Beauty: Bridal Make-Up

This is my photography blog. As most of you who read this know, I am also a hairstylist. And I dabble in makeup every so often. When I am doing a wedding party I usually stick to just hair and outsource the make-up. But every so often I will do hair and makeup for a bride. Next month I have a wedding where I will have the challenge of all 3- hair, make-up, and photos!

I haven't yet blogged any of my work. And since it does all flow together I decided I just might! Since I talk about it I should post pictures too, non?

Today I did make-up for a beautiful young bride. Her hair was styled by another stylist in my building, the talented Jennifer Bartley. She then was referred to me for make-up. Today was her Portrait session with her photographer, Lee Grant, so we will be doing it all again in a few weeks on her actual wedding day.

The bride doesn't usually wear much make-up at all so I tried to stay as subtle as possible. But being a photographer too, I know it looks better a little on the darker side. So I stayed in good range so that it was definately noticable in the pictures, but comfortable for her to wear. When I do bridal makeup depending on what the bride wants I usually stay on the neutral side. I like to use plums a lot when it comes to shadow colors. It is neutral with a punch. And since this bride usually doesn't wear much makeup I thought that would be best for her. She was pretty easy to please! And she is gorgeous so it was pretty easy to do! I snapped these pics really quick as she was heading out for Jennifer and I.






On a side note: Does any one have problems uploading their pics to blogger?? It literally takes me a MILLION tries! It always gets kicked offline or something? Am I doing something wrong? Or is it blogger? This time I tried a combined pic so I didn't have to load all 3, but I don't like the pics so small. I would actually like my pics even bigger than blogger allows and know you can make them bigger, just don't quite know how yet. So if anyone knows why it does this or if they are having the same problem, or tips on how to make my pics BIG, let me know! One of these days I will become computer literate.....