Beauty

[Shanus]

My daughter was married 17 yrs. ago. I had gone a month before to a makeup counter to have my makeup done, bought the products & practiced several times. The day of the wedding I did a perfect job...just like the MUA taught me.

When the proofs came for the wedding photos, I looked like h-ll !!!! It was my face, but looked like I had been playing in my grandmother's makeup drawer. I never wear that much foundation/eye makeup & it looked artificial on me. Hate looking at those family pics now because I made that big mistake.

My son was married 10 yrs. ago. I did my own makeup, but did what the photographer suggested 10 minutes before the photos: intensify the blush you usually wear, add a brighter lipcolor (borrowed from cousin) and add navy liner so whites of eyes look whiter. The photos are great. I looked much better, more natural just enhanced. 

Think twice before looking like someone else in photos you'll have for a lifetime. Lesson learned.

[TY]

@Shanus

Remember that you can also photoshop photos you already have. If they are print, scan them into a computer, use Photoshop or an app on an ipad like Facetune or Youcam Makeup to fix your makeup.

[ID2]

My son is getting married this coming October. They asked me the other day if I wanted my hair and makeup done that day since the bride and girls are all getting theirs done at their house? I told him I'd think about it. I eventually told them no. I am quite picky with my hair and I really don't want to look like a clown with my makeup on such an important day! Heaven only knows how they'd do it! I guess I'd have to go and have it done beforehand to see what they have planned for me but I live 300 miles away and that just isn't going to happen. I'm fine with doing my own hair and makeup. 

[violann]

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@ID2 wrote:

My son is getting married this coming October. They asked me the other day if I wanted my hair and makeup done that day since the bride and girls are all getting theirs done at their house? I told him I'd think about it. I eventually told them no. I am quite picky with my hair and I really don't want to look like a clown with my makeup on such an important day! Heaven only knows how they'd do it! I guess I'd have to go and have it done beforehand to see what they have planned for me but I live 300 miles away and that just isn't going to happen. I'm fine with doing my own hair and makeup. 

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I am not at all picky, and don't give a breath about how I look, but when my WDIL2B invited me to have a mani-pedi with her, her mom, and the wedding party, the day before the wedding, then to have my make up done the day OF the wedding with the same group, I was happy to accept.

These were wonderful bonding experiences, and I would not have wanted to miss them. As it turned out, Inlooked after  a 1/2 hour with the make up expert, I looked as though I'd crawled out of the crypt, and a dear friend of mine grabbed me as we arrived at the ceremony and told me to race to the LR and apply more rouge, which I did, and I was satisfied with my look, but more important, the bonding experience was truly priceless.

I would have been thrilled if I'd been painted like BRAVEHEART, and I chose to do what I thought would make my DIL happy.

Sometimes I make decisions involving my DILS out of my love for them instead of my own personal enthusiasms. 

[Shanus]

@TY. Me? Photoshop? Scan, etc.? Uh. No. I'm lucky I can email, go online to order & check my bank accounts and Google and do a few other things, but that's the extent of my computer technology. This "old dog" learned those tricks over months..that side of my brain...well, no it just doesn't understand all that. Learned last week how to add contacts to my IPhone. Pitiful I know.