So in May I booked an on-site MUA for my wedding. She's the daughter of an old family friend of my parents and has been a professional MUA for 10+ years. When I booked her, she asked if I was going to be doing pictures before the ceremony, which I hadn't planned on (not with each other at least), so she guestimated my 'ready' time at 2:30 and said we could finalize details once it got closer.
Well we did our timeline with our photographer both ways (seeing each other before and not) and for both timelines, I need to be ready for pictures at 1. So I emailed my MUA last night to let her know what our final schedule is and....we have a problem. She booked another wedding for that morning under the assumption that I didn't need to be ready until 2:30, so she won't even be able to get on-site to me until about 1:30 - 1:45.
So long story short, it didn't work out, I had to cancel my MUA and she is giving me a refund of my deposit (obviously). I'm relatively okay with it because I had questioned whether it was a good idea or not for me to spend that much on make-up anyways, so I figure I'll just do it myself.
Now I have 10 days to go buy make-up and try a couple trials. Where do you guys think is the best place for good make-up? MAC? Sephora? Ulta? Random department store? There is an Ulta right by my work (I get my hair done in their salon) and then a Sephora store and a MAC counter (inside Nordstroms) at my local mall, so I might be able to mix and match if some products are better than others.... I normally use plain drugstore makeup, so I'm not too familiar with professional level brands.
