Jenna Ortega Goes All-In on Goth Glam

Jenna Ortega is giving the people what they want tonight in London. The occasion—the world premiere of Season 2 of Wednesday—obviously called for something special… special and dramatic. And Ortega came to serve.

The star arrived at Central Hall, Westminster, in an Ashi Studio fall 2025 couture dress that looked like melted wax dripping down her body. It was giving goth girl, all grown up—as was her carefully considered glam.

Ortega’s hairstylist, Cesar Deleon Ramirez, created the look by adding long extensions into the actor’s collarbone-length hair, and then using the L’Oreal AirLight Pro Hair Dryer to get everything poker-straight. From there, he smoothed in some Kérastase Gloss Absolu and pulled Ortega’s locks back into a loose-and-low braid—a thoughtful but not overwrought nod to Wednesday’s signature hairstyle. “It’s a bit alien, a bit goth, but still beauty. Dark beauty,” he explains.

Makeup artist Mélanie Inglessis shares that the bleached brows came from a project that Ortega is working on, but the team “decided to keep them.”

“We wanted to create the right balance between an editorial look and a red carpet moment,” Inglessis says. That included monochromatic but natural-looking skin using the Barbara Sturm Glow Drops and Dior’s Forever Skin Foundation, and intensely carved cheekbones achieved with the Laduora Lumeo, a device Iglesias describes as “amazing.” Blush was purposefully skipped (a decision she calls “a little goth, a little glam”), while the Dior Rouge Contour Lip Liner Pencil in shade 400 gave Ortega a darkly pretty lip.