Amal Clooney’s Smoldering Eye Look Uses Three Key Products
The star’s hair and makeup artist shares exactly how to get her 2026 Albies Gala glam
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
Some women walk a red carpet. Amal Clooney owns one. At the 2026 Albie Awards, she arrived in a gilded, sequined Gucci gown and left with the internet's full attention — not just for the dress, but for a makeup look that somehow managed to feel simultaneously effortless and completely precise.
Her longtime stylist Dimitris Giannetos handled both hair and face, loosening her curls into an undone side-parted style that let her caramel highlights do the talking. For the makeup, he went full Charlotte Tilbury, building what he described — according to Harper's Bazaar — as a "golden earthy" glow. The brief? "An old movie star, but in a very modern way," developed in conversation with the Gucci team, Demna, and Charlotte Tilbury herself. Skin prep came first: Charlotte's Magic Serum Crystal Elixir and Magic Cream, followed by the full Airbrush Flawless base — foundation, concealer, finishing powder, loose powder, and the cult setting spray.
Three Products, One Smoldering Eye
The eye look — which is where things get genuinely useful — came down to three products. Giannetos swept the Hollywood Flawless Light Tricks Eye Palette across the lid and crease, used the Exagger-Eyes Waterproof Eyeshadow Stick to hit the inner corner, and finished with the Exagger-Eyes Volume Length Mascara for lash impact. That inner-corner highlight, subtle as it is, elevates the whole thing from pretty to magnetic — and it's exactly the kind of low-effort, high-reward trick worth stealing immediately.
For the lips, Giannetos sculpted with Charlotte Tilbury's Lip Cheat Contour Duo pencil in Tan, then layered on the peachy-nude satin Hot Lips 2 in Angel Alessandra. Post-ceremony, the transition to the afterparty required a single swap: nude lip out, soft red in — reportedly the brand's Hot Lips 2 in Amazing Amal, the shade literally named for her. Which, honestly, is a level of brand synergy most of us can only aspire to.
The lesson here isn't that you need Amal's cheekbones or her Gucci gown — it's that a strategic inner-corner highlight, a mascara that means business, and a lip color built for transition can carry a look from ceremony to celebration without a full kit change.
Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.
