12 best hair and makeup transformations from the Met Gala 2019 red carpet

The Met Gala is the most ideal event to colour outside the lines a little more when it comes to beauty. So much so that some celebs even turned up as ornaments this year.

We imagine interpreting the Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion theme was quite an exciting and creative process for our A-listers and their stylists, and that's how we got this mixed bag of completely OTT makeup looks that both shocked and impressed us.

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New hair colour debuts are always on the cards for major red carpet events, but perhaps what we didn't expect was for Kim K to pretty much recreate her wet look Vogue cover or for Priyanka Chopra to rebel from her usual classic Hollywood beauty looks.

So let's take a look at more weird and wonderful transformations we didn't know we needed until Monday night:

Big hair

Lupita Nyong'o

Kiki Layne

Ciara

Lily Collins

Priyanka Chopra

Bold eye makeup

Laverne Cox

Gigi Hadid

Ezra Miller

Wearable art

Kim Kardashian West

Tracee Ellis Ross

Solange

Jennifer Lopez

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