When contemplating the Met Gala 2024 theme, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Trend, Lily James and Erdem Moralıoğlu seemed to Maria Callas for inspiration. The appliqué roses showering her pink crushed satin robe evoked these the Greek opera singer obtained following her performances. However, whereas Callas was synonymous with graphic eyeliner and a powerful forehead, James’s glam group—hairstylist Halley Brisker and make-up artist Valeria Ferreira—went for a cleaner, softer search for the Met’s inexperienced carpet. Suppose English rose at dawn.
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“When it got here to Lily’s hair, we needed to strip it again to a brilliant clear silhouette, however with a modern-retro twist,” Brisker tells Vogue. “We created a high-shine, cuffed chignon, which felt extra like an uptown New York look, versus Callas’s less complicated up-dos.” Having deliberate a very totally different look within the lead-up to the occasion, as is usually the case, the group switched it up for one thing extra polished on the final minute.
Brisker’s MO is at all times luxurious, stunning hair—regardless of the model. “Even when we’re working with natural textures, the hair must look costly,” he says. “I like to search out methods to place hair collectively in one of the simplest ways attainable, elevating the look and making it aspirational, which is why I at all times begin with Olaplex.” He prescribed James the model’s No.4 Bond Upkeep Shampoo and No.5 Conditioner (which assist strengthen the hair) to make use of the times earlier than the occasion.
On the evening? “I at all times use the model’s Bond Smoother No.6 as a base—it’s half styling cream, half remedy, and you may go away it in. I apply to damp hair then blow dry it in,” he explains. “And since it’s the Met, I would like robust maintain, so I used the Volumising Blow Dry Mist on high of that—they work seamlessly collectively.” He then smoothed the hair utilizing the model’s No.7 Bonding Oil to boost shine and hair shade, then completed with Redken’s Fast Dry End hairspray. The ensuing chignon is effortlessly elegant and, as is true to Brisker’s type, nonetheless ridiculously cool. Bookmark this one.
