Oscar-winning actress Emma Stone has opened up about one of her biggest beauty regrets from her early red carpet appearances.
In a candid conversation for Vogue’s Life in Looks segment, posted on August 14, the Poor Things star reflected on a few memorable style choices—and one tanning mishap that still makes her cringe.
Looking back at her outfit for the 2011 Critics Choice Awards, the La La Land actress, now 36, initially vowed she would never say she regretted a look. But upon seeing the photo, she quickly changed her mind.
“I told you before that I wasn’t going to say that I regret anything,” Stone said with a laugh. “I’m immediately going against that.”
While she had no complaints about the dress itself, Stone admitted her real regret was the spray tan she paired with it.
“I’m from Arizona, and I don’t have any pigment in my skin, so growing up, I was really obsessed with the idea of being tan,” the Cruella star explained. “That sort of followed me the first couple years that I was going to these types of things.”
Stone revealed that she believed a deep tan was essential for looking glamorous on the red carpet. “I thought, if you were dressing up and if you wanna look great, you should get a really, really dark spray tan,” she said. “My hands look like I’m wearing gloves because the spray tan’s not on my hands.”
Despite the tanning mishap, the Easy A actress expressed her love for the gown she wore that night. “I felt so great in it,” she said, adding that her decision to get the spray tan came from wanting to “enhance how great I felt.”
Known for her effortless style and relatable humor, Stone’s confession offers fans a glimpse into the learning curve of navigating Hollywood’s high-pressure red carpet culture. While her style has since evolved into a celebrated mix of sophistication and playfulness, this lighthearted admission proves that even the most glamorous stars have beauty blunders they’d rather forget.