10 reasons why you should hire a Professional Makeup Artist for your wedding day
The big day is finally coming ! You have spent the last months (or years for some of you) looking for a venue, tasting the caterer's menu, thinking about details for your guests' confort… What about you ?
You have your dress, it looks beautiful but what about your lovely face ? You might think of hiring a makeup artist for your wedding day.
10 reasons why you should hire a Professional Makeup Artist for your wedding
1. Because you are worth it.
As women, we always take care of people around us and on the wedding day brides focus more on their family's and guests' well being than on themselves.
They put themselves aside even though they are the star of the show.
Hiring a makeup artist for your wedding is like having a fairy godmother with you, someone who will take care of you and make sure you look your best on your wedding day.
As a Professional Makeup Artist, I see my job as more than just putting mascara on my bride’s eyes.
My job consists in creating a makeup look that will compliment your features and make you feel beautiful, because you're worth it.
2. No stress on your wedding day
Preparing a wedding is extremely stressing and energy draining.
The least thing a bride wants to do is to add more stress to the situation with new tasks like spending hours on Pinterest looking for makeup inspirations for the wedding day and having to do the makeup she likes by herself.
The getting ready is supposed to be a fun moment so why add stress to yourself and realize that the inspirations you chose do not match with the final overall look ?
Keep that stress away and hire a Professional Makeup Artist.
3.“I don’t like makeup, I want to look natural.”
A lot of women believe that makeup cannot look natural so they prefer skipping it and not wear anything on their wedding day.
I totally get it. The objective of having your makeup done on your wedding day is not to have you look like someone else but to enhance your natural beauty.
On the wedding day, you will be photographed all day long (and evening).
You should look your best for the pictures that will be taken and that will be the memories left of this beautiful day.
Having your makeup done by a Professional Makeup Artist will enable you to have a perfect complexion, look fresh, avoid shiny skin (it never looks good on pictures), reduce the signs of tiredness, make your eyes and lips pop… All that looking natural.
4. A special makeup for a special day
Your everyday makeup look is not what you should go for on your wedding day not that it does not suit you but you will need something else, something more professional.
I get that you want to look natural and that’s the best option in my opinion but going for everyday makeup might not be the best option.
Wedding makeup is a specialty in the makeup industry and there is a reason for that. This type of makeup has specific requirements.
The makeup should :
look as natural as possible
enhance your features
look good in real life and in pictures
match your style and your dress
last all day long
Your usual makeup products and makeup techniques might not be able to help get all of these.
5. Get the look that will match who you are
To have a makeup look natural means that the products placement and colors used will match your facial structure, highlight what you like about your face and make what you do not feel at ease with less visible.
The makeup also has to match the overall look of the day. A said earlier, it is not about an everyday look but a look that will magnify your beauty and match your dress and your hairstyle.
After studying my bride’s features, I create a face chart for her of the look I believe will make her look stunning and elegant.
6. A trial session with a Professional Makeup Artist
Same as you go for dress fittings, you should book a trial with a Makeup Artist. The objective of the trial is as its names says it to try a makeup look but also see how your skin reacts and as far as I am concerned, create a connection with your makeup artist.
During the trial, I will recreate the look I designed for my clients weeks or months before on her face.
The bride can see how it looks in real life, I can see how the skin reacts to the skin prep and makeup products.
We can also make adjustments if needed and see what the makeup looks like at different moments of the day. Indeed it will not look the same at the sunrise, golden hour or evening.
The trial is a moment when the bride and I can communicate and I can get to know her more in order to understand exactly what she needs from me, from my presence on the wedding day.
7. Quality products
The products we, Professional Makeup Artists use in our kit are different from the products you use.
I do not only want my brides to look gorgeous but I want to take care of their skin first, I want them to feel good with the products on their face (eliminate the risk of allergies for example) and have makeup that matches their skin type and specificities.
This is the reason why Professional Makeup Artists invest so much in their makeup kit.
In my kit for example you can find mascaras that you could buy in any store but you will also see that I use makeup brands that you might have never heard of, for my foundations for example.
The products I use will match any situation that can happen on the wedding day like teary eyes, extremely shiny skin, staying power during hot days etc.
And again, thanks to these products, the makeup will last all day and that is what you need.
8. Hygiene
A true Professional Makeup Artist is a Makeup artist that always has the hygiene rules in mind.
I remember a few years ago, I was contacted by a bride who explained me that she had already done a trial with another makeup artist and that she got an eye infection after that.
I asked her to tell me more about it, how was the eye makeup done so that I could find the cause of the infection.
She told me that the Makeup Artist used the mascara from the tube and applied it on her before putting on false eyelashes. Red flag !!!
When applying mascara, a Pofessional Makeup Artist has to use a disposable wand or offer the mascara to the person she applied it on.
Let me explain, imagine that I apply mascara on someone who has conjunctivitis.
I use the wand on her lashes and then put it back on the tube.
After that someone else comes and I use this same wand on her, guess what will happen ?
The mascara is contaminated and then the lady is too and finds herself having the conjunctivitis because of a lack of hygiene.
Anthea Page, a professional model, has herself been a victim of the lack of hygiene of a makeup artist.
Can you imagine having an infection on your wedding day because you did not take as much care as you thought of your makeup brushes and makeup products ?
9. Luxury service and comfort
With the democratization of makeup, we tend to forget that at first Makeup Artists were reserved to celebrities before the red carpet, TV personalities etc.
Hiring a Professional Makeup Artist clearly is a luxury service and if you can afford, I advise you enjoy it.
You will have the chance to not have to travel to a salon and risk being late. You can have a Professional Makeup Artist come to you and have your makeup done in the comfort of your home or hotel room.
This is another way to relieve stress from your shoulders just sit and enjoy every minute.
10. This is your moment
Something that brides do not always realize is that the day runs really fast. The hours before the ceremony starts shall be used to reflect on this beautiful day and once again relax. The getting ready is your moment, no guest around, no caterer asking you where they should put the bottles of wine, no mother-in-law asking you where the groom’s grandmother will sit. It is just about you so enjoy every second of it.
Convinced ? Then start looking for your Professional Makeup artist now.
To help you find the right person, I created a list of questions to ask the professionals you will contact. You can download it here.
What do you think about this article ? Let me know your thoughts in the comments section.
See you in the next post.
Yours in beauty,
Francine O.