Any Advice On First Wedding Make-Up

[Impulse1976]

Hi Geeks, does anyone have any advice for my first wedding make-up. I have my trial next Saturday and the real thing in December. I am so nervous. I am using Artdeco make-up and have been on the course but any help would be greatfully received. thanks

 

[loubylou]

I'm only 2 Min's away from you hun if you want a face to practise on or need a model for your trial or the real thing in Dec,
you know where i am if im needed :hug:

 

[Dawn27]

Hi ya,
I specialise in Bridal make-up have been doing it for a number of years. I find that most people that book are normally very unsure about make-up and how to apply it. My advice is to keep it simple, obviously blend, blend, blend. If your using shimmer eyeshadows on lid dont use on brow and vice versa, take your time and listen to what the bride wants. They generally have to wear slightly more than normal otherwise it wont show on photos especially december the light is going to be darker. Have a look at my site www.beautifulbridebycomplexions.co.uk may give you some ideas, everyone is different but I think the key is listen to your client. Hope this helps you, good luck and enjoy it I love it.

Dawn x :hug:

 

[pure]

Bobbi Browns website ha a bridal make up demo video. Might be worth a watch.
Bobbi Brown Cosmetics: Bridal Beauty Video

 

[dee]

just try to remember the art deco is heavy pigmented so less is more .. you can always build up xxxx

 

[Ruth Mills]

I'm only 2 Min's away from you hun if you want a face to practise on or need a model for your trial or the real thing in Dec,
you know where i am if im needed :hug:

Shame I am so far away, as I would have loved to help out by being a model for that too if you needed one.

 

[Impulse1976]

Thank you all guys for your help, i will look at the web pages and demo when i have been shopping

 

[blush09]

awww bless (meant in a non patronising way, lol)
i know exactly how you feel .. i recently completed my training and am taking a year out to put my make up kit together (ouch!) practice, practice, practice and get pictures together for my portfolio ..
dreading my first "paying" bride, but im sure it gets easier with each booking
good luck with it!

 

[Impulse1976]

Blush, i know what you mean. I blagged my way through my first "other treatments" and i did ok, so i think the aim is to be and sound confident and not to tell the client its your first time or they will be more nervous as you
Its a pitty we are not near each other we could have practiced and gave each other tips. good luck. x

 

[tigi]

I have just got married and my make up artist was brill. she asked me what time of day we were getting married, was i planning to have outside photos and lastly what make up did i envisage . We were having a hollywood themed wedding and my dress was pink, she did a great job! she even asked to see the dress, for the colouring. I choose her because she asked lots of questions, asked me what colour my dress was (the other two ladies i met didnt ask and both assumed i wanted barely there, bridal make up, ( i didnt, i wanted full on hollywood glamour). she even asked me if i had seen any photos of bridal or other makeup that i liked and did them for me to help me choose.

I dont know if this helps but i thought I would tell you what made me choose her so you could have a brides point of view.

good luck and am certain it'll go brilliantly


tigi

 

[blush09]

thank tigi .. some great advice there

as a recent bride myself, i know how important it is to feel that your "supplier" is interested in the whole theme, right down to the tiniest detail, so i plan to ask plenty of questions myself - and ask that the bride brings to the trial magazine pictures of make up she likes, samples of fabric, etc .. this will also save time, enabling me to concentrate on producing the look she really wants!

i basically trained to become a mua because i was so disapointed with the lack of mua in my area, and the one i did eventually hire (id left it too late and all the goodens were booked) wasnt exactly brilliant, in fact she was a hair dresser who happened to do make up, not a proper mua - i think she might have done one of those one day courses, i think i knew more about make up than her - when i asked her about shading, she just looked at me blankly

her kit was what i now know to be a standard college make up kit, and in fact after she did the base i insisted on doing did my own eyes .. i felt awful, but i just wanted to get it right, in her defense she did a nice job with my hair though, just wasnt really qualified to call herself a bridal mua

your hollywood wedding sounds really glam - you must have had a ball, do you have any pics - perhaps you could email them to me, would love to see your make up, did the bridesmaids also have hollywood make up? and were all the guests dressed up for the part also?

 

[tigi]

yes would be more than happy to how you the pics of my dress etc. we gave out oscars for best dressed, sexiest shoes etc. it was a great night.

My bridesmaid were not made up really as they were 10 and 12 , they did have a bit of make up on though. my chief bridesmaid was made up by someone else as we had alast minute disaster with my dress and she had to go and get it from the cleaners.

most of my guests dressed the part and it was a fabby night. more then happy to show you the pics as they are great.

tigi

 

[tigi]

actually, just thought, even better than showing you the pics i can give you the phootgraphers website and they are on there. i dont konw if i am allowed to put her website up here so if you want to pm me and ill give you the details, and password.

tigi

 

[Impulse1976]

Your wedding sounds brill tigi, please can i have a look at the web site too?
These are all great tips everyone, i am a really chatty person anyway so hopefully i will be able to wing it I am really excited and nervous too, i will have to remember my camera to build up my portfolio.

 

[zoe knightley]

hi i bought a fab book on wedding makeup makeovers by robert jones its great hope this helps xx

 

[Impulse1976]

Hi geeks, well i have just come back from me very stressful but enjoyable afternoon doing the bride and the bridesmaid (13). I went in and was very confident asked all the questions suggested, dress colour, how wearing hair, how she usually wears make up, i asked to look at her make-up (collection 2000) etc.. I did the bride and i was really pleased with it and quite impressed myself to be honest and she loved it too. The bridesmaid, well i spent ages doing the make-up and she hated it all apart from the foundation. She usually wears quite dark eye make up so i decided to use the mac green eye pencil with the old gold, her dress was gold and i thought this would look really pretty, her mum and i loved it and i felt really deflated that she didnt like it. :-( Her mum said that she doesnt think she would have liked anything i did, and they decided that i was going to do the face and she was going to do her own eyes. It was quite an experience and i was pleased but a bit upset too because it looked beautiful, but i guess the client is always right.

Has anyone else had any thing like this happen when doing bridal?

 

[pure]

Well it sounds as though you did a really good job! :hug:

As for the bridesmaid, can anyone really ever make a teenager happy by choosing their make up and clothes?! :lol::lol: Don't take it heart, just put it down to teenage hormones.

 

[dee]

lol i did once have a bride who was having a white wedding but wanted goth eyes :irked: i just wouldnt do it .. i told her i didnt want to be responsible for her looking back on her photos yrs later thinking what did i have done
so i didnt do her :lol:

 

[Impulse1976]

Oh my god, the bridal make-up is tomorrow and the bride has just told me she wants something completely different to what we did in the trial. She now has bought some false eyelashes which have sparlke things on the end and she wants me to do the "old gold mac" colour i did on the bridesmaid.
Shall i just start on the eyes and if she doesnt like it i can take it off and then do the foundation when she is happy with her eyes.
I am so nervous now just in case she doesnt like the finished look.
Any advice will be very happily received.

 

[anca14]

Hi Impulse,
This is a very tricky one.
You should explain to her that these eyelashes aren't very bridal and if she wants dark eyeshadow you would not recommend them. Also if she bought the lashes from Boots/Superdrug the glue is not strong and she will be checking repeatedly throughout the day to make sure none have fallen out.
If you think this new make up would not suit her be honest or compromise. Of couse you have to listen but also you are the professional.
I usually leave 30min to apply the make up on the day and maximum 2 hours for the trial. If she insists on having different make-up to what was agreed during the trial she must be prepared to accept that she may not be happy with the end result and you should charge her for any additional work you do to rectify this.
Good luck and let us know how it went.
Anca xxx