Selena Gomez Shares the Story Behind Her 2018 Met Gala Self-Tanner Mishap

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Selena Gomez is sharing the story behind her infamous self-tanner incident at the 2018 Met Gala. With the 2021 Met Gala returning in less than a week, the Rare Beauty founder decided to explain just what went wrong that night while detailing her night-out makeup routine in a new Beauty Secrets video.«For the Met Gala, I was getting ready and we wanted to add some color.

So [I] put on some of this tanning lotion and it looked really beautiful and very even,» the actress explained. «As the evening kept going on it was getting a little darker and darker.»Gomez went on to share that she was so focused on posing for pics on the famous Metropolitan Museum of Art staircase ahead of the gala that she «didn't notice» how dark her tan had developed..