Inside the easy hairstyling package Laini Reeves introduced along with her to create Emily Blunt's Met Gala bun

• Emily Blunt attended the 2023 Met Gala on Monday evening in a customized Michael Kors ensemble.
• She additionally wore a laid-back bun created by her longtime hairstylist Laini Reeves.
• Forward of the occasion, Reeves walked Insider by way of her go-to merchandise and minimalist package.

Think about touring to New York Metropolis to type a star’s hair for the largest style occasion of the yr. What would you carry?

For Laini Reeves, the reply to that query is straightforward: as little as attainable.

Insider caught up with the hairstylist, who created Emily Blunt’s laid-back Met Gala bun this yr, hours earlier than the occasion. She stated she’s identified for displaying as much as hairstyling classes with “solely a comb and a hairspray,” and she or he took that very same strategy to this yr’s Met Gala.

Reeves walked us by way of her minimalist hairstyling package, the go-to gadgets she reaches for, and defined why she would not go overboard when packing hair merchandise.

What movie star hairstylist Laini Reeves introduced along with her to NYC

“For me, it is about having simply sufficient stuff to get myself by way of the precise day,” Reeves informed Insider. “I do not take a number of stuff with me. I hold it very minimal as a result of I do not like carrying all the pieces. There is no want.”

Utilizing Monday’s Met Gala for example, the hairstylist defined that she knew she’d be doing a textured updo on Emily Blunt, so she solely introduced gadgets essential to create that kind of look.

“All the things’s in clear luggage so I can simply seize it after I want it,” she stated. “I’ve bought all several types of pins and ties and stuff like that in there. My different see-through luggage have combs, brushes, and several types of merchandise in there.”

Particularly, these merchandise embody instruments like spherical hair brushes and a choice of gadgets from John Frieda’s Frizz Ease line, which she used on Blunt’s hair.

She additionally packed a blow dryer, curling iron, and straitening iron — however solely considered one of every.

“For example one breaks or one would not work, I can nonetheless get what I would like from one thing else,” she stated. “As an example, if my curling iron would not work, then I can get a texture from my flat iron, and vice versa. If the flat iron would not work, I could make it work.”

At this level, you may be questioning how Reeves feels so calm engaged on such an enormous occasion. The hairstylist says it is her years of expertise and shut relationship along with her purchasers that push her ahead.

“I believe I have been in sufficient robust conditions that I by no means get myself into one the place I am unable to produce one thing,” she stated. “One thing will at all times come out of the bag.”