Your favorite artist’s favorite artist, Chappell Roan, blessed The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon with her presence last night. To celebrate the moment, she came armed to the curl in extreme beauty.
“You’re known for your on-stage looks,” Fallon says during their interview, pulling out a collage of Roan at events like Governor’s Ball, where she came fully glammed as the Statue of Liberty.
“My stylist Genesis Webb and I pull from drag, horror movies, burlesque, theater—I love looking pretty and scary,” Roan reveals. For Tonight, bird was the word when it came to inspiration. Roan revealed that 2003’s Barbie of Swan Lake was the moldboard for the evening. To create the vision, her signature red curls were transformed by hairstylist Dom Forletta into a bleach blonde mane (a wig or hers, only time will tell), her eyebrows blocked, and feathers strategically placed by makeup wizard Andrew Dahling to frame her eyes. During her appearance on the show, she wore two different feathered outfits to represent White Swan queen Odette and Black Swan Odile.
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Throughout the interview, Roan chews gum and clacks her nails designed by Juan Alvear—which we would describe as 6-inch talons. That’s when the star reveals something about herself that makes sense after reading our Coachella interview: if music didn’t work out, she wanted to go to school to be an esthetician. We’d love to know the full routine, hopefully there’s a Beauty Secrets in the future.