5 Tips on choosing the right makeup colours for your wedding

Bridal Beauty: 5 Tips on choosing the right makeup colours for your wedding

angelagoh

14 Jun 2017

updated the Wednesday, June 14, 2017

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Makeup according to the season
Choosing the colour palatte of your makeup to match the current season could be a smart choice. If your marriage is planned for summer or spring, go with pastel colors such as soft pinks, tangerine or shimmery gold. If it’s planned for winter or fall, choose deeper tones like bronzes, dark purple or red. Consider the venue for your wedding. If you have planned for an outdoor wedding in the summer or spring, avoid coating on the makeup. Keep your makeup light and airy, don’t apply too much foundation because, during summer days, the foundation will slide off your face.

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Don’t ignore your personal style
Your style plays a great role in deciding your makeup. It's your big day and you what to look better than usual, which is okay. But it would be a lot better if you just look like yourself. Don’t make massive changes to your appearance because it might not be what you want, and people might not recognise you! If you like wearing red lipsticks, this would be the perfect day for you to flaunt your favorite lipstick shades. The most important thing for you is to look and feel perfect on this special day, but at the same time, you also must look and feel like yourself.

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Think about your setting & location of your wedding
Your makeup for the wedding day should be well-synchronised with the site where the event is to happen, as well as the theme. The foundation colour of your makeup should go well with the overall theme of the event. A beachside wedding ceremony would have entirely different lightning and ambience compared to a wedding in a ballroom or at a banquet. A subtle look might be your choice if your wedding event is at a beach or a backyard soiree. This type of look will provide you with the best natural look. Or you can also go with peaches and nudes to bring a perfect, glowing skin complexion, providing you with a softer look. For a formal affair, try more intense colors such as plum lipstick and dark, hazy eyes.

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Consider the style of your dress
You can also choose a makeup color depending on the style of your dress. You can either go with a soft and delicate look or an edgy one. If you’re more of a fashion freak, you can try the popular, new-age appearance just by playing with different colours of eyeshadow and lipsticks. Go for crimson on your lips, or attract the attention of everyone to your eyes by applying frisky eyeliners highlighted with dark sapphire eyeshadow. If you’re wearing a more romantic dress on the day, go for neutral tones like nude and brown on your eyes and light colors like pinks or peaches on the lips. Highlight your natural features with bronzers, or dust some shimmery powder to finish off your look.

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Play with your skin tone
If you’ve fair skin, you can go for lighter colours such as nudes, peaches and pastels. You can also try dark brown shades that come with undertones of yellow, which will blend perfectly with a lighter complexion. If you have a moderate or olive skin, you can pretty much wear any color you wish! Your skin complexion can handle the darkest reds and the palest pinks. If you’ve a dark complexion, you can highlight your features with bright berry colors, especially with a punchy blush and vibrant red lipstick. Opt for foundations and powders with gold and bronze undertones to reveal your natural glow.

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It may be a few months before your big day, but it’s always good to decide on a flawless look beforehand!

As you wedding day comes closer, you might have some questions crossing your mind. What type of dress should you wear? What accessories will you need to carry? What about selecting the right flowers for the bouquet? And the choice of hairstyle?

Planning all these tiny details for the big day can take many months. However, there is one thing that you need to consider more than any other thing, and that is your makeup. Why? Because you’ll be attracting a lot of attention on that day, and there will be plenty of people who will want to talk to you and congratulate you face-to-face. And also, of course, you’d want an impeccable complexion in all your wedding photos.

The real question is: what brands, products, and tones will look perfect on you? Whether you’re going to a salon or doing your makeup by yourself, there are a few things that you should know before you paint your face for the big soiree.

Farheen Salman

Author bio: Farheen Salman is a beauty and lifestyle blogger at FS Fashionista. She is currently working as a beauty consultant for Karina Brush for its brand awareness campaign.

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