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 Particular person trophy for “Espresso,” hit up an afterparty at Electrical Woman Studios in New York Metropolis along with her Marilyn Monroe curls from the purple carpet brushed out into massive waves and icy blue eye shadow throughout her lids. Rather than her classic Bob Mackie robe was a brief and candy (get it?) white lace mini, a lifeless ringer for the black Dolce & Gabbana Spears wore in 2001.
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To create extra distinction between her awards present and afterparty appears to be like, Carpenter modified up just a few components of her glam, most notably her eye make-up. She mimicked the infant blue shades of her Quick & Candy album cowl on her eyes, sporting a pale child blue shade throughout her lids and below her lashline, with a lighter shade utilized all the best way 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 purple 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 aspect 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!
