I've been meaning to ask about this for a while, and doctabroccoli's thread just made me think about it, so here goes.
I'm one of those people who really doesn't know what makeup is all about, or how I should buy it, or how to put it on well, or any of that. I wear it maybe two or three times a year, and only for really special occasions. The last time I bought makeup was a few years ago when I had a girlfriend who knew what to buy and would pick it all out for me, but I'm not friends with that girl anymore, and I don't really have a replacement makeup friend.
Where do I even start? I get nervous when I go into stores like Sephora because I feel like an imposter. Should I be planning on having a stylist do my wedding makeup? Or will I just look like a clown? What if I like my natural look, and so does Charlie, and I want to look like myself for the wedding? Will a makeup lady respect that? Or if I go into Sephora with so little knowledge and ask for help, will I walk out with a million expensive things that I have no idea how to use?
This is what I look like normally:

And this is the most dramatic makeup job I ever did:

Tell me what to put on my face!!

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