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What to expect from my bridal trial (makeup)

13 Saturday Jan 2018

Posted by everyoneneedsalittlesparkle in Beauty, Bridal Sparkle, Makeup, makeup artist, skincare

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The make-up trial – one of the most important, but slightly overlooked “to-do’s” on any bride’s list. You most likely wear makeup every day, and think you might just be able to tell someone what colours you want and be done with it.

Well, that would be nice; but the reality is, they are called trials for a reason. Not only are you trying out different makeup looks, but also possibly different artists and hairstylists. It’s important to get the right person as the people doing your makeup ( and hair) will be spending a lot of time with you on one of the most important days of your life!

You might be marrying near your hometown and plan on going to your favourite salon for your trial. Some of you might be getting married in a different town or country, for that matter, and need to really do some research on where to get your hair and makeup done for your big day. Regardless of where you end up, there are some basic steps to follow to make sure you are happy and looking gorgeous on your wedding day.

Step 1 ~ Do Your Research!

I can’t stress this enough. Just like any other vendor you would hire for your wedding, make sure you ask a ton of questions and feel comfortable with the people you are talking to. If you don’t like what they have to say over the phone, move on.

Ask friends and coworkers for recommendations, go to bridal shows to check out what’s available, check out reviews on sites such as Google, and check Facebook or websites for testimonials or before and after photos of real brides.

Step 2 ~ Give Yourself Time

This is especially true for brides who are getting married outside of their hometown. Give yourself time in two ways: Trials can take around two hours, so make sure you have the time to dedicate to that. Also give yourself a few months before your wedding to go on your trial. This way, if you go to one person and don’t like what they did, you have time to find another.

During the trial be honest, if you don’t like the way something looks let your artist know, that’s what the trial is for, they can do alterations as they go along until you’re 100% happy!

Step 3 ~ Bring Photos + An Open Mind

You may love a look on Instagram or Pinterest and expect your makeup artist to be able to recreate that on you, but please remember that those photos in general are heavily airbrushed and edited, added to that everybody has a different eye shape, face shape, skin tone etc, what looks good on them may not look good on you, for instance I LOVE a winged liner but because I have hooded eyes I rarely wear it! However you never know until you try. Bring photos of a range of different styles and try as many as you can, because just like your dress, you might be pleasantly surprised by trying something new. It’s very difficult to work with someone that says they don’t care or have no ideas, because we know you do. Even photos where you might like certain elements are helpful. I also like to see photos of how you look everyday since your bridal look should still look like you!

Step 4 ~ At our bridal trial, we wear white! ( Mean girls Reference)

It’s helpful to come along to your bridal trial with a white or pale top if possible ( if that is the colour of your dress) it will show what the makeup will look like against your dress, you may need a little more blush or a slightly darker lip than usual in order to not look “washed out” against the pale colour, also for photography purposes. Please trust your makeup artist in this as they will create a look that will look beautiful both in real life and on film.

Show up with a fresh face. Moisturiser is okay but nothing else. Once you decide on a look, your makeup artist will take a photo to go with the notes they have been taking, especially if your trial is months before your wedding, it’s easy to forget details. A photo captures everything.

Step 5 ~ You Should Look Like An Amazing Version of Yourself

Like yourself, just more polished, Or as I like to call it “me but better”

You are will probably be wearing a formal gown, which requires formal makeup (regardless of whether you have an indoor or outdoor wedding). It also needs to hold up through tears, sweat, smooches, and photos … lots and lots of photos. Because of that, wedding makeup by nature, will be heavier, but it doesn’t mean you will end up looking like a clown. Tell your stylist what kind of makeup you normally wear and what look you are going for. Your wedding is not the time to try something drastically different, it’s just a time to try something better!

Step 6 ~ Cheaper Does Not = Better

Let’s face it: By now you’ve probably realised that anything associated with weddings or brides costs more than it does normally. Your budget might be on its last legs, but don’t skimp on this important part of the planning process. What you look like is going to be captured forever, so you want to make sure you look your best. Make sure to leave a few hundred pounds or so in your budget for proper hair and makeup.

Step 7 ~ Timeline

Believe it or not, getting your hair and makeup done plays a very important role in the timeline for your wedding day. Typically, that’s a bride’s first stop for the day; and if you end up running late there, it pushes everything back, like a domino effect. Make sure you share your timeline with your salon and work backwards from there. For example, your wedding might not take place until 2:00 p.m, but you need to start hair and makeup at 8:30 a.m. to make sure we you have enough time for you, your mum, and the rest of the bridal party to get ready. You also need to figure in time to eat before the wedding, you may not be hungry because of nerves but it is a long day and you want to enjoy it – also so that glass of bubbly doesn’t go straight to your head! Your makeup artist / stylist will know how long it will take to do your hair and makeup – You may need a separate hair and makeup person. Not everyone is skilled in both, but, more importantly, your time may not allow for one person if you have a whole group that needs services. You may need to be doing hair and makeup simultaneously. Might that mean an early wakeup call? Yes. Might it mean a long day? Yes. But you are going to be so psyched and full of adrenaline on your wedding day, getting up early will be a piece of cake.

You will have the best day ever, it goes so fast, my final piece of advice is to try and stop take a moment with your groom look and breathe for 5 minutes maybe between the ceremony and the reception, relax and enjoy your day

Heather xoxo

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Beauty Preparations for Your Wedding

20 Saturday Aug 2016

Posted by everyoneneedsalittlesparkle in Bridal Sparkle

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beauty, makeup, makeup artist, organisation, preparation, skin care

So your Wedding is approaching, how are you going to look your best and SPARKLE on your big day?
6 Months Before
Drink Up
Drinking water  really is the key to clear skin, but now’s the time to really follow through. To ensure your skin is glowing and your eyes sparkle on your big day, try to drink at least eight glasses of water every day. Even if you’re only a couple of weeks out you will be surprised what a big difference it makes, it is a good habit to get into anyway, it aids weight loss, gives more energy and will plump out all those fine lines.
Overhaul your skin care regime
If you’re not happy with how your skin looks currently then it is worth getting some advice from a beautician or makeup artist on how you can shake up your routine – Caroline Hirons blog is always my go to read to help out in this area as well. Think about having facials once a month leading up to the wedding as well if you can afford to do so.
Getting the skin on your body in shape
All eyes will be on you for the big day, so ensuring all skin on display is silky smooth is essential. Buy a gentle body scrub and exfoliate from top-to-toe twice a week. My Personal favourite is Soap And Glory Flake Away (smells lush too) After your shower or bath, be meticulous about slathering body moisturiser all over – it may add extra minutes to your morning/ bed routine, but it’ll be worth it in the long run!
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Find a Make-up Artist 

It’s not essential that you hire a make-up artist but it is  pretty important factor unless you are excellent at doing your own and know what will work well in person and on camera ( these photos will last a lifetime) A lot of  brides find that their nerves take over and not having to do your makeup is one less thing to worry about.  Take time to research a make-up artist who you feel will meet your expectations. Talk to friends who have married recently as personal recommendations are best or search the internet’s bridal directories to find local make-up artists. Besides that if there is one day you should be the pampered princess shouldnt that be your wedding day?

3 Months Before
Get organised
Now would be a good time to think about booking in for your beauty treatments prior to the wedding. Nobody wants to be caught out with no appointments available for manicures etc. To ensure you get your preferred time and day, book your treatments for the week of your wedding now. If you’ve been having regular facials for the last 6 or 3 months then you shouldn’t get a break out, but if you are just going to have the one facial before the wedding then book it for 8-10 days before.

2 Months Before 

Makeup Trial
I suggest to brides that we have their trial 6-8 weeks before the wedding date, we will spend time designing the perfect look for them. It is a good idea to go along with a pale coloured top and any accessories you will be wearing, also bring pictures of makeup looks you like.
Self Tan Test
If you are planning to have a spray tan for your wedding then it is good to have a trial to see if you like how the colour comes out, that there are no streaks etc. If you are happy book the appointment for your tan for 2 days before the wedding.

Photoshoots part 2 – an altogether better experience!

09 Thursday Apr 2015

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beauty, makeup, model, photographer, photoshoot, poison ivy

So … I’d had my confidence knocked down a lot by the first photoshoot,although I did learn valuble lessons from it, but then I went to the wanna be an entrepreneur event, and my confidence was back up, actually at an all time high! So when i left Southend I texted my friend Amelia if her place was on my way back and did she fancy making me  a cuppa, just so happened we got chatting and she mentioned her friend Rosie, who is a model was looking for a makeup artist that Sunday, was I free and up for it?  IF I hadn’t proved to myself that I could do anything I put my mind to – after standing up and pitching to 230 people, then may well have been tempted to say no, but as it was I left there raring to go!

I’d already learnt a huge lesson from the first photoshoot and had a chat with Rosie the night before to find out what the brief was and the look she wanted to go for, exchanged a few pics with her to make sure I was thinking along the right lines and head off to the shoot with a clear idea of the look we wanted to accomplish. Preparation is key!

The second lesson was speak to your model beforehand, especially when it is a collab, now if you get a model with attitude on a paid job you will just have to deal with it, however you can be firm, polite and professional with them, but on a gig where you’re all meant to be working together and essentially for free (trade for photos) then getting on together is so important in my opinion!

Got all prepared and dropped into M.A.C in Bluewater to get a darker lip colour for our poison ivy shoot and managed to eventually find the photographer’s house – my satnav was broken and google maps were not playing nice!

It was altogether easier putting makeup on someone whom you have the full attention of, plus Rosie and David the photographer (www.mmmfire.com) made the whole thing so much fun! I stayed for the whole shoot which was great! Managed to get a few Behind the scenes shots even and just had a really enjoyable afternoon with the end result of some great pics for my portfolio!!

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Looking forward to doing more creative shoots with Rosie, I’m sure we will come up with some madcap ideas! Another great boost to my confidence, am so ready to get out there and do some makeup for paying clients now!

Wanna Be An Entrepreneur? A nerve wracking but amazing experience!

04 Saturday Apr 2015

Posted by everyoneneedsalittlesparkle in Beauty, Entrepreneurs, events, makeup artist

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Hey I’m back and it’s with a non beauty post I’m afraid, but is related to setting up as an artist 🙂 Well, yes I do wanna be an entrepreneur! I have big ideas that I want to eventually come to fruition in regards to my makeup business, but fully aware that I have a lot of learning to do in the process! I’d done my training, got the best of starts with Pixiwoo, started buying my kit and was really raring to go when I saw my lovely friend Kym tweeting about an event called “Wanna be an Entrepreneur?”

So I asked her if she thought it would be a useful event to attend for me and my new business? She said it would be super useful, but also encouraged me to apply to do a pitch of my business idea in order to win a £5000 business package including Website, logo, branding, mentoring which obviously would be an amazing prize to win for a start up business! I applied on line, not expecting to hear anything back, but soon got an email from Baiju ( the guy that organises and runs the events) saying I’d been successful in my application and that he’d be calling me soon to go over details.

So to cut a long story short, I headed up to the hotel where the event was being held to stay there the night before as didn’t fancy a morning battle with the M25, and Kym had also suggested I Did Sammy (one of the speaker’s) make up It had been a long day with the confidence battering photoshoot that morning so got there and had a hot bath went through my notes and set up a makeup station  in my room as Kym and Sammy were meant to arrive @ 7.30 am.

Didn’t sleep much and with a few texts etc to Kym finally managed to track Sammy down  by 8.30 and did a very quick makeup on her as the event was starting @ 9! Sammy gave me some excellent tips and a pep talk while I did her makeup 🙂

Went @ 9 into the very packed hall where Kym found me a place in the front row – the event started off full of energy with a dance group and followed with some excellent speakers – managed to hear the first two – took in a lot of info that will certainly be putting into practice – then myself and the other 3 people pitching were pulled aside and told that the pitches were being brought forward as the next speaker was stuck in traffic – *gulp!* I asked Kym where the pitch was going to be as she had explained it to me as 5 judges – in my head that meant a dragon’s den style thing – nope – it was on the stage to the 5 judges AND the other 225 people!

At this point I started to have a bit of a nervous breakdown – I’m not outgoing in the slightest and the thought of getting up in front of all those people, let alone 5 was just beyond awful to me!! The wonderful Kym and Baiju helped me pull myself together and with a lot of support I decided I could do it! Then my beautiful bestie Sarah turned up and all was right with the world – I could just look at her and Kym and my new friend Sammy if struggling and pretend my pitch was just to them!

I was to go last of the 4 pitchers and was sitting next to this awesome kid Sam who had an ethical bee business, Sarah and I were trying to support and help him as he was just as nervous as me and found it amazing that she had come along to support me, but I’m sure she will agree she learnt a lot from the event too – awesome speakers! I’m sure my support of Sam was super good karma as I would find out later!

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I spoke about my passion for make up and about how although it was a business my main aim was to help people with it, to make them look & feel amazing, to give lessons on certain subjects in person and also broadcast on youtube – all whilst shaking like a leaf!

Once the pitches were over I could relax get a drink and something to eat and do some networking – was great to have loads of encouragement and good comments about my ideas and had the biggest adrenalin rush feeling of “I can do anything if I could do this” after being so near to backing out!

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After a couple more awesome speakers the live pitch results were announced and Sam of Porch honey had won, bless his little cotton socks! I still felt like a winner though just for the experience and for pushing myself so far out of my comfort zone, learning a lot through the speakers, met some lovely new friends, got my business name and ideals out to 230 people – winners all round, and with new found confidence & an “I’ve got this” attitude which makes all the difference in the makeup business!

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**Sam after a while has decided he’s not in the right position to use the prize right now and would like me to make use of it so am absolutely thrilled to be able to work with Baiju Solanki, Sammy Blindell and Miles Fryer of the brand brains, Sarah Arrow @ Sarke Media and Rich Withe of just grow co, who I am certain will all help me to make the most awesome business! **

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Pixiwoo course day 5 (sob) ~ Image heavy post

25 Sunday Jan 2015

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60minutemakeover, brows, Course, emotional, makeup, Pixiwoo

So We had reached the last day of one of the most amazing weeks of my life (so far) they weren’t kidding when they called it “intense course” there is so much information to take on board, practice to do and things to think about when setting up your own makeup artist business, was pretty tired and emotional before I even started the day, but looking forward to packing in as much as I could into my last few hours with these awesome girls – not just Sam, Nic and Stacey but all my course mates!

Nic asked if there was anything else we would like to be shown and we all agreed on brows so Nic did a demo on each of us, doing only one brow so our partner had to match it up! Friday was kind of anything goes – practice what you felt needed practice on kinda day 🙂

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There were 10 of us all together but I didn’t get a photo of me and my lovely partner for the day, Paddi didn’t need anything doing to her brows but there’s a pic of her later on 🙂 Continue reading →

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Pixiwoo Course – Part 3

01 Thursday Jan 2015

Posted by everyoneneedsalittlesparkle in Beauty, Course, Makeup

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contour, Course, Drag, fun, makeup, Pixiwoo

Now we had got to day three of the course everybody was way more relaxed with each other, it was scary how fast the days were flying over, I guess it really is true the saying – time flies when you’re having fun, and we truly were! Another of Sam, Nic and Stacey’s friends -Amy came along to help out today as it was going to be way more intense, she is a MUA and trainee midwife!

Day three was “Drag day” now you may think why do they teach that?
But there are honestly good reasons – firstly it pushes you out of your comfort zone, brings out your creative side and teaches you skills that you may need if you go on to work at Fashion week or Strictly for example where things get a bit more flamboyant – for the average job – say Bridal or working on counter (hopefully) you’re not going to be blocking out eyebrows or doing a crazy contour!

So … Stacey was the model again and the first job was to get rid of the eyebrows by using prittstick to flatten them (yes really!) and covering them with a thick concealer, the brow can then be used as the new socket line with the new brow being drawn on much higher.

Then onto the crazy contour – it is way heavier than for anything else you might do, it’s not designed to be part of your every day make up – though personally I loved when it was blended in so much – finally cheek bones in my chubby face!!! image here’s Stacey prior to blending!

Next onto eyes, lips and cheeks – you can get really creative here – use wild colours, glitter on eyes, lips, pink eyebrows – anything you fancy and the bigger the eyelashes the better, you can even put lashes on the bottom, but be careful to use them the right way up!

Obviously if you are actually doing drag on a male it brings up different problems and skills needed to deal with their stubble, it’s probably best to ask them to exfoliate and shave shortly before you start their makeup.

Here Are Stacey, Hetal ( my model) and me with our drag makeup image image image image

Pixiwoo course – part 1!

14 Sunday Dec 2014

Posted by everyoneneedsalittlesparkle in Beauty, Course, Makeup

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awesome, Course, makeup, makeup addict, Pixiwoo

As must be evident by this blog I’m a product and makeup addict, love playing with makeup, love putting it on myself and others, I can’t resist looking at and buying way too much makeup!

My friends would often ask me to do their makeup on nights out, and I was truly honoured when my non girly ( she has 3 brothers) sister-in-law to be asked me to do her makeup on her wedding day to my baby bro!

It felt wonderful to make someone look and feel beautiful on their special day and it was at that moment I decided that I wanted to do this as a secondary career to my pharmacy work, I have a passion for both, can use my brain, help people and use my creativity!

I started looking for a course and found that the absolute babes, that form Pixiwoo, ran a course, I’d learnt so much from them already by watching their YouTube and knew that was the course I wanted to do, once I set my mind to something then I usually accomplish it, I’m determined that way!

So I set to finding out more about the course, pestering Stacey who helps organise it and finally all the stars aligned – there was a cancellation on the November course, I had money in my savings to pay for it and there was no problem getting the time off work! It was meant to be!

I arranged to stay with one of the besties in Suffolk, travelled down on the Sunday evening and woke up bright and early on the Monday to travel to Norwich (truth be told I didn’t sleep much anyway through nerves / excitement!) the journey was uneventful and found the Pixiwoo studio easily enough, feeling a bit sick and shaky was glad to meet a lovely lady by the buzzer who turned out to be Faith, one of my fellow course attendees 😀 image

Met and said hello to the lovely Stacey, we felt we kinda knew each other from all the tweets and pestering of the poor woman I had done!

Walked into the room and there were Sam and Nic, its weird to see that they are actually ‘real’ and not inside your computer screen, they are however impossibly pretty and in the case of Sam very very tall as well!

Nic, Sam and Stacey introduced themselves and they were really lovely and I felt calmness returning, aside from the fact I knew I would have to introduce myself and I get ridiculously shy at doing that sort of thing, they are very funny and someone dropped the F bomb within 10 minutes so that kinda broke the ice 👍😝

They went through a natural look, Stacey was the model and Nic did the demo, think they were easing us in gradually 🙂
We split off into pairs and went to pick the products we wanted to use from the overwhelming array of products, was like a sweet shop for makeup lovers!

I did a natural look on Katja who was a dream to work on 🙂image

image We then went for lunch and swapped in the afternoon, we finished early so Nic asked if we would like to add a red lip and gel liner to the look, Katja hates red lipstick, but agreed to having it on! image we cleaned our brushes and that was the end of our first awesome day!!!

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