Di­anne John

Bridal sea­son 2012 is up­on us and al­ready most of my week­ends are booked sol­id up to Au­gust with some week­ends be­ing dou­ble-booked. Trends re­flect that while cou­ples get mar­ried all through­out the year, the months of June, Ju­ly and Au­gust still con­tin­ue to be the choice months for wed­dings. You've al­ready hand­picked your groom, venue, re­cep­tion and bar menu, cake, gown and ac­ces­sories and a well re­spect­ed pho­tog­ra­ph­er to cap­ture your mem­o­ries; now is the per­fect time to care­ful­ly se­lect your ide­al make­up look and pro­fes­sion­al make­up artist. This is not a day you would want to ex­per­i­ment with make­up ap­pli­ca­tions on your own or ask a friend or rel­a­tive to sub­sti­tute as a pro­fes­sion­al make­up artist. I have seen many a sad bride hav­ing to re-do their wed­ding por­traits af­ter their nup­tials be­cause the make-up or pho­tog­ra­phy was def­i­nite­ly not up to their stan­dard.

If you are a bride-to-be that day­dreams of cas­tles, fairy­tale wed­dings and have vi­sions of scener­ies full of flow­ers and flick­er­ing can­dle­light go­ing round in your head, then you are def­i­nite­ly what I would call a Ro­man­tic Bride. With ro­mance comes class, grace, el­e­gance and pu­ri­ty and a re­fined qual­i­ty of pre­ci­sion, de­tail and en­hance­ment of all things nat­ur­al. So it is a no-brain­er that the Ro­man­tic Bride wears her make­up not on­ly flaw­less­ly beau­ti­ful­ly but al­so light and nat­ur­al to re­main true to her own nat­ur­al beau­ty. For the bride con­tem­plat­ing a fairy­tale wed­ding, you would most def­i­nite­ly want to con­sid­er hav­ing a ro­man­tic make­up ap­pli­ca­tion. When you make your en­trance, if your plan is to make your hand­some prince weak in the knees or to make his beat­ing heart flut­ter, then Ro­man­tic Make-up is your al­ly.

For­get the bronzes, golds and bold colours, on your wed­ding day, go ivory, brown and beige. You can al­so play with soft pinks and peach­es as well. I usu­al­ly chan­nel my turn-of–the cen­tu­ry brides to­wards shim­mery neu­trals on the eye­lids, silky nude blush­es on the cheeks, smudged pas­tel eye­lin­ers paired with nude glossy lips. My choice would be a sheer foun­da­tion with a su­per light sweep of a mi­cro-fine milled pow­der to set the make­up. With a few drops of an il­lu­mi­nat­ing liq­uid or crème feath­ered on­to the tem­ples and cheeks for added high­lights you are sure to make a grand en­trance and have your groom and guests alike in awe with your to­tal­ly ro­man­tic and ir­re­sistibly gor­geous look. On my beau­ti­ful mod­el Sab­ri­na Thomas, I re­al­ly want­ed to high­light her in­cred­i­bly ro­man­tic per­son­al­i­ty us­ing neu­tral tones of beiges and browns to bring out her own nat­ur­al beau­ty. With the as­sis­tance of my su­per tal­ent­ed pho­tog­ra­ph­er Dami­an Luk Pat, Sab­ri­na tru­ly epit­o­mis­es the el­e­gant ro­mance of a princess of an era gone by.

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SAB­RI­NA'S RO­MANCE KIT: FACE: M.A.C Cos­met­ics Stu­dio Sculpt

Foun­da­tion in NC40.

EYES: Beige crushed metal­lic pig­ment in Misty, brown eye shad­ow in Cen­tre Stage and the brow bone was swept with a soft pig­ment in Naked.

CHEEKS: Min­er­al­ize blush in Dain­ty.

HIGH­LIGHTER: Prep and Prime high­lighter in

Bright Fore­cast.

LIPS: Lip lin­er in Pro-Long­wear Etcetera and

lip glass in En­chantress.

MAS­CARA: Op­u­lash mas­cara in Op­ti­mum Black.

MOD­EL: SAB­RI­NA THOMAS

PHO­TOG­RA­PH­ER: DAMI­AN LUK PAT

MAKE- UP ARTIST: DI­ANNE JOHN