Your wedding day is one of the most memorable days of your life! Paying a photographer to catch all the best moments is basically waste if you don't look every bit the belle of the ball. Your makeup should be applied and set to work flawlessly with the lights of the camera or kiss of the sun. Make sure to be ready for your close-up! Here are a few tips:
Hiring a Professional or DIY? You've hired a caterer, a baker, a florist, a stylist, a planner and many other wedding professionals. Why would you leave the best part to an amateur? Hire a professional makeup artist. They will know how to apply your makeup in a way that best defines who you are. If you stayed up too late the night before visiting with family or partying with friends, a makeup artist can erase all the evidence of the previous evening. If you plan to leave this part out of the budget, there are few things you probably didn't know you needed to know. Here is a list of steps to take to ensure perfect makeup whether you or a friend are doing it or you've hired a professional.
Practice Makes Perfect
Make sure to practice your makeup application before the wedding. This gives your makeup artist a chance to get to know you and what works best for you as well. It also gives you the chance to perfect your skill if you are applying makeup on yourself that day.
Strong Foundation
Don't apply foundation to bare skin. Moisturizer or a foundation primer will protect your skin and give your foundation more of a chance of evening your skin tone and going on smoothly.
Airbrush or Hand Brush
Airbrush makeup has staying power and feels very lightweight on the skin. However, without a great deal of experience, the artist can make you look a bit washed out or overdone. Hand brush applied makeup is much more artistic and in the hands of the right person the brush can produce results similar to models in all those wedding magazines you've been perusing.
Primed and Ready
Matte vs illuminating primers and foundations are very important to understand. If you are getting married outside a sweet glowing face is best. Make sure your primer or foundation has a chemical not a physical sunscreen in it if you will be outdoors. Physical sunscreen reflects light from camera flashes and can make you look like a ghost! If your ceremony and reception is all indoors try a matte foundation for great pics with less camera light reflection.
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