All The Details Behind Zendaya’s Romantic Spider-Man Glam

Zendaya has been on an epic—even by her already high standards—red-carpet run in recent weeks. For team Z, no detail is overlooked, least of all the glam. When it comes to a beauty look, the star tends to be “very flexible yet sure”, her hairstylist Coree Moreno tells British Vogue. Before a look is finalised, her glam squad might find themselves taking a vote on “the most impactful option”. The winning result in London on Wednesday night, where Zendaya attended the final premiere of Spider-Man: Brand New Day? Moreno transformed the actor with a curtain of tumbling bohemian curls.

Moreno was also behind Zendaya’s floaty Greek goddess lengths for the premiere of The Odyssey, which were in stark contrast to the bixie she’s been sporting this summer. “My different hair colours and cuts are like markers of different eras of my life,” Zendaya tells Vogue. Her current era is one of her busiest, having released the final season of Euphoria, plus three major movies – and then there’s the small matter of having quietly married her long-term partner and Spider-Man co-star, Tom Holland.

The beauty behind “each Spider-Man [red carpet] look has had its own thought process”, Moreno explains. The brief in London on Wednesday was a nostalgic “Victorian/Biba hybrid – something romantic yet current,” he adds. “We started the look by prepping a textured U-part wig using the No98 Beauty Hydra Bond Shampoo & Conditioner to soften and hydrate the human hair unit.” Next, Moreno used No98’s new Glass Anti-Frizz Hydration to saturate the entire hairpiece, before layering on generous amounts of the brand’s Gloss Miracle Oil. This helped keep the look in place all night.

In the middle of the process, Moreno “braided the [wig] unit into about 10 large braids and let the hair dry under a hooded dryer.” This, he says, needed to be completely dry before moving on to the last step. To finish the look, Moreno “unraveled each braid [while] deeply brushing each section until it was frizzed out”. The same steps were applied to Zendaya’s leave-out (the front and top section of her natural hair), which allowed each tress to blend seamlessly. The goal? “Undone,” Moreno concludes.

Over on make-up, longtime Zendaya collaborator Ernesto Casillas also leaned into romance, focusing on flawless and minimal skin “contrasted with a pop of color to flush the cheeks and a soft eye”. Casillas made it all happen with Charlotte Tilbury’s Matte Beauty Blush Wand in Pillow Talk and Exagger-Eyes Volume Mascara and Easy Eyeshadow Stick in Mink Sculpt.

This article was originally published on British Vogue.