Hair & Make Up Trial

To be honest - I was really nervous about this part of the wedding planning. I've never considered myself a super girly girl in the hair and make up realm. I have wash-n-wear curls that I hardly ever mess with and I wear the exact.same.makeup every.day. Although I'm girly in a lot of other ways and would never leave the house without my hair decent and at the very least - mascara on...I just don't do well when it comes to looking overly gorgeous - and I dont understand how people are.

The day started with a minor crisis because I lost a contact! oh, the horror. Actually - yes. I have been on my last pair of contacts for about 3 months now (I know, I know...) and they were killing me, so I'd been wearing my glasses (circa 2002 and so over them) for the last 4 weeks. Oh, and I'm totally blind without anything. So I seriously didn't want to be wearing my glasses the day of the trial so I purposely went to the eye doctor a few days before in order to get new contacts. While putting them in that Saturday morning, I had one on my finger and was excitedly telling DB about how they are blue tinted to you can easily find and see them. Then I said something that caused me to blow the contact off my finger. awesome. we couldn't find it by the time I had to rush to work - and off I went in my glasses. Luckily, I have an amazing man who continued searching for it and eventually found it hanging on for dear life to the door frame...go fig....crisis averted.

So I was a good hair trial bride and washed my hair the night before per Amy's suggestion and got my face all nice and clean after working a shift the morning of. Oh yeah - my hair. It's super naturally curly, right? And when you straighten it - it's not like normal straight hair. But Amy said it'd probably be best to work off of the straight hair - so I straightened it and hoped that it'd magically turn into beautiful cause usually it doesn't do much other than be straight when I blow it out.

Now - let me tell you about Amy of Makeup Ready, because I'm quite proud of this find. I happened to see her featured on a local vendors blog (follow your local vendors! you find good finds!) and then worked out a deal with her for a complete barter. I get hair and makeup services on location plus a trial from Amy while Nick makes Amy a website. YAY - everyone wins! Nick's worked hard on putting together a website for her and I plugged in some marketing lingo and bam! She's so much fun and I kind of want her to be my bff - so naturally, we had a lot of fun at the trial.

She set up camp on my kitchen table and got to work.

First up - make-up.
I didn't really know what I wanted here other than fake eyelashes (mmm) and dramatic eyes. She did her thing, the make-up felt good on my face and it looked great too! yay! the only thing I'm changing for the day of is that the eyeliner be a bit thicker/dramatic. Other than that - easy peezy.

Next up - hair.
I was really afraid of what my hair would or wouldn't do and all I knew that I wanted was something relaxed looking and not prom-like, stiff hair and curls. OK. So we went with a low chignon (sp?)/bun-type thing. I also knew I wanted a bit of height on top because I didn't want it to look plastered back. And I had to have the safety blanket of my grown out bangs swept across my face. So we started with this...

While this wasn't horrible - it was a bit too manufactured prom curls for me. Girls with naturally curly hair are snobs about curls - trust me. :) Anyway, so I was all "yeah, this needs to be more relaxed and stuff back here - but the front's good!" So we went back to adjust the chignon/bun and ended up with something much too "bun-ish" and I was all "no, no...more piecy not just one solid bun." And we concluded, both very happily, on this...

Now, really - this was after two adjustments. But it's the look I'm going for. She said the day of - when it's done straight from the get go - the front going back into the chignon and the chignon itself will be more piecy. I LIKE PIECY. :) So yay - I'm happy.

More pics...

And later that night....

And thus ends the hair and makeup trial. It was fun and I was pleased with how my hair did. I'm excited to see it all together on the day of!