Last Looks: Cardi B

[Cardi] One of my biggest fears is fainting,

'cause I feel like the dresses,

they get heavier and heavier,

and I just feel like it's gonna be that one Met Gala,

the weather's gonna be like 80 degrees outside,

and the dress is gonna be heavy, and I might pass out.

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[Cardi groaning]

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[Patientce] How tall is it standing right now, though?

[Kollin] I think it's about eight,

eight and a half feet tall.

And this is the height

that she's gonna be standing on the carpet?

Yeah-

Okay.

She'll be around eight and a half feet tall.

We have the opportunity to kinda wear whatever we want-

[Patientce] Yeah.

[Kollin] And highlight whoever we wanted-

[Patientce] Yeah.

[Kollin] And I thought Windowsen was perfect.

I feel like their brand is based on fantasy,

like a dreamland mixed into reality.

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I saw this designer, I saw his dress,

it was like a very extravagant yellow, lime green color.

And I was like, I have to go to the Met with this dress.

And then like Kollin had been wanting to do this idea

where I look like I'm aged,

he'd been wanting to do this for the Met Gala

for a very long time.

And I always thought he was out of his mind.

I don't know how he convinced me to do it this year,

but I guess it's because he convinced me

because of the theme.

So I'm like, Fine, I'mma give it a try.

I know like when you give face.

[Alexis] Mhm.

Like the outfit gives, but when you give face in here,

it's very important, those are very important elements.

[Alexis] It's an interesting experience,

seeing yourself old.

It is gonna be very, like my mom,

she's very anti-surgery on herself,

but I'm the fuck not.

I know for a fact when I'm like in my 70s and everything,

I want to look like I'm 45,

so I am going to do a facelift.

Absolutely, yes.

But if you wanna be 75,

and you wanna like age gracefully and everything,

good for you, but not good for me.

[Cardi laughing]

I got a couple of gray hairs,

I got like three of them bitches long up to my ass,

but I just wanna look sexy forever,

why can't I just wanna be sexy forever?

Like I'm a sexy bitch, and I wanna stay like a sexy bitch,

you know what I'm saying?

It's not really a society thing,

I don't wanna be sexy for anybody else.

Like even now when I do cosmetic surgeries and everything,

like when I get like a lipo, or whatever the fuck done,

I'm not doing it for society, I'm not doing it for my man,

I'm doing it for myself.

Like I picture what I want to look like

and what I wanna look like, I want to achieve it.

Like, fuck the society, do it for your motherfucking self,

I do it for me.

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So you guys know that I was gonna go with prosthetics

and everything on the red carpet,

but I just felt like it was too risky.

And I don't know if it was gonna be right on camera,

so I was like, No.

So now we're trying to figure out

what we doing next for the hair.

I mean, we gonna do a turban,

but we don't want it to look too much like,

I like it like that.

So it's just like,

I wonder how we gonna do a little fling flan flair.

But thank God for Tokyo, and Erica, and everybody else.

My color of my eyes are, as you can see,

it's like the perfect emerald.

It goes with my nails, but it's gonna go with my jewelry.

After you do the hard, super hard part,

which is the red carpet, and like you just hope

that you don't like smile like this, like.

And the hardest part is like being inside the Met

and being social with other artists that you like

and you don't like.

[Cardi laughing]

So you gotta be social with people and stuff like that.

And it's like, really, it takes a lot for me,

you know what I'm saying?

Because I'm like a Libra, like I'm very antisocial,

you know what I'm saying?

Like, I'm like cocooned, like,

I'm like a cocooned butterfly.

I'm also really scared for my dress,

because I have to get like practically on a little podium

with very tall heels.

I wonder how many, how many inches is my heels?

[Patientce] 15.

15 inches heels, like it's just,

it's very overwhelming, you know.

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I'm 31, but I've been through so much in my life

and like, you know, I started being like, you know,

I was a little fast.

So I'm like really like 45 to me in my head because,

you know, like, I was outside early.

We might have to fold some pieces up.

[Cardi] That looks ugly right there.

Wait, I think it can go down more,

because earlier it was down more.

You wanna push it down more?

Yeah.

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[Kollin] Can you lift up the back of her hair more?

Yeah.

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[Speaker] Seconds left to complete today's competition.

[Kollin] And then all brushes down.

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[Patientce] We can just have

the collective in the room with her.

[Kollin] All right, here you go.

[Patientce] That is fine.

[Kollin] Okay, can I pull it down?

[Speaker 2] Yeah, I'm doing it from the back.

[Cardi] So when I did WAP, everybody took it

as a very empowering moment.

When I do these type of moments, I don't think about like,

oh, I'm purposely trying to do something that's empowering,

I just wanna do something different.

Am I taller than Kollin, let's see.

[Cardi laughing]

I can't beat him!

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I'm excited to wear that dress, to be honest with you.

I wanna wear that dress, I wanna take my pictures,

and I just wanna take the dress off right away.

'Cause it's a lot, it's so heavy.

It's really, really heavy.

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