Isn’t the wedding is the thing that almost every girl waiting for? At this special moment, I’m sure you want everything to go well without any disturbance. Not only consider the party, but you also should consider the dress, hairstyle, and makeup. I know you will feel hard because you don’t want to mess up your special moment.
Especially for makeup, if you use the wrong makeup, it will ruin your whole mood. Am I right? Therefore, almost every girl is afraid to use a makeup artist to do their makeup. You don’t have to worry about this problem girls! Because you can do your makeup for your wedding, isn’t it sounds exciting? Besides that, you can save more money!
So, if you feel confused about how to apply your makeup for the wedding, you can try to follow our idea! This kind of makeup will make you look soft and fresh. I believe you will love this idea and it will not disappoint you. So, if you want to know how to achieve this look. Without any for the do, let’s move on to the tutorial!
Soft and Fresh Wedding Makeup Tutorial
1. Use Contact Lenses as The Alternative to Glasses
For you who have a visual impairment, do you want to use glasses for the wedding? I’m sure you won’t. So, for you who feel stuck with this problem, you can wear contact lenses as an alternative. This kind of product that’s gonna be your lifesaver. Moreover, it’s very easy and comfortable to use.
Contact Lenses have many types and colors, so you can adjust it to your needs. But if you’re still a beginner, let me help you to choose the right lenses. You can choose contact lenses with a diameter of 14 – 14,5 mm if you have big eyes. Then, if you have small eyes, you can prefer lenses with a diameter of 14,5 – 15 mm. For the color, you can choose based on your favorite.
2. Prepare Your Skin First with Skincare
To make sure your makeup is flawless and long-lasting even if you’ve been sweating or using it all day long, you should wear skincare. By using skincare, you will help the base makeup stick well on your skin because it will moist and hydrate your skin.
Especially for you who have dry skin, you need to use skincare to prevent your makeup from getting cracked. But, that doesn’t mean people with oily skin don’t need skincare. You should wear skincare with less amount and consider the texture. Choose skincare that has a light and watery texture to avoid greasy skin and make your makeup melt.
3. Make Your Makeup Look Flawless with Primer
Besides skincare, you should wear a primer to make your makeup look flawless. Primer also has the function to fix your skin problem. Therefore, you should make sure you can choose a product based on your skin type to get the result. And we’re gonna give you a tip on how to choose a primer.
First, you should know about your skin type. If you already know, you can move on to choose the product. For people with dry skin, you need a primer that can hydrate and moisten your skin. Usually, it has a gel or cream texture. Otherwise, if you have oily skin, you can choose a primer that can hold the oil and blur the pores on your skin, so silicone texture will be a great choice.
4. Even Your Skin Tone with Color Correction
Have discolored skin? Don’t be sad, because you can use color correction to even your skin tone. Sometimes, foundation and concealer can’t cover your skin well. Therefore, we recommend you wear it. But if you already have perfect skin, you can skip this step.
For you who feel confused about how to wear color correction, we will give you a tutorial. Green color to cover your acne and redness on your skin. Yellow or orange color, to hide your dark spots and dark circle. And last pink or purple color to highlight your skin. Don’t forget to blend it well to make it looks merges with your skin.
5. Full Coverage Complexion
For this kind of makeup, you need a full-coverage complexion to hide all of the sins on your skin. And you should make sure the foundation that you use doesn’t oxidize and feel light on your skin. Don’t forget to choose a product by adjusting to your skin type and skin tone to prevent a tacky look.
If you have oily skin, you should choose a foundation that has a matte finish because it will hold the oil on your skin and prevent your make you look greasy or melting. Furthermore, for those people who have dry skin, dewy finish foundation gonna be the best choice for you to avoid cracked makeup.
To apply the foundation, you can pour the product into your hands or mixing palette. After that, put on the product on your face with your fingers while blending it slowly. And for the finishing, you can use a sponge or foundation brush to even it.
6. Cover the Blemishes on Your Skin with Concealer
I know, dark spots and acne are really hard to cover. But you don’t have to feel hesitate, because there’s a product that is called concealer. The concealer has higher coverage than foundation, this is why almost makeup artists use it for covering blemishes.
You can use a cream concealer that has full coverage, so you don’t need to do layering to hide the blemishes that can cause your makeup to crack. Put the product only on the area that needs extra coverage and blend it slowly with a wet sponge or concealer brush to make your makeup flawless.
7. Set Your Base Makeup with Powder
Because you need long-lasting makeup that stays all day on your skin, you can use powder as the solution. The powder has three types there are loose powder, two-way cake powder, and powder foundation.
First, you can use loose powder to set the area that already you put on the concealer, and easy to get oily or crack. And if you have oily skin, you should do the baking technique to hold the oil on your skin. Furthermore, if you still need coverage or want to make it more flawless, you can use powder foundation and apply it with a large powder brush.
8. Give a Dimension to Your Face Use Contour
You don’t want your face to look flat, right? Because it will make you look weird in the photos. So, you can use contour for bringing back your face dimension. Contour has two types of product which are cream and powder. Therefore, you should adjust it with your skin type.
Contour powder can be used for you who have oily and acne skin to prevent moving the concealer or greasy skin. Meanwhile, a cream contour is created for those people who have dry skin to avoid makeup cracks. Apply contour under your cheekbone, jawline, hairline, and nose using a contour brush. Make sure you blend everything well to make it look natural.
9. Blush is the Key to Make Your Face Look Fresh
I’m sure most of you have known that blush can make your face look fresh. You can choose a blush that has coral or peach color to support your looks. Furthermore, same like contour, blush also has two types there are cream and powder that you can adjust with your skin type.
Apply less blush on the apple of your cheek with a blush brush. Even if we want to make your face look fresh, doesn’t mean you can use a lot of blush. Instead of making your face look fresh, it just gives a tacky or clown look.
10. On Fleek but Neat Eyebrows Look
For this special moment, you need on fleek brows but still, look natural. I know you will be confused because on fleek brows are popular with bold vibes. You don’t have to worry, because we will share with you how to achieve this kind of brows.
First, you need to brush your brows with a spoolie brush. Then continue to use brow mascara to set your hair brows. After you see the blank space, you can start to fill in using a pomade brow. Furthermore, make your brows look sharper and neat with concealer.
11. Nude and Brown Color Eyeshadow
The purpose of this makeup is soft and fresh. So, our choice falls into a nude and brown color that will give the look that you want. And you should be careful with this step because it’s so tricky. Then, here’s the tutorial.
Apply light nude color all over your eyes. Then, continue with a darker nude shadow to your crease to make your eyes look bigger. After that, use a brown shadow on the outer corner that can make your eyes look deep. Furthermore, use a shimmer shadow on the inner corner to make your eyes look awake and fresh. Do the same thing to the lower eyes!
12. Use Eyeliner to Make Your Eyes Sharp
Now, we turn to the eyeliner part. This is the most important step to make your eyes look sharp. And, we suggest you choose black color eyeliner with a small end tip to make it easy to draw the eyeliner.
Draw a thin but neat liner to your eyes from the inner corner to the outer corner. At the end of the eyes, you can add a small cat wing eyeliner to make your eyes look sharp. And last, use a white or nude eyeliner for the waterline to make your eyes look bigger.
13. Complete the Eye Makeup Wearing False Lashes
Complete your eye makeup wearing false lashes. It will make your makeup look turn to another level that will give a gorgeous look. Believe me, you will not be disappointed to use it. But you still need to choose natural shape false lashes.
Before putting on the false lashes, you should curl and apply mascara first. Curl your lashes with an eyelash curler carefully until you get the curl that you want. Then, continue to use mascara on the upper and lower lash. Furthermore, you can apply the false lashes and make sure it tight enough.
14. Get the Fake Glow Use a Highlighter
Your skin will lose the glow after using powder. So, you can bring it back with a highlighter. Besides that, it can give a dimension to your face. To make it look natural, you can choose the color of highlighter based on your skin tone.
If you have light skin, you can choose a champagne color highlighter. Choose a gold highlighter if you have dark skin. And last rose gold highlighter for you who have pink undertone skin. You can apply a highlighter on the highest point of your face like the cheekbone, brow bone, nose, and chin.
15. Nude Color Lipstick to Make it Soft
Soft makeup is never gonna far away from the nude color. So, I think you already know what color lipstick you should wear. But if you feel nude lipstick is too pale on your skin, you can do an ombre lip to give more color.
All you have to do is conceal your lips first with concealer to lose the dark line. And you can start to use nude lipstick all over your lips. If you feel enough with this step, you may skip it. Meanwhile, for you who want to do ombre lips, you can choose a pink or orange color to keep the soft look. Don’t forget to blend it well until it looks like the gradation.
16. Finish Your Makeup Using Setting Spray
Finish your makeup using a setting spray. This is the key and the most important step to making your makeup long-lasting without cracking or melting. But you need to choose the right type of setting spray to get the maximal result.
For those people with oily skin, matte finish setting spray will be a great choice to hold the oil on your face. Otherwise, if you have dry skin, you need to use a dewy finish setting spray to keep your skin hydrated and moist.
That’s it about the tutorial! What do you think? Isn’t it easy to achieve? So you don’t have to spend your money on the makeup artist anymore! By doing your own makeup, you can adjust the look that you want and save more money. I hope you can enjoy and like this tutorial about soft and fresh wedding makeup ideas or how to do your own makeup for the wedding.