To sum up Kylie Jenner’s 2026 Met Gala look, we’ll use three words: chic, surreal, illusion. The reality TV star and beauty founder, a mainstay on Met Gala best-dressed lists, has done it again this year in a Schiaparelli dress that creates fluid movement as she walks. “The dress feels like it’s slipping away,” celebrity hairstylist Iggy Rosales tells Vogue. “It becomes this living sculpture in motion.”
The beauty look, according to Rosales, had to be an extension of the dress. To that end, he and celebrity make-up artist Ariel Tejada studied how it moves and sits, testing various different hairstyles, textures and brows to match. “We even tested no brows, just to see how far we could push it,” adds Rosales. In the end, they landed on bleached brows.
For hair, Rosales wanted to portray the same tension the dress showcases. “For me, it was about tension between something sculpted and something undone,” he says. “I wanted the hair to reflect that.”
He started by giving the hair a smooth blowout, using the Kenra Professional Platinum Blow Dry Spray, before curling the hair and pinning each section to set in place. He used the Kenra Professional Perfect Medium Spray to give hair a strong hold that can still easily move. After setting the curls, he took them down and brushed and sculpted them, giving the mid-section more precise shaping around the face and a kiss curl over the eye area. The ends were completely brushed out to give them a softer and slightly undone feel. “It feels like it’s unravelling in a really intentional way,” he says. To finish, he spritzed on a touch of the Kenra Platinum Dry Texture Spray for added airy texture.
Working with Kylie is easy, says Rosales, and he loves the freedom of creating something bigger than just a fabulous hairdo. “It’s the freedom to really create something,” Rosales says. “You’re not just doing glam, you’re building a full moment, [and] when everything aligns (the dress, the hair, the make-up), it feels like you’ve created a character. Not just a look.”
Kylie Jenner’s Past Met Gala Looks
