{"id":1219,"date":"2026-05-07T16:11:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/bad-bunnys-met-gala-2026-old-man-makeup-took-six-weeks-to-create\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:11:45","slug":"bad-bunnys-met-gala-2026-old-man-makeup-took-six-weeks-to-create","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/bad-bunnys-met-gala-2026-old-man-makeup-took-six-weeks-to-create\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Bunny&#8217;s Met Gala 2026 old man makeup took six weeks to create"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/127189781.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bad Bunny added five decades to his face in three hours.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Grammy winner was virtually <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/04\/style\/a-lister-looks-unrecognizable-on-met-gala-2026-red-carpet\/\">unrecognizable on the Met Gala 2026 red carpet<\/a> Monday, arriving as an 85-year-old version of himself complete with deep-set wrinkles, liver spots, sagging skin and a full head of white curls.<\/p>\n<p>Prosthetics designer Mike Marino \u2014 who also<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/05\/style\/heidi-klum-details-how-met-gala-2026-statue-illusion-came-to-be\/\"> transformed Heidi Klum into a living statue<\/a> for the gala \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allure.com\/story\/bad-bunny-met-gala-2026-prosthetics-mike-marino-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Allure<\/a> that the process began six weeks before the big night.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Bad Bunny arrived at the 2026 Met Gala looking roughly five decades older than his 32 years. <span class=\"credit\">Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Prosthetics artist Mike Marino spent six weeks building the hyper-realistic aged look. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Marino sculpted each wrinkle, crease and pore by hand in clay on top of a printed replica of Bad Bunny\u2019s face. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>To predict how Bad Bunny might actually age, Marino studied elderly Puerto Rican men and the singer\u2019s bone structure. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for The Recording Academy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The build began with a digital scan of the singer\u2019s head, which was used to produce a 3D-printed replica. Marino then used clay on top of the model, carving the texture of aging skin by hand. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sculpt every line, every crease, every pore into the clay and that\u2019s what you\u2019ll see on the prosthetics,\u201d he told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>From those clay molds, his team cast silicone pieces thin enough that the singer could still move and emote naturally. Separate pieces covered his neck, cheeks, forehead, eyelids, earlobes and hands, each airbrushed with blood vessels, shadows and dark spots.<\/p>\n<p>To predict how the singer might actually age, Marino studied elderly Puerto Rican men. He compared his approach to classical portrait painters. \u201cI thought it was cool that, with his grooming, [Bad Bunny] had this distinguished look that was as if a [Diego] Vel\u00e1zquez or [John Singer] Sargent portrait came to life,\u201d he told Allure.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Wigmaker Diana Choi and hairstylist Carla Farmer hand-knotted white curls, eyebrows, a mustache and a full beard for the musician. <span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Marino compared his approach to the idealized portraits of Old Masters who painted older men as \u201cdistinguished.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Universal Images Group via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Bad Bunny\u2019s look responded to the \u201cAging Body\u201d section of the Met\u2019s \u201cCostume Art\u201d exhibition. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A hand-knotted white wig, eyebrows, a mustache and a beard \u2014 crafted by wigmaker Diana Choi and hairstylist Carla Farmer \u2014 completed the illusion.<\/p>\n<p>Bad Bunny paired the prosthetics with a custom all-black Zara tuxedo of his own design, featuring a walking cane and an oversized bow that nodded to Charles James\u2019 1947 \u201cBustle\u201d gown in the Costume Institute\u2019s permanent collection.<\/p>\n<p>The look nodded to the \u201cAging Body\u201d section of the Met\u2019s \u201cCostume Art\u201d exhibition, which confronts fashion\u2019s tendency to sideline older bodies. \u201cPerhaps reflecting our fear of having to face our own mortality, the youth-oriented fashion industry has traditionally ignored the aged body,\u201d reads the exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/store.metmuseum.org\/costume-art-80061360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">catalog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFashion ages. But the art within it doesn\u2019t expire,\u201d Bad Bunny told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/video\/watch\/last-looks-bad-bunny-met-gala-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vogue<\/a>. \u201cOf course, our bodies might age, but what we carry inside doesn\u2019t, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/07\/style\/bad-bunnys-met-gala-2026-old-man-makeup-took-six-weeks-to-create\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Bunny added five decades to his face in three hours. 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