Bridal Wear DIY bridal makeup: How to get prepared?

DIY bridal makeup: How to get prepared?

Bride doing her makeup herselfLike every bride you want to look the most beautiful on your wedding day. You have decided to do your wedding makeup by yourself.

Remember that before you start preparing for your wedding makeup you need to make sure that you took proper care of your skin. Click here to find out more about preparing your skin before your wedding.

In order to help you with your wedding makeup preparations, we have prepared for you a set of tips how to do your bridal makeup yourself and look your best on your wedding day.

Tips and Warnings before you start applying your wedding makeup

  • Check bridal magazines, women's magazines to get some ideas of the makeup that you wish to have for your wedding day. Try to find some famous women who have skin tones and hair colours similiar to yours. It would help you to discover which kind of makeup would suit your best.
  • Check if in some cosmetic stores they do not organise free makeup trials or makeovers. The professional makeup artist would certainly give you plenty of ideas and advice.
  • Think of the features you wish to enhance, for example your eyes or your lips. If you prefer more natural makeup, try to enhance at least one of your best features.
  • Remember that you should feel comfortable in your makeup. Do not experiment on your wedding day.
  • Use only long-lasting products. You would not have to worry about your face that shines or the lipstick that just disappeared from your lips.
  • Try to train yourself in doing bridal makeups before your wedding day. Do it several times to be sure that the makeup you will apply on your wedding day would be the perfect one.
  • The most important cosmetics that you would need are the right concealer, foundation and powder. Still, there are plenty of other products that would be essential for your bridal makeup.


Wedding makeup cosmetics

Some of the cosmetics you may need:

  1. Primer – it helps the foundation last longer
  2. Foundation – the most important of your makeup
  3. Concealer – thanks to it your makeup would be flawless
  4. Waterproof mascara – even if you cry your mascara will not run down your face
  5. Eyeshadows – you can choose different shades
  6. Lipstick – choose something long-lasting so that you will not have to retouch it each time you kiss someone or eat something
  7. Blush – it will give you that special glow
  8. Blotting Papers – to prevent shiny skin

Come back next week. You will get plenty of ideas how to apply your perfect wedding makeup, how to choose the right foundation and how to find out if it is worth to use blush and glossy eye shadows on your wedding day.