Having a formal bridal make-up trial is the best way to achieve a stress free and easy wedding day make-up look. This works for those doing their own make-up, having help from a friend and also those hiring a professional make-up artist. In all cases, you will be looking to achieve a similar thing from the bridal make-up trial.
Preparing You and Your Skin for Wedding Day Make-up
Most brides wear a little more make-up on their wedding day than usual. This is this case even for those who have chosen a completely natural look. Spending your wedding day with uncomfortable skin isn’t the best idea, even for those who want the ritualistic feel of a painted face. Trialing a wedding make-up does two things for skin:
- It allows you to get used to how it feels to wear a full bridal make-up.
- It trials new product application on the skin. This gives you the chance to see if you are going to react to a product or combination of layered products.
In order to get the full advantage of this, do the trial a few weeks in advance of the wedding day.
- Include all the make-up that you will be wearing. This is particularly important in the case of make-up that goes all over the skin or on the eyes.
- Wear the make-up around for a few hours. Some prospective brides use the trial make-up as a good excuse to go out in the evening. Or you could plan a the trial for a special occasion when you would like to feel specially made up.
Good professional make-up artists will monitor you skin a the trial but it is important for you to note down anything important that occurs to you a while after the trial or the next day. Include
- Any reactions or discomfort when wearing a product.
- How the make-up wears, for example, does it sink in to the skin and disappear or does mascara fall down.
- How it looked on the skin after a couple of hours, for example, was it too shiny or did it stay perfect?
Most trials result in perfect make-up but if you do notice anything undesirable then there is the chance to change the products in the run up to the wedding day. If hiring a professional, contact them and give them the feedback so that they can make adjustments.
Realising a Wedding Make-up Look
You might have many ideas about how you want your wedding make-up to look. Or you might need advice plus the chance to play around. It is easy to get informal make-up trials in stores as well as to play around with what you have in your regular make-up bag. But formalizing this with one definite trial helps you to judge if the preferred look is right for you. For a formal trial:
- Make sure that every single make-up item is put on your face, from that subtle cheek shimmer to fake lashes.
- Use the trial to experiment with adjusting the intensity of things, like lip and eye color, until you achieve the right balance for you.
The Way to a Stress Free Wedding Day
Having the trial done and the perfect bridal make-up look settled, it is time to sit back and enjoy your wedding morning. At the trial do these things to make sure that you will be well prepared:
- Make a list of products you need to buy. If hiring a professional make-up artist, you should ask them if you need to get anything for retouches.
- Document make-up if applying it yourself. Do this by taking digital photos in clear light. Although these will be nothing like your professional wedding photographs, they can still help you to gage how a given look reacts to photography as well as remember the overall style.
- Note down what you did in an easy step-by-step outline because it is surprising how easy it is to forget these things.
- Once everything is finalized, put the notes and make-up products in a clear, plastic zipper bag, ready for your wedding day, knowing that this is another thing requiring no further effort.
- If you are hiring a bridal make-up artist, confirm the booking, with the date and costs, as soon as possible after the trial.
General Wedding Make-up Trial Tips
- If getting married in a light color, wear something as close to this as possible on the trial day. Color really affects the look of the skin; especially as we don’t often wear a full ivory outfit in real life.
- Take note of the cut of your wedding dress. It may expose more of the neck, shoulders or decollete than usual tops. This will effect the look and application of foundation, shimmer and bronzer.
Be bold trying out a trial make-up look, even if you decide against it having seen it. The trial is not your wedding day and it is not the time to play it safe but rather to see what can be achieved and to settle on a look. Whether doing your own make-up or hiring someone to do it, a wedding make-up trial is the place to create a stunning look that you will love forever.
Shefali Choudhury - Writer and visual artist, Suite Beauty topic editor, Shefali spent 10 years in professional makeup artistry from beauty to blood ...
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