In the final hours before every Met Gala, celebrities, models and designers hide away in hotel rooms with an arsenal of beauty products and an intimate army of highly-trained glam squad personnel.

For while the Gala is known as the Oscars of fashion, it’s also a night where the stars take rare make-up risks and ditch the standard red carpet waves for memory-making hair looks. With nary an #iwokeuplikethis beauty vibe expected on the night, we bring you the best and most intimate Met Gala ‘getting ready’ moments shared by the stars on Instagram so far. From Lily Aldridge’s chill salt bath and Doutzen’s curl-power secrets, to Joan and Kendall’s hotel room antics and how Selena Gomez’s make-up artist Hung Vanngo preps her skin, we’ve got it covered.

Kate Upton

 

A video posted by Kate Upton (@kateupton) on May 2, 2016 at 2:49pm PDT