Met Gala Instagram Versus Reality Stuns Fans As Stars' Unfiltered Looks Revealed

While there’s no denying that Queen Bey is stunning, her Instagram pictures make her skin look unrealistically smooth and matte, with flushed cheeks that seem straight out of a cartoon.

“The facetune is insane,” one user on X said of the Grammy winner, who was one of the co-chairs at the event.

Someone else called Beyoncé the “Queen of Photoshop.”

“The pictures look NOTHING like the ones she posted on IG!” a separate critic commented.

Beyoncé, who attended the fashion gala with her daughter Blue Ivy, chose longtime collaborator, designer Olivier Rousteing, for her bejeweled ensemble.

Disclaimer: the photo on the left was AI-generated.

Katy opted for a white Stella McCartney gown and a futuristic mask, a look that poked fun at the AI-generated images of her attending previous Met Galas, as per Vogue.

She also wore gloves with six fingers, seemingly referencing the imperfect AI images often seen on social media.

Continuing with the AI theme, the Firework hitmaker took to her Instagram Stories after the event to share an AI-generated image of herself without the mask.

According to a press release, the headpiece was “designed to be a literal and symbolic reflection that invites the observer to consider that their perception of others can mirror their own internal world, and conversely mask truth.”