Taking Care of Your Skin and Making Color work for You
Schedule a trial run with your beauty professional about a few months before the big day.
You want to look flawless on your wedding day from a glorious gown, amazing hair and radiant skin. Pulling the whole look together is a fun, yet strategic process.
For lots of brides, great skin and makeup are wedding day priorities. But achieving that glowing look takes time and attention. Even women who normally have great skin need to maintain a beauty regiment that promotes healthy looking skin.
There are different approaches to makeup. Some women wear very little; others wear a lot and still others don’t wear any at all. Brides shouldn’t change their look on the wedding day. If you like a natural look in everyday life, you should maintain a natural look on your wedding day, only you might want to spice things up a bit with color. It is very important to do a pretrial hair and makeup consultation before your wedding.
A bit of advice for all brides is to look like themselves but take it up a notch with just a little more color. Lip-gloss looks very glamorous, but not too much. Also wearing the right pair of false lashes can make you look like a princess without everyone knowing what's giving you that glam look. Most beauty experts’ will agrees that bridal beauty is a personal detail and everybody has a different style.
Brides have to make a long-term investment to their wedding day look, especially when it comes to skincare. Makeup can only look as good as your skin does. As a general rule, brides shouldn’t do anything drastic within six months of the wedding. Even if a bride’s skin is good, she should be consistent with her cleaning regimen and careful not to experiment with many new cleaners and makeup. Acne prone brides should consult a dermatologist to try to clear up any skin problems.
Great skin can be complemented by the right makeup. For the wedding day, makeup needs to last a long a time and still look great. It also needs to be photograph friendly. If not, the face, neck and shoulders will react differently to the flash and won’t match. Test out a variety of foundations to see which photograph well and still look natural. Skin tones need to match your real skin.
To make the most of your skin and makeup potential, schedule a trial run with your beauty professional about a few months before the big day. Every bride should make an appointment for a trial run so that way they know what they will look like on their wedding day.
Beauty experts emphasize the importance of the beauty fire drill. It’s an opportunity to fine tune skin problems like blemishes and oily skin and it’s a chance to collaborate with a makeup professional about the right look for walking down the aisle. Some brides have never worn much makeup and need to feel comfortable in what is applied. The whole point of having a personal artist or stylist is so the bride can relax and feel she is being really pampered on her special day. Having already done a trial takes off a lot of pressure from the bride and makeup artist.
Another bridal consideration that is worth a test drive is the idea of tanning. To tan or not to tan is the question on the minds of many brides. The damaging effects of the sun can hamper the bronzed vision of some brides. Luckily another option is available to women who want a sunny look. Self tanners are gaining in popularity, especially with brides who want golden skin without the burning, peeling or wrinkling that can be associated with hours spent in the sun.
Tanning can have an affect on a bride’s makeup color palette. Your skin gives out different color tones when tan. Matching skin tone to makeup colors is an important part of the beauty process. A bride will look her best if she’s wearing makeup that complements her skin tone and her hair.
Skin tones carry colors such as pinks, reds, greens and yellow undertones. Everyone needs to be looked at on an individual base when doing makeup because; one color might not look the same on another person. This is due to hair, skin and color of eyes.
Wedding day makeup is full of potential because of the various color and skin combinations.
Brides with fair complexions look best in light pinks. For a dramatic look, they can try deep reds. A little color goes a long way on fair skin. Olive toned women look great in light and deep shades of plum and pink as well as peach and brown. Dark skin tones are complemented by light and deep plums and pinks too and even shades of mango for more of a glow. Sheer glosses on the lips are very becoming too as are touches of gold and burgundy on the eyes.
Bridal beauty starts with an attention to clear, radiant skin and flattering makeup. Like all things bridal, it’s a process. It requires planning and a commitment to great skin and overall beauty. All the work is worth the effort for a stunning wedding day glow.