Kim Kardashian Wore Gold Contact Lenses to the 2018 Met Gala

Zoe Weiner
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Kim Kardashian's '90s-inspired Versace dress and all-over highlight weren't the only things that were golden at the 2018 Met Gala on Monday night. Turns out, Kardashian took her head-to-toe glow to her eyeballs, too. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it detail (pun intended), Kardashian donned golden contact lenses as the finishing touch to her "Heavenly Bodies"–inspired glam.

"This year at the Met, I wanted my glam to complement my '90s-inspired gold Versace dress," Kardashian explains in a post on her app published Thursday. So, she and longtime makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic decided to complement her smoky, bronzed makeup with colored contacts.

"We chose honey-colored contacts that weren't too far off from my natural eye color, just a bit brighter," says Kardashian. "We can sometimes achieve this color when I wear a golden eyeliner and the lighting is right, but I wanted to really go for it on the red carpet." She notes that she wanted to try something subtle and unexpected, and figured that if ever there were a time to take risks with fashion or beauty, it's at the Met Gala.

<h1 class="title">Kim Kardashian at the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala</h1><cite class="credit">Getty Images</cite>

Kim Kardashian at the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala

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As for the rest of Kim's golden glam, it was created almost exclusively with her own KKW Beauty products. For her dramatic cat eye, Dedivanovic used "Albanian" from the KKW x MARIO eyeshadow palette blended into her crease, then took thee KKW x Argenis Crème Eyeshadow Stick in "Dramatico" along her lash line toward the outer corners of her eyelids. For Kardashian's face beat, it was a "Conceal! Bake! Brighten!" situation using Kim's kits, as well as a heavy contour care of the Crème Contour Sticks. Finally, Dedivanovic lined her pout in a brown liner to keep with the '90s theme, then used a lip brush to apply the KKW x MARIO Crème Lipstick in "Classic K" to the center of her lips.

She finished the look with a spritz from a bottle of KKW Body, then stepped onto the red carpet looking like — well, like an even more stunning bottle of KKW Body, of course.

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