Wedding makeup extraordinaire

I'm back, once again with much time elapsing...I went on vacation for a week and also have been working hard on my wedding invitations that were SO time consuming. Those things combine have made me an awful blogger. :(
My day yesterday was a very productive/eventful day both for my wedding planning as well as my makeup career and so I thought it is time to get back to blogging. I finally sent out my wedding invitations that have been a thorn in my side for way too long. Bringing those things to the post office was a total relief. Bye bye gluing, stuffing, and licking envelopes. I also went to the mall with some of my coworkers where my flip flop broke which gave me an excuse to get some really cute flats...yay there is always a silver lining. After mailing invites and shopping I had a wedding I had to do makeup for.
I arrived at the hall a bit early because I was under very strict time constraints. I have felt like I am a bit slow because I want everything so perfect. Thankfully the bridal suit was open and I began to set up. The bride was there early too and had a seat and begins to tell me, with no real forewarning... "You know the trial you did, yea, I don't want that look anymore." I was nervous but honestly a bit relieved because when doing the trial she kept picking apart the eye look. At the trial she requested a smokey look, when done she basically was not used to that much makeup. And so she told me "I want it to look like your makeup." I had green eyeshadow and so went with green. Most brides want purples and browns from what I have done so green was different which I appreciated. I used deep greens color with flex of gold in the crease and outer corner and a gold shimmery color for the inner corner. She loved it and didn't ask me to make a single change which was very different from her trial experience. I put individual lashes on her with more confidence (they have been a mini struggle of mine) and actually finished with 15 minutes to spare. It seems I am getting better and better which is so encouraging! I felt great afterward because I knew she looked beautiful and that I am actually pretty good at this!
I forgot my camera, of course, and so I will be waiting for her to send pictures my way to show! That pretty much sums up my awesome and productive day! Until next time...

Wedding colored glasses

It has been a really long time since my last post. It has been hard for me to focus on expanding my makeup career when everything I see and think about is "wedding." There are at least 100 or so things I need to do. I decided to do many do it yourself projects to make the wedding have my personal touch and style as well as save some money. Little did I know that adding my personal touch also meant adding my slow touch. I was not made to be crafty. All things crafty take me FOREVER since Martha Stewart I are on different ends of the being crafty wheel, me being on the "not so crafty" side. I can do projects like invitations, favor boxes, programs and such but it takes longer than your average DIYer. It took me 2 days and 2 cousins, 2 sisters and a cousin's boyfriend to complete assembling 63 of 130 invitations! I also feel extra pressure to stay wedding focused because I will be going back to my full time job as a teacher soon, booooo...and so makeup has taken a backseat to my currently wedding obsessed life.

Though the makeup business has not been something I have not been focusing on entirely I have been doing work here and there. I did a photo shoot where I worked with photographer Leticia Valdez, I was pleased with the pictures but definitely wished I had more pictures that express my makeup skill. Here are a few shots:



I also did two weddings..Here are a couple shots!


Following photos by Ilya Shmulenson:



Hopefully I will get some more things done for the wedding and then I can focus more on makeup and beauty...Soon to come a few beauty product reviews! Until next time....