Oops! She did it once more. After a fast shoutout to the one and solely Britney Jean Spears throughout her space-themed efficiency on the MTV VMAs, Sabrina Carpenter channeled the pop icon for a VMAs afterparty in a really Britney lace minidress and a few frosty, Y2K-style eye shadow to match.
Carpenter, who snagged a Moon Individual trophy for “Espresso,” hit up an afterparty at Electrical Girl Studios in New York Metropolis together with her Marilyn Monroe curls from the pink carpet brushed out into massive waves and icy blue eye shadow throughout her lids. Instead of her classic Bob Mackie robe was a brief and candy (get it?) white lace mini, a useless ringer for the black Dolce & Gabbana Spears wore in 2001.
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To create extra distinction between her awards present and afterparty seems to be, Carpenter modified up a couple of components of her glam, most notably her eye make-up. She mimicked the newborn blue shades of her Quick & Candy album cowl on her eyes, sporting a pale child blue shade throughout her lids and underneath her lashline, with a lighter shade utilized all the way in which as much as her forehead. As a famous Britney superfan, I could not assist however discover the similarity to the frosty, futuristic shadow Spears wore within the “Oops!…I Did It Once more” video, which Carpenter referenced throughout her efficiency. (The shadow was very doubtless the work of Carpenter’s go-to make-up artist, Carolina Gonzalez.)
Carpenter additionally swapped the pink ombré lip from the present in favor of her favourite rose-nude shade, giving the afterparty look a really 2000s-does-’60s vibe that feels proper according to the futuristic vibes of Spears’s “Oops!” area universe. One factor that remained in place was the white manicure coated in rhinestones, courtesy manicurist Spears herself weighed in on Instagram, saying she was confused about the entire “kissing an alien” bit from the efficiency however “adores” Carpenter nonetheless. Oh child, child!