MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICES IN MAKE-UP WILL SAVE YOU A LOT OF HEADACHES AND PHOTOGRAPHY DISASTERS.
Plan as we might, unforeseen wedding day crises pop up, from pesky blemishes to humid hair frizz. Luckily you have a lot of great beauty professionals out there that will assist you in making your day effortless and help you look your best. I have seen so many ruined pictures of brides on their wedding day; from wearing the wrong color foundation to wearing purple eye shadow. I cannot understand why brides would want to wear purple make-up on their special day. Purple does not photograph well, and it can make you look tired. It reflects too much red into the eye area, and your eyes end up looking red and swollen. It also distracts from the beauty of the bride.
When you go to a make-up professional for your Pre-Bridal consultation, make sure that she is using natural tones. If she is not, clearly she does not know what she is doing, and you should stop the consultation and start looking for another professional to do your make-up. Remember, you will be taking a lot of pictures on this most special day so wearing the correct make-up colors is vital and important.
BEAUTY AND THE BRIDE
The ultimate make-up application for a bride should be polished and formal without taking away from the bride’s own natural beauty. The right make-up creates refinement and pushes a look forward with softness while keeping it simple and natural. Using soft colors and warm tones are the key to complementing the bride’s own style and unique look. Those colors also photograph beautifully. Make-up professionals have a keen eye to detail and color balance and they will help you and your wedding party look their best in pictures.
When a bride comes in for a consultation for her make-up, I believe beauty professionals should always ask what the bride ultimately desires and what she has in mind for her wedding day. Usually women know what they want, but they just don’t know how to achieve it. So it should be a collaboration of what she wants with the make-up professional as a helpful resource. This is a formal event so being finished, glowing and a little above natural should be the option, but a bridle should also look like herself. “Soft and flawless” are my bridal make-up strategy.
At The Rouge we love doing weddings and have been applying make-up for weddings for over 20 years. Our brow and beauty experts stay current with the latest trends and styles and will give the bride and her bridal party the best and most updated looks that are formal and polished. We do prebridal consultations Tuesday through Saturday by appointment only. Please come in and enjoy our beauty-meets-reality cosmetics by Fleur Visage and view our latest bridal photographs.