THE BETTER THE SKIN THE BETTER THE MAKEUP FACT

Tips for Bridal Makeup Artists

Helping your client attain great skin should be on your mind, so have advice in your pocket if she needs any help. 

Skin Types

There are lots of different skin combinations, and if you’ve not been on a course you probably won’t be prepared for these.  

If you have attended a course, then you should know skin types, as these will be the groundwork of your makeup base.  

You will get to know skin types more as you progress during your career but here are a few of my basic tips.

You really need to know these before you do a Wedding Makuep! 

Dry Skin, & Combination

First determine how dry is your clients skin?   

Do you need to apply a moisturiser to their skin just prior to makeup application or do you need to  recommend that they do their own moisturising on the morning of the wedding day? 

Tip:  

Your moisturiser may not suit their skin.  

Their moisturiser may not suit your makeup. 

Always do a Trial!

Oily Skin

Oily Skin can be even more tricky, if they have very oily skin, they will know about it and tell you about it too!   They will probably be all too aware that they find it hard to keep their make up from  sliding off.   

I like Natural Bamboo Charcoal Oil Absorbing Tissues which are a lot cheaper than the ones you get from MAC.

Now having my own salon I invested a CACI ULTRA machine which helps to restore the PH balance in the skin which can in some cases completely rid the bride or client of oily skin.  It can certainly kill off bacterial spots too, which is fantastic if a Bride suffers with acne or oily skin.  It is also amazing at firming and toning the skin too, suitable for everyone in the bridal party but particuarly mother of the brides who want to look their best on the wedding day! 

You could invest in a CACI machine the latest one is a Synergy to help them out or they could use a product.  

Your client may not have the funds to do a CACI course but she still will want flawless beautiful skin, 

so I always recommend a product by Tropic Skincare which is a 100% natural skin care range.  The ABC collection is fantastic for Oily skin but they would need to start their new routine at least four months in advance of the wedding, so that their skin expells any purities from the old skin care and starts to rebuild a better defense for the new one. 

If you have sorted their oily issue out for them with whichever means then they will love you forever!  However, if your client still has oily skin come the wedding day then I would always advise your client, that, with the best will in the world they may still have to top up their makeup or even redo it later on in the evening, this is important so it makes them aware and also covers you so they don’t think that is your makeup and that they know its their skin thats the issue.

Sensitive Skin

Your client will generaly know if they have sensitive skin and if they do it is always wise to try and get them to have a skin test prior to the trial, this way you know as far as possible that they won’t have a reaction with the makeup you use.  

If I have a client with particuarly sensitive skin, I always ask them to use what they normally use when it comes to trial and wedding day.

I always recommend Tropic for someone who doesn't really have a skin routine as it is gentle and natural.  I'm really not a fan an putting anything chemical onto my skin and i'll write about why in another post but this is why I will harp on about Tropic products simply being the best all rounder for skin care. 

Mature Skin

What is classed as mature skin.  Free radicals and the sun will age skin at all ages, its inevietable to some degree that this will happen.   If free radicals didn't exist our bodies would still grow up and be bigger but our skin would stay the same as when we where born.   Take for example an apple, the apple doesn't go off straight away, what happens is that the free radicals in the air react with the nice fleshy part of the apple and make it brown. 

If the apple was uncut, this would happen but slower as the apple is protected by its protective skin.  

So this is what happens to our skin over time the free radicals break it down and we can develop wrinkles and brown spots and our skin elasicity can start to drop and wear. 

Protecting our skin is the best way to prevent this happening, so I would always recommend my favourite product Night Repair, yes it is from Tropic too, but I defy anyone not to try it, because its like age reverse in a bottle.  

On this note:  you have to do makeup a lot differently on mature skin than if you are applying to younger more smooth skin.  On this note I would recommend avoiding lines where possible, and less is more!

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BECOMING A WEDDING MAKEUP ARTIST

The Basics.  NEED to KNOW stuff! 

"It’s a lot easier to apply makeup to yourself, after all you know your own face having stared at it for years and can practice on your own face for hours at a time"   

When it comes to applying makeup onto someone else it’s a whole different ball game. 

Of course you may have been in the industry for a while but this may still benefit you too.  

If you are reading this then you are perhaps looking to have an edge over your competition!  

I have been on many certified courses when I started out and I continue to learn and I would advise you do too, especially if you’re serious about a career in Bridal makeup.

You may be self taught but self teaching through you-tube videos probably won't tell you further detail on the different face shapes you can get, all the different skin types, consultations, the legality of insurance and other very important aspects of doing Bridal Makeup as a career.  

Other people have different ideas than you about what looks good on them and what they think doesn't.  Go easy! 

During my professional career a millimetre of eyeliner can be the make or break of a look, sounds a bit dramatic, I kid you not! 

KEY POINT.   People come in all different shapes and sizes and not one person is the same!

You will get the brides who like to be in control and want to mess with their makeup no matter how well you consider yourself to have done their makeup. Then there are brides whose idea of natural is your idea of heavily made up and visa versa. 

Countless times I have a bride that asks for natural then shows me a photo where the model has an inch thick layer on.

There are brides who are relying on you solely to make them look good in person and on photos but they personally have no idea about makeup. 

You will also come across a lot of people who want to look like the model on the magazine! 

And I’m not just talking about wanting the models makeup, I’m talking they want to be the model and this can be tricky to deal with when - Well they are just not the person in the photo so when they don’t end up looking just like them then they maybe disappointed.  

A personal story

I can relate to this because, when I was a young 15 year old girl (with very long all one length perfectly healthy hair) but I was feeling really fed up.  I had just been dumped and fancied a change of hair style to make me feel better.   

At that time we had a mobile hairdresser to come to our house and I asked for a perm.

The stylist didn’t have perming equipment on her, so I promptly looked through her look book and chose the style I liked.  ALARM BELLS  DING DING DING.  Guess what the woman I had chose was of course an absolutely stunning magazine model and she had short cropped peroxied blonde hair! THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF ME! 

The stylist didn’t disswade me or suggest that I should just chop a little bit off first, oh no, she just went ahead and chopped my shoulder length dark brown hair.  

The result of this, I was more devastated and I cried for three whole weeks, started applying way too much makeup to try and take the attention off my most hazardous mistake.

I make mistakes too! 

At the very beginning of my career I too made a mistake when I was asked to make someone up really dramatic!   The lady actually volunteered the information that "she never does her makeup like this". 

The dramatic look was great on the model but of course the bride in question, never really wore makeup and guess what – yes that’s right she hated it and didn’t book me, I have tried wherever possible to not make that mistake again!

KEY POINT LISTEN    WHO IS YOUR CLIENT! 

Make a point to ask questions.  

Does she wear makeup on a regular basis? 

If not and she picks a heavily made up look, suggest tactfully that you like to do a toned down version to begin with (suggest a nod towards what she has asked for) and then you can always add more to the look as you progress.

"It is far easier to add than to take away"    

Having said this though – I wouldn’t go about showing her the look every 5 minutes either as this may look like your not sure what your doing, and that doesn’t give a great impression either. 

Also if you have a particularly nervous client remind them that it is only just makeup and it can be removed.  

I once had my makeup done in the fabulous shop MAC, but I too have came away feeling overwhelmed, overdone and too self conscious so much so that I have had to go home and take it all off.  

This says nothing of the people’s skill doing makeup, just a lack of consultation and understanding of whom you’re dealing with.



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