I know the stress and the research that goes into selecting wedding vendors, so I wanted to share an objective review for all of you lovely local brides beginning this search! I am not a “hair and makeup person”, which is to say, I have never h...ad makeup done professionally and have rarely had hair styled. I am no expert! So take this with a grain of salt, I suppose. Here’s the good and the bad.
The Good: Anne was very friendly. She was patient with my M.O.H., who came late and ran her behind. She did a nice job with my sister-in-law, who was self-conscious about a pregnancy-induced break-out.
The Bad: We were blessed with so many great vendors who made our wedding experience a breeze! Sadly, this was not one of them. I saw a few similarly negative reviews below mine here, which I didn’t catch when I first hired her, so I would just really advise to read them all and weigh the pro’s and the con’s. A couple of my trials were cancelled, one just maybe an hour before, due to conflicts with her schedule. I also had to do two trials. I told her via email and when we met that I don’t wear makeup and wanted very subtle, natural-looking makeup. My makeup was so heavy that I teared up when I saw myself. I didn’t feel like me. I didn’t even want to look in the mirror. I came home and washed it off. On the day of the wedding, she said she would apply it little by little and would stop throughout the application to ask me if I wanted more makeup, or felt it was enough. She did not do this, and I was not in front of a mirror where I could see it. She showed me my makeup at the end. It felt very heavy for me, but I know that I could’ve asked for no makeup, so I take the blame. What really hurt us was what followed after my wedding day. I paid by card and was overcharged $100 on the day of the wedding, right before I was about to walk down the aisle, so of course, I did not catch it. We came home from our honeymoon to a catastrophic flood and money was tight. As I was looking at bank statements, I realized she overcharged me. I brought this to her attention, and she argued with me! So I quoted the contract, gave her a list of services she provided, did the math, and very politely explained that the math did not add up. She continued to argue with me. My husband and I were shocked. I was in tears. But she did eventually refund me the money. Buyers, beware!