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 So important! Your make up and hair for your Wedding day. A good makeup artist should make you look like a natural blushing bride and not like a drag queen. Some of us are just better at applying make up then others, I for one, know I do a half decent job on myself however I know I have a long way to go in comparison to some of my friends who apply makeup with such flair and precision.
If you are one of the lucky ones that does a good job yourself then I would recommend doing your own make up for the big day. Having said that I recommend practice in the weeks leading up to your Wedding and make sure you have a full stock of everything you need (bonus you keep the make up you use if you do it yourself, and we all know good makeup ain't cheap).
The last thing you need is for your foundation to run out after you have only applied it to half of your face or something drastic.
Trust me, its those little things that we take for granted that have run out or cannot be found when you need it, as well as that chances are if you run out on the day and make a dash to the local retailers to get "Product xyz" you are more then likely to get the response "Sorry we are out of stock" followed by "I have no idea when the next shipment is due".
Those exact phrases I have been on the receiving end from a particular retailer (no names mentioned of course" from December 2007 when I first walked in to get a refill of "Product xyz" and believe it or not June arrives, I trotted along to the same retailer thinking 6 months for an international brand surely is plenty of time for re-stocking. Can you take a wild guess as to the responses I received when I made my request?
Anyway getting back to the point check and double check on the little things such as lipstick, gloss, foundation etc if you are doing it youself practice and make sure you have everything you need (full bottles & tubes).
Now the same goes for hair, you can do it yourself, however I actually love getting my hair done it makes me feel special and you are special, it is your special day it's your Wedding day. So I recommend getting a hairdresser in to make sure your hair looks fabulous.
Locals
Make sure you let your hairdresser know the occasion that is happening after your booking as in "I am getting married you are going to make me in to a beautiful bride"...no pressure of course. I would recommend checking out other hairdressers as back up I have a very good reason for this its called reliability.
Short story: I had to MC a launch event, my fabulous hairdresser was fully booked for that particular day so I asked around an was recommended another hairdresser who was supposed to be excellent with styling for functions. Fine, I make my booking for the day of the event at 3.00pm I think it was because the event started at 6pm and the plan was I go straight from the hairdressers to the event as they were near each other. So here I am, I turn up at 2.45pm for my 3pm looking fabulous minus the hair of course. I advise the receptionist that I am here for my 3pm appointment then take a seat and look for the latest trashy magazine to read.
Lots of whispering and consulting (staff at the salon I am referring to here) later they advise me that they cannot do my hair as the person booked to do my hair (who might I add is also the owner of the salon) has not turned up for work today and all other hairdressers were midway through appointments and would not be able to get my hair done in time (I have very thick, long hair). Calls to the mobile of "missing in action" hairdresser proved futile, and finally after 10 minutes of my huffing and puffing the receptionist told me it was pointless as "missing in action" hairdresser was last seen ‘full cut at a local watering hole the night before" (Fiji Guest translation: Full Cut can also be described as: drunk, wasted, intoxicated, plastered) and that the same thing happened the previous weekend.
I asked "what about the other appointments for that day?.. what happened to them?" Response: A shug of the shoulders followed by "Can't do much".
Happy Ending: I ran over to my Fabulous Hairdresser Elaine(heavily pregnant at the time) who was just locking up after her last customer. Elaine saved the day by doing something fabulous (what exactly I don't know) but the end result was only 10 minutes later and it was great. Moral of story: Make sure they are reliable, ask around and get a back up hairdresser just in case.
Fiji Guests
If you need to get your highlights touched up or your color needs a bit of a lift I recommend getting it done at home with your local hair dresser who knows what you want, what you like, what you are used to at least 1 or 2 weeks before you depart for your Fabulous Fiji Wedding! I have had my hair done in Brisbane, Sydney and London and I would still chose my fabulous local hair dresser Elaine over any other, so the same would apply to you, finding a good hair dress is no easy feat so stick with what works. I would still recommend getting a hairdresser for your Fabulous Fiji Wedding just for styling for the day.
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