Our wedding makeup tips can help you create a bridal look that’s everything you ever dreamed of. Your wedding will be one of the most important days of your life, so getting the details just right is a must.
Remember these key tips: If you’re having a makeup artist do your bridal makeup, schedule a practice day to ensure you are happy with your final wedding makeup choices. Next, give yourself plenty of time to get your hair and makeup ready on your special day. You don’t want to be rushed when you’re trying to look your best. Your pictures will last forever, so you want to be calm and happy by having plenty of “getting ready” time. Finally, keep a little bag of cosmetics essentials handy. Include extra foundation, lipstick, lipgloss and powder in the shades you plan to wear that day so that you can do quick touch ups throughout the day if needed.
The bridal and wedding makeup tips and tricks you learn will help you look gorgeous for your bridal and engagement pictures. They’ll also help you have an easier time working with your makeup artist and letting her know which looks and makeup styles you love most. These essential beauty tips will also help you ensure your makeup will hold up throughout your entire wedding day.
See our most recent wedding and bridal makeup posts below:
Benefit: Realness of Concealness
Beauty emergency? Not anymore… Benefit’s Realness of Concealness mini “fake it” kit has the solution for just about anything. This little kit contains an assortment of fix-it products from Benefit Cosmetics. The enhancers include Ooh La Lift, Lip Plump and High Beam, as well as Lemon Aid and Boi-ing – two of the top selling [...]
Dior Lip Glosses – Reviews of Our Top Picks
Dior Cosmetics is a high-end makeup brand with prices to match. Like anything by Christian Dior, you can definitely expect to spend quite a bit more than you would for an average cosmetics product. While you can probably argue that you can find just as good quality at places like MAC for a fraction of [...]
How to Apply Makeup Primer
[See the rest of our How to Apply Makeup series for beginners.] Makeup primer is one of those beauty secrets that can make a big difference in the look and wear of your makeup. It preps your skin for makeup and creates a smooth base that makeup can adhere well to. If you’ve tried a [...]
Make Your Makeup Last with MAC
Our favorite cosmetic brand, MAC Cosmetics, is made specifically to resist any active day or a night out on the town. Tougher than regular cosmetics, MAC knows there is much more to the glitz and glamor than just application. For me, there is nothing I hate more than creases on a beautifully done eyelid, or [...]
Seven Tips for Kissable Lips
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, here are a few tips to get ultra soft, smooth, kissable lips: Apply Vaseline to your lips each night before bedtime. You may have another lip balm product you will want to use instead, but if not, good old Vaseline works wonders. Keep an extra toothbrush handy and [...]
Benefit Chickster Maybe Baby Powder Perfume and Garter
This chic little powder perfume comes with an absolutely ah-dor-able garter attached to a pouch (perfume scent is Maybe Baby). You wear the garter underneath your party ensemble, and voila! You have the perfect place to stash a lipstick, gloss, extra cash or anything else without having to carry a purse. I can’t tell you [...]
All Day Eyeshadow
Want your eyeshadow to last all day? Here’s a quick trick to try: Apply a cream eyeshadow first, as a base, and then follow it up with your favorite dry shadow. Using this layering technique enables your eyeshadow look to last much longer than applying powder shadow alone. As an added bonus, this technique intensifies [...]
Wedding and Bridal Makeup Advice
Your wedding day may be one of the happiest days of your life. It is important that you feel like you look your best. When you look at photographs of your wedding, you want to see your true beauty captured. You may decide to get bridal pictures taken in addition to the photos from your [...]
Wedding Day Makeup Tips Using Chanel Makeup
This video has some of the best wedding day makeup tips we’ve come across. Brides Magazine’s Beauty Editor, Alice Guillemet, meets with Bridget, Chanel’s Senior Makeup Training Manager, for expert wedding day makeup advice. With her special makeup tips, she covers tons of little things that brides often forget to take into consideration – everything [...]
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