Tate McRae knows exactly what she wants when it comes to her glam—from glowing bronzed skin to that perfectly snatched winged liner. Get ready with the multi-talented singer and dancer as she takes ELLE behind the scenes of her 2024 VMAs prep. Watch as Tate surprises herself by nailing her team’s quiz on her glam routine, revealing she does her own makeup and glam on tour, and admits her hair is the last thing she focuses on when getting ready (although it always looks flawless :woman-tipping-hand:). Plus, see her unveil her final look in a sleek, black lace Cavalli mini dress.
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00:00What is my favorite way to set your face?
00:03I'll give you a clue.
00:04Do you do like, yeah, spray?
00:06Yeah.
00:07If that was a clue, you'd give it away.
00:09I'll give you a clue.
00:11Hey, I'm Tate McRae and I'm in New York City getting ready for the VMAs tonight.
00:18Luckily you're so naturally gorgeous.
00:20Wow, thanks Lily.
00:22You're naturally gorgeous.
00:24Tonight we're going for a very glowy, bronzy skin and then silver antique on the eyes.
00:34We love a good winged liner, snatched look and more filled in than usual, a little darker eyeliner.
00:40It's the worst when you get ready and then you don't like your look at the end,
00:44but I feel like every single time that I work with them, I really trust them
00:49and always feel like we get something that I really love and feel beautiful in.
00:54I really don't know how to do my own glam very well.
00:56She actually does do her glam really well.
00:58You're so good at your own glam.
01:00It's just like very all over the place.
01:02If I ever do a makeup tutorial, I'll put concealer on like seven times.
01:06I do my makeup and glam on tour.
01:09I think it all comes together at the end.
01:12If you look at me in the middle of my process of doing my makeup, it looks like it's about to be a disaster.
01:20No, I don't know.
01:22You're going off script.
01:23I am going off script.
01:24Oh God.
01:25We didn't talk about that.
01:26We should stick with the script.
01:27Let's stick with the script.
01:29I agree.
01:30What were you going to do?
01:31Nothing.
01:34Everyone thinks that I really think about my hair, but it's actually one of the last things I think about.
01:40It gets so messy on stage and tangled and you need fans blowing at you at all times.
01:46I think about her hair more than she thinks about her hair.
01:48100%.
01:49It stresses me out.
01:50Chad likes to play around with hairstyles sometimes.
01:54I have a fear of cutting my hair because a girl's hair is very important to them.
01:59One time he was like, oh, I'm going to take off an inch and he ended up taking off six inches of my hair.
02:03No, he's having to add layers.
02:04And then the layers were like a little fuck-ass bob.
02:08Okay, I've gotten my glam done a million times, but let's see how well I know my own routine.
02:13So what products do I use to prep your face?
02:16Okay, so you start with a serum.
02:19And then you take that little rolly thing and you ice out my face.
02:23And then you put on the eye patches.
02:25And while you're doing that, you put cream on the rest of my face.
02:29And you take off the eye patches and you put more cream.
02:32Yeah, you're good.
02:35Okay, so do you think I apply heavy or light moisturizer on your skin?
02:39I think you apply light moisturizer because heavy, we've learned, really breaks me out.
02:43And you gave me Shani Darden and that is like the lightest one on my face.
02:47Yeah, because you're 21.
02:49So she doesn't need no heavy moisturizer.
02:51No, I was using the thickest moisturizer for so long.
02:54And she was like, girl, what are you doing?
02:57What is the one eyeliner that you always ask for?
02:59Okay, I'm very specific.
03:00I always ask for like an out wing.
03:02And it's usually Stila.
03:05And it's like a waterline.
03:06And then you always go in with the pencil, right?
03:08Yeah.
03:09Yeah, that's my favorite.
03:10Love it.
03:11Snatches the eye.
03:12So what is my go-to shade for your eye shadow?
03:15Well, every time I request a nice pretty gold.
03:19And then we do brown right here.
03:21It's always just like very warm tones.
03:23We always see bronzy and glowy.
03:25What is my favorite way to set your face?
03:29I'll give you a clue.
03:30Do you do like, yeah, spray?
03:31Yeah.
03:32That was a clue.
03:33You just gave it away.
03:35I'll give you a clue.
03:36You would be a terrible school teacher.
03:38You'd be like, do you need some help?
03:40And then you'd just like circle the...
03:42You'd be that kind of teacher.
03:44Do we opt for a matte look or a dewy look?
03:47Always a dewy look.
03:48Always a dewy look.
03:49100%.
03:50I feel like you never really put too much thickness on the skin.
03:52It's very like light.
03:54Babe, do you think you nailed my quiz?
03:56I mean, with the help from you, yes.
03:59I only helped you on one question.
04:02I feel like we nailed it together.
04:04Yeah, we did.
04:05We're a team.
04:10Okay, we're almost done with glam.
04:11Let's go get changed.
04:14We're doing a black lace Cavalli dress.
04:16Very short, sleek, simple, not too crazy.
04:19We ended up cutting it into like a mini dress, which is so cute.
04:22It's perfect.
04:26Thank you so much for getting ready with me.
04:28I'll see you at the show.
04:40Bye.