I won’t lie: I’m a bit torn about my hair & make-up trial. I thought things would go smoothly for sure since the person doing it was the same person who had done my hair & make-up for my b-pics and I had been extremely happy with those results. But you tell me — here’s my before picture (goodness I could use some make-up!):
And here’s the after with make-up (no hair yet):
Pretty, I think, (at least much improved!) but my eyelids are much more yellow/gold than I’d like, and it took my asking for a different lip color a few times before getting this one, and even this one is a bolder pink than what I’d wanted.
Now the back of my hair I really liked (though my hair comb is a bit askew):

But the front…that’s another story. I had asked for it to be swept back on the sides but with a small “poof” on the front. On the first attempt I got a HUGE poof (I have no picture of it because I asked for it to be redone pronto!). The second attempt required that the entire back be redone — and still, the top front was huge. Finally, to save on time (the appointment had already started TWO hours late — she’d squeezed in a desperate bride that morning whose hair/make-up person had cancelled on her — all of which I’d waited for because I never got a call saying she was running late) I asked for the front to be flattened without having to re-do everything and this is what I got:

And I don’t love it, though I’ve been promised that we can make it work on the day of the wedding. We could have continued to play around with it if 5 or 6 hours hadn’t already passed since the time I’d gotten there, but it had just been too long at that point.
When I got home, I tried to play around with the front to get the effect I wanted, but of course, I can’t do squat with my hair, and I’d already pulled some pins out of my hair a few times, so it’s wispy and messy and all I got was this:

What do you think? I probably need another trial, ha, and here I was trying to save some money… The thing is I’ve seen the work she does and know she can do much better than this, but should I take that chance?
If you’re not completely happy with it, don’t settle. Maybe bring in more examples of what you like in the form of magazine photos to help her get a better idea?