Wedding Day Makeup Tips for Brides

Your wedding day is both the most exciting day of your life, and the most stressful. There are hundreds of things that are happening on your wedding day that you have to keep track of, and your makeup is just one of them. If you want to reduce the amount of stress that you have on your wedding day then you should follow these five simple wedding day tips for brides.

Wedding Day Makeup Tip Number 1 – Book a Professional

The one day in your life that you want to be pampered and taken care of is your wedding day. You are going to be under a lot of stress and dealing with a lot of last minute details. To reduce the stress that you experience on your wedding you should hire a professional makeup artist to come to you and do your makeup. This will ensure that your makeup will be perfect, and if adjustments need to be made they will be able to handle them.

Wedding Day Makeup Tip Number 2 – Stick to the Plan

Before your wedding day you should do a trial run with your makeup. Try out several different looks to see which one you like the best. At least a week before your wedding select a makeup style that you like and have a Polaroid taken of you with the chosen makeup job. Have this photo with you on your wedding day so your make-up artist will know what to do.

On the day of your wedding you are going to be filled with emotions from excitement to anxiety. Don’t let this flood of emotions confuse you when it comes to your makeup. Once you have selected a makeup style it is best to stick with that style. Last minute changes usually are wrong. Stick with the choices you made when you were calm and collected.

Wedding Day Makeup Tip Number 3 – Prepare Ahead of Time

Nothing is worse then getting to the wedding chapel and not having the right equipment with you to do your hair and makeup. If you are planning a traditional ethnic wedding, make sure that you have all of your face, body, and hair jewelry with you when you leave to have your makeup done. Prepare a makeup kit at least two or three days before your wedding. This way you will only need to keep track of one thing, the kit.

Wedding Day Makeup Tip Number 4 – Have a Backup Plan

Things inevitably go wrong on wedding days. To ensure that a missing makeup artist won’t hold up your wedding, or cause you to fall apart, have a back up plan. Make sure that there is someone else in your wedding party that can do you makeup if the makeup artist is MIA on your wedding day. And as a last resort you should be able to step in as your own wedding makeup artist.

 
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Design Your Perfect Wedding Dress

A bride on her wedding day should look more beautiful and radiant than ever before and a gorgeous, flattering wedding dress is the most important part of her look. But, what should you do if you have looked everywhere for the perfect wedding dress to suit your style and flatter your figure and you haven’t found anything suitable?

Do not despair – you can design your own dream wedding dress. If you or a close friend or relative are nifty with a needle, then you might even be able to design and make your wedding dress yourself.

You could also enlist the services of a professional wedding dress designer. Although this is the most expensive way of buying a wedding dress, you will at least know that the dress is exactly how you want it to be and you could even economize in other areas of the wedding in order to compensate for the extra expense on the dress.

You could also regard the expense of a bespoke wedding dress as an investment: either as a family heirloom that could be used by generations to come or as a dress that you would be willing to sell onto another bride after your wedding.
Working with a Wedding Dress Designer

Try to find a wedding dress designer through recommendation: did you admire a friend’s stunning wedding dress that you heard that was designed especially for her? Ask her who the designer was.

Before meeting the designer, it is a good idea to make a scrapbook of ideas for your wedding dress. For example, if you like the bodice of one gown and the train of another, cut out pictures of both dresses, stick them in the scrapbook and make notes by the side of each picture on what you like and don’t like about each dress.

You could also collect swatches of fabric in the colors and textures that you would like for your dress. You may even wish to make a few preliminary sketches of your dream dress yourself, but this is not necessary.

If you would like to wear a special necklace or other piece of jewelry with your wedding dress, show that to the designer too. He or she may be able to use it as inspiration or to ensure that the dress will fit in with your accessories.

Be prepared for the designer to ask you several questions about yourself and your fashion likes and dislikes in order to gain a picture of who you are and whether or not you would like a traditional, romantic dress or a more modern ‘alternative’ design. Perhaps take along a close friend or relative who knows you well and who would be able to give the designer extra information that you perhaps would not think of yourself.

After the initial meeting with the designer, he or she will go away and come up with perhaps two or three initial designs for you to look at when you next meet. Be as honest as possible at this meeting: if you don’t like a particular design or if there is something you would like to alter, let the designer know now rather than after the dress has been made!

The designer will modify the designs and come up with a final draft design. You then have the opportunity to either agree with this design or make changes. Once a final agreement has been reached, the dress will be made for you and you will probably have several fittings at which minor alterations can be made.

When your wedding day arrives, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that your wedding dress is truly one of a kind, as unique as you are!

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