Wedding Make Up
How To Look Beautiful On Your Big Day
Your wedding day is a momentous one…a day that you will remember forever. You’ve taken great care in choosing your dress, your flowers, and even your invitations. Now use that same attention to detail when you are choosing and applying your make up. The make up you wear on your wedding-day should be a little more dramatic and special than your every day make up. Here’s how to look you best as you walk down that aisle.
Getting Started
The key to beautiful make up is beautiful skin. But that doesn’t mean that you need to have perfect skin tone in order to look great. If you don’t already have a good skin care regime, now is the time to get one in place. It does not have to be complicated, just make sure that you cleanse, moisturize, and protect your face with a natural, chemical free organic sunscreen every day. Investing a little time each day to keep your skin in shape will pay off with a beautiful complexion on your wedding day.
Wedding Day Tips For A Radiant Face
Keep your foundation as light as possible to avoid looking like you are wearing a mask. A tinted moisturizer is a good choice for evening out the skin tone and will keep the skin looking fresh and natural. Foundations with yellow undertones work best with flash photography. Stay away from shimmering products as these will make your face look too shiny in photos. Try not to get too much sun before your wedding day. Sunburn or peeling skin will be hard to camouflage on the big day. Instead, use a bronzing powder, applied lightly to the forehead, cheeks and the bridge of the nose to warm your complexion.
Once you apply your foundation, you may want to use a translucent powder to “set” the look and keep it in place. Stay away from heavy pressed powders as these can leave your skin looking chalky and dull in bright lights and on your wedding photos.
When choosing your blush, look for a shade that compliments your skin tone. Apply blush lightly…you want to look like a blushing bride, but too much blush will make you look embarrassed or overheated. Focus the blush on the apples of the cheeks and blend back and up toward your hairline.
Wedding Day Tips For Glamorous Eyes
Make sure that your eyebrows are clean and well-groomed before you begin applying eye make up. Don’t tweeze or wax your brows on your wedding day as they may become red and puffy. Instead, groom your eyebrows one or two days before the big event. Brush your eyebrows with an eyebrow brush and use a complimentary eye brow pencil to fill in sparse areas. Follow up with a little gel to hold the brows in place.
Keep your eye make up classic and clean by using neutral shades for your eye liner and shadow. Stay away from trendy looks that will look silly a few months or years down the road (You will be looking at your wedding photos for the rest of your life). Stick with a brown or black eye liner and try out a few different application styles ahead of time to see what works best with your eyes. Be sure to gently smudge the line with a Q-tip for a more natural look. Create lush lashes by curling your eyelashes and applying two to three coats of black, waterproof mascara. Comb your lashes between each coat to separate lashes and remove clumps.
Wedding Day Tips For Kissable Lips
Use a little concealer or foundation on your lips before applying lip color, to give your product the most staying power. Use a lip liner that matches your lips to lightly define the outer edge of the lips. Be careful to follow the natural contours of your mouth. Then use a lip brush to apply lip color, starting at the outer corners of the mouth and working inward. Open your mouth and apply lip color to the corners of your lips. When choosing your lip color for the big day, try out a few shades and get opinions from friends. Look for a shade that’s bright and fresh without appearing overwhelming. Stay away from lipstick that ‘s too neutral or frosted. These shades can make you appear washed out or tired.
Wedding Day Tips For A Beautiful You
- Do A Test Run: Don’t wait until a few hours before your wedding to try out your wedding make up. Do several test runs a few weeks before the wedding to make sure you’ve got the techniques down.
- Relax: This is your special day. Don’t let smudged lipstick or a blemish stress you out. Take it all in stride and your confidence will enhance your beauty better than any make up could!