This post began as a wedding part 2 post, but has ballooned into just my wedding makeup fail!
Since Stacy and were living together, we ended up scheduling all our appointments at the same times so I could drive her during the day and she wasn't stuck with her car later. We started out at the hair salon, and it turned out Stacy's hair girl is my new neighbor! Small world haha
Ahhh no makeup! With our "Bear" faces, a joke we started back when we first moved in together :)
Like I said before I was really unhappy with the makeup I has done at Sephora the day of the wedding. I was there with the bride, so I didn't want to cause too much of a fuss. The first girl who did my makeup was done in less than 20 minutes, which would be fine if it wasn't a special occasion and I hadn't bought a $50 gift card! I was very hesitant about getting my makeup done at all, since I have had bad luck with most mall makeup artists, not to mention I enjoy doing my makeup and do a pretty good job. However since I was in the bridal party and everyone else was getting theirs done, I figured I should too.
When we got to Sephora we ran into Stacy's mom and her brother's fiancee, and they both looked great. Since it was just me and the Bride for the last appointments, Stacy's mom asked I make sure she ate lunch and drank water, so I ran over to Starbucks to grab us some water, and when I got back they told me I was not going to be sitting with Stacy, I was going to be across the room at another station. I already was getting a bad feeling. I didn't take any pictures of the first makeup job, and since I was faced away from the mirror I was not able to see what she was doing, but I COULD feel it. It started off with her telling me that every single airbrush machine was broken, so we were not going to be doing airbrush makeup as the bride asked. I gave her the benefit of the doubt and let her do what she wanted. She powered through my foundation, skipped any concealer (none for the blemish on my chin or under my eyes), applied my eyeshadow with NO primer (I know some people can get away with that, but I Definitely can't!), didn't do ANYTHING to my brows, not even get the foundation chilling in them out, and lined my waterline with a basic pencil liner (no top liner, and again maybe some people can be ok with that, but pencil liner DOES NOT last on my waterline). I was also PALE as a mofo... neeeeded some bronzer! When she handed my the mirror I didn't know what to say. She didn't ask if I wanted her to change anything, she just asked what I wanted to buy. I ended up asking for one of the lip products (Nars Velvet Matte Lip Pencil in Dolce Vita, I already had a mini of the gloss at home and am not a fan of the color on myself particularly).
I walked over to Stacy and she could tell I was unhappy right away (that's what happens when you live together, huh?). I told her about it and decided that I would just ask her artist if I could borrow some of her brushes and I would fix myself with products from around the store. Stacy's artist (who was FAB, Stacy looked AMAZING) looked horrified when I started talking to her about what was and was not done, and instead got another artist to come redo almost the whole thing for me.
So without more excessive talking, here is what I ended up with:
Not the worst, but not the best either. This was after being redone with the airbrush makeup (yea, even though the first girl said all the machines were broken, the one at Stacy's station was fine). I think the biggest problems were:
- That lip color. Just not that great on me. It turned out they used the same lip color on everyone, so one of the other girls had bought it and I used hers for touch up. I briefly though about keeping it as I tried to make it work the next couple days, but I just hate that matte finish.
- I was a little between colors in the airbrush pods, so they ended up layering two colors and it left me pale-ish even with LOTS of bronzer, especially in photos
- Those brows!! So dark! but they were better than the foundation covered messes I started with. In retrospect, I had my brow stuff in my car, I should have brought it in and asked to do my own brows. Oh well!
This is the end of the night with the top of the cake, and I think It looked better as it wore off a little.
Again, not that bad, but I just felt annoyed I'd spent $50 and all that stress on a so-so makeup job. I was really grateful to the second girl who redid it though, and she was working on top of the mistakes by the first girl. The other good thing that came out of the Sephora visit was my second artist applying my Bare Escentuals bareMinerals blush in Vintage Peach. BEAUTIFUL! I've been gravitating towards cooler colors as the weather cools down, but it is a really great peach blush. I'll try to remember to do a FOTD with it so you all can see it in action.
Has anyone else had bad (or good!) experiences with makeup applications by the artists at Sephora?
xoxo Melanie
