I was in 6 weddings this year. My last one was this past weekend and I'm happy that now I can focus on my own wedding.
Let me tell you lovely ladies what happened in 5 out of 6 of these weddings.
My makeup was awful in 4 of them....and one makeup artist didn't even bother to show up in one of them. We only had one artist that was actually any good.
One of my friends (that I absolutely love) is a bit of a cheap skate. She had the money to hire good vendors but she went the cheap route on just abut everything and her wedding was the most disorganized out of the 6 I was in. If it wasn't one thing it was another.
Not sure if it had to do with the inexperience of the wedding vendor (her videographer was arrested the day or two before and showed up late to her wedding) and her wedding planner didn't do anything but sit around and act like she was one of the wedding party members. She was only a day of planner but she charged $300 for day of but she was more of a liability than a help.
For her makeup, she hired some artist because she was only charging $40 a person or something like that. Guess what? She didn't show up at all.
We all ended up doing our own makeup and in a rush. It was a complete nightmare. My friend ended up doing her own because she refused to pay for makeup at the last minute from a makeup artist who charged significantly more and who could have been there at a moment's noticed. I love her but she is not very good with her own makeup (she fully admits it) I will be curious how it shows up in photos. Praying it will be ok.
The one wedding where we actually had great makeup was a pro artist that has been in the wedding industry for a long time. (I think I paid like $125 for our makeup but it was perfect and the day ran smoothly)
She told us that a lot of people are throwing up websites and calling themselves makeup artists and taking brides for a ride just to get things like cell phone bills paid. I was floored. She said that the industry is being taken over with Instagram artists and 17 year old high school students that have no idea how to work with brides.
She informed me that she gets a lot of business from last minute brides who were either stood up or cancelled on at the last minute.
How has the process of finding a makeup artist been for you? How do you tell who will be good and who won't when looking at their websites and work?