1. Exfoliate your skin with a gentle exfoliator Origins has a good one.
2. Apply Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer SPF 20, one of the best products I have every used. My color is nude. It is a moisturizer but it will even your skin tone and looks very natural. Feels great on your skin.
3. Becca's award winning concealer around your eyes, nose, chin, and to cover blemishes. Cool thing about this concealer is over 30 colors to match any skin tone and one side is extra coverage for blemishes the other side is a little less coverage to use around your eyes. The key to covering blemishes is to dab the concealer on your skin do not rub. Dab concealer with a clean finger tip until it warms up to your skin and the blemish disappears.
3. Set the concealer by using Becca's loose finishing powder, I have been told by people who are actually using this product that it seems to be water resistent. The powder literally melts on your skin. No powdery look just complete natural beauty.
4. Becca's cream blush can be applied before powder or after powder to get more color. Then use either Becca's pressed shimmer color in Princess, Hyawatha, or Nefertiti to give you that extra glow. Lorac's Desire Blush is also great.
5. Use Becca's Brow Powder and angled brush to color and shape your brows. I use Light but they also have Fair, Medium, Auburn, and Dark.
6. Cover your eyelid from lash line to brow with Lorac's Beige eyeshadow, cover your eyelid with Lorac's Enlighten eyeshadow. Take a eye pencil (brown or black) Teddy from Mac Cosmetics is my favorite make sure you sharpen it. Use the pencil to make a bunch of dots right in your lash line, kinda like pok-a-dots, use a thin brush or even your Becca angled brush to blend the dots together. If you really want yours eyes to pop use a light eyeshadow and brush in to your lower lash line. Rule of thumb is to use a dark liner on top of your eye and lighter color on bottom of your eye.
7. Grab your Shuemura eyelash curler and your favorite mascara. Best way to apply mascara is to use the end of the wand where all the product has gathered and run it over your lashes. Then take the mascara wand and get right up to your lash line and brush mascara through your lashes.
8. Last but not least grab your favorite gloss (Becca's is awesome) and your done. If you like to use lip liner with your gloss I recommend Lorac's #06.
I hope this can help someone. It should only take you about 10-15 minutes.
Also if anyone in the San Diego area is looking for an airbrush makeup artist to trade for photographs I would be very happy to work with you. Check out my website: www.personalpromakeupartist.com.
Why it is so important to hire a professional makeup artist for your wedding day?
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, this is going to be one of the best days of your life and you want to look your best. If your makeup isn't done just right the photos can make you look very washed out, on the other hand, you don't want to look like you have on war paint when you are saying your I do's. In 20 years when your future children are looking through your wedding album they're not going to be looking at your wedding cake or the flowers they are going to be looking at their parents 20 years younger. An experienced bridal makeup artist has extenstively studied makeup artistry to achieve just the right look for a bride. If you are going to be hiring a really expensive photographer it will definitely be worth hiring a quality makeup artist. Speaking for myself, if I spend a lot of money on a photographer I want to make sure I look good so I am proud to show off my beautiful wedding pics to everyone I know. I personally prefer airbrush makeup because it stays on your skin longer and it will give you a flawless, smooth, natural look.