Bridal Beauty Essentials

So many brides today choose to do their own make-up for their wedding day, but to give it a more professional look we asked bridal and celebrity make-up artist, Helen Kalli, for her top five bridal must have make up essentials:
1. Shu Uemra Stage Performer Instant Glow - It resets fatigued skin and delivers inner-glowing radiance for luminous, smooth, translucent skin in minutes. It's a wonderful product.
2. Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage - this concealer can cover anything without looking heavy, it's oil- free and can be mixed with eye crème to go under the eyes to hide any dark circles.
3.Becca's Shimmering Skin Perfector in Opal - this is a definite must have product for healthy radiant skin. If you have a healthy base to work with
4.Belmacz Lip Balm, becuase every bride needs luscious well-moisturised lips!
5. Eye Lash Curlers, it's not enough to just wear mascara, curling the lashes open up the eyes, and give the lashes the wow factor they deserve.
Helen has worked with a number of celebrities including Dannii Minogue, Paris Hilton, Kate Moss, Lily Cole, Claudia Schiffer, Jerry Hall, Emily Blunt (pictured) and more.

Unique wedding veils

There are various stories of the beginning of a bride’s veil. A number of people say that the veil was initiated in earliest Rome. People of that time thought that wicked spirits would be fascinated to the bride, so they covered up her face with a veil in order to cover her features and bewilder them. The meaning of veil is to “incomprehensible, pall, mask or cover, so perchance that is how the bridal “veil” got its name.

Well, eras have distorted the denotation of the custom of wearing a bridal veil! Now, tiring a bridal veil:

• indicates a unique occasion – A Wedding!
• indicates delight
• prominent the bride’s look and features
• is the finishing topmost touch! Bridal Gowns are changed with the accumulation of a veil.
  Wedding veils can be cut to form diverse forms that will produce the style of the veil. Here are some of the most general cuts/fashions.

Standard cut – is cut so that the bends are cut off. Image a four-sided figure; now refine the 2

base corners and that is standard cut. The borders of a standard cut veil establish by your face.

Angel/cascade cut – this is cut so that the regions start higher on the face of the veil”

cascading” down.

Circular cut – is in fact just a huge circle. It is by design a 2 tier veil as when it’s creased in half,

you get two coats. This can be collected at the fold and sewn to a comb. The borders of a

circular cut veil are down at the base – not up by your face.

Drop cut – this is one more veil that is just a big circle, only there aren’t any gathers and it’s fixed firmly to the hair with a cap pin (thru a pin twist) or a small comb. The borders of a drop cut veil are down at the bottom – not up by your face.

Oval cut – this is cut in the figure of an oval and is frequently a one layered veil. The comb is embroidered at one border of the veil (with or without groups). This is the outline of a mantilla veil.

Bubble cut – this is cut so that the edge of the veil (at the back of the comb” is additional “poofy”) which creates the bottom of the veil appears in towards the body a little extra.

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