met gala 2022

What Do All These Women Have in Common?

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If there’s one beauty trend that’s been having a moment, it’s blush. I don’t know whether everyone is loving it because our faces are increasingly out from behind mask mandates or if we’re just longing for some fantasy version of the 1920s. Either way, it’s back.

It’s a product that can instantly highlight the face. For extra credit, blend two different hues for an extra-flushed-out face. But be careful because it’s easy to look like a clown with too much blush pigment. Maybe that’s why we strayed from it the past few years?

Celebrities at the 2022 Met Gala highlighted their cheekbones with everything from bronzy blushes to rosy ones. Kim Kardashian stunned in her Marilyn Monroe dress with subtle makeup, letting her rosy blush do the talking, while Tessa Thompson gave us all the flushed drama, with her blush blending into her bold eye shadow and even above the eye.

Guess I’ll be headed to Sephora to stock up on my blush for summer because I would also like to be naturally flushed and radiantly glowing! Join me in hopping on the blush bandwagon. TikTok’s current favorite is Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty liquid blush, pigmented yet soft and with a variety of colors for every skin tone. Here are all of the celebs who rocked blush their way on the red carpet tonight.

Tessa Thompson in Armani beauty’s Neo Nude A-Blush. Photo: Kevin Mazur/MG22/Getty Images for The Met Museum/
Kim Kardashian Photo: John Shearer/Getty Images
Normani Photo: Theo Wargo/WireImage
Nicki Minaj using Pat McGrath Labs. Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images
Miranda Kerr in Ilia Beauty’s multi-stick. Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
Sophie Turner Photo: Kevin Mazur/MG22/Getty Images for The Met Museum/
Maude Apatow Photo: Kevin Mazur/MG22/Getty Images for The Met Museum/
Vanessa Hudgens in Pat McGrath Labs’ Divine Blush in Fleurtatious. Photo: Kevin Mazur/MG22/Getty Images for The Met Museum/
Olivia Rodrigo Photo: Kevin Mazur/MG22/Getty Images for The Met Museum/
Bella Hadid Photo: John Shearer/Getty Images
What Do All These Women Have in Common?