Swedish pop musician Zara Larsson is all about incorporating color, sparkle, and a healthy dash of ‘90s and early ’00s nostalgia into her looks, both onstage and off. If anyone has embraced the pop star-slash-Lisa Frank aesthetic, it’s Larsson and makeup artist Sophia Sinot, whose close working partnership has brought us some of the most fun beauty inspo we’ve seen in awhile—like the enormous pink rhinestone butterfly Larsson donned for her performance at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, which took up a significant amount of facial real estate and has us feeling absolutely enchanted.
Larsson and Sinot have done so many great looks; a quick scroll through Sinot’s Instagram reveals everything from rainbow eye shadow dotted with matching rhinestones to leopard print body gems. For the festival, they skipped the colorful eye shadow—which has now become something of a Larsson signature—in favor of a magenta pink rhinestone butterfly outline that spanned from the top of Larsson’s cheek to the center of her forehead.
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According to Sinot, she hand placed every single rhinestone on Larsson’s face, which is no small feat given how many gems made up the butterfly shape and how precise the placement was. The butterfly encircles Larsson’s eye, with its wings spanning the whole area from her inner brow to well past its tip. Inside the butterfly, Sinot applied a shimmery blend of icy white and mauve shadows anchored by a thick wing of black eyeliner and lush false lashes.
This isn’t the first time a butterfly motif has fluttered, so to speak, into Larsson’s glam routine. In April, she wore a line of butterfly gem tattoos down her back—seven in total—designed by Lucas Stowe. Plus, the “Midnight Sun” singer has been absolutely instrumental in bringing back body glitter and body decals, which have seen quite the comeback in our nostalgia-obsessed beauty culture. While Larsson’s butterfly gems are the work of a very talented professional and require a very steady hand, you could channel some of that retro pop girl energy with some stick on gems of your own, like this butterfly-themed set. Pop ’em on and go soak up that (midnight) sun!
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