0 Best Retail Brand Foundations for Brides

There are numerous foundations on the market that claim to match your skin colour instantaneously, blend into your skin immediately and flawlessly and even take years off your life by diminishing lines and wrinkles! Really?? Seriously??? If only it was that easy….

You can probably tell I’m not a fan of empty marketing promises. I believe in what works and I’ve tried enough retail brand foundations in my time to really know what works and what doesn’t.

There are hundreds, if not thousands of foundations that work well for everyday use. It’s really a matter of trying out several different brands over time and finding 1 or 2 that suit your requirements. As you age you need to update your foundations and again you need to find which brands suit you and your skin type best.

But this blog is about what retail brand foundations work well for brides and there aren’t many and there is a reason for this.

A lot of retail brand foundations (infact, most of them) have fillers that cause flashback in photo's. Have you ever noticed that you sometimes look pale or ashy when a picture is taken of you? This is due to the fillers used in most retail brand foundations. The last thing you want to do is look good in person but have your wedding pictures turn out ashy because you chose the wrong product!

I carry a lot of different professional brand makeup in my kit for this very reason. Not every bride has oily skin or dry skin or even toned skin. It often takes 2 or 3 different foundations to match a bride well and she needs to look amazing in person and incredible in pictures. This is why you hire a professional makeup artist on your wedding day – to get it right!

But for those brides who are looking to purchase retail brand foundations because they realize in the next few months many pictures will be taken of them and they want to be confident that they will look good in pictures and in person, here are my suggestions.

Next time you’re in Sephora (my danger store!) pick up some Make Up For Ever foundation. I use their Face and Body foundation daily and when I’m going out for the evening I use their HD foundation. I find Make Up For Ever face and body foundation to be very light and buildable which I love for daytime use as I actually don’t like to wear heavy makeup but like flawless skin.

Make Up For Ever HD foundation leaves a beautiful finish, not exactly dewy and not exactly matte either. It’s perfect! My favourite type of foundation finish for sure! Both foundations from MUFE (Make Up For Ever) give great results in photos as well. I have also heard incredible things about Make Up For Ever Mat Velvet foundation – my niece is in love with this stuff and from her recent photos in facebook, it definitely photographs well too!

MAC foundations are another option if you’re looking for a professional retail brand that really works. The only problem you may encounter with some MAC foundations is the product doesn’t appear to have a very long self life. So, if you’re buying it to use everyday, great. If you’re buying it just for a special occasion, I would pass and stick to MUFE. (Make Up For Ever)

So my favourite retail foundations for brides are Make Up For Ever and MAC.  Now go shop!

Come by next week when it’s all about the lashes! Faux lashes, real lashes, lash products and more…..see you soon!