BRIDAL MAKEUP: How to Do Your Own Wedding Makeup



Bridal Makeup



It is every girls dream to become a bride. You want to look your best because your wedding day is the most important and happiest day in your life. All you want is a radiant, fresh looking, flawless skin and a young healthy glowy look! 







  



If you like the idea of doing your own bridal/wedding makeup,  here you will find the tips and tricks on how you can do it yourself.

What you will need is:

- Moisturiser
- Makeup primer

- Foundation

- Concealer

- Face powder  (2 shades: light shade for under-eye, darker shade for the rest of your face)

- Blush

- Lip liner

- Lipstick

- Eyeliner

- Eye pencil

- Eyelash curler

- Mascara (preferably waterproof)

- Eyeshadow primer

- Eyeshadow

- Brushes and sponges





1. Start by washing your face. Get rid of the excess oils off your face.



2. Apply moisturiser. Dry skin will make the cosmetics look uneven on your face. Wait a few minutes so that moisturiser penetrates the skin. 







3. Apply primer. Makeup primers are essential for such events. They prolong the staying power of your makeup.




 

4. Apply your foundation evenly, preferably with a brush or a wet sponge.




 

5. Conceal your under-eye area, or any imperfections on your face. Use a concealer brush or a sponge.






6. Apply light-colored face powder generously over your undereye area with a sponge.





7. Apply the darker (which fits your own skin color) face powder all over your face, skipping under-eye area.






8. Apply eye primer so that your eyeshadow will stay put and will look more radiant.







9. Do your eye makeup. Don't forget to highlight your brow bone.






10. Curle your lashes.



11. Apply your eye-liner and/or eyepencil.





12. Put on your mascara. Water proof mascara is much better on such events as there is a possibility you will cry.







13. Brush on your blush on the cheek bones. You can highlight above the cheekbones.









14. Apply lip liner, then your lipstick.












15. Finish with a makeup fixing spray. (optional)

Finished Look

GOLDEN TIPS AND WARNINGS:

- Make several trials. Practice.

- The key is to look like yourself, only better. 

- Most important thing is your skin tone: choosing your foundation. 

- Use makeup primer and eyeshadow primer to make your makeup stay longer

- Pluck your eyebrows and remove your facial hair the day before your wedding: Allow time for any redness or irritation to lessen.

This is me, with the make up i did myself on my wedding day

BEST 5 MASCARAS

MASCARA

Mascaras are the cosmetics products used to enhance the eyes. They basicly thicken, lengthen and darken the lashes. They are one of the most commonly used cosmetic products like lipsticks and eyeliners.

Modern cosmetic industry offers an impressive number of different mascara types. Picking the best mascara can be hard though.

Here is the the list of top 5 mascaras- I have tested and discovered- that really do good job.

MY BEST 5 MASCARAS

 

1. Loreal Voluminous Mascara

It promises to build 5X thickness, and it really does. It helps create that dramatic look one is looking for. No flakes, no smudges, no clumps.

Price: $7.50

 

2.Maybelline Great Lash Mascara
 

Lash doubling formula. It thickens and lengthens your lashes giving a definition to your eyes. It always finds a place in every makeup artist's kit. One of the classics.


Price: $5.50

 3. Maybelline the Colossal Volum' Express

The brush is amazingly thick and definitely   adds incredible length and volume! It helps to hold curl and doesn't weigh my lashes down. My lashes  look like false lashes when i apply a few coats of my colossal. Love the packaging as well!!! I'm using  the colossal mascara nowadays...

   Price: $6









4. Lancome Hypnose Custom Volume Mascara

Its patented brush thickens your lashes from root to tip with custom volume you can control. The formula wraps your lashes without smearing, smudging or clumping. Absolutely perfect!!!

Price: $25

5.Dior Diorshow Mascara

It’s true that DiorShow Mascara delivers on its promise to add length and volume to your eyelashes.This fabulous mascara truly lengthens, defines, volumes, curls and separates at the same time and it has a great texture. It colors your lashes in very rich dark black color that’s perfect for brunettes or those who are going for a dramatic look or doing a smokey eye.

Price: $24.50



Mascara gives definition to eyes



Mascara makes the eyes look bigger



These are my best 5 mascaras that never disappointed me!!! Their prices vary a lot. Depending on your budget you can pick one of them.

Which ones are your best 5??

HOW TO HIGHLIGHT YOUR FACE: Magazine Look

 

Highlighting your face makes your skin glow, helps to minimize or maximize facial features and gives you that finished sheen you see in magazines.

It makes you look healthier, glowy and gorgeous when you illuminate the right places of your face.

All you need is a product at least 2 shades lighter than your skin and it should contain slight shimmer to make you glow.

You should be careful where to highlight, as highlighting makes pop the area. If applied on wrong places, it will make you look older, shiny or greasy.

There are plenty of highlight products, in cream, liquid or powder form.

NARS Illuminator

MAC Color Base-Pearl  (My favorite for cheekbones and browbones)

MAC Paint Pot-Painterly

If you haven't bought any yet, you can use a nude/vanilla color eye shadow for highlighting. 

MAC Vanilla Eyeshadow

Places to highlight:

1)Top of your cheekbones

2)Under your eyes (after concealing dark circles)and corner of your eyes

3)On your browbone

4)Center of your forehead

5)Straight down the middle of your nose

6)middle of the top of your lip

7)Your chin



Highlighting your face







- If your product is in powder form, you will need a highlight brush.

Highlight brush

- If it is creamy, you can use your hand as well as using highlight brush depending on its consistency.

- You can use smaller highlight brushes if you like.

Small Highlight brush



Highlighted faces



You can obtain that "Magazine Look" you've been looking to with illuminating the right places of your face correctly.

FLAWLESS SKIN: MAKEUP TIPS

Looking to achieve this look?

Not all women are blessed with flawless skin. In one of my previous blogs, I mentioned the ways to achieve a flawless look naturally. Here you will find the makeup tips for flawless skin.

There are many makeup products to help us attain a dewy look. Dewy complexion gives a healthy glow to your face, making you look gorgeous.However, you should be careful while applying these products because if applied wrongly, they can make you look too shiny or overdone.

The aim is: naturally glowing skin, not the effect of overdone makeup!!!!

Here are the tips for flawless makeup:

1) Choose the right foundation: Cosmetics promising "natural glow", "satin finish" or "naturally luminous" look are usually meant to achieve dewy look. Creamy sheer foundations are good to achieve this. Be careful while choosing your shade. It should match your skin color. Apply your foundation with a wet sponge, which will help you create that glowy dewy look. It is also easier to blend cream based foundation with wet sponge.

NARS- Sheer Glow Foundation

MAC-Studio Finish Satin Foundation

Maybelline- Dream Satin Liquid Foundation

2) Choose concealer with a good coverage: You will need to cover your blemishes, spots, under eyes with a concealer which has a high coverage. You can pick a concealer one shade lighter for your eye area to give a highlight effect.

Hard Candy heavy duty concealer and Hard Candy concealer pencil

 

MAC-Studio Finish Concealer

3) Settle your make up with a "little" translucent powder: Use powder in small amount to settle your makeup or if you like more glow preferably don't use powder at all. 

4) Use cream-based blush: Apply small amount of blush to your cheekbones in soft pink or rosy shades.

MAX FACTOR- Miracle Touch Creamy Blush

5) Highlight your cheekbones: Use highlighter which will give your skin a glow.

MAC-Cream Color Base (Pearl)

6) Create a natural eye makeup: Choose light or neutral colors for your shadows. Keep it minimal but use eyeliner and/or eye pencil to define your eyes. Apply two coats of mascara.

Urban Decay- Naked 2 Eye shadow palette

7) Lips-better be neutral: light rosy colors, light browns, light peachy pinks are great. But don't forget to apply lip gloss over your lipstick. Aim is glowing, keep that in mind. 

                      

I hope these tips give you some idea about how you can achieve a flawless dewy skin look with makeup!!!