Bridal Make-up Before and After

Please scroll down to see 'Before' & 'After' photos

But first please note:

If the face is lighter than the chest in these photos, then it not due to incorrect make-up, it is due to the bride’s chest being naturally much darker than her face - or due to camera flash - or due to shadows. The face always gets more camera flash than the chest because the face is closer to the camera - or due to tanning lotions/sprays and tanning sun beds. The body/ chest are normally given more attention than the face and neck.This is because Caucasians naturally protect our faces first from the sun with sun screen and  forget to cover chest and neck areas with sunscreen, which is usually built in to most face products today. Also hats usually protect the face and not so much the chest from sun.

I have always used make-up on the face, ears, neck, chest and back, in an attempt to get a closer match, but it does not have to be exactly all one skin tone to look natural, because if you look around, you will find that with very few exceptions, nobody’s face, ears, neck and chest are naturally all one shade of skin tone before makeup. Usually the chest is darker than the face and the neck is lighter than the face (and Caucasian ears are pinker), with some exceptions.

Most Caucasians ask to be given a slight tan -You won't be able to tell from the images below where I have done this because some brides come to the trial natural and then later sport a sunless tan on their wedding day. No worries, I take all foundations with me and choose a  foundation again on the wedding day that matches your new sunless tan. Sunless tans are healthier than real suntans (I think?), so I am all for it. Most Asian girls ask me to make them look Caucasian - I try very hard to talk them out of it, but usually we reach a compromise - I use highlights only on certain features. However the aim is to always try to match the foundation to the skin tone so perfectly that the foundation should completely disappear on the skin.