“Ithink every year I feel more and more prepared,” Emma Chamberlain says of returning to the 2024 Met Gala carpet as Vogue’s special correspondent to interview some of the starriest guests of the gala. It’s the internet multi-hyphenate’s fourth time attending, and she’s exuding the kind of confidence that comes from becoming the internet’s favourite meme thanks to her still-viral interaction with Jack Harlow. “I literally could have never predicted that in a million years,” she says, counting Harlow as one of her favourite interviews of all time. This year though, for her take on “The Garden of Time” dress code tied to the museum’s “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” exhibition, the process of selecting her beauty look has been similarly unpredictable, leaving plenty of room for any “genius” epiphanies. She’s been “mood boarding for it for months and months and months.”

“It has a bit of weirdness to it,” she says of the fully smoked, moody shadow she and makeup artist Kelsey Deenihan created to play off of her chocolate lace, thorn-wrapped Jean Paul Gaultier dress and “looser bun” by hairdresser Sami Knight. Even her nails match the gown, with pieces of the actual lace covering each fingertip. “It has a bit of spookiness to it,” says Chamberlain. It’s a bit goth, it’s “a little weird. It’s a little extreme, but it’s all neutral colours,” she says. “It’s still smoked out, but it looks reflective and dynamic.” To create the drama, Deenihan started with the deepest shades of Lancôme Hypnôse Palette in 02 Beige Brule “in the crease, outer corners, and below the lower lash line,” and pressed the metallic shade into the centre of the lid for the reflective drama, then tripled the coats of mascara.