockets with gray shadows. (Her inspiration was 1982’s Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, Tony’s brother.) Kendal did dab highlighter on the cheekbones, nose, and tear ducts—“because you still want the girls to look beautiful, even though it’s not the most beautiful makeup.”

That impulse to veer into darkness is the order of the day, from Wednesday (slated for a poststrike return) to Olivia Rodrigo’s music video for “Vampire.” The lyrics lambast an ex (“bloodsucker, fame fucker”), and Rodrigo has bite, her oxblood lipstick offset by ethereal, glossy lids. Makeup artist Kathy Jeung wanted the pop star “to look powerful and vulnerable at the same time,” she explains. The “spidery, clumpy lashes” were Rodrigo’s idea, like tears hardened into spiky resolve.

Bakeup Beauty’s amped-up mascara, Tarantulash, creates exactly that effect. “I didn’t want it to be like ‘voluminous, feathery’ bullshit,” says cofounder and makeup artist Jo Baker, referring to the usual puffed-up marketing names. Hers is to the point. She teased it months ahead of launch, posting a photo of an orange-and-black tarantula alongside her two-tone Critics Choice makeup look for Natasha Lyonne. “This is not for the fainthearted,” Baker says of the fast-build formula that lasts. “I could be caught in the rain. I can have a full emotional meltdown, which, let’s be honest, can happen to any of us.”

That was unexpectedly the case for at least one damp-eyed guest at Rodarte’s fall 2023 show, where Tori Amos’s “Winter” accompanied the fantastically gloomy procession. (“Hair is gray and the fires are burning,” Amos soothsays from 1992.) Witchy liner, pictured above, set the mood, seen first with a suite of neo-Morticia black dresses. “We kept pushing it with early punk references and gothic fairy notes,” says James Kaliardos of the eyeliner shapes, which he sketched with a brow pencil for symmetry before inking with Nars’s Climax. “Though it’s hard to do, I know a lot of girls that want to rock this look.” Even that severe beauty statement found fanciful counterpoints: in Rodarte’s metallic fringe dresses and nearby tables set with glitter-covered feasts. The future, however uncertain, shines bright.

Nars Cosmetics Climax liquid eyeliner

Dior Beauty Mono Couleur Couture eye shadow in Black Bow

Victoria Beckham Beauty Contour Stylus

Bakeup Beauty Tarantulash mascara

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Cake Batter lipstick in Bloodberry

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September 22, 2023
How AAPI–Owned Beauty Brands Are Making Waves and Garnering Support

The business of beauty is inherently personal for the wearer, down to the pitch-perfect foundation shade. But the products that land in the medicine cabinet often reflect a broader story about shared values, experiences, and aesthetics, as well as which makers one chooses to support.

AAPI Heritage Month, which falls during May, arrives in the swing of a banner year for representation among members of this community in the United States. In March, the Academy Awards heaped honors—including a best picture statue—upon the genre-bending movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, starring Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu. The following month, Netflix’s breakthrough hit Beef put Ali Wong and Steven Yeun in the spotlight, as their characters waded through macro- and micro-aggressions. Designer Peter Do has landed at Helmut Lang; Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner is adapting her best-selling memoir, Crying in H Mart, for the screen. And while such high points are certainly not enough to heal the collective trauma inflicted by recent waves of racially based violence, this unprecedented visibility is critical for the AAPI community—all the more reason to champion the AAPI–led beauty brands on the shelves.

From AI–powered skin care rooted in Korean tradition to makeup artists’ essentials lighting up TikTok, the celebrated products by these 18 companies illustrate the richness and ingenuity of the many cultures that comprise the AAPI community. Naturally, this list just scratches the surface, but it’s a starting point for showing support. Plus, you just might find the product that takes your beauty routine to the next level.

House of M

After a stretch of postpartum depression led Anne Nguyen Oliver to the sleep-enhancing benefits of medical-grade saffron, the Vietnamese native dove into research about the ingredient’s topical uses—particularly as an ultra-gentle treatment for her hormonal melasma. That discovery inspired her to launch House of M in 2019, beginning with a serum featuring the purest grade of saffron (called negin), which has sold out three times. Nguyen Oliver’s California-based line has since expanded to include three additional skin care products, including this hydration-boosting mask.

House of M Saffron Miracle Serum

House of M Beauty Saffron Glow Jelly Mask, Set of 4

Patrick Ta

After making his name as a go-to makeup artist for the likes of Gigi Hadid, Camila Cabello, and Joan Smalls, Vietnamese wunderkind Patrick Ta packaged up that bombshell aesthetic and established his own makeup line in 2019. Anchored in shades and textures designed to give skin a dewy, sculpted glow, the product range spans face and body. He’s put his professional pedigree to good use, pairing complementary colors in a best-selling blush palette to ensure a pop of color with lasting wear.

Patrick Ta Major Beauty Headlines Double-Take Crème & Powder Blush

Patrick Ta Major Dimension II Rose Eyeshadow Palette

Tower 28

After building her career with notable beauty brands, founder Amy Liu set out to create her own, with sensitive skin in mind. (Tower 28 takes its name from a lifeguard tower in Santa Monica that serves as a meeting spot for locals.) Every product in the line, including the range’s best-selling tinted sunscreen, cream blush, and restorative face mist, is formulated in keeping with guidelines from the National Eczema Association to sidestep any potential irritants.

Tower 28 Beauty SunnyDays SPF 30 Tinted Sunscreen Foundation

Tower 28 Beauty OneLiner Lip Liner + Eyeliner + Cheek Pencil

Good Light

Few people have broadened the conversation within the beauty industry quite like David Yi, whose media platform, Very Good Light, has championed a definition of beauty that supersedes the gender binary. Yi’s long-running efforts to redefine masculinity and how it relates to personal care led to the 2021 launch of his own inclusive skin care line, Good Light.

Good Light Cosmic Dew Water Cleanser

Ctzn Cosmetics

Founded by three sisters who noticed a lack of makeup options for brown skin tones on the shelves, Ctzn Cosmetics is an edited collection best known for its nude lipsticks, which come in 25 variations. The product offerings also include lip liners and glosses, along with a new dual-ended eye shadow stick developed with makeup artist and chief creative officer Sir John—all in similarly nuanced and wide-ranging shades.

Ctzn Cosmetics Nudiversal Lip Duo

Ctzn Cosmetics Eye Elements Dual-Ended Eyeshadow Stick

Sulwhasoo

Sulwhasoo has been a mainstay in the skin care realm for decades, with an emphasis on traditional Korean herbs that has helped build a cult-like following. What has kept the brand feeling modern is its continual drive for reformulation; through its use of a data-driven algorithm, Sulwhasoo incorporates new findings in order to achieve what it deems to be an optimized ratio of active ingredients—ensuring that the products you buy are the very best iterations. Earlier this year, the company announced a year-long partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and named Tilda Swinton its new global ambassador.

Sulwhasoo First Care Activating Serum

Sulwhasoo Overnight Vitalizing Mask

Riki Loves Riki

While ring lights were game-changing for the beauty world, particularly on social media, Wanchen Kaiser and her husband, Erik, took the concept a step further with a line of sleek mirrors framed in bright LED lights. Riki Loves Riki’s mirrors also come with various levels of dimming, a magnetized phone mount, and even Bluetooth capabilities—making them ideal for both makeup experts and rookies alike.

Riki Loves Riki Riki Skinny Mirror

Riki Loves Riki Riki Super Fine Handheld Mirror

DamDam

Japan has long been a player in the skin care world (see: Shiseido and SK-II), but DamDam, cofounded by Giselle Go and Philippe Terrien, represents the next sustainably sourced iteration of J-Beauty. Crafted entirely in Japan, the formulas in the line are infused with traditional ingredients like shiso leaves, rice, and konnyaku.

DamDam Skin Mud Pure Vitamin C Mask

DamDam Mochi Mochi Luminous Plumping Moisturizer

Live Tinted

Following requests from her vast digital community, beauty influencer turned entrepreneur Deepica Mutyala launched an inclusive makeup line in 2018. It features products inspired by Mutyala’s own hacks (such as using red lipstick to color-correct under-eye circles) and has become a favorite of Phenomenal founder Meena Harris and dermatologist Shereene Idriss, MD, who’s particularly fond of the brand’s mineral sunscreen.

Live Tinted Huestick Multistick

Woo Skin Essentials

Tattoo artistry is necessarily tied to skin care, so it wasn’t a complete surprise when Brian Woo, the LA–based tattoo artist better known as Dr. Woo, launched his own line of products in 2020. Known for his single-needle designs—and A-list clientele, which includes everyone from Bella Hadid to Zoë Kravitz—Woo focuses on the essentials for a healthy canvas, including a cleansing bar gentle enough for freshly inked skin.

Woo Skin Essentials Revitalizing Body Moisturizer

Woo Skin Essentials Gentle Cleansing Soap Set

U Beauty

In 2019, BagSnob founder Tina Craig introduced her inaugural skin care product, the retinol-powered Resurfacing Compound, in a way fitting of a fashion influencer: by handing out samples during Paris Fashion Week. Previously known for her multi-step skin care routine, she advocates for a streamlined approach, with thoughtful, efficacious formulas that use proprietary technology to deliver active ingredients exactly where they’re needed most.

U Beauty The Return Eye Concentrate

U Beauty The Barrier Bioactive Treatment

5 Sens

While you might recognize Divya Gugnani as a cofounder of Wander Beauty, the serial entrepreneur has embarked on another project with the debut of 5 Sens, a fragrance line partly inspired by her own sensitivity to irritants often found in traditional perfumes. Not only are the formulas clean and free from common allergens, but the titular number also factors in heavily: Each of the five debut fragrances is designed to trigger the five senses for a multifaceted experience.

5 Sens Twin Flame Eau de Parfum

5 Sens Catch Feelings Eau de Parfum

CLE Cosmetics

Minimalist-minded CLE Cosmetics (short for Creative Lass Esthetic) applies cutting-edge Korean technologies to makeup and skin care essentials, resulting in delightfully cushiony textures and hybrid formulas. CLE Cosmetics founder Lauren Jin rarely goes without the brand’s innovative lip powder, which she also applies to cheeks for a naturalistic flush. Shade extensions for the CCC Cream are newly in stock as well.

CLE Cosmetics Essence Moonlighter Cushion

Soft Services

In its two years since launch, Soft Services has already made a noted impact on the beauty industry, redirecting attention from the face to below-the-neck zones. Founded by two Glossier alums, the brand applies gold-standard ingredients at percentages high enough to treat the thicker skin on the body, targeting stubborn concerns like ingrown hairs, keratosis pilaris, and body acne—all with style.

Soft Services Carea Cream

Soft Services Smoothing Solution

JinSoon

A fixture behind the scenes at marquee runway shows (Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler), nail artist Jin Soon Choi is known as much for her carefully curated line of nail colors as for her namesake salons. In recent years, she’s branched out into sweet, seasonally inspired nail appliqués and a dedicated nail care range, proving that there’s more to a finessed manicure than polish alone.

JinSoon Flower Nail Art Appliqué

JinSoon x Suzie Kondi Nail Polish in Palma

Superegg

Eggs, known for their high nutritional value, have been a mainstay in Asian skin care for centuries—but they’re decidedly not vegan. With Superegg, founder Erica Choi set out to replicate that nourishment using entirely plant-based formulations powered by proven ingredients. The line includes all the elements of a comprehensive (but edited) routine, including a pleasantly creamy cleanser.

Superegg Sound Renewal Serum Cream

Superegg Calm Movements Eye & Cheek Mask, Set of 5

Indē Wild

Model Diipa Büller-Kholsa (one of the first Indian influencers to reach millions of followers) shifted from a career in law to social change before setting out to found her own beauty brand. Inspired by her mother, an Ayurvedic doctor, Büller-Kholsa drew from her own experience with acne to marry the best of modern science with age-old Ayurvedic rituals. The curated skin care offerings have recently expanded to include formulas for hair as well.

Indē Wild Champi Hair Oil

Indē Wild PM Sunset Restore Serum

Tatcha

Tatcha was among the first skin care brands to bring on board a makeup artist—none other than Daniel Martin, responsible for Meghan Markle’s naturalistic wedding makeup. It was a clever move for founder Victoria Tsai, whose products draw inspiration from time-honored, Japanese beauty rituals. The line also features decidedly modern, makeup-adjacent formulations, such as a mineral sunscreen that doubles as a skin-smoothing primer.

Tatcha The Silk Serum Wrinkle-Smoothing Retinol Alternative

Tatcha The Silk Sunscreen Mineral Broad Spectrum SPF 50

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May 22, 2023
After the Met Gala Red Carpet, the Night’s Top Beauty Artists Dish at Mr. Chow

Twenty-five blocks south of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, at the waning end of another long first Monday in May, a lively offshoot of the 2023 Met Gala is just getting started. The setting is Mr. Chow, the swank Chinese restaurant that Michael Chow opened on 57th Street in 1979—two years after nearby Studio 54, and four years before Karl Lagerfeld’s debut collection for Chanel. As for the guests, trickling in from the Upper East Side, they are the definition of glamour itself. Hairstylist Sam McKnight, in town from London, has just teased Kate Moss’s blonde lengths. Erykah Badu’s sublime energy is still radiating through Jawara, who styled hair for the musician and her daughter, Puma Curry. Angela Levin, responsible for Nicole Kidman’s makeup, watched the actress slip effortlessly into the same dress she wore for her 2004 Chanel No. 5 campaign. The two talents behind Gisele’s bombshell look—David von Cannon on hair, Georgi Sandev on that incandescent face—are here too, along with a sizable contingent of the beauty industry’s top tier. In lieu of a bustling coat check, suitcase-size kits are tucked into a quiet corner of the bar.

Dinner in full swing at Mr. Chow.

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The occasion is the Met artists dinner, a tradition set in motion nearly a decade ago by makeup artist Troy Surratt. “The idea was born out of the fact that this is really one of the most glamorous events to happen annually in New York City, and it put a lot of our friends and colleagues all in the same place at the same time,” says Surratt, soft-spoken and silver-haired in a white button-down and Chanel necklace—a nod to the Costume Institute’s Karl Lagerfeld exhibition. It’s rare to have a quorum in this business, when beauty teams usually consist of a single makeup artist and hairstylist, like two oppositely charged ends of a battery. By contrast, the crowd at Mr. Chow feels like a cross-generational yearbook come to life. “It’s the greatest people ever—past, present, and future, everybody in one room,” says Sarah Brown, executive director of Violet Grey’s Violet Lab, who brought the beauty platform onboard as a co-sponsor in 2022. Augustinus Bader, the industry’s skin care darling, is supporting this year’s dinner as well. “What I love about the evening is these are real working people,” says Brown, a former Vogue beauty director with a deep appreciation for behind-the-scenes legends. She paints a Mission: Impossible kind of picture: “They are literally in a van outside the Met, waiting to see if fill-in-the-blank Oscar winner needs her ponytail fluffed up before the after-party.”

Makeup artist Troy Surratt and Violet Grey’s Sarah Brown.

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Mr. Chow marks the intermission between red-carpet prep and after-party touchups: a refueling for gossip and Champagne and chicken satay. Makeup artist Sam Visser (who looked after Balenciaga’s Demna) and Raoúl Alejandre (behind Nicola Peltz Beckham’s crisp cat eye) catch up on the upstairs balcony. Colorist Jenna Perry recaps her handiwork (Maude Apatow’s copper; rich brown on Karlie Kloss) and shouts out Florence Pugh’s fresh buzz cut by the “amazing” Peter Lux. “That woman is striking,” Violet Grey founder Cassandra Grey agrees, nodding in her shearling Chanel jacket: “You have to have the right head shape.” Facialist Lord Gavin McLeod-Valentine, who bookended his day with Kim Petras and Olivier Rousteing, clinks glasses with Milk cofounder Mazdack Rassi, sending out a splash of Mexican martini. “I’m just excited for King Charles’s coronation, okay?” he quips—and in fact he’ll be a Today show commentator for this weekend’s occasion, beaming in bright and early from LA. Zanna Roberts Rassi, recovering from three-and-a-half hours of live coverage for E!, scrolls through her phone, filled with dress sketches and archival images—weeks’ worth of prep for red-carpet commentary. “I actually wish I had been in this room before I went on air,” she exhales, “because my gossip would have been so much better!” Hairstylist Mara Roszak spent the day with Olivia Wilde (“a goddess through and through”), while Adir Abergel perfected the shag on Lagerfeld muse Kristen Stewart, a regular in his chair since the first Twilight movie. Fara Homidi, whose handsome new makeup line is a topic of conversation, describes the glam for her friend Paloma Elsesser—“a dirty cat eye, with antique Swarovskis that I placed in random spots”—as an all-day affair. “It was like, makeup, hair, makeup, hair, eat some food, hang out, laugh a lot,” she says. “Then we took her to the red carpet, and then we came here!”

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May 3, 2023
Jenny Slate on Her Critics Choice 2023 Look and ‘Marcel the Shell’ Poignant Makeup Moment

It’s Friday afternoon in Los Angeles, during the brief lull between the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice Awards, and Jenny Slate is detailing her red carpet preparations. “Right now, I’m eating an everything bagel in my car. Super glamorous!” the actor says by phone, as an electronic trill announces that she’s shifted into park.

A facial with Natura Bissé notwithstanding (“A gigantic luxury—I’m very happy about that”), this is not the moment for the laid-back pampering one might expect for a woman tied to two celebrated movies. Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, a Critics Choice nominee for best animated film, is the product of her decade-long collaboration with co-creator Dean Fleischer Camp, with Slate voicing the winsome one-inch-tall protagonist. She also turns up in awards-season darling Everything Everywhere All at Once, playing an athleisure-clad regular at the laundromat. Maybe, in an alternate reality, Slate is sipping kombucha after yoga and a lymphatic massage. “But right now, I am the mother of a two-year-old who has jet lag,” she says, recalling daughter Ida’s 4 a.m. request for yogurt following the Globes. “It feels like I’m just folding the awards into my life,” she says. A master of her multiverse: “It definitely does all fit.”

Skin prep comes first for makeup artist Kirin Bhatty, who used Violette’s Boum-Boum Milk with a gua sha tool before applying metallic rust tones on the eyes (Yeux Paint in Rose d’Aurore and Marron Glacé). Bisou Balm in Bêtise simulated a “just bitten” lip, Bhatty says.

By Sami Drasin.

Hairstylist Nikki Providence relied on IGK’s Good Behavior balm and smoothing spray to finesse the side-swept waves. “Since it was a torrential downpour off and on all weekend, they were life savers,” says Providence.

By Sami Drasin.

Slate has a soft spot for the Critics Choice Awards. In 2015, she took home the event’s prize for best actress in a comedy, for her role in the oops-pregnancy movie Obvious Child; five years later, her debut comedy special, Stage Fright, earned a nomination as well. “It’s the actual critics who have watched everything, who write in depth about all of these projects, and it is immensely important to be honored by them,” says Slate, who earmarked a dress by Olivier Theyskens for this weekend’s ceremony. It’s one of the designer’s couture-level exercises in sustainability, composed entirely of fabric swatches—in this case, gold and metallic olive and snippets of magenta—that he has accumulated over the years. “I love a turtleneck, always have, and while it’s very tight on the body, it also still somehow shows restraint,” she says. “To me, it feels like maybe my most powerful look yet.”

The Olivier Theyskens dress, revealing its weightless quality.

By Sami Drasin.

A moment with stylist Monty Jackson.

By Sami Drasin.

The team getting Slate ready on Sunday evening serve as longtime confidants: makeup artist Kirin Bhatty and hairstylist Nikki Providence above the neck, stylist Monty Jackson below. “He’s seen me very naked one million times,” Slate says with a laugh. “He really works not just with my figure and what I think is stylish, but also with my emotions.” It’s a cherished quality, given that the stakes of the occasion are higher than another fancy night out. “When you’re [dressing for] your own birthday party, you don’t really think about whether the entire internet is going to tell you that you looked either very good or very bad or somewhere in between.”

Backyard sunlight picks up the metallic glimmers in the dress and makeup.

By Sami Drasin.

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January 17, 2023