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Chapter 1: What is my red carpet routine?
In honor of the Met Gala tomorrow, I'm going to be sharing with you all my red carpet routine, okay? And here's the thing, right? There's already bits and pieces of my red carpet routine out there on the internet. If you wanted to find it, you could. But I've never sat down and dedicated like an hour to describing it in unnecessary detail. So that's what I'm going to be doing today.
And here's the other thing. If you were to Google red carpet routine and click on the very first Google result that came up, there's a really good chance that you would find a routine that is exactly like mine. Okay? Everybody's red carpet routine is, for the most part, the same. It consists of facials and fittings and getting a haircut. It's like... It can only get so interesting.
So again, like nothing I'm going to share with you today is going to shock you. I'm not going to tell you today that I get bird feces injected into my under eyes before the carpet because it makes me look 10 years younger. If I was 10 years younger, I would look 13. But honestly, that's kind of the beauty standard, to look as young as possible and to have the least amount of wrinkles possible.
Anywho, but what makes this routine special is that it's mine. And so without further ado, I invite you all to sit back, relax, and listen to me describe my red carpet routine in unnecessary detail. Let's begin. The red carpet routine, I would say, starts like one or two months before the carpet because the outfit doesn't just take a few days to pick out.
Chapter 2: How do I choose my red carpet outfit?
No, picking out the outfit is the most time consuming part because the thing about a red carpet is that one of the like one of the. key characteristics of it is that it's a formal event. There are rarely red carpets that aren't formal. So you can't just go in your closet and pick out your favorite little outfit. Like you need to be dressed to the nines, of course.
And the process of finding an outfit is I think a bit more complicated than people would expect. Because again, it's not like, oh, I'm going shopping, right? Like, oh, I'm going shopping and I'm going to pick out a gown and I'm going to buy it and then I'm going to wear it. Instead, it's a process of figuring out what brands want to loan out a fancy look for a red carpet.
And most people are like, I don't want to do that myself. So they have a stylist do it. My best friend slash stylist, Jared, is the one who does this for me. And so the process starts like two months before the carpet. And he could speak to this process better than I could.
But from what I understand, the process starts with him sort of reaching out to different brands that I like, that he likes, and asking, hey, would you be down to dress my client, Miss Emma? And then they either respond, sure. Like, do you want something from the new collection? Do you want something custom? Or they say, absolutely not. We hate her and she's hideous, right?
And she sucks and we hate her work and we think she's annoying and she sucks. No, I'm kidding. But they're probably thinking that when they say no. And so then from there, it's like, OK, what are they down to do? You know, are they going to let us basically rent something from the runway or are they going to make us a brand new custom sort of look?
And then as those offers start to come in, Jared and I are discussing, we're plotting, you know, and we're trying to figure out what sort of generic direction we want to go in. And so a lot of times we'll make mood boards, we'll send them to each other and just start to figure out like what kind of vibe we're going for. Like, do we want something that feels, you know, kind of edgy?
Maybe we want like leather and metal or maybe we want something super ethereal. So we're like, you know, putting together mood boards with stuff that's a bit softer. We just start to get a generic vision going. simultaneously the brands are figuring out what they're down to do with us.
So it's like kind of this uncomfortable dance where we're like, Jared and I are sort of figuring out what we want to do while simultaneously the brands are figuring out what they want to do. And then everyone's just crossing their fingers that we all agree on something. And so a lot of times brands will be like, you know, we have some options from the runway to,
pick your favorite and we'll let you know if it's available. A lot of times it's not. Maybe it got purchased, whatever. So then we have to like narrow it down. And then sometimes it doesn't work out. And then it's like, okay, maybe we go source something vintage. And so Jared goes into these vintage warehouses somewhere.
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Chapter 3: What happens during fittings before the event?
Anyway, it turns out it wasn't. And so it became a rule after that, that if we're doing a complicated nail, have the nail tech make the nails and then come in and just glue them on. Already done. Although now that my nails are short and natural, I don't know what we're gonna do. Maybe we'll, I guess we'll just do the design on the nail day, but I don't know what I'm gonna do for nails.
Anyways, in the days leading up to the event, I feel like there's a lot of things that I don't do that people would assume I would do. For example, tanning bed or spray tan. As I mentioned earlier, I'm avoiding the sun, okay? So a tanning bed is definitely not gonna happen. Also, tanning beds are bad for you and I'm really trying to avoid things that are bad for me.
I don't avoid all things that are bad for me, okay? I'm not a saint here, all right? But I can resist a tanning bed. I used to lay in tanning beds. Yeah, fun fact about me, if you didn't know that, for like one summer when I was like 19, I used to go in the tanning bed. I was really, really tan that summer. It was kind of unbelievable.
I really pushed my body to the limits, but I don't do that anymore. That was only one summer and it was kind of dark, but I feel like every... you know, girl in their late teens, early twenties has to have a tanning bed phase. Actually, I shouldn't even say that. Don't have a tanning bed phase. Nothing about it is good. Okay. It's bad for you. And it like, I don't know. It's just like dark.
Like, don't do it. Come on. But I also don't do a spray tan. And I don't do a spray tan sort of for a similar reason that I don't go out in the sun. Like in the same way that I fear a sunburn on the carpet, I fear a splotchy spray tan. Now listen, there are a lot of really talented spray tan artists, right?
Usually a spray tan gets splotchy or weird because of user error, meaning like the person who got the spray tan didn't follow the post care after care directions, you know, and like dripped water on it or whatever. showered too late or whatever. Like there are certain instructions for after a spray tan, how to make sure that the spray tan looks good.
And if you don't follow those instructions, it can get splotchy. It can get too dark. It could be too light, a nightmare. So guess what? I don't do a spray tan. Okay. Now, the reason why people would want to do a spray tan for a red carpet is because a lot of times red carpet photography is really overexposed and it can really wash you out.
So a lot of people get spray tans for red carpets, not because... you know, they like want to look tan, but instead so that they look actually more normal on the carpet. You know what I'm saying? Like instead of looking super washed out, they actually look the way that they do in real life to the naked eye. It's not all about like looking super sun-kissed, you know?
It can also be about avoiding being washed out. But it's just too much of a risk. Like it gives me too much anxiety that I'm going to mess up the spray tan and then look absolutely... flaky and weird on the carpet. It's just, it's not worth it. Or like if it comes out a bit orange, like this is just truly my nightmare. So I also don't whiten my teeth. And you know what?
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Chapter 4: How do I prepare my skin before a red carpet?
really intense hair, like a bunch of extensions or a wig, which I've actually never done a wig for a carpet, but if we were going to do a wig, that might take a bit longer. It depends, it depends. But usually it takes two and a half hours, sometimes three. And I like to take my time, okay?
We will usually give ourselves like three and a half hours for glam because I'm friends with these people, right? Like my hair and makeup team, you know, my nail artist, my stylist, Jared, like we're all friends. And so we do tend to shoot the shit a lot. So I don't know, like we don't want to feel rushed.
We want to enjoy, we want to gossip, you know, like I also like to have time for like my makeup artist to give me a little massage on the face. Like, I don't know, like there's little things that end up taking up a lot of time. And so I set a decent amount of time to do glam. a lot of times we've already discussed what we're doing.
So on the day of the event, everyone just shows up and we already know what to do. You know, we had been talking about this look for months. So the day of it's like, we're just executing. We already know there's no decisions to be made.
I mean, as the look is being created on the face, sometimes we'll have random spur of the moment ideas, but it's not like we're under pressure to like create a look because we already have a look figured out. Yeah. And so a lot of times it's just hanging out. And at this point, I'm usually having my last sips of liquid. Why?
Because as I mentioned earlier, I usually can't go to the bathroom in my gown. No. Once that gown is on me, usually I won't be able to go to the bathroom again for the rest of the evening. Yeah, I know it's ridiculous, but it is what it is. So usually I'm having like one final coffee and like some water with electrolytes in it. And that's gonna be it for the next like six hours.
So after a few hours, glam is done. I've had my last sips of liquid. I go and I sit on the toilet, okay? I go and I sit on the toilet for as long as I possibly can just to make sure that I'm good. Because after that toilet break, I'm putting on my look, okay? I'm putting that gown on. And once that thing is on, it's not coming off.
And I get anxious when I'm about to put on the gown because I'm like, oh my God, I feel trapped. I'm about to be trapped in this thing for the next, you know, six hours. And I will not be able to go to the bathroom. So... Then I put on the look, which sometimes can take up to like 30 minutes, depending on what kind of look it is.
If the look is like corseted, you know, we're lacing up the corset perfectly. Well, I'm not, but Jared is lacing up the corset. You know, if there's like...
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