Your wedding day is one of the most treasured days in your life and your make-up should help you look the best possible version of yourself. Remember the bride has the leading role in this production. Whatever you would like to be natural, sophisticated or glamorous bride, your make-up should emphasize the eyes, lips, and skin-tone as these parts should be camera friendly at all times. If you don't usually wear make-up, don't worry - I will provide plenty of inspiration and my own extensive make-up kit.
The bridesmaids are the supporting players who are there to make the star look good, so they also can enjoy the special services and can look amazing.
Wedding Make up tips
Bridal make up is a very individual makeup, designed to ensure that your natural assets are emphasized resulting in the breathtaking impact that a beautifully applied make-up has, to transform every bride into her most gorgeous self!
Flawless skin, fabulous bone structure and picture perfect features all help, but do not necessarily always result in creating impact that you may desire as a bride, unless you are appropriately made-up. On the day, your choice is "to make-up or to be made up"... The happy event itself will bring its own natural glowing beauty to your face, and with a few ideas to help you ensure a beautiful you on your big day, the memories will live on in your photographs for years to come!
1. Whether you decide to do your own makeup or book a professional make up artist, it is important to be up to date with the latest colors and looks, and if you are doing your own make up, it is especially important to be in the know of application make up techniques - it is all about knowing what works best for you. So keep up to date with magazines (fashion and bridal) and current trends. Book a trial with professional make-up artists you are considering for your day, or book yourself a lesson with a professional makeup artist, and experience an opportunity to learn how to get the best out of make-up, which leads us onto next point.
2. Find out make-up artist tricks of the trade - a lesson or make up trial will show / teach you the secrets of how you can apply your makeup like a professional - flawless skin, day/evening palettes, lip + eye make-up techniques - you can have your make up dilemmas solved, and have your make up and beauty queries answered as you learn, to make your wedding day blissful!
3. Wedding Day bliss comes from knowing the professional makeup artist you have booked will be working their magic on you, (your mom, maid of honor, bridesmaids, flowergirls), so you can be relaxed and looking perfectly gorgeous. Having had a pre-consultation with your make up artist, a make up chart will have been designed with your preferences.
If you are doing your own make-up, you can rest easy that your professional make up lesson has prepared you with a makeup design chart that is easy to follow, and you are in the know of the latest application techniques that work best for you, so your make-up will look flawless and professional.
Bridal make up is a combination of day / evening makeup (depending on the time of your wedding), photographic make up (needs to be able to look good under flash or studio lighting, especially if you are having studio shots, location shots, a professional photographer, black and white photographs), and corrective make-up (using subtle highlighting and shading techniques to bring out your best features and minimize flaws).
Create a look that suits your style, enhances your features, and co-ordinates with your color scheme to suit the occasion. Whether you do your own make up, or you book a professional makeup artist, the make up should complement the theme of the wedding, be it subtle, dramatic, natural or glamorous! Experimenting should be done prior to the day, as your wedding day is not the time to experiment with contouring and correction, reshaping and defining. Your wedding make up is of great importance, as the wedding pictures will always be a reminder of your happy day, so you with this in mind, make sure your bridal make up look suits your style, and is not overly "trendy" as the pictures will date.
On the day you will need to have a schedule, so that you can co-ordinate the days events - hair + make-up for the bride, bridal party and mother of the bride, when the photographer arrives and how long they need with you before you arrive at the wedding, up to your arrival.
This seasons looks are more about a great make up that requires minimum fuss to maintain. Preparation of a pre-trial or professional consultation / make up lesson ensures that you will look your best on your wedding day. Pre-planning is the key to creating a beautiful look for you, and gives you peace of mind that your wedding day will run smoothly. You will also know how long to allow for your make up, feel comfortable with your make up design and the products being used - one less thing to have to think about on an already busy and wonderful day!
Wishing you magic make up moments on your wedding day, allow yourself to relax and be pampered, as this is one very special day
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