# Selena Gomez's Emmys Glow Started With an SPF, Not a Foundation > The base for Selena Gomez's Emmys red carpet look was built on a color-correcting sunscreen, not a traditional foundation. Her makeup artist walked through the full routine behind the glow. - Source: Style - Canonical URL: https://style.eu.com/article/selena-gomez-emmys-makeup-spf-hung-vanngo - Author: Style Newsroom - Section: Shopping - Published: 2026-10-27T20:57:09.209Z - Updated: 2026-10-27T20:57:09.209Z - Tags: Selena Gomez, Emmys, Skincare, SPF, Hung Vanngo --- The foundation for Selena Gomez's Emmys red carpet look wasn't really foundation at all. Makeup artist Hung Vanngo built the base around a sunscreen, EltaMD's UV Skin Recovery Broad Spectrum SPF 50, a mineral formula with a faint green tint meant to cancel out redness before anything else went on. That green cast isn't cosmetic in the usual sense. It's a color-correcting trick, countering pink or red tones in the skin rather than covering them with pigment, which is also why the formula leans on ceramides and centella asiatica, two ingredients more associated with calming irritated skin than with a red carpet routine. The idea is a base that's actively repairing the skin barrier underneath the glow, not just sitting on top of it. Getting there took more than one product. Vanngo's approach started well before SPF, with exfoliating pads to clear away dead skin, followed by a hyaluronic acid serum for hydration and a firming serum and collagen cream layered in for texture. Only after all of that did the color-correcting sunscreen go on, setting up a canvas calm enough that whatever foundation and skin products came after had far less to compensate for. It's a sequence that treats skincare and makeup as the same project rather than two separate ones. The glow people noticed on the carpet was less a look applied at the end and more the result of what happened to the skin well before any of it was visible. --- Originally published by Style. Free to cite with attribution and a link to https://style.eu.com/article/selena-gomez-emmys-makeup-spf-hung-vanngo.