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Beauty at the Met Gala: Smoky Eyes, Red Lipstick and Not Much Else

Beauty will always be on the sidelines at fashion’s “Super Bowl,” but this year all of the beautiful people just looked beautiful.

Rihanna and Anne Hathaway attended the 2023 Met Gala, "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty." — Rihanna and Anne Hathaway attended the 2023 Met Gala, "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty." (Getty Images)

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Rachel Strugatz

03 May 2023

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Monday night’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit, or the Met Gala, was Vogue elitism at its finest, with a near complete absence of TikTok stars, Instagram personalities and podcasters. There were, however, plenty of A-list actresses and supermodels in Chanel or Chanel-inspired getups with uncharacteristically tame hair and makeup (i.e. smokey eyes and red lipstick).

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