Makeup Trial

It sounded silly to have a makeup trial with a local makeup artist since I will hire the artist in Dubrovnik on my wedding day.  I have been worrying about that the Croatian makeup artists might lack experience with Asian faces, and have been trying to figure out a solution.  After a bit of research, the suggestion is to bring pictures of yourself with the makeup on that you really like or a picture from a magazine.  So I came up with the idea, to get a local Asian makeup artist to do my make up, take pictures, and bring those pictures to Dubrovnik to show the makeup artist there.  Since we were doing our engagement photo,  I can just wear the same makeup for the photo session.  I convinced myself it's worthwhile (kill two birds with one stone) to spend money for a makeup trial.

The makeup trial also included a hair trial.  I was really lost with the hundreds and thousands of hair styles I found online.  After talking with a few friends, I decided to do a loose curly updo.  At the trial session, the makeup artist convinced everyone (my maid of honour and Bear) that I looked better with a bit of hair down, because I have a big head (according to Bear very squared head too) and chubby face.  So she ended up doing a halfup-halfdown for me.  She said it's very important that I respect my features :P.  And if you look at the third picture, you will see she set my hair a bit high on the top of my head.  That's a very common way to create an illusion of a longer skinnier face.

As for make up, she tried 2 different colours of eye shadow for me.  One is the earth tone (brown) and the other is purple (to match my theme colour).  We decided that purple looked better.  And of course, we can't forget false eye-lashes  which I think is probably the most important item for Asian makeup.  Since I have very obvious double eye lid (it's a crease on the eye lid that a lot of Asian don't have) already, she decided to leave out the taping eye lid technique.  Hahaha, you must be thinking what the hell is eyelid taping??  basically it's using adhesive or a small piece of tape to create a crease on the eye lid, here is a example.  I did that for a bit when I was in university.  Because the lack of sleep, sometimes my eyes were puffy, and the creases on two eyes wouldn't look identical, then I would use the technique to fix them.  Anyway, it is doubtful that an Croatia makeup artist knows this technique, but I am lucky that most of time I don't need it. 

The makeup didn't seem to be heavy enough, the foundation didn't have much coverage.  The eyeshadow was quite light that on the our engagement photos it's hard to see I have eyeshadow on.  Most of the work she did on the eyes were very similar to the ones that I used to do on myself anyway, but I am very out of practice now (since I don't climb rocks with false eye lashes or snowboard with eye shadow on).  The end conclusion both Conny and I drew was that my features are not very typical Asian, so I don't need to worry as much.  I will have a makeup and hair trial on Sept 19th before the wedding.  I think I will only show the hair pictures to him.  I will not show the makeup picture and encourage him to do what he thinks would look good on me.  And if it ends up he has really bad taste I still have the pictures to guide him.