Charli XCX has given us a lot. Due to her culture-shifting album, we had Brat summer season. The remix album carried us into Brat autumn, and now, because of her actually iconic look on Saturday Night time Dwell, it seems like we’ll be heading into Brat winter.
On November 16, Charli made her third look on SNL, but it surely was her first time internet hosting in addition to performing. Along with her numerous costumes and wigs, she appeared in some quintessential XCX seems, together with a black corseted Dilara Findikoglu robe for her monologue and a ruffly Sentimento skirt and large Gucci Jackie bag for her perfomance. The one fixed of the evening? Her signature winged eyeliner, in fact.
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“Since internet hosting SNL is all about performing and taking part in totally different characters, we needed Charli’s glam to be essentially the most traditional Charli look—which is, in fact, a bratty, attractive wing with an exquisite pure lip,” Charli’s make-up artist Yasmin Istanbouli completely tells Byrdie. Istanbouli complemented the sharp wing with glowing pores and skin, courtesy of the Valentino Magnificence V-Lighter Face Base Primer and Highlighter (the singer simply turned the ambassador for the model) within the shade Rosa blended into her basis.
The remainder of the look was pretty easy. Instanbuli added a comfortable flush to the singer’s cheeks with the Liquirosso 2 in 1 Lip & Blush Mushy Matte Shade in Into the Nude. “The highlighter and blush helped preserve her pores and skin wanting pure,” she says, which properly contrasted her sharp black wing that prolonged out to the tail of her eyebrows. “For SNL, we stored it extra clear and traditional since she was going by a ton of various costume adjustments, and we did not need there to be an excessive amount of occurring with the glam, particularly with the eyes,” provides Instanbuli. “Generally, for the pink carpet, we might do extra smoky or one thing extra dramatic, however for this, we needed to make a press release with a traditional wing and an exquisite, sturdy lip.”
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The lip in query? Spike Valentino in Charli’s favourite shade, Couture within the Streets, a heat nude. “Though it was matte, it was nonetheless buttery and velvety sufficient that it stored her lips hydrated and excellent all through the present,” says Instanbuli of the system, which she touched up proper earlier than Charli took the stage for her perfomance.
A daring wing, glowing pores and skin, and a simple nude lip? It would not get extra Brat than that.