It doesn’t matter if you’re a bride-to-be, getting your eyebrows ‘on fleek ‘is an absolute fashion requirement for any female. But if you are a bride-to-be, perfect eyebrows become a law you have to abide by if you want to avoid whispers and comments about your makeup look behind your back.

But perfecting eyebrow makeup is never easy. No matter how skilled you are, there are days when your eyebrows will lose symmetry, look unrelated or just plain tacky.
While there is no easy way out of eyebrow makeup, there are a few tips you can use to help you out through the process.

#1: Get the Right Tools

You cannot attempt to do your brows if you don’t have the right tools and product. Purchase a spool brush, tweezers/thread, an angled brush, eyebrow gel, the right shade of eyebrow powder. If you have even one of these missing, it could potentiate a fashion disaster.

#2: Shape the Brows Before Anything Else

It’s pretty rare to have naturally flawless shaped eyebrows. In fact, it’s almost impossible. You’ll have to do some threading or tweezing to shape your eyebrows the way you want it. Stray hairs on your brow bone should be the first to go.

Trends in eyebrow fashion are constantly changing. There was a time you could get away and actually be considered attractive with almost thin to no eyebrows. Now, however, more natural think eyebrows are the norm. And no, we don’t mean the extra thick ones; staying a moderate size will be your best pick of shape.

#3: Don’t Forget to Brush Them

Before applying your eyebrow gel or filling your brows in, always brush the hairs of your brow in an upward direction using your spoolie brush. If you forget to brush, you could have perfectly filled in brows but still look floppy.

#4: Fill in the Right Way

Small strokes are the way to go with eyebrow makeup. Fill in with a lighter shade near the nose end of your eyebrows and build the shade and product up as you reach the other end. Of course, this takes a lot of practice and experimenting with what shade looks best on your brow. That’s why you need to be an expert before you attempt to do your own wedding makeup look.

#5: …But What if I’m Not An Expert?
If you’re not well versed in the art of eyebrow makeup, choose the safer road and hire a professional makeup artist to do your eyebrows. It might be less economical but at least you’ll get your eyebrows on fleek look!

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Stress can take a toll on us on the worst of times. It could welcome us as an unsightly pimple on the smack center of our cheeks or dull hair that’s been falling off a little too much lately. The stress of your own wedding can do that to you but the only problem is, you can’t let stress win and ruin your bridal glow.

If you have a case of dry, dull hair for a long time or if the stress of your big day made your hair just not the way it used to be then there’s good news. With a few DIY tricks that don’t require spending a couple hundreds of dollars at the salon or on expensive hair care products, you can get your hair to shine overnight.

Coconut, Olive and Almond Oil Mask

These nutritious essential oil masks are your ticket to healthy, shiny hair overnight. Coconut oil is by far the most popular oil that is considered to make your hair shine and big names like Kylie Jenner have sworn by it as well. The ingredients of these oils strengthen hair shaft and roots and give a deep nourishing cleanse.

Other oils that are commonly used and could be used in a combination for an overnight hair mask include olive oil and almond oil. These essential oils moisturize and keep your hair from drying to give it a natural healthy glow.

To apply these hair masks, massage the oils deeply into your scalp. The massaging action will promote blood circulation that is also beneficial for the health of your hair. Leave the mask overnight (careful not to ruin your pillow covers!) and take it off the next morning.

Food-friendly Hair Masks

The ingredients in your kitchen don’t only provide benefits as foods but some of them can be directly applied as a mask on your hair to make them shine quickly and inexpensively. Aloe Vera, egg yolk, avocado and yogurt are popular choices.

Change Your Shampoos and Conditioners

Shampoos that contain sodium-lauryl sulfate may do more harm than good to you. Especially on your wedding day, you’d want to use a sulfate-free shampoo to minimize hair fall and dryness. Don’t forget to condition your hair as well. Conditioning is a sure-short way to quick, shiny hair.

Making your hair shine is a long, chronic process but if you’re in an emergency situation, these DIY tricks will definitely help save your wedding day look!

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Your wedding makeup could be perfect and your hairstyle could be flawless but the wait before finally making an appearance on the wedding aisle could just ruin that perfection. Just like before any other event, there are some final makeup touch-ups you need to do before showing yourself off to the public eye. When you’re a bride, the pressure is ten times more because you’ll be the center of attention of everyone as you walk down the aisle. An oily look, sweat or a spot of lipstick on your teeth are major wedding disasters.

To avoid the embarrassment and keep your makeup game A1, here are a few things you need to double check and do before you loop your arm around your parent and walk down the aisle toward your significant other.

#1: Kill that Oily Look with Some Translucent Powder

If the weather outside is hot or if the stress of the event is making you sweat a lot, then there’s a chance you’re ruining your foundation and face makeup. Before walking down the aisle, get rid of the excess oil and shine from your face by blotting with translucent powder. Oil and sweat tends to collect first above your cupid’s bow, on the bridge of your nose and the center of your forehead so make sure to blot all of the oil away from those places.

#2: Double Check on those Non-water Resistant Products

If by chance you’re wearing non-waterproof mascara or eyeliner, you’ll have to double check it if it isn’t running or creating a dark mess around your eyes. It’s natural to get teary on your big day but tears can create a fashion disaster for non-waterproof makeup products especially the mascara. If you’ve managed to smudge something, use a cotton swab and coconut oil or lotion to carefully remove it without ruining the rest of your makeup.

#3: Lipstick All Okay?

Your lipstick needs to be on point for your bridal makeup look because not only do they bring all the right colors to your face but you need them for your romantic wedding kiss as well. Make sure the lipstick is all within the lines and properly filled. If you happened to have a comfort snack before hitting the aisle, you could have smeared the lipstick or gotten it over your teeth.

#4: Feel Confident, Look Confident

Finally, the last thing you need to add to your face before walking down your wedding aisle is a confident, warm smile. With the right posture and your warmest smile, your wedding makeup will be elevated to an entirely new level.

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Tutorials for properly contouring and highlighting your face are everywhere – blogs, YouTube and Facebook/Instagram videos. But perfecting your contouring and highlighting is a lot more difficult than it seems online. With some overdoing it and rocking it on Instagram, others completely forget where to put it or blend it.

On your wedding day, you can’t afford those mistakes. That’s why contouring and highlighting your look becomes essential for any bride. Instead of floppily applying your contour powder or adding a little too much unnatural sparkle to your face with your highlighter, here are a few things you need to look out for to perfect that wedding makeup look:

Choose the Right Contour Shade

Contour shades are tricky. Get too much of a dark shade, and you’ll look completely unnatural; get a light one and no one will notice you’ve shaped your face with contouring. As a bride, you don’t want to go down either one of those two roads.

If you have a lighter/pale complexion, go easy on the contour shade and apply little product because there’s a high probability you might just overdo it. If you’re naturally dark, then applying more amount of product is a good idea and applying the contour after your foundation is set will also make the contour shade pop.

For any complexion, choose a contour shade that is two times darker than your actual skin complexion.

How NOT to Get Too Sparkly with Your Highlighter

Brides are all about elegance and a touch of natural beauty. If you add too much highlighter on top of your cheek, you might just end up looking more like an Instagram model than a bride.
The proper way to highlight is to apply your highlighter is broad daylight and ask a friend to check if the highlighter isn’t too blinding. Always start with low amounts of product then build your way up until you reach the desired look.

Another important tip to perfecting your contour and highlight look includes never substituting bronzer powder for your contour. Bronzers are orangey and give you a tan look that you cannot apply all across your face like you would with a contour powder.

Finally, you might want to hire a professional MUA to do your wedding makeup look to avoid any makeup disasters. After all, professionals know their stuff!

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Acne has a way of emerging when we absolutely cannot afford to have it emerge. Stress acne breakout is a common yet emergency skincare problem that needs to be looked at promptly. If you happen to be a bride-to-be and the stress acne has affected you as well, you can still fight back and keep it for ruining the most memorable day of your life.

Here are a few quick tips that will help reduce or even completely eradicate those nasty pimples:

Exfoliate and cleanse your skin

Exfoliation and cleansing is considered as a precautionary measure to not get acne in the first place but just because you’ve already had the pimples, doesn’t mean you should stop. Exfoliating and cleansing will help remove the dirt in your pores and stop any other pimple to pop out. It will also help limit the growth of the existing acne.

Natural DIY exfoliating ingredients include a mixture of extra virgin olive oil with sea salt or sugar (for sensitive skin).

Try face masks the night before

Face masks are excellent to reduce and limit acne propagation and applying a nourishing mask a day before your wedding will make your skin glow and reduce the redness of any acne present. Clay masks are popular choices to treat acne problems quickly but if you don’t have a commercial mask on hand, you can make a classic natural face mask combining honey with lemon or yogurt.

Use essential oils

Essential oils like tea tree oil, coconut, olive and almond oil are all great options to reduce the size of your pimples and make them almost non-existing overnight. In general, tea tree oils and olive oil works best to get rid of the redness of acne. Other nourishing ingredients that you can safely put on your face include Aloe Vera gel and egg whites.

Use green tea

Green tea is full of antioxidants and acne fighting properties; however, drinking green tea and obtaining flawless skin is a long-term process. To get rid of acne quickly, you can use the tea bags of your favorite green tea. Make your green tea as you normally would and take the tea bag out once it is soaked in boiling hot water. After it has cooled down, you can use it for acne spot reduction by gently applying it on the pimples.

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You’ve kissed him before trust us when we tell you that the wedding kiss will be something entirely different and special. Along with perfecting your wedding day look, coming up with the best wedding day vows and walking down the aisle elegantly, the wedding kiss is also a crucial part of the day. To make sure you have the most kissable lips for your husband on your big day, you need to get those bad boys ready for action.

Prepping your lips is like any skin care routine, only it is often neglected. Soft, baby lips can determine the quality of your wedding kiss so you need to make sure your lips are ready and prepared like any other part of you on your wedding. Here are the top three secrets to kissable wedding lips to blow your man away.

#1: Hydrate and Nourish Your Lips

Just like anything else, your lips need proper nutrition and love. Applying anti-oxidants topically on your lips can help them look plump and hydrated. The anti-oxidants help to hydrate and moisturize your lips so that they are ready for the iconic wedding kiss.

#2: Never Forget to Exfoliate!

Exfoliation isn’t limited to your face or your elbows and knees only. Exfoliating your lips with DIY scrubs or even a commercial facial scrub is important to get rid of chapped, dry lips. Scrubbing your lips in circular motion back and forth can help give your lips an ultimate exfoliating experience.

#3: Sunscreen on Your Lips

Yes, you heard us! Sunscreen doesn’t only protect the skin of your face but it can also help to prevent sun damage to your lips. It is recommended to put on an SPF 15 or more sunscreen on your lips.

Treating your lips the right way can ensure a fantasy wedding kiss on your big day. Along with the three important secrets mentioned above, another rule of thumb to get the perfect plump lips is to avoid licking them. We all have a bad habit of doing that but it can do damage to the lips and leave them chapped. Finally, you’d want to put on a few drops of coconut oil on your lips before going to bed the night before your wedding day. Coconut oil can help quickly hydrate your lips and make them ready for some wedding kiss action.

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Brides are undoubtedly the center of attention in a wedding. No matter how handsome the groom looks, it’s the bride that everyone has their eyes set on. All this attention means there are some things a bride absolutely cannot afford to have. A big red pimple, bags under the eyes or chapped lips are just to name a few. To avoid these wedding disasters, you need to start preparing your skin before the actual wedding day. The night before counts the most so make sure you perform the perfect bridal beauty routine ritual to stun the crowd the following day.

Use Mud Masks

Mud masks can help encourage blood circulation in your face. If your skin is tired looking and dull from all the wedding stress and preparation, a good mud mask treatment can help rejuvenate your skin and bring back the freshness to it. Alternatively, you could also use the 2017 trending charcoal masks to get rid of those stubborn blackheads and minimize the redness of any pimple or acne marks.

Moisturizing is Key

If you suffer from a naturally dry and flaky skin, chances are it’s going to get worse by the time your wedding day arrives. While you should make it a habit to moisturize your body regularly, moisturizing it before your wedding day is essential. Another solution to dry skin is exfoliation. Make a DIY scrub or purchase one from the store to effectively exfoliate your skin and leave it soft as a baby’s bottom.

Fight Those Puffy Eyes Fast

Baggy, puffy eyes are a bride’s nightmare. Since your eyes need to look on point on your wedding day, puffy eyes are not an option. For a quick remedy, use two cold metallic spoons under the bags of your eyes for a few minutes and see the bags disappear.

Treat Your Hair The Right Way

Finally, don’t forget to prep your hair for the big day either. You should use hair oil (coconut oil) the entire day and wash it off at night to smoothen your hair. Use conditioner to achieve that final shiny, fresh look to your hair.

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Every woman wants to look flawless on their wedding day. After all, it is the most important day of their lives. But preparing for the ultimate bridal beauty isn’t as easy as it seems and it needs time and patience. If you’re not someone who’s too keen of taking care of their skin and hands, then it’s high time you do because without proper pampering of your entire body from head to toe, you really can’t achieve that flawless bridal look.

Starting off with the hair, damaged hair and hair fall are common problems brides might face prior to their wedding. It could be because of stress or unhealthy eating habits. To keep your hair healthy and fresh, make sure you’re receiving an adequate supply of vitamins. Add zinc supplements in your diet to get that shine in your shine. Furthermore, you should scale back on washing your hair with chemical products like shampoos and conditioners every day. If you’re getting your hair highlighted, make sure to get them done at least a week before the big day to let the hair dye set in.

Your eyes might be victim to the stress of the wedding as well. Dark circles and baggy eyes are to name a few. Use eye creams and wear fresh cucumbers on your eyes to bed. Regulating a proper sleeping schedule can also help get rid of tired eyes.

Another common problem a bride-to-be faces is acne and a pimple outbreak. Keep your face clean and scrub it regularly. If the cause of acne is stress then use topical creams to treat the pimples. Using coconut oil on your face before going to bed hydrates and helps fight the redness and scarring of pimples as well. Coconut oil is also great to hydrate your lips. Keeping yours lips fresh and plump is essential to do before your wedding kiss.

To achieve a fit body for your wedding gown you need to do some strength training exercises before your wedding day. Of course, the magic can’t happen overnight so you need to make a routine at least three months prior.

Treating your legs and feet is important too. Many wedding gowns will show off the legs so you need to have them shaved and scrubbed properly. Your feet need an equal amount of attention. To get feet soft as a baby’s bottom, use foot creams daily before your wedding and get them massaged by a professional.

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If you’re getting married anytime soon you need to start preparing right now. And no, that doesn’t only include shopping for your wedding gown or picking out hair accessories or even hiring a wedding planner. Your hair needs to be ready as well.

Hair highlights and adding a splash of color to your normal hair is something all brides need to consider. While most people already have hair highlights, a lot of women prefer to keep their hair in one shade. Adding color to your hair not only increases the depth of your hairstyles but they also enhance the texture of your hair.

Keeping your hair color fresh before your wedding day can be hard though. Hair color tends to fade away after a few weeks to months and it doesn’t retain its freshness and color for long. So how can you keep the hair color and highlights looking gorgeous on the most important day of your life? Here are a few ways that can help you keep your hair color fresh before your big day.

Discuss Plans with Your Hair Colorist Months Before

Weddings don’t happen overnight and if your wedding is well thought out and not done in Vegas, you probably have a few months before getting hitched. Book an early appointment with your hair colorist just to discuss with her the timings and the right hair color that will suit your skin complexion and dress. Some hair highlights require multiple sessions so you should book them with your hair colorist accordingly. Don’t forget to ask her expert advice for what’s trending in the beauty industry right now.

Get Your Hair Color Done a Week Before

Hair color needs time to settle in and show properly on your hair. Getting your hair dye and highlights done at least a week or ten days prior to your wedding will help the true colors to show. If you wait too long, the colors might not stay fresh anymore.

Wash The Color After Two Days

Don’t use any shampoo product on your freshly dyed hair. Instead wait for at least two days before washing them with shampoo. Once they are washed, keep them well conditioned and smooth so they look at their best form on your wedding way.

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Wedding accessories are the cherry on the top of your hairstyle. In fact for some brides, hair accessories are not only an add-on but are necessary for a complete princess look. Hair accessories can come in all shapes and sizes; however, a tiara or a crown type of accessory is a popular pick. Comb clips and bands are also bought frequently by to-be brides to enhance their wedding look.

With so many choices available in the market now, choosing the best hair accessory is a mammoth task for any bride to be. If you go to your favorite store to buy a gorgeous hair accessory, chances are you’ll be attracted to a bunch of them and you won’t be able to decide on just one best one.

While you might find many hair accessories beautiful, there’s more to a hair accessory than just its appearance. There are other factors you need to consider before pinning your hair accessory of choice in your up-do.

Does it Complement the Wedding Gown?

Wedding gowns and dresses are intricately designed and most either have an exquisite embroidery pattern on them or they have a range of glittery jewels. The hair accessory you want to wear on your wedding day should complement the designs and patterns on your dress. If your dress has a floral embroidery pattern, you don’t want to wear a star themed tiara. Similarly, if your dress has white pearls in it, you want to look for a clip that enhances the depth of those pearls.

What Will Look Best on Your Hairstyle?

Wedding hairstyles are complex and unique. Before choosing your hair accessory, you need to choose the hairstyle you’re going to wear on your wedding day so that you can decide easily which accessory will stay in your preferred hairstyle.

What Type Should You Go For?

We all have different hair and different textures and, of course, different preferences. For some of us a small comb clip can hold our textured hair; for others, a couple dozens of bobby pins and clips won’t even do the trick. Moreover, some women prefer an all-around tiara or similar accessory while others may even go for a traditional Indian-style forehead accessory. Know what looks best on you before choosing your hair accessory.

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