Your wedding day is a celebration of love, joy, and the beginning of a beautiful journey. Amidst all the planning and excitement, choosing the perfect wedding make-up products is a crucial part of preparing for your special day. From radiant skin to the perfect wedding day foundation, and a flawless, long-lasting make-up look, finding the right products can enhance your natural beauty and make you feel stunning from the inside out.
Whether you’re aiming for a look that’s ‘you, only better’, or ‘full glam’, the task of selecting beauty products for your wedding day is exciting and important, especially if you want to ensure your make-up lasts for the whole day and night – and the products are suitable for your skin.
So here they are, 10 wedding make-up products that are universally celebrated as some of the best to use on your wedding day.
1. Best Wedding Day Beauty Products
Believe it or not, but for many, their wedding day is often the first time some brides will have ever worn eyelashes – so it’s all about enhancing your look, rather than changing it. This is why Eylure is such a popular option for brides on their wedding day. With the reputation of creating the first ever false lashes for movie stars, the team at Eylure have perfected the art of the perfect lash length – and work hard to design and perfect each of their false eyelashes.
Which lashes are best for your wedding day?
The no-trim ¾ Length No.002, ¾ Length No.008 or the Light & Wispy No.117 are said to be the best lashes for your wedding day, as these styles use an all natural fiber and imitate your natural lashes so give a natural, wispy look.
Make-up artists will also sometimes just add a few clusters for a really blended natural look, and in this case, the Eylure Cluster Trios are perfect!
In terms of longevity, Eylure have it in the bag. Created in London in 1947 by two make-up artists working in the film industry, the team have perfected the glue and application technique, meaning that from make-up artists to first-timers, everyone can apply Eylure eyelashes with ease.
2. Best Wedding Day Beauty Products
Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation, $105
This Giorgio Armani foundation is a cult classic and for good reason. It’s weightless on the skin, but gives you a flawless glow. Created by renowned makeup artist Pat McGrath, the formula has remained unchanged since its launch over 15 years ago – because you don’t mess with a good thing! Luminous Silk is a liquid foundation that contains Giorgio Armani’s Micro-fil technology which seamlessly applies and blends to skin.
It offers light to medium coverage which is buildable and works for all skin types and there are 40 shades available, so you’ll find your match. This is a go-to for many makeup artists and will give you that radiant, silky glow you want on your big day.
3. Best Wedding Day Beauty Products
JAMES Cosmetics 24K Gold & Collagen Crystal Eye Mask, $35.00
Is there any greater moment to feel pampered and relaxed than in the lead-up to and day of your wedding? The JAMES Cosmetics 24K Gold & Collagen Crystal Eye Mask features a luxurious combination of 24k Gold, Hyaluronic Acid, Vitamin A and Grape Seed Oil, which will leave your under eye hydrated and glowing and all the better prepped for your wedding day make-up look.
What makes them work so well?
– 24k Gold will work to create a youthful glow, and will assist in smoothing out wrinkles.
– Hyaluronic Acid will assist in reducing wrinkles, and help to plump dull, dehydrated skin.
– Grape Seed Extract is highly nourishing and contains potent antioxidants which will help to reduce environmental damage on the skin.
– Vitamin A will speed up the skin’s natural healing process while leaving a radiant glow.
4. Best Wedding Day Beauty Products
Tatcha The Liquid Silk Canvas 30g, $86.00
The thing that makes Tatcha The Liquid Silk Canvas different to other primers is the fact that it delivers a modern evolution of the time honored practice of Geisha’s applying thin layers of melted Japanese wax to their skin prior to applying makeup. This incredible primer blurs imperfections, is anti-ageing, primes for longevity of makeup and protects skin from pollution and makeup that can cause clogged pores.
5. Best Wedding Day Beauty Products
Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray, $54.00
If the goal is to keep your wedding day make-up in place, there’s nowhere you’d sooner turn than to the Queen of cosmetics, Charlotte Tilbury. The Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray allows you to lock down your favourite makeup look for up to 16 hours, thanks to the oil-free, lightweight formula. The spray creates a weightless veil of hydration over the skin for a flawless and smoothing effect. It can be used over foundation, concealer, bronzer and powder without any creasing, melting or fading – making it as perfect for a local wedding, as it would be for a balmy destination wedding.
6. Best Wedding Day Beauty Products
Habitual Beauty Rejuvenating Facial Oil, $120.00
We all know that an amazing complexion begins with a flawless base. Habitual Beauty Rejuvenating Facial Oil is the perfect product for both morning and evening thanks to the concentrated formulation of nourishing natural oils that helps to improve the appearance of fine lines, pigmentation and improve your skin’s natural barrier function. This nourishing facial oil has non comedogenic ingredients that focus on balancing sebum production for blemish prone skin while enhancing your skin’s overall health and radiance. No pimples, no slick, no wedding day worries! Just healthy, glowing skin that acts as a superb base for your make-up.
7. Best Wedding Day Beauty Products
Rare Beauty Kind Words Matte Lipstick, $39.00
Selena Gomez has become known for outstanding and long lasting beauty products with the uber successful global launch of her brand, Rare Beauty. While her blushes are some of the most talked about, her lipsticks are also renowned for being some of the most comfortable matte lipsticks out there.
The innovative flexible formula moves with your lips for cushiony, pigment-rich color that lasts all day while keeping lips soft, nourished, and moisturised.
8. Best Wedding Day Beauty Products
Isle of Paradise Self-Tanning Drops, $46.00
Keep the sun-kissed holiday glow going all year round with these hall of famer tanning drops from Isle of Paradise. Simply add them into your regular moisturiser to experience a buildable depth of glow. Delivering 12 shades of radiant tan, you control how deep the colour is dependent on how many drops you add to your moisturiser. Ideal for sensitive skin, these tan drops have been designed with non-sensitising, hypoallergenic ingredients and actives at the ideal pH level for skin.
The Light shade contains Oxy-Glow™ complex for a brighter complexion, the Medium shade is formulated with Super Balance™ complex to calm the skin and reduce redness, and the Dark shade contains Hyper Violet™ complex to reduce orange tones and sallowness in the skin.
9. Best Wedding Day Beauty Products
McoBeauty XTENDLASH Tubing Mascara, $28.00
There’s a reason this tubular mascara has won award, after award, after award!
MCoBeauty’s XTENDLASH Tubing Mascara is their best-selling tubing mascara, with the ability to maximise length, curl and volume without flaking or smudging. The formula creates water-resistant ‘tubes’ around each and every lash for maximum length, definition and hold. Once applied, the lightweight glossy formulation binds to lashes and will not run, smudge, clump or flake, which is perfect for your big day.
10. Best Wedding Day Beauty Products
Anastasia BROW FREEZE® – 8G, $48.00
There’s a reason this is the most iconic brow product out! The Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Freeze® features the strongest brow hold you can get! This customisable brow styling wax lifts, tames and sculpts every hair in place for the feathered-looking, laminated-style brows you’ve always wanted. The universal, easy-to-apply formula is mess-free and provides long-lasting, extreme-hold – leaving you with full-bodied brows that last all day – which is exactly what you want on your big day!
Written by Olivia Mackinnon
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