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Pretty Please is an on-site bridal hair and makeup team of two, based out of northeastern NC and the Outer Banks. Makeup artist Ava Livesay and hairstylist Casey Stowe live and breathe this business and are driven to bring your wedding hair and makeup visions to life! Our goal is for each individual to leave our beauty chairs feeling confident, excited, and full of love! We believe that bridal hair and makeup is a meaningful experience that you should enjoy and we are devoted to bringing a warm-hearted and creative presence to your special day no matter what that looks like for you! With hair and makeup trials on offer, you can also take the time to explore your ideas with Ava and Casey for the perfect wedding day look before your wedding as well. Pretty Please offers traditional and airbrush makeup services, updos, formal styles, clip-in extensions, and more.
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Ava and Casey of Pretty Please are highly praised for their exceptional hair and makeup services for weddings. Reviewers highlight their professionalism, responsiveness, and attention to detail, making the experience stress-free and enjoyable. The team is commended for accommodating requests, providing helpful recommendations, and ensuring that everyone feels comfortable and confident on the wedding day. Clients appreciate the flawless makeup, long-lasting results, and the ability of Ava and Casey to create stunning looks that align with the brides' visions. Their friendly demeanor and talent make them a highly recommended choice for any event requiring makeup and hair services.Review photos
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Ava and Casey are absolutely amazing! They made us feel like our most beautiful selves and we all had a blast with them during our getting ready process! I highly recommend booking them for your wedding, you will not regret it!
My experience with Ava was over the moon! I had a small and simple wedding, with a small wedding party of just myself and my maid of honor which was my sister. I have really bad anxiety so trying to hire someone to do my make up was monumental in my wedding process. Not only was Ava always responsive via email, but she made me feel at ease even before we met. She recommended doing the make up trial, which I followed through with. I don’t know if I had more fun at the make up trial or on my wedding day. Ava nourished my soul with compliments and encouragement. She showed me helpful tips on how to keep my make up looking flawless throughout my wedding day. She was one of the best parts of my wedding planning. You want a make up artist that is not only honest, but someone you can connect with as well. Ava is not only talented and creating the perfect look for your big day or any other events you are hiring her services for… But she has the biggest heart. I highly recommend her!!!
Ava of Pretty Please does truly remarkable work! From the moment we started planning, the team made everything so easy and stress-free. From being efficient with questions and following up, to making planning for a destination wedding a breeze! They were incredibly accommodating to our requests and helped us navigate through decisions with patience and understanding.
On the day of the wedding, Ava and Casey at Pretty Please went above and beyond to make sure everything was beautiful. They fit right in with my family and friends as if they were a part of it! The laughs were endless and the makeup and hair were perfect!
In conclusion, we highly recommend Pretty Please for anyone looking for a vendor that truly cares about creating a memorable and magical experience. Thank you Ava for making our day so perfect and unforgettable for my family! Couldn't have asked for anyone better!
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If you are looking for a MUA and a hair stylist in this area, I would stop your search here as we couldn’t have been happier with the service we received. Ava and Casey are knowledgeable and passionate about what they do, and their communication before and during the wedding was perfect. As an anxious bride, Ava was able to help me focus on relaxing and enjoying my day. I wanted to feel like myself especially because I don’t normally wear make up and I was able to with her help! Casey allowed the vision for my hair come to life and she was so sweet and supportive the whole time! It was so so nice having these ladies as a part of our day!! THANKS AVA AND CASEY!! ❤️
If you are looking for a MUA in this area, I would stop your search here as we couldn’t have been happier with the service we received. Ava is knowledgeable and passionate about what she does, and her communication before and during the wedding was perfect. As an anxious bride, she was able to help me focus on relaxing and enjoying my day. I wanted to feel like myself especially because I don’t normally wear make up and I was able to with her help! It was so so nice having her as a part of our day!! THANKS AVA ❤️
**⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Absolutely Amazing Experience!**
I had the pleasure of working with Ava for my wedding, and I couldn't be happier with the experience.
On my wedding day, Ava truly made me feel beautiful and confident. The makeup was flawless and held up perfectly throughout the entire night without smudging. I received endless compliments on my look!
Ava made my wedding morning special for my wedding party and I andI would highly recommend Ava to any bride looking for a top-notch makeup artist. Thank you for making my wedding day even more special!
They made sure it was everything I wanted and all my brides maids loved their hair and make up. You book through Ava and Casey can come along too which is so convenient! I jumped in the pool and my hair and make up held up so well! Highly recommend pretty please!
Ava is so friendly, responsive, and professional. She was happy to answer all of my questions and offered suggestions about my bridal look. Something came up with my original hair stylist and Ava made sure to find a solution and arranged someone else to do my hair for both the trial and day of. I live about 3 hours away from the venue and where Ava was located, but it was a breeze scheduling the trial. On the day of my wedding, Ava went above and beyond my expectations. All of my bridesmaids loved working with her and Ava made sure that everyone has comfortable and confident with their looks.
Ava and Casey were an absolute dream come true for makeup and hair services for my wedding! From the very beginning they stood out with their professional, friendly and prompt communication. Ava answered any and all questions I had thoroughly and quickly via email from my first inquiry, throughout the planning process, setting up my trial and confirming all day of details. I had questions about the hairstyle I wanted and Casey hopped on the phone with me to discuss various options including giving me advice on how to find the right hair extensions to achieve the look I wanted. When the day of my trial came, it truly felt like I was hanging out with two friends I had known for years - they made me feel so comfortable and we truly had so much fun getting to know each other and perfecting my wedding day look. Both listened very well to my vision, asked me all the right questions, and made great recommendations based on their expertise. I left the trial absolutely loving both my hair and makeup and feeling more confident than I could have hoped for. If possible, I highly recommend doing a trial because they had already earned my complete trust so it allowed me to feel so relaxed on the wedding day, able to just sit back and enjoy being pampered while they recreated my hair and makeup. The fact that we had already gotten to know each other also made the wedding day so fun because I was genuinely excited to see them both again and spend the day with them! They fit in so well with my friends and family, and everyone else was just as pleased with how their hair and makeup turned out as I was! They both have a true gift in being able to listen and understand what you want and then deliver the exact look you described! Ava managed all of the scheduling and kept everything on time or ahead of schedule day of, and she coordinated with my planner to make sure all the timelines fit. Ava and Casey are truly an incredible team, I cannot recommend them highly enough!!
Ava and Casey were absolutely amazing on my wedding day. It was hands down the best hair and make up experience all of my family members and I have ever had. Everyone looked stunning. Pretty Please was responsive and and professional in the planning process and an absolute dream to work with the day of the wedding. They are both so lovely and fun and it made the experience so relaxing and stress free. I would recommend Ava and Casey to anyone looking to feel like an absolute princess on their wedding day!
Casey and Ava were AMAZING! My wedding was in nags head at the village beach club: my husband and I are from Massachusetts so finding vendors from 10 hours away was tricky. I found pretty please and just had a good feeling! Ava took the time to chat on the phone with me for a hour or so and my gut just told me to book her! And I am so grateful I did. Casey and Ava made myself and the rest of my wedding party so comfortable and beautiful! They are both so kind, caring, loving and genuine! Ava took her time to make sure I lovedddd my makeup. Gave me the option to look while she was in the processes of my makeup (I didn’t need to because I knew she was going To make me look amazing)! I wasn’t 100% sure what I wanted to do with my hair and Casey just naturally knew exactly the perfect look! I wish I lived closer and could hang out with these fantastic women! Seriously, look no further and book these gorgeous ladies!
I cannot say enough amazing things about Pretty Please. Ava and Casey truly go out of their way to make the day absolutely magical! I did an oceanside elopement, and opted for the Luxe Bridal package, with HMU for my daughter who was my flower girl & maid of honor. Highly recommend getting the trial done, I was happy & content with everything I received, but after seeing some of Ava's work after, I wanted to make a few tweaks which she easily accommodated the day of, and it was absolute perfection. The Luxe package had me completely pampered, and I've never looked more gorgeous in my entire life. At the trial, after showing Casey some of the ideas I had and the extensions I bought, it was like she could immediately read my mind and even had brought the clip I was considering to wear. The day of, my gorgeous makeup and up-do withheld the wind and entire night, especially thanks to the oil blotter and touch up items Ava left for me. For my daughter, she is super picky about what she wants. They absolutely nailed her ideas and she looked stunning, she was thrilled! Ava was even kind enough to help my friend with her eyebrows before she left, and gave us all kinds of tips and tricks. We are so grateful that they were part of our day, I wouldn't have wanted it any other way. I truly can't recommend them enough!
Ava and Casey do an amazing job of making you feel beautiful on your wedding day! I waited till the last minute to book hair and makeup and I was very lucky these two had an opening. I highly recommend Pretty Please!
Casey and Ava are first and foremost extremely talented and made me and my party look amazing on a tight timeline. I also have to mention how incredibly kind, patient and sincere these ladies are. I was very nervous going into my trial, I am a very self conscious person and am by no means an expert on hair or makeup. As soon as I met them, all of my anxieties melted away. Casey and Ava made me feel so beautiful, so special and so excited for how I would look at my wedding. They were able to guide me and make suggestions that resulted in exactly what I envisioned but didn’t know how to communicate. On the day of the wedding, I was able to see that they also take specific directions incredibly well from my bridesmaids who already knew exactly what they wanted. Ava made sure that everyone (regardless of age/skin type/surprise breakout) looked absolutely flawless. Also, the makeup lasted all night, even after all of the dancing! Casey styled my hair in a beautiful messy loose (looking) bun that stayed in place and felt secure all night, again, even after all of the dancing! Casey was able to make everyone’s hair, regardless of texture or thickness, look impecable and stay that way in a relatively short amount of chair time. I cannot say enough about how special and confident these two made me feel on my wedding day, I would recommend them to anyone who asked and will continue to reach out to them for any hair or makeup needs.
Ava made the entire process easy. She did did my makeup this October and it couldn’t have turned out better! My makeup lasted all night. Additionally, Ava was very sweet and professional.
Ava was so amazing! She showed me what she was doing every step of the way and did EXACTLY what i wanted for my wedding day makeup. Hands down best MUA experience ive ever had. She even drove all the way down to Hatteras during a hurricane!
Ava was so great to work with and made me feel so comfortable. I got so many compliments on my makeup! Would recommend PrettyPlease to anyone
PrettyPleaseOBX did an amazing job on my makeup! I’ve never felt as beautiful as Ava made me feel! The makeup lasted so long and still looked as good as it did when she first did it! PrettyPleaseOBX is the best in the game for makeup!
Ava and Casey did amazing on my hair and makeup. I had a photo shoot scheduled for headshots, business cards, and website shoots. They were on time, followed directions, and very personable. I can not tell you how pleased I was with the out come of my makeup and hair. It was exactly what I wanted. I looked fabulous but still myself. I will definitely use them again and will recommend them highly! Thank you ladies for a job well done. I really enjoyed meeting you both!
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- Ava LivesayOwner and Makeup ArtistAva is a freelance makeup artist whose industry roots run deep; her grandmother, Donetta Livesay of the Waterfront Salon and Spa of Manteo, NC, inspired her dedication to making you feel beautiful from the inside out! Ava believes that makeup is a form of art and self expression. Whether you prefer a natural look that effortlessly enhances your features or a full beat with a sultry smokey eye, Ava brings a warm hearted and creative presence to your special day!
- Casey StoweCo- Owner and HairstylistCasey is Pretty Please's hairstylist and designer! She has been in the beauty industry for 18 years now and has a special love for the world of hair and making meaningful connections through it. She has experience with all hair types and styles and specializes in everything from braided boho styles, to sleek elegant styles. Casey always has a smile on her face and strives to make every person who sits in her chair feel confident, comfortable, and beautiful!
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