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

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 but plenty of A-list actresses and supermodels in Chanel or Chanel-inspired getups with pretty safe hair and makeup, i.e. smokey eyes and red lipstick.

Save for the few cats who walked the beige carpet, the beauty at this year’s Gala…