I have not been here in a while, I'm getting married at the end of June and I had my make up trial and it did not go very well. I found her online and I'd seen her pictures of clients and I thought she would be perfect. I'd trained as a make up artist in the early 90s, but I not ever worked as a freelance make up artist, I ended up working in the City of London, for a firm of solicitors.
I can do my own make-up, I do my own make up all the time, but the reason why I wanted a make up artist was because I did not want to be stressed out putting my make up and wanting it to be perfect and I get super shiny, especially my nose, so I thought I would get a make up artist to work her magic with the latest products, that would stop me glowing like a light bulb.
So we discuss the look I was going for and she got to work, we chit chatted and drank tea, it was a really nice time, but when I looked in the mirror, I have to say I was shocked at the way she had applied it. The foundation was not a good match,it made me look slightly orange and I have some dark marks just under my jawline and she missed covering them completely, she had not used any concealer or foundation to cover it, basically the foundation stopped dead at my jawline.
I like to have my eyebrows to look defined, I personally use an eyebrow pencil and powder, she just used a powder, but my eyebrows just looked messy and all over the place and they were not brushed through properly, so it looked like a layer of powder sitting on top of my brows.
The eyeshadow was uneven and not blended properly, so you could see each colour that she used and I did say I wanted to use gold tones, but she used gold on the lids and the brow bones. As for the false eyelashes, she place them directly in the centre, so when you looked at my eyes, you could see my own eyelashes at the ends!
i wanted a red lipstick, so she used a pencil to outline my lips and fill them in, also going over the hipline, for no reason, my lips are full enough. Then she used a lipstick that was more plummy than red and the outline of the lips were uneven, it looked like I'd applied the lipstick in the dark. I always apply red lipstick with a brush to get a sharp line, but she did not do this.
Sorry for the long post, but there is more! She did not do any type of contouring, all she did was highlight everywhere on my face and I mean everywhere, it was on my forehead, brow bone, down the centre of my nose, making my nose look super wide. I had highlights on my chin, cupids bow and cheekbones, it was everywhere!!! As for blusher, there was a slight sweep of it under my cheekbones, where she should have contoured my cheeks.
I was speechless, all I could say was I looked very glam, but I looked in the mirror and it was not me looking back.
Also about an hour after she left, my face started to get shiny, so not a happy bunny. I don't know what happened, the make up was nothing like how I saw it in her pictures. i just said I would get back to her. But there is no way I am going to have her do my make up, I'm going to do it myself. I have already spoken to Mac and they have said I could pop in and discuss their long wearing, oil free products that I can use.
I want to look like me on my wedding day and not like someone else. I've not contacted her yet to say I won't be using her, I'm trying to work out how to say it, without being mean.
Has anyone else had a disastrous make-up trial?
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