Ezra Miller is one of Hollywood’s most interesting men on the red carpet right now. He enjoys taking risks with fashion—theatrical runway pieces are a go-to—and even moreso with beauty; take the dark red lip he recently wore to the Saint Laurent Fall 2019 runway show, for instance. So, at tonight’s Met Gala red carpet, the pressure was on for him to deliver on the camp theme. And deliver he did: his trippy beauty look garnered the evening’s biggest (and best) double-take. While Miller's Burberry suit was chic indeed, it was really all about the game above the neck. Miller carried around a blank-face mask on a stick, and underneath it, he revealed his true face, painted with five optical-illusion eyeballs. (Which set were his real eyes? Hard to know, but it’s safe to say he’s got his eye(s) on winning the night’s beauty prize.) He took the dramatic makeup moment even further with a bold red lip, and even an Old Hollywood-esque wig to boot. Bonus points for the white manicure. This latest look, high on drama, just continues Miller’s joyful approach to red carpet dressing. But with a foray into risk-taking beauty that would fit just as well in a high-production Broadway show, it’s safe to say he’s nailed the spirit of camp tonight. See All of the Celebrity Looks From the Met Gala 2019 Red Carpet: 1 / 100 Chevron Chevron Photo: Getty Images Lady Gaga in Brandon Maxwell Met Gala 2019: See Every Celebrity Arrival, Read the Latest Stories, and Get Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Here<doc-sep>Ezra Miller always breaks convention when it comes to his red carpet style—but on the 2019 camp-themed Met Gala red carpet, the actor and singer took it to the next level. Miller tapped Vancouver-based makeup artist Mimi Choi to meticulously create multiple sets of eyes on his face, creating a dizzying—and campy—illusion. It's both headache-inducing and wonderful. Karwai Tang Getty Images “The celebration of camp is almost funereal,” Miller told Garage about his Burberry look, co-designed in collaboration with the brand's creative director Riccardo Tisci. “It’s almost like it dies as it walks in the room. But I think it consumes the other as well. You know? I think it’s like fire and oxygen.” He wore a pinstripe suite with a train and bedazzled corset, with blinged-out oxford black-and-white shoes to match. This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. “I had a lot of bizarre thoughts in my brain and was trying to explain them to several people who, in many cases, received it with apprehension, even fear,” he told Garage. “Riccardo was immediately super-exuberant and enthusiastic about the notion. We talked on the phone and from what I’m told, two minutes into the conversation he was drawing the look.” This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Miller first hid his incredible makeup behind a face mask, but then pulled it away from his face to reveal five extra sets of eyes. His makeup artist Choi is known for creating unique optical illusions with makeup. A quick scroll through her Instagram and you'll find more than just extra eyes, but also faces covered in swirls, intricate paintings, and even miniature versions of said face. This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. See our favorite hair and makeup looks of the night from the 2019 Met Gala: Jenna Rosenstein Beauty Director Jenna Rosenstein is the Beauty Director at BAZAAR.com. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io<doc-sep>Some celebrities might have struggled to interpret the “camp” theme of this year’s Met Gala, but one was singled out for – to quote one approving tweet – having not only understood the assignment, but turned it in early for extra credit. The actor Ezra Miller stood out among the black-tie and tulle for accessorising his Burberry suit and jewelled corset with five extra eyes: the painstaking, pre-dawn work of makeup artist Mimi Choi. “We were both kind of not awake,” she says from her home in Vancouver. “But it worked out in the end.” Since starting out as a makeup artist five years ago, Choi has amassed 1m followers on Instagram for her surreal optical illusions – among them Miller’s publicist, who introduced him to her work. Miller had in mind her older “kaleidoscope eye” concept for his red-carpet look – and, Choi says, “as I was thinking of the theme ‘camp’, I thought multiple eyes that revealed different personalities and alter-egos would be very fitting”. Allow Instagram content? This article includes content provided by Instagram . We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click 'Allow and continue'. Allow and continue Application on the day of the Met Gala took five hours from 4am, with each eye taking about 200 steps and at least 30 minutes. Yet, surprisingly, Choi says her method is “pretty much spontaneous”. “I don’t draw anything ahead of time. I don’t do face charts – I like to start in one corner and see how it goes.” With “only a general idea” of the finished look in mind, Choi tweaked the position – and number – of Miller’s extra eyes on the morning to better suit his face shape and bone structure. Loose plans to connect the eyes with lines, or paint more of varying sizes as in Choi’s original “kaleidoscope” look, were abandoned in favour of simplicity. “Ezra has great bone structure, but his face is completely different to mine – on him, it would just look really crammed.” Instead, she painted two pairs – one above and aligned with Miller’s actual eyes; one below them and “a little bit closer together, to give a rounder shape” – and one between them in his forehead, Cyclops-style. “After that we decided to do some eyebrows, to make it even trippier.” For the staring middle eye, she says: “I didn’t know whether it’s a right eye or a left eye … so I drew two eyebrows to freak people out.” She ensured the look would last 24 hours by using acrylic and body paints (instead of cream makeup, which would smudge) and plenty of extra-strength primer and powder to set. On Miller’s lips, she used Ruby Woo by Mac. Allow Facebook content? This article includes content provided by Facebook . We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click 'Allow and continue'. Allow and continue The secret to her hyper-realism is close study of not just the iris, but the entire eyeball and its shadows and highlights. Miller’s brown irises “have a little bit more red”, and his eye white is yellow where a lot of people’s is grey. “I pretty much mixed 20 different tones of yellow, brown, taupe, grey, beige and red to make that eye white,” says Choi. “A lot of people just use white.” Choi has no artistic background, instead crediting her skill for observation to years of trial and error – and, she laughs, her obsessive compulsive disorder. “I always thought that my OCD was a hindrance in my life, but it helps with my art. I’m very fixated on small details. I can just zone out and look at one thing for a long time.” Her mind-bending approach to makeup, she agrees, “is not traditionally beautiful”. “But that’s not what camp is. It’s about expressing your true self, though it might be bizarre or unusual to other people.” As for the other Met Gala looks, Choi says she doesn’t like to compare art – but she thought Lady Gaga looked “lovely”.<doc-sep>The Met Museum/Twitter When the theme of the annual Met Gala is "camp," you know things are gonna get weird. Actors Jared Leto (Suicide Squad) and Ezra Miller (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald) took the camp theme to a whole new level with unusual fashion statements one might say were a "head" above the rest. Leto wore a long-sleeved red, silk gown encrusted with jewels from Gucci. But the real showstopper was the decapitated wax-like replica of Leto's own head, which he carried around like a macabre purse. This head accessory is one of Gucci's creepy head clutches that debuted during Milan Fashion Week back in February. This isn't the first time Leto shocked gawkers at the Met Gala, aka the annual benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. Last year, he attended dressed as Jesus Christ in Gucci for the Met's Heavenly Bodies theme. nobody does it like ezra miller does it #MetGala pic.twitter.com/zEkIbRk9Fb — daily ezra pics (@devotedtoezra) May 7, 2019 Leto had some fierce competition Monday. All eyes were on fellow actor Ezra Miller. Literally. Miller's Burberry suit was stylish, but it was his face that turned heads. Miller carried a face mask on a stick, hiding his own face painted with five optical-illusion eyeballs next to his real eyes, equaling seven eyes in total. Miller saw his weird masked look partly as a death. "Like this ultimate transformation that we all have to do at least once. The celebration of camp is almost funereal ... It's almost like it dies as it walks in the room. But I think it consumes the other as well. You know? I think it's like fire and oxygen," Miller told Vice on Monday. As expected, people on social media went bonkers for both outfits. Twitter memes compared Leto's beheaded costume with that of the flamboyant, two-headed character Zaphod Beeblebrox from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And in some cases, Leto's outfit was likened with the two-headed Halloween costume worn by The Office's Michael Scott (played Steve Carell). "Jared Leto's being extremely Jared Leto right now," one Twitter user wrote. "OK so, 10 out of 10 points for style, but minus several million for originality," tweeted another. Jared Leto's being extremely Jared Leto right now pic.twitter.com/Uul6rMDj63 — Ash Crossan (@AshCrossan) May 6, 2019 Okay so, 10 out of 10 points for style, but minus several million for originality. pic.twitter.com/zTPwnHFPmz — Dan Kurtz (@HeyDanKurtz) May 6, 2019 In Miller's case, fans thought his multi-eyed costume was wink-worthy. "Ezra Miller. He came. He slayed," wrote one Twitter user. "Ezra Miller proves that aliens have in fact visited our planet," another tweeted. "This look from Ezra Miller is more magical than all the Fantastic Beasts movies combined," wrote another. Ezra Miller said YES MAMN I DO KNOW CAMP AND DESTROYED US ALLLLLLLL GOOOD LORRRRRRD #MetGala pic.twitter.com/ZV9e87AkdL — gaylord (@damidents) May 6, 2019 Ezra Miller proves that aliens have in fact visited our planet. I don’t make the rules. #MetGala pic.twitter.com/RRhIl70vUn — Cher (@thecherness) May 7, 2019 This look from Ezra Miller is more magical than all the Fantastic Beasts movies combined #MetGala pic.twitter.com/n6d9HveeqP — Kate Halliwell (@katehalliwell) May 7, 2019 I guess four heads are better than one. Or two? I'm not quite sure what's going on here.<doc-sep>
All eyes were on Ezra Miller as he strutted the red carpet at the 2019 Met Gala on Monday in a look that fully embraced this year’s “Camp” theme. The Fantastic Beasts star arrived at the 2019 Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute benefit decked out in a Burberry suit, rhinestone corset and matching bejeweled wingtips, and covering his face with a mask of his own face. But the real show-stopping detail was only revealed after Miller lowered his mask to show that his face was painted with five optical-illusion eyeballs surrounding his real eyes. I ACTUALLY CANNOT BREATHE, EZRA MILLER REALLY SNAPPED THIS HARD pic.twitter.com/jRRTl85bZn — amy (@jakegyllenhaaal) May 6, 2019 “The celebration of camp is almost funereal,” Miller told Vice of his look. “It’s almost like it dies as it walks in the room. But I think it consumes the other as well. You know? I think it’s like fire and oxygen.” Miller collaborated on his surreal appearance — which called to mind the work of artists like Dali and Magritte — with Burberry creative director Riccardo Tisci. ezra miller officially won the met #MetGala pic.twitter.com/YFLYek0O6e — j saw endgame; (@gadotbats) May 7, 2019 “I had a lot of bizarre thoughts in my brain and was trying to explain them to several people who, in many cases, received it with apprehension, even fear,” Miller said. “Riccardo was immediately super-exuberant and enthusiastic about the notion. We talked on the phone and from what I’m told, two minutes into the conversation he was drawing the look.”