Jasmine Tookes is not any stranger to a flawless vogue second. The supermodel is understood for bringing easy glam to each purple carpet—and this 12 months’s Met Gala was no exception. Styled by none apart from Ruth E. Carter, the primary Black particular person to win an Oscar for costume design, Tookes embodied Harlem Renaissance glamour with a tailor-made, richly detailed look that honored the theme’s name for Black dandyism.
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To finish her look, Tookes teamed with one other legendary drive: celeb hairstylist Kim Kimble to serve up smooth, statement-making sculptural waves. Kimble has earned renown for her groundbreaking types with such celebs as Beyoncé, Tyra Banks, and Zendaya.
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“This 12 months’s theme for the Met Gala is impressed by Harlem Renaissance Black dandyism,” shared Kimble. “We wished Jasmine’s hair to mirror that—smooth, sculpted, however daring in its personal proper.”
From the sculpted wave sample to the luminous end, the look was a contemporary homage to basic magnificence—crafted with the precision and care that Kim Kimble has lengthy delivered to Black magnificence on the largest levels.
Learn on for deets on Kimble’s approach for flawless waves.
Step 1: Construct a strong basis
All the time begin with freshly washed, detangled hair. Kimble prepped her hair with UNITE 7SECONDS Detangler ($41), adopted by BOOSTA Volumizing Spray ($36) so as to add physique with out weight. She then utilized 7SECONDS BlowOut Creme ($36) by the mids and ends to guard towards warmth and add shine earlier than blow drying.
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Step 2: Blowout with care
She then utilized 7SECONDS BlowOut Creme by the mids and ends to guard towards warmth and add shine earlier than blow drying. ”This light-weight styling creme provides the right quantity of slip that permits the comb to simply glide by the hair when blow drying,” stated Kimble
Blow dry utilizing a paddle or spherical brush to stretch and easy the hair with out stripping texture.
Step 3: Curl and sculpt
As soon as Jasmine’s hair was totally dry, Kimble used a nickel-size BabylissPRO iron to curve the hair in sections and sculpt the waves with duckbill clips to border Tookes’ face.
Step 4: End with finesse
”I then brushed out the curls and utilized UNITE U Oil ($53) to my arms and gently glided over the hair to silken her strands and add long-lasting shine,” she added. The subsequent step is to lock within the look with a flexible-hold spray that lets the waves transfer whereas conserving flyaways in verify. Kimble opted for UNITE GO365 Hairspray ($39).
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“This hairspray is nice as a result of it has an adjustable nozzle which lets you change the maintain setting.”
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