Priscilla Ono is aware of a factor or two about going massive for style’s largest evening.

As a go-to member of Rihanna’s glam workforce — and a Fenty Magnificence World Make-up Artist — the sweetness guru’s prepped the Unhealthy Gal for a lot of a memorable second, together with her iconic pope-inspired look on the 2018 “Heavenly Our bodies” Met Gala.

However getting superstars prepared for the fashion-filled fête isn’t all glitz and glamour, because the make-up artist — who lately teamed up with Secret deodorant — tells Web page Six Fashion “how a lot work it takes simply to do at some point of labor.”

“Particularly for the Met, I really feel like there’s a lot strain on the Met and there’s really a number of pre-glam moments,” says Ono, who spends days prematurely “pulling references, testing merchandise, going out to purchase merchandise” and refreshing and sanitizing her equipment. 

On the finish of the day, nonetheless, all of it culminates in a significant magnificence look — and an “emotional” second for Ono. 

“The place the automobile drops off the consumer, it’s at all times the identical space like proper by the crimson carpet,” she says. “You see your consumer strolling down the crimson carpet … you virtually need to shed a tear, like, ‘There she goes.’ I believe these are to me the moments that matter probably the most.”

“[All of my my Met Gala looks] that I’ve performed with Rihanna and with Normani — I really feel like each Met Gala look is particular in its personal method,” Ono provides — though she stored her lips sealed about whether or not we’ll see a few of her handiwork at this yr’s gala.

As for what the make-up appears to be like on tonight’s coveted carpet would possibly maintain, nonetheless? ”I believe simply actually traditional, recent, stunning make-up, which is very nice as a result of within the years previous we’ve type of performed all this over-the-top make-up,” says Ono, who foresees plenty of “pastel nude lips” and “traditional crimson lips” for this yr’s “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Magnificence” theme.

Regardless what tendencies come and go, although, Ono’s make-up favorites embrace a number of tried-and-true necessities that received’t break the financial institution. Beneath, store six of her crimson carpet-ready go-tos.