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Top 9 Wedding Day Makeup Must Haves

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Image via Jen Kroll Photography

With the large assortment of products available in the beauty market, we wanted to create a list of only the best makeup items that will help you create your bridal makeup look. (If you are in need of a tutorial, try here and here). The following products will enhance your natural beauty, not change your look entirely. After all, on your wedding day, you want to look like your beautiful self! These products are tried and tested and truly fantastic additions to your makeup bag that you’ll use long after your wedding weekend (they’re that good!).

  1. Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation – Acclaimed make up artists, celebrities and media sources have referred to this foundation as “quite simply the best there is.” It is light weight, provides great coverage and a luminous finish. What more can you ask for on your wedding day?!
  2. Hourglass Ambient Lighting Palette – these powders are game changers. seriously. (They were voted into Vogue Beauty’s Hall of Fame after all!) Hourglass has revolutionized the powder game with these high tech formulas designed to mimic universally flattering light sources. This palette has a neutral peach shade to blur imperfections, an opalescent highlighter shade and a golden bronze shade perfect for summer occasions.
  3. Guerlain Four Seasons Bronzer – there is a reason Guerlain is the go to brand for Bronzers -the formulas are amazing and will give you a radiant sun kissed glow!
  4. Becca Luminous Flush Blush in Camellia  – Kiss the cheeks with color and luminosity. All of the shades are gorgeous but Camellia is the perfect soft pink for brides.
  5. Laura Mercier Translucent Setting Powder – on special occasions, we always look for products that will keep us looking our best all night long. This sheer, silky powder works on all skin tones and blends effortlessly to create a modern, matte finish.
  6. Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray – spritz this on to set your makeup and give it serious staying power through out your wedding day!
  7. Lancome Grandiose Mascara – the unique swan neck applicator gives lift, length and volume. Plus it is smudge proof – a must for happy tears while exchanging vows 🙂
  8. Marc Jacobs  (P)outliner Lip Liner in Honey Bun – we adore this lipliner formula! The rosy nude shade matches so many lip colors and will ensure your lipstick stays on while sipping champagne during toasts and taking your first bite of wedding cake.
  9. Chanel Rouge Coco Lipstick in Adrienne – You can’t go wrong with a gorgeous nude lipstick on your wedding day!  This formula is made with Jojoba and Mimosa Butters, Sunflower Wax and silicone. The finish is luminous and the formula is hydrating…plus the color is the perfect “your lips but better” shade!