Check Out These Beauty Tips for Your Wedding Day
Finding the right hair and make up vendor that you feel comfortable and confident in is important for many reasons. You want to feel and look like yourself, want to feel beautiful, and you want to make sure your hair and makeup will last throughout the day and into the party. Keep reading for hair and makeup tips!
Beauty tips right at your finger tips! While you could have the best of the best vendor, if you don’t set them up for success, you might not see the results you were expecting. You want your vendor to be able to produce the end look you’re wanting, someone that will make you feel like yourself, make you feel beautiful, and someone that can make your hair and makeup last from getting ready photos all the way to your grand exit! Check out these beauty tips and tricks to do leading up to your wedding day!
Beauty Tips for Your Hair
Cutting Your Hair
Depending on the type of cut, stylists recommend getting your hair cut at least a month before the big day. If you’re wanting to change up your regular hair cut, it’s better to get your hair cut earlier than a month. This will give you and your fresh cut time adapt and if you end up not liking the cut, you have time to make changes! Reminder to get a trim on your cut between one to two weeks before your wedding to your keep your cut fresh.
Helpful Tip: If you are planning to change your hair cut for your wedding day, get your hair cut before your trial to see what your hair will truly look like on your wedding day!
Dying Your Hair
Just like cutting your hair, timing will depend on what you’re wanting to do with your color. Typically, you can say two weeks. This will give you time to get used to your freshly done color while keeping the saturation. Dye starts fading after you start washing your hair too many times. Highlights are a different story. You can mark your calendars with your stylist two to three weeks before the wedding. Your color will still be fresh, but it won’t look too bright. If you’re wanting a full head color, get that appointment in for one to two weeks before. Darker colors tend to fade faster. Having your appointment one to two weeks before ensures less shampoos. If your hair grows fast, you’ll want to touchup your hair closer to the wedding to keep the coloring as fresh as possible.
Helpful Tip: When setting up appointments, make sure to book your hair cut before you color your hair!
Treatments
Your scalp is an extension of your face and neck. If you have a face routine to take care of hypopigmentation, dry and dullness, and elasticity, why wouldn’t you do the same for your scalp? Your scalps needs will change on the season and location. In general, use an exfoliating treatment for oily scalps followed by a hydrating mask. For a dry scalp, use masks and treatments with hydrating ingredients. Last but not least, for normal scalps, use a conditioning mask. Not sure what kind of scalp you have? Read here!
Helpful Tip: Use hair treatments and masks once a month starting three months before the wedding!
One Day Before You Say “I Do!”
It is suggested to wash your hair the night before, unless you have an oily scalp, then wash your hair the morning of. You’ll want to make sure your hair is completely dry before the stylist starts on your hair. Additional time will be added to your timeline if the stylist needs to dry it prior to starting the service. Heard of day-old hair when talking about styling hair? Day-old hair is the most ideal when styling hair because this gives your natural hair oils to set in, without your hair looking greasy, while making your hair easier to style and will hold the style. Anything longer than day-old hair will make your hair harder to style, plus you want your hair as fresh as possible while being able to style.
Beauty Tips for Your Makeup
Create a Skin Care Routine
If you are worried about your skin or want better skin, create a skin care routine! Start off with addressing your problem areas, researching products, and then how to layer the products on your face. If you’re content with how your face looks or already have a routine, keep doing what you’re doing! There’s tons of information on creating a skin care routine. Find what works for you!
Treatments
Whether you decide to get a facial done professionally or at home, start two months before to get those pearly white teeth! You also want to make sure you’re giving yourself enough time to get your teeth to the color you’re wanting as well as making sure your teeth aren’t sensitive leading up to your wedding day.
Additional Face Feature To Do’s
Teeth: Whether you decide to whiten your teeth professionally or at home, start two months before to get those pearly white teeth! You also want to make sure you’re giving yourself enough time to get your teeth to the color you’re wanting as well as making sure your teeth aren’t sensitive leading up to your wedding day.
Facials: Just like teeth whitening, you can get a facial done professionally or you can do it at home. Reach out to an esthetician or dermatologist to create a facial plan based on your goals and needs! If you’re just wanting to get a facial done before your wedding, one week before is when you’ll pencil that appointment in.
Helpful Tip: Dermaplaning facials and airbrush services pair great together!
Eyebrows: Waxing, threading, and tinting should all be done a week before your wedding. By your wedding, any redness or irritation will be cleared up by your wedding.
Lashes: If you’re new to lash extensions, it’s recommended to get extensions done well in advance before your wedding to see if you like them. If you decide you want them, get your first extension set two to three weeks prior to the wedding, and then getting them filled a few days before. Glued eye lashes are also a great option. You can add them to your services by reaching out to your makeup artist!
One Day Before You Say “I Do!”
Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate! Hydrate your skin with serums and by drinking water. The last thing you want is to wake up with dry, dull skin. Don’t forget your lips! Grab your loved ones and have a relaxing night filled with lip scrubs, hydrating face, under-eye, and lip masks!
Wedding Day
It’s wedding day! What do you do? What you normally do- don’t change a thing.
Cleanse -> Serum -> Moisturize -> Sunscreen
At minimum, you should be washing your face, moisturizing, and applying sunscreen.
This is not the time to try new things or to use harsh exfoliates. You’ve been prepping your skin for this very day!
Beauty Tips for Hair + Makeup
Wardrobe: On the day of make sure you wear something comfortable, but also so you’re able to easily change into your dress without needing pull your shirt over your head. This will elevate the risk of smudging or transferring your makeup or knocking or pulling your hair.
Extras: Carry extras in your emergency bag or purse. This would include your lipstick/gloss, lip liner, hairspray, bobby pins, blotting papers, setting spray, blush, and foundation. You’ll want to keep your lip liner/stick/gloss close by because those are the items you will use the most as the night goes on. The other items are for just in case something drastic happens, like your partner stuffs cake in your face!
Hair + Makeup Trial: This is your time to see your hair and makeup come together! Bring your hair piece, your veil, add glued eyelashes onto your trial service, get your hair cut and colored so that you can truly see what you would look like on your wedding day.
