The night time earlier than the 2026 Grammy Awards, most make-up artists had been residence prepping their kits or reviewing the following day’s schedule. Sasha Glasser was at Staples. The make-up artist and prosthetics designer behind Chappell Roan’s faux-tattoos and nipple-less nipple piercings was furiously printing out faux tattoo designs earlier than the workplace provide retailer closed for the night time—designs she’d be making use of onto Roan’s chest and again for the purple carpet the following day. “There are other ways to design tattoos for make-up and corporations that make actually wonderful choices, however as a result of we selected the look the night time earlier than, I needed to print the designs out at Staples thirty minutes earlier than the shop closed,” says Glasser, who used one of many store’s laser printers and waterslide paper to create DIY variations of these at-home tattoo decals you might need utilized as a baby. “It’s mainly a paper that has this shiny wax on high, so the ink sits on high and the second you set water on the again, the ink falls off.”
Whereas Glasser was tasked with creating tattoo decals that embellished Roan’s again and torso, it was the singer’s stylist, Genesis Webb, who designed them alongside her tattoo artist, Jenny Collins (referred to as @puppypuppyplaytime on Instagram). “The concept was to do one thing distinctive,” Glasser says of the designs that mimicked delicate materials like lace and embroidery. “That’s why we did them in a brown coloration, which feels unusual.”
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Nevertheless it wasn’t Roan’s beautifully-faded tattoos that had everybody scratching their heads and shedding their minds the following day. It was her nipple prosthetics full with piercings and, properly, no nipples (a indisputable fact that not solely had the web questioning if she was carrying a bodysuit, but additionally laying naked, fairly actually, Instagram’s absurd and outdated censorship on feminine breasts). “The concept was for her to not be so bare,” Glasser explains.
Glasser might have needed to go to Staples to print out Roan’s tattoos, however to seamlessly cowl up the singer’s nipples and create faux piercings, she broke out her heavy-duty prosthetic provides. The nipple covers, which Glasser described as “prosthetic pasties,” had been from a new-ish prosthetic model referred to as Out of Package. “It’s not like some other kind of prosthetic as a result of it has a sticky backing, like a Band-Support, so that you don’t have to attach it down.” That being mentioned, for additional insurance coverage, Glasser and her crew, make-up artists Malina Stearns and Chelsea Delfino, used Telesis glue, an extra-strong medical-grade prosthetic adhesive that may maintain up towards far heavier supplies than nipple rings and a light-as-air chiffon gown.
