Wedding Day Makeup Styles

Highlight your natural features.

Wedding day makeup is all about looking soft and beautiful. You want to highlight your skin tone and natural features. This means choosing delicate makeup colors that are complementary to you to avoid looking harsh or overdone. There are several ways to accomplish this balance without spending a small fortune on a celebrity makeup artist or special eye shadows, glosses, lipsticks, powder or foundation. Each style can be done in about 10 minutes, too, so that you can concentrate on other important wedding preparations.

Things You'll Need

• Foundation Eyeliner Eye shadow Lipstick Gloss Blush Face powder Lip liner Eyelash curler Mascara

Instructions

Focus on the Eyes

1. Apply foundation over your entire face, including eyelids and under the eyes. This allows your eye makeup to go on smoother and helps it last throughout the ceremony and reception.

2. Brush on face powder with a fluffy brush to set the foundation.

3. Sweep a very light pink blush (for pink skin tones) or peach (for yellow skin tones) along the hollows of your cheeks with a fluffy makeup brush. Make sure that the edges of the blush blend in with the powder so there are no harsh lines.

4. Line lips with a nude lip pencil and apply a layer of nude, light pink or frosted lip gloss.

5. Line eyes with black liquid liner. Those with fair skin may opt for a chocolate brown liner. Make sure that the line is thin and right against your lash line. A line that is too thick will look harsh.

6. Sweep a transparent white shadow across the entire lid, from the lash line to the brow bone. Apply a pink, peach or lavender eye shadow to the lid, stopping at the crease. Put a line of tan, taupe or light brown shadow in the crease of the eye for definition.

7. Finish the look by curling the lashes and sweeping on two coats of waterproof mascara.

Focus on the Lips

1. Follow Step 1-3 above.

2. Line eyes with brown liquid eyeliner. Sweep pink, lavender or peach eye shadow across the lid to the crease. Curl the lashes and apply one coat of waterproof mascara.

3. Choose your lip color. With lips, you can choose a more dramatic color, such as red or plum, as long as the rest of your makeup is muted.

4. Line lips with a liner that matches your lipstick. Fill in the area inside the outline with liner.

5. Apply a coat of lipstick and finish with a shiny lip gloss.

Tips & Warnings

• Pastels are always an easy color choice for wedding makeup.

• Avoid navy, turquoise or red eye shadow.

References

• Sweet Bridal Makeup Looks
• Bobbi Brown Bride Makeup Tips

Resources

• More Bridal Makeup Ideas