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Wedding Makeup Tips
It’s the day you have been waiting for and you sure want to look your best with no last minute mess ups. Making up your mind on the kind of look and style you wish to carry, if you would like to go for professional assistance in doing your make - up and hair or doing it yourself, discussing with your partner on the kind of look he prefers, all help you look the wonderful bride that you’ve always wanted to be.
Wedding Make-up Tips You Could Use
- Any look and style you wish to achieve, your skin needs to be healthy and glowing, make sure you eat a healthy balance of nutritious diet, bowlfuls of fresh fruit and vegetables and drink plenty of water to prepare your skin for your big day.
- Depending on your skin type, follow a regular skin care regimen, it is suggested you follow a daily cleansing , toning and moisturizing routine a good three months before your wedding day.
- Try different make-up , look and style before your wedding , this gives you a better understanding and clarity about your entire wedding ensemble , you could modify if you think its not going right for you or stick with the style that looks best on you.
- Avoid going for skin treatments just before the wedding, your skin sometimes might react to harsh treatments negatively resulting in allergies and acne, which is the last thing you’d want for a wedding.
- If you a person who’d love to experiment with new skin care products that enter the market, try them out a month before the wedding and make sure they suit your skin type.
- Go for a facial three days before the wedding to look radiant and glowing on the D-day. Avoid plucking, tweezing your eyebrows just before the wedding.
- If it’s a day wedding, go a little sober and mild on your make up, soft colors do wonders for your look.
- Apply good amount of moisturizer 15-20 minutes before you wear your make-up.
- Opt for oil based foundation and concealers. Seal in the foundation with a face powder, powder based blush-on lasts long than cream based ones.
- Keep your lips well moisturized if you want them soft and supple, apply lip balm regularly.
- For a soft natural look , apply eye shadow primer and then apply a neutral eye shadow , line the lower rims of your eyes with an off- white eye pencil , this brightens your eyes giving them a fresh look.
- Use waterproof mascara, incase you have some tears of joy flowing at the last minute; keep your lower lashes free of mascara to avoid smudging.
- Match up your lip colors with your eye make up and hair color; line your lips with the appropriate color, a shade darker than the lip color. Fill in the lips with a lip brush, matte lipsticks are long lasting, also choose lip colors depending on a night or day wedding.
- Apply lip gloss or balm to seal in the lipstick and to last longer, you wouldn’t want to keep reapplying your lipstick.
- Make no room for wedding day blunders, have your gown , make-up , look and style in place and look every bit a gorgeous bride.
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