Melody Grace Hair and Makeup

months before I was able to get my trial done. I paid a 50% deposit to hold my wedding date for myself plus 8 other women in my family/ bridal party ($700). I got to the trial and she started by taking my hair down to “see what she was working with.” I informed her this was a makeup trial and she tried to cover her tracks by saying something along the lines of “she needed to see how my hair frames my face.” I’m wearing my hair up so that was irrelevant. She then “color matched” me on my face, which was very dark. Next, she realized she didn’t have any makeup wipes and had to sent her husband to Walmart. I had to wait 25 minutes with nothing getting accomplished for him to return with the wipes. When we finally started, she didn’t ask me for any inspiration pictures. I did tell her I wanted to look natural and my biggest concern was to cover my under eyes. She didn’t prep my skin at all and no attention was paid to my under eye circles. She also informed me she “doesn’t do eyebrows or eyeliner.” How one can consider themselves a makeup artist and not provide these basics is beyond me. This was not disclosed in the contract. The entire make up application took approximately 15 minutes. When I was turned around, I was mortified. My lips were extremely dark, and I had dark eyeshadow all the way up to my brow line. My bronzer was not blended to the point where I could see a clear line across my entire forehead and neck. I politely asked to be more blended and natural looking. I showed her an inspo pic and she told me the girl in the photo was “much paler than me” and that it wouldn’t look good. I’m Irish and very pale myself, so was very thrown off by that comment. Rather than starting fresh, she just layer more makeup over my lips and eyes. It truly looked bad, The lips were so sloppy. I decided to go in another direction and asked for a portion of my money back from my 50% deposit. She declined, which is understandable since I signed a contract, but given the circumstances and the level of unprofessionalism, I thought it was fair to ask. I’m now $800 in the hole and doing my own makeup. Learn my my mistakes and RUN, don’t walk away from this business!!!

ly AM start! I felt proper gorgeous the whole day.

arance. She then did my kiddos make up for it as well and quickly and easily found that fine line of the perfect amount of make up for a 3 and 6 year Olds to feel grown up but not too much :)

and not only did Kristina exceed all of our expectations for our looks, she was so much fun to have around, and she was so accommodating. Our wedding morning was total chaos and she took it all in stride and with a smile. She helped keep everyone relaxed and having fun and made us all feel gorgeous. If I could give her more stars I would!