Weddingbee Blog

My hair-guru bridesmaid Jdubs was in town this weekend for my bachelorette party (way more on that caraaaayziness to come as soon as I have all the pics!) and we managed to find a bit of downtime to work on that majorly-important detail of the wedding: my hair.

Bridesmaid Jdubs not only grew up in a salon but now is a representative for a very upscale hair product company called Oribe. So basically, girlfriend pretty much rocks the shiznit at hair, which is awesome for me because my hair-styling skills are wash, rinse, repeat.

I told her I wanted it to look natural, not too overdone and that I wanted to go curly.

Here’s the before picture of my crazy/frizzy/wavy/ridiculous hair (also, this is pre-makeup. Yikes! )

And that Master Of All Things Hair managed to somehow tame the wild beast into this:

Isn’t it lovely? I think she totally nailed the hippie Taylor Swift/Drew Barrymore look I was going for! And yes, I’m 100% serious with that previous statement, I love both of those entertainers and their hair!

I’m still planning on going with a little wreath of flowers as my embellishment, but after the trial, we decided to also ask my florist to do a single flower hairpin as well, in case the wreath just turns out to be a bit much.

Here’s what the back looked like…

I was so happy with how it came out! It held up well through the night and even looked really cute at brunch the next day. It’s good to know I won’t have to shower or anything before heading to our morning-after brunch the weekend of the wedding because this dirty hippie avoids showering like the plague (for real. I find it really annoying). Anything to save some time and get a little extra shut-eye that Sunday morning afterwards…

Here’s one final shot of me with my makeup done similar to how we’ll do it for the wedding…

Ahhhhhh, amazing how makeup just makes everything better, eh?

Anyways, it was so fun to get a preview of how I’m hoping to look for the big day and I have to say, I felt really, really pretty. Which is a good thing, because a deep, dark little secret fear of mine is that I’ll feel ugly and not pretty at the wedding. So now I’ve been reassured that this whole pretty thing isn’t that hard to pull off if you have a killer hair stylist and actually wear some makeup. Note to self.