My long weekend started with a lovely wedding this past Thursday in Toronto. The bride's name was Karen. This was Karen's second marriage but it was still done very traditionally. Her gown was oh-so-stunning! Karen also hired me to return to her venue later on in the afternoon for touch ups, etc. (Graydon Manor Hall in North York......stunning place and really nice people helped bring my bags upstairs to the bridal suite! BONUS!)
My day with Karen started at 7:00am. Karen has a 10 year old daughter who wanted her makeup and hair done too. Let me just say that Alexis or Alex for short knew EXACTLY how she wanted to look and even tried to get me to do a smokey eye on her!! LOL. Needless to say I didn't give her your typical smokey eye look but we worked out a really good compromise. She was great fun! I also worked on Karen's lovely step daughter, Samantha or Sam for short. She was a 14 year old beauty! Sam has about 1/4 Pakistani blood in her and her skin and eyes were stunning! Both girls wanted tons of curls (think Taylor Swift curls) and to be truthful I was a bit concerned about the curls lasting considering the weather conditions. On Thursday we had super high humidity here in Toronto and thunderstorms galore! But it all worked out very well in the end.
How did I manage to get the look the girls wanted? Well, I started with wetting the girls hair, adding in Milkshake Sparkling Glaze for body and control and then I used my favourite setting mist, Onesta Create before curling their hair. I then used my 1 inch pointy barrel curling iron and curled 3 layers on top of each other starting at the bottom and working my way up. Then I sprayed their hair with Milkshake Open Air Medium hold spray and let the curls cool while I worked on their makeup. I finished by using the back of my tail comb and separating each of the curls into 3 separate curls to give volume galore and setting it all with Sebastian Re-Shaper (for humidity control) Strong Hold Hairspray. It worked like a charm!
Karen, on the other hand wanted a very soft updo. Take a look! I'll be getting some images from this wedding soon (I hope! hint, hint, Karen!) and will post the pictures of the girls too when I get them. I think her hair looked lovely and it lasted....didn't even need to touch up her "do" later on.
Oh yeah! I also did an updo for Karen's sister who had just arrived from Ottawa. She has 7 children and seriously.....she looked like a model! Life ain't always fair. : )
On Friday I had 2 wedding trials both for 2012 weddings. The makeup/hair trials were both done in Mississauga. The results for both were very good! Happy dance! : ))
Saturday was another long day. I met my fellow makeup/hair artist, Jade Truscott in Oakville at 7:30am. Jade and I are both sort of obsessed with being early so we both arrived long before our 7:30 start time and met in the parking lot. Jade had also assisted me a couple of weeks ago with a fashion related shoot and I was able to show her some of the edited shots on my i-Phone while we chatted and caught up. Throughout the morning and early afternoon we managed to complete 8 makeup and hair and the bride and her cute little flowergirl. I only had a moment to take a picture because it was a very busy few hours but here's a quick pic I took on my i-Phone of one of the bridesmaid's hairstyles that I worked on. I know...it's such bad quality but you get the idea of the hairstyle anyhow! :)
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| One of Chelsea's bridesmaid's Becca |
This morning was another busy morning. It was a 7:00am start out in Brampton. It was for a small Italian bridal party where I did the makeup only. The bride's friend is a hairstylist and did everyone's hair even before the birds were awake this morning. (everyone looked amazing by the way!) My lovely bride's name was Carm. I have to tell you about her dress! The gown was traditionally long ( also very stunning!) but at the bottom of the gown there was Velcro so that the bottom of the skirt separates from the top leaving you with a cocktail dress for the evening. I thought that was the most clever invention I've ever seen! Brides - look into this! It's genius!
Tomorrow I have another trial but then I get Tuesday off! I plan on laying around in my PJ's until noon......
or maybe later.....
Enjoy your long weekend everyone! See you soon!
