Makeup Artist in Waukesha, WI

Book bridal if you are the one getting married, since it includes a preview appointment to settle the look in advance. Special occasion covers everything else you are getting dressed up for. Photography makeup is built for a camera and lighting rather than for the room, so pick it for headshots and shoots. Grooming makeup is the low-key option for men. And if what you actually want is to learn to do it yourself, that is a beauty makeover, not a makeup application.

Appointments happen here in the studio on Longview Dr, including wedding-day makeup. Most brides find that part of it useful, because it is an hour somewhere quiet before the day gets busy. Plan your timeline around coming to us and leaving with your makeup done, and talk to us early if your schedule makes that difficult so we can find the best slot rather than promising something we do not offer.

Yes. Airbrush foundation is mixed rather than picked off a shelf, which means the shade is built to you instead of being the nearest bottle in a range, and that is genuinely an advantage for deeper and olive tones that get poorly served by standard lines. If you have been matched too light or too ashy before, say so and bring the product that got it wrong. It tells us more than a description does.

Tell us at the start. We can keep product off the inner rim, skip lash glue entirely, and work with a lighter hand around the eye. Contacts are easier to put in before we start than after. If you have reacted to a specific brand or ingredient before, bring the name, because that is the fastest way for us to avoid it.

Brows yes, about a week ahead, since a clean shape is what makeup sits best on and the pinkness has gone by then. A facial also yes, but a week to ten days before, not the day before. Freshly exfoliated or extracted skin can be slightly reactive and does not hold makeup the way settled skin does. Booking a peel two days before an event is the most common timing mistake we see.

Keep it boring. Stay on what your skin already knows, keep it well moisturised, and do not start a new active or a strong retinol in the week before, because that is how you arrive flaking on the day. Drink water, get the sleep if you can, and come in with a clean face and no SPF layered on if you are being photographed, since some formulas flash back white in photos.