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Most women wear makeup everyday, but wedding day makeup is different! Today I am sharing with you the top 5 things you need to know about your wedding day makeup.
Unless you are a hot celebrity with the paparazzi following your every move, I am willing to bet that you will be photographed more on your wedding day than on any other single day in your life! So wedding day makeup needs to not only look good to the naked eye, but in photos (and lots of them). Between all the snap shots your family and friends will take, plus your photographer, your face will be in about 1,000 photos!
So how can you look amazing in all those photos?! Read on to find out!
#1 Avoid Reflective Products
Reflective products bounce back both natural light and the light from a camera’s flash and can make you look bad, scary even! Shimmery eye shadows (especially the almost white kind women put just below their eyebrows) look terrible in most photos. Avoid shimmery eye shadows below your eyes as well. Don’t wear glittery powders on your face (a light dusting on your arms and chest area is fine but keep in mind that it doesn’t stay put and won’t, for example, look that good all over someone’s black tux). Very glossy lipsticks, in the wrong lighting, can be very reflective as well. Avoid foundations and liquid powders that give you the fresh wet look. They are very reflective and will look like your skin is oily in photos taken with a flash. If you love the shimmery look, dab a bit on your lips, over your base color and put a light amount of shimmery shadow on your eye lids (over a matte base). Note: Frosted eye shadows (the really thick shimmery stuff) accentuates fine lines and wrinkles!
#2 Accentuate Your Best Features
Typically, your best facial features will be any combination of your eyes, lips or cheeks. To accentuate your best features you will need to draw attention to them and compliment them. You can’t just draw attention to them. For example, if you have great blue eyes, you don’t want to wear bright blue eye shadow! You’ll draw attention to your eyes, but you’ll notice the shadow more than your eyes. I highly recommend that you consult a beauty expert to find out what your best colors are. I love fun eye shadow colors, but to make my blue eyes pop I need to use shades of brown to brownish mauves.
You are going to look your best if you only draw attention to one feature. If you don’t know which feature is best, give yourself several makeovers alternating which feature you accentuate. If you have great lips, but don’t like your teeth, you should accentuate your eyes or cheeks to not draw attention to your teeth. Note: very bright lipsticks, especially red shades, can make your teeth look less than pearly-white.
#3 Go for a Timeless Look
Be honest! You have several embarrassing photos from the 1980’s, don’t you?! Whether you had big hair, rainbow clothing or “drag queen” makeup, you look back on those photos and think, “What was I thinking?!” You probably looked great to yourself and peers back then, but now all you can see is yourself masked in trendy colors and styles. Don’t make yourself go through this in 20 years from now when you look at your wedding photos! You want to have a timeless look in your photos that will hang on your walls for decades (and generations) to come!
So how can you look timelessly great? To do this you will need to wear your makeup in a way that makes you notice you and not the makeup. So you will need to avoid bold colors and excessive eye and lip liner. Timeless makeup will enhance your natural beauty, and be in shades that are natural for your complexion.
#4 Get Your Makeup Done by a Professional
Take the guess work out of your wedding day makeup and get it professionally done! Find someone with a great portfolio (many makeup artists have them online). Make sure they can deliver the look you want. If their portfolio is filled with fashion models with ruby red eye shadow and 3 inch blue eye lashes, they aren’t going to be the makeup artist for your wedding day. Call more than one and compare their portfolios and personalities.
Can’t afford a cosmetologist? Many talented makeup artists work at your local department stores! Walk through several department stores and look for someone with great makeup on themselves, or how they make someone up. When you like what you see, approach them about a wedding day makeover. Because they often work off of commission, you should buy a few products (or many?) from them in exchange for a full makeover.
If you go when they aren’t too busy they can give you a mini one right there. If you like what they did then you know you’ll be pleased with what they’ll do on the big day. Tell them you want to avoid reflective powders, shadows and lip products (see #1). I have found that beauty consultants at Prescriptives, Mac and Clinique to be the most friendly, qualified and talented.
#5 Have Your Makeup Done in Natural Light
If you can, have your makeup done outside or near a window. Natural light is the best! Under certain lighting you can easily overdo your makeup, resulting in a “caked on” look. Natural light will also help you with which colors and how dark you should make them appear on your lids and cheeks. If you cannot have it done with natural light, take a hand held mirror outside with you and look at your face and adjust your makeup as needed. Note: do your makeup in an evenly shaded area, but with still plenty light.
Make sure you just don’t “overdo” it with your makeup! But have fun with it and give yourself plenty of time on the day of the wedding to have it done. Make sure you take a few “touch up” products with you throughout the day so you can look perfect all day!
Here’s a funny collage of “overdone” looks I recommend avoiding on your wedding day! Notice how shimmery/frosted eye shadows look in photos and how glitter reflects off of skin.
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