Weddingbee Blog

This last weekend I had my hair and makeup trial, and even though I spent some time researching what I wanted, I was very nervous that my picks wouldn’t translate well with my hair and my coloring.

I stupidly didn’t get a before picture (you’re welcome), so you’ll just have to use your imaginations. I will say I looked like a hot mess (literally) because Papa Pony and I decided to go to garage sales in the several hours leading up to my late morning appointment. And the steam bath that was the heat wave last week was in full force, so yeah, I was looking good.

Despite putting my best face forward (ha), my makeup artist and hair stylist were able to come up with the following based on my inspiration pictures.

First up, the makeup (sorry for the crappy pictures, finding good lighting was hard and it was hot):

And hair from all angles:

And after about eight hours of heat, humidity, and record high heat indices (of which I mostly spent in air conditioning), my makeup and hair looked like this:

Immediately after getting my makeup done, I felt a little weird. I decided to have the works done: airbrush foundation, individual false eyelashes, heavy eye makeup, eyeliner, etc. I never wear foundation, so the airbrush was perfect for me. It was light, but covered everything and it did not come off all day even though I touch my face often. Airbrush was about twice the cost of regular foundation, but I think it is well worth the cost to ensure I feel flawless on the big day. My only complaint (besides cost) is that it feels a little sticky at first. The sticky feeling eventually went away, and I was able to keep myself from messing with my face most of the day, but it’s something to consider if that type of thing bothers you.

There are a few makeup things I think I want to have done a little differently on the day of the wedding. For starters, I want my blush to be a more prominent. I’m not sure whether I need more blush or just less bronzer to make the blush pop against my skin more, but either way I want more color. Another thing I might change is the eyeliner. Normally, I love eyeliner on my bottom lashes, but I kept thinking it made me look too dark for our daytime wedding.

Finally, I’m on the fence about the lashes. I opted to have the individual lashes applied because my makeup artist said they would last a few days longer than a typical strip of lashes. During the application though, the adhesive kept getting into my eye causing it to burn terribly making my eye red and irritated for over an hour. Even after the pain of putting them on, I wasn’t sure I loved the look. I feel like they photograph great, but they felt extremely fake to me, which is not how I want to feel or look. Plus, the glue started to show by the end of the day, as you can see on my right eye in the second to last picture, which is distracting and unsightly. I’ve always want to try eyelash extensions, so this might be the perfect excuse to give them the old college try.

On the other hand, I loved how my hair turned out; it’s almost exactly what I envisioned. I say “almost” because the front of the style looks a little off to me. My stylist tried to give some movement and softness to the front of the style with a slight wave to the front pieces in order to avoid it looking too stiff and pulled back, but most of my hair was pinned at that point and couldn’t be properly restyled. I’m confident my stylist will be able to give me beautiful hair in the front and back on the day though, so I’m not worried about the look of my hair at all.

My hair was starting to fall out in a few places as you can kind of see in the picture above (self portrait shots of the back of your head are hard, yo), but was, for the most part, still intact. Which made complete sense after taking out the hundreds of bobby pins that were holding all my hair up. All in all, I decided my hair was a success.

What do you ladies think: is there anything I should change? Did you have a hair and/or makeup trial? Did it change your thoughts about your hair and/or makeup for the big day?