Bridal Soft
Built to last twelve hours and photograph honestly. 3 steps, roughly 24 minutes, rated advanced.
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The brief is unusual: it has to survive a full day, look like you in person, and photograph correctly under three different lighting conditions. That means slightly more definition than feels right in the mirror and considerably more longevity than a normal evening face.
What you will need
- Long-wear primer and foundation without SPF
- A neutral shadow quad
- Cream contour and a rosy blush
- Waterproof liner and mascara
- Individual lash clusters
- A long-wear rosy lipstick and liner
- Setting spray
No specific brands. Any brand's version will work the same way.
No SPF anywhere in the base
SPF causes white cast under a direct flash. Use a long-wear, flash-safe foundation and take it down the neck and across the chest so nothing stops at the jaw.
Tip
Photograph yourself with flash during your trial. It is the only reliable way to catch a white cast before the day.
Slightly more definition than feels right
Build the eye a little deeper and the contour a little stronger than you would for a normal evening, because cameras flatten everything.
Tip
Check it in daylight, in artificial light and on camera. If it survives all three it will survive the day.
Lock the lip and the whole face
Line and fill the lip with pencil, apply the lipstick, blot, powder through a tissue, reapply, then setting spray in an X and a T across the face.
Tip
Waterproof mascara is non-negotiable, whatever you think about crying. Everyone underestimates this one.
See it on your own face first.
Two minutes of questions, one optional photo, and this look gets rendered onto your own colouring before you spend anything.
Common questions
Six to eight weeks out, and wear it for a full day afterwards so you learn where it breaks down. A trial you wash off after an hour tells you nothing about hour eleven.
Blotting papers, the lip products, a small powder, cotton buds and micellar water. Almost every touch-up is lips or shine, and nothing else.
