✨ Wedding Day Beauty Guide ✨
Everything you need to know before the big day. Because we are not letting humidity, crusty skin, or mystery hair products ruin the day. You've spent months planning this day. Your Pinterest board has approximately 7,000 photos... now let's make sure your hair and makeup live up to the hype.
🤍 Hair Prep for Your Best Hair Day Ever
Schedule your color appointment.
Book your hair color and haircut about one week before the wedding. Fresh enough to look amazing, but with enough time to settle into that "I woke up this gorgeous" phase and you, god forbid, have time to change anything that doesn’t feel right.
Beautiful bridal hair doesn't start the morning of your wedding—it starts in the weeks leading up to it.
Prioritize Healthy Hair
If your hair has been feeling dry, dull, or over-processed, now is the time to give it some extra love. Incorporating a reparative shampoo and conditioner into your routine in the weeks leading up to your wedding can make a noticeable difference. Healthier hair reflects more light (hello, shine!) and creates a smoother foundation for curls, updos, and polished styles. A weekly deep conditioning or repair mask is also a wonderful way to restore moisture and strengthen your hair before the big day. I've linked my favorite shampoos, repair treatments, and heat protectants below—the same products I recommend to my brides and use behind the chair every day.
Protect Your Hair from Heat
Whether you're blow-drying your hair or touching up your style before rehearsal events, always use a quality heat protectant. Healthy ends hold curls better, resist breakage, and create a more polished finished look.
✨ How to Apply Self-Tanner Like a Pro
A gorgeous, natural-looking glow can make a huge difference in your wedding photos—but a little prep goes a long way. A beautiful bridal tan should look like you just returned from a relaxing vacation—not like you wrestled a bag of Cheetos. Follow these steps for an even, streak-free tan.
24 Hours Before Your Tan
Exfoliate thoroughly. This is the most important step!
Pay extra attention to rough, dry areas that tend to grab excess color, including: Elbows, knees, hands, feet & ankles
Removing dry skin creates a smooth canvas and helps your tan develop evenly instead of appearing patchy or dark in certain areas.
Application Tips
Apply the product in long, circular motions, working one section at a time.
When you get to your elbows, knees, hands, and feet, use product lightly. These areas naturally absorb more color, so less is definitely more. If you’re worried, add a little lotion sparingly to those rougher areas.
After Applying
Allow your tan to dry completely before getting dressed, and wear loose, dark clothing while it develops.
Avoid showering, sweating, swimming, or getting caught in the rain until you've reached the recommended development time for your tanning product.
Wedding Week Tip
If you're planning on having a spray tan or using self-tanner for your wedding, I recommend doing a trial application several weeks before the big day. This allows you to find the perfect shade and ensures you love the results before the wedding weekend.
Wedding Morning Hair Prep
On the morning of your wedding, arrive with clean, completely dry hair unless we've discussed otherwise.
After washing, apply a lightweight heat protectant through your mid-lengths and ends before blow-drying. Skip heavy oils, waxes, pomades, and styling creams, as they can weigh the hair down and make it more difficult to achieve long-lasting volume and hold.
Fresh, healthy hair gives me the best canvas to create a style that lasts from your first look until your last dance.
Please... wash your hair.
For everyone getting their hair styled, arrive with CLEAN, DRY hair.
Not "second-day hair."
Not "I only used a little dry shampoo."
Not "I skipped washing because my aunt said dirty hair holds better." Just NO.
Freshly washed hair actually styles and lasts better. You can add product to the hair, but if it’s greasy, there’s no amount of dry shampoo that can help you. Trust me—I do this for a living. 😉
Mother Nature always has opinions.
Dreaming of loose beachy waves? Love that for you.
Is the wedding in Wisconsin in July with 97% humidity? We may need to have a gentle conversation.
I'll always recommend a style that fits your vision and survives the weather from "I do" to the last dance.
✨ Skin Prep
The best makeup starts with happy skin.
A few days before and the morning of the wedding, give your face a little TLC with a gentle exfoliator (I've linked my favorite).
Want to level up? Schedule a dermaplane facial with your esthetician a week before the wedding. Smooth skin + flawless makeup = chef's kiss. Use a lip scrub and gently exfoliate with a wet toothbrush so your pout is gloss ready.
Hydrate. Moisturize. Drink your water.
No experimenting with random skincare products the week of the wedding. We don't need surprise breakouts making an appearance in family photos.
The Secret to Bright, Wedding-Day Eyes
Want to know one of my favorite little bridal beauty tricks? Use Lumify eye drops the morning of the wedding.
They help reduce redness and make the whites of your eyes appear noticeably brighter and clearer—giving you that well-rested, fresh look that photographs beautifully. It's one of those subtle details that makes a bigger difference than you'd think.
💄 Bring Your Favorites
If you have a lipstick, gloss, bronzer, or another makeup product that makes you feel like that girl, bring it!
I'm happy to incorporate your favorites so you still feel like you—just with a little extra bridal magic.
📸 Show Me Everything
Pinterest boards.
Instagram screenshots.
TikToks.
Random screenshots from three years ago.
Send them my way before the wedding! The more inspiration I have, the better I can customize your look.
✨ My Promise
My goal isn't to make you look like someone else.
My goal is for people to see you walking down the aisle and think,
"Dang... that's the prettiest version of her I've ever seen."
Now go drink some water, wash your hair, and leave the weather anxiety to me. I've got you. 🤍