Among other concerns regarding the organising of your wedding, is choosing the right professional for the bridal makeup. It very essential to be one of trustworthy results, as it has everything to do with the final outcome of your image in front of all this gathering of family and friends from both sides, as well as with the video and photo’s you keep as memories to cherish forever on your special day.
By the help of social media and internet, there is a vast variety of choice available, of professionals willing to offer their services regarding the wedding planning. The question is, do their profiles always respond to the experience they proclaim? Following are some criteria and characteristics that a reliable professional makeup artist should add up to:
Occupational experience: A makeup artist who relates his/her work with the bridal makeup should have a good collection of photo material as samples of his/her work. Once upon a time, it used to be hard work to capture a good makeup job, as the technology on the mobile phone cameras or the non digital camera, was very disappointing to the realistic image. Nowadays, all makeup artists have invested on a good camera which much more affordable, or a smartphone for that matter, and are able to complete a photoshoot easily on their own to good standards, for their records. Be sure to ask to see their portfolio with work they previously completed on other brides, not just on random models, their own selfies of makeup suggestions, or worst yet, other people’s work to sample from.
When someone states they have over a year of experience in the bridal makigiaz, one can only expect they they would have a satisfactory amount of work to display. The products they use should strictly be professional and should correspond to the needs of a reliable result, given the circumstances, especially given that most wedding occur in the heat of the Summer and usually last from 4-24 hours. If the product aren’t reliable or fulfil your standards of your expectations on your special day, you might have to think twice on whether the result is worth it’s price and service offered.
Cleanliness and order with the products -used, accessories, down to very makeup case demonstrate the care of every professional not only for their tools, but also their general image and reputation. A makeup case of no order and cleanliness in both products and accessories inevitably raises a brow in their hygiene and liability of the person in who’s hands you trust your skin and look on that day. The shadows should be in good condition and in clear distinctive color, meaning not smashed or colors mixed from the use of same brushes dipped in different pigments. The pencils should be freshly sharpened and brushes, sponges and pon-pons should be sterile clean. Creamy textured products should not have any left overs on their surface and all items generally should not be scattered in the makeup kit box but should be a relatively good order, enabling also the ease of a smooth experience.
The ability to provide you the ideal makeup look is also a characteristic of an experienced makeup artist. An experienced makeup artist won’t be sampling makeup looks off random brochures, pictures of models, mannequins, or even suggest that you adopt to the makeup of a picture. Through his experience, he should be able to accentuate your strong features and make your true beauty stand out. Someone experienced will also explain to you the reason they chose the color tones and synthesis of your makeup, depicting your personal style ideally to a harmonic complete result. He should have the ability to adjust any technique required to your face, in order to achieve the best result.
He should also be able to answer any question or query you may have that result to those beautiful pictures that you will go back to overtime in nostalgy for the rest of your life.
It should be the person whose experience, on the day of the wedding, will be able to overcome any last minute problem that may occur on that busy day, helping you overcome the stress of the running preparations, but also the panic of the relatives, by achieving your calm state.
All this may seem very technical and choosing the right person to pull through the job might seem like a hard thing to do, but if you plan ahead and with the appropriate organising in a calm state, this task becomes very easy in regards to the requirements of your bridal makeup.
Blessings for your wonderful day!
By Irene Plesti
