BRIDAL SIDE BUN FOR THINNING HAIR

Looking the best ever is all bride's dream of her wedding day. But sometimes the hair amount is a serious problem for a bride to be.

As makeup artist & hairstylist, to give her glamorous & elegant look, the most important thing is to create volume as much as possible.  I used back comb technic, and crimped iron for her side hair, then create soft curls and pin it up using normal bobi pin.

Total time needed to complete this hairstyle : 30min.
Hair length : Slightly a little longer than shoulder.
Without hair stuffing ; Nor hair extension.

Glamour Photoshoot Makeup

She is a pre-school teacher in Japan, came to the Lion City for a holiday. She was hitched in a photo shoot by Alex, one of the a winner of Harper's Bazaar fashion photography award.

Unfortunately, Ena not willing to give her "before" makeover photo. So Let us start with our own story.

To change her "normal girl next door" to look "Glamourous" instead of being "kawai" or cute in Japanese word, we've agreed on putting her into Contemporary Metal Winged smoky eyes.

The hair styling has an important role to change her over-all look. We don't want her to look "sweet" or "classic", or  "rigid-hair"... Instead, we want her to go with  the feeling of "elegant", evening, glamorous and very contemporary sophisticate.

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Soft Smokey Eyes for Bride's Sister Day Makeup

What is important in creating soft smoky eyes is the eye shadow depth color applied at the very nearest to the eye line, upper lid and on the water line at the lower lid, then create the smudge carefully not higher than the crease area.

Unfortunately for oriental eyes, the crease area sometimes isn't clear, as there are some eyes typical has bulging flesh eye lid. In this case, the highlight effect might be an issue. I will always stick to matte color to create consistent depth, especially dealing with day makeup where most of the time natural light is more into the exposure throughout the day.

My anonymous subject come with permanent eye lashes extension. It is not a problem at all but applying makeup on her eye lid has to be extra careful since her eyes are quite sensitive. She require me to create more visible, double eye-lid using scotch tape.

The foundation is : Estee Lauder Double Wear.
Eye Shadow : Urban Decay Naked 2 pallete & the Balm Meet Matte Nude
Lipstick : MAC Chatter Box A21
Lipbase: Revlon Balm Stained Stick ) ) 025 Sweetheart Valentine (for pro-long use)