Has Kim won best dressed already?
Kim Kardashian posted her Halloween 2026 look this week, and within hours the internet had made its comparisons. Ice blue hair. Gems placed like piercings across the nose, cheeks and knuckles. Spiked cuffs, chrome nails, a crystal skull on a heavy chain.
It is dark, playful and very deliberate. And if it feels familiar, that is the point. The look sits in the same world as North's, shot in the same moody, flash-lit style, with the same details carried from one face to the other.
So yes, people are asking whether Kim has already won best dressed. We are more interested in a different question: who made it?
Meet skreem
The makeup behind both looks is by skreem. Skreem created North's look first, then took Kim into the same world for Halloween.
Look closely and you can see the artist's hand in both. The gems mapped across the face like a constellation. The lashes, spiky and separated. The hands treated as part of the face, studded at the knuckles so a simple pose over the mouth becomes the shot.
Same vocabulary, two completely different faces. That takes real skill. Translating a look from one person to another, so it reads as connected but still belongs to each of them, is the kind of artistry that rarely gets named in the headlines.
Why the artist matters
Every look that goes viral has a person behind it. A makeup artist who planned the placement of every gem. A hair stylist who laid the edges. A nail tech who spent hours on a single set.
When a moment like this breaks, the conversation usually lands on the celebrity and the clothes. The beauty gets described, but the people who created it rarely get the credit. That is a gap we care about, because those artists are the reason the moment exists at all.
The LAEL view
At LAEL, the artist is the whole story. We built the platform around the hair stylists, makeup artists, nail techs and lash artists whose skill turns an ordinary night into a moment. Looks like this one are a reminder of what that talent can do.
So, has Kim won best dressed already? Or does the original still take it? Tell us what you think, and tag the artists whose work you love.
