My Best Wedding Makeup Tips

Should You Have a Professional Makeup Artist Do Your Makeup?

Your wedding day is the day you want to look your absolute best, and I wold definitely recommend having a professional bridal makeup and hairstylist do your makeup. Not only because they will make sure your makeup is long lasting and looks great in photos, but you will be pampered and not have to stress about doing your anything but sitting back and being taken care of. 

You Know That Friend Of Yours Who Really Knows Makeup? 

A lot of brides tell me that they will have their friend do their makeup. Well, unless your friend is a professional makeup artist I would suggest that tis is one day you don't want to have your friend do your makeup. First of all, a professional bridal makeup artist uses specific products to make sure your makeup lasts. Then, they know best how makeup colors will translate in photos. Then, they will most likely will work best under pressure and you can freely tell a them if there's something you don't like, rather then worrying about hurting a friends feelings. 

The Most Important Part of Your Makeup: Your Skin Tone

It doesn't matter how big your eyes are or how glossy your lips look, if your skin looks blotchy or oily, you won't look your best on your wedding day. Your first priority should be making sure your skin looks great, then move on to your eyes, cheeks and lips.

I highly recommend choosing a makeup artist who does airbrush makeup to make your skin look as flawless as possible. 

Pick Your Eyes or Your Mouth as your Focus

A basic rule of makeup is to either play up your eyes or your mouth. Play up both and you risk looking like a clown. So if you decide to go all-out on your eye makeup, keep your lips light with a gloss or a light pink lipstick. If you want to play up your full lips, do so with a bright or deep color, but keep your eyes relatively light.

This is the Day to Play up Your Eyes with Some False Lashes

Unless you're one of those people with such amazingly long eyelashes you are regularly asked if you use Latisse, you'll benefit from some false lashes. I am not a fan of the strips as much as I like the individual eyelashes for your wedding day. They look and feel way more comfortable and natural. 

Two Words: Waterproof Mascara

Whether or not you are an emotional gal, there's a chance you will tear up sometime during your wedding day. The last thing you want is black tears running down your cheeks! 

Prime, Prime, Prime

Just as you would prime a wall before you paint, you should prime your face before you apply anything powder-based. I swear by eyeshadow primers -- nothing, and I mean NOTHING works better to keep your shadow from melting into your eyelid crease. I use a primer every single time I wear eyeshadow. Also, make sure you use primer before your foundation foundation. Primer fills in pores and fine lines and you'll find your foundation glides on effortlessly.

Invest in a Highlighter Pen

One of the products I use religiously on brides is  Yves Saint Laurent Touche Eclat Concealer. Although it's called a concealer, it's really a highlighter. Trust me, nothing brightens the face more.

The Trick to Keeping Lipstick in Place

Who has time to apply lipstick or gloss every half hour when they have 200 guests to entertain?

On my brides, I always use a long lasting lipstick such as the MAC longwear color or Chanel Longwear. However, here are some tricks you can do to make sure your lipstick stays in place all day:

• The morning of the wedding, exfoliate lips by slathering them with Vaseline. Scrub them in a circular motion with an old toothbrush.
• When you apply makeup, fill in lips with a lip liner.
• Apply lipstick or gloss over this. The lip liner is key to keeping color locked in place.
• Keep your lip liner close at hand so you can refresh your lips a few times during the evening. Better yet, put one of your bridesmaids in charge of lipstick/gloss duty.

DO NOT Wax the Day Before Your Wedding

You may be able to cover up a red upper lip or brow with a thick concealer, but trust me the redness will wear through at some point. It's best to wax no less than 48 hours before a big event.

Oily Skin? Carry Blotting Sheets

To keep your oily skin at bay, definitely set your makeup with a loose powder before you walk down the aisle, but don't keep overpowdering skin as the day and night wear on. Instead, carry blotting papers. This way you don't have to keep powdering your face all night long. The blotting papers soak up the oils leaving your makeup in place.

Don't Go Overboard With the Fake Tan

If you like the tanned look, get a spray tan or at least use a self-tanner you know works. If you're new to fake tanning, be careful because the orange look on your wedding day is not cool. Also, self-tanners reek and you don't want to reek on your wedding day.

Exfoliate in the Weeks Up to the Wedding

To make sure your skin looks its best, exfoliate your face and neck once or twice a week a couple months before the wedding. A week

 before your wedding, I always recommend treating yourself to a professional facial 

Just Say No to the Gum

Another good item to pack is breath strips. Today is not the day to be chewing gum or sucking on mints.

Linda & Anthony Get Married

Linda and Anthony got married in August at the Armenian Cathedral and then had their reception at the Hilton Hotel in Universal City. Linda chose one of our artists, Tara as her makeup and hair stylist for her wedding. She met Tara last year, when she was doing hair and makeup for her cousin's wedding and fell in love with her work. I don't blame her, Tara does beautiful hair and makeup and has such a calm and sweet personality that she is the person you want to have around on your wedding day! After the wedding Linda wrote to Yana Beauty Studio, raving about how she felt so beautiful on her wedding day... and we cannot be more grateful that we got to make that happen for her! Check out pictures of the beautiful bride Linda, which were taken by the very talented Jamie from Jamie B Photography. If you want to check out some more photos of this beautiful wedding, you can visit this link. Enjoy! 

xoxo,

Yana

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Happy Anniversary Karlie and Dane!

Last year I did a wedding that was very memorable. Everything about this wedding was so unique and had so much style! The dress, the accessories and the overall style was fun and playful. Karlie moved to Los Angeles from Canada with her fiance to start a new life and a wedding to plan. I was so blown away that at the age 20, she was so courageous to move to a new country and to get married. However, when you meet Karlie her faith in God and her love for her husband Dane is really inspiring and gives assurance that she knows what's right for her. 

The wedding took place at one of my favorite venues in Los Angeles, Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica. Karlie and Dane got married on a Monday morning and the day could not have been more perfect. For Karlie's eyes, I chose to do some plums and golds to make her striking blue eyes pop. I used airbrush makeup over a cream pink blush still allowing for her cute freckles to show through. I just love the combination of Karlie's bright blue eyes with her red hair!  

I cannot believe it has already been a year! Congratulations and wishing you many more years together! 

xoxo,

Yana

Kathy and Alex Get Married

I just got some pictures from one of my favorite photographers, Ala Cortez  of one of the most gorgeous brides I have worked with and I am so excited to share them with you!
Kathy and Alex got married on June 23rd at Cicada restaurant in downtown. They are such a sweet couple and are so in love. Kathy was calm and collected as I was getting her ready. She chose to go for a natural makeup look and a very glamorous hair do. She had a lot of hair, so it took a while to achieve the result... however, airbrush and hundreds of pins later I think we achieved the look she was going for :)

Kelly and Shawn Get Married!!

Kelly and I met at a seminar and instantly connected. Her spirit and her kindness is so genuine and influential that when she called me to ask her to work on her wedding, I was so excited and truly honored.
Kelly and Shawn got married on March 31st at the beautiful Skirball Cultural Center. For Kelly's look, she wanted to have her hair down and natural looking and her makeup be glamorous and fun. She is a makeup artist herself, so I won't lie that I was a bit intimidated. However, I think she looked gorgeous and we nailed the look she was going for. She even called me after the wedding and left me THE SWEETEST message EVER! Thank you Kelly. It really made a difference for me to know you were happy :)

Happy Bride :)

You can really see the makeup in this photo

This is one of Yana Beauty Studio's Custom Made Headbands

With Mom ad Bridal Party. My artists did the hair and makeup for the ladies

I just LOVE this photo

First Dance...

The Look of the Oscars

I love watching the Oscars and the main reason is to see all of the latest hair and makeup trends. This year, I had some of my faves and I want to share them with you!

I've always thought Angelina is stunning (eventhough I think she's gotten way too skinny). However, her makeup and hair always looks simple but oh, so classy. This year again, she had her signature cat eye and she added those red lips for glamour. Well done!

I just love Emma Stone. She seems like the kind of girl you want to have as your friend.  Since her dress was  high on the neck, she made the right choice by doing a slick updo. Again, we see the cat eye with the winged eyeliner. 

I thought Gwenyth Paltrow looked very beautiful this year. She always has very simple hair and makeup, but I think it really works for her. 

Loved J.Lo's glam makeup and hair! She often does the high bun on top of her head, but the makeup was a bit different than usual. Interesting white shadow on top of the black liner... 

Here we see the winged cat eye eyeliner again... LOVE her hair. However, I would've chosen a different color dress fro her with that beautiful red hair.

I loved Penelope's look! Vintage but classic

I just love the combo of black hair, pale skin, blue eyes and red lips! What a transformation from  her character in the 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'

Spotlight Bride: Sepideh

The amazing photographer Roberto Valenzuela just shared some photos of a bride I worked with back in September and I just had to share her gorgeous photos with you! First of all, she is a beautiful girl... so it wasn't hard enhancing her natural beauty. But, I have to admit that I am very proud of the hair and makeup I did on her. Her face is glowing in all of the photos and even when you look at photos of her cutting the cake at the end of the evening, you could see that her makeup and hair is still perfect! YAY! Mission accomplished :)

Venue: Beverly Wilshire Hotel
Photographer: Roberto Valenzuela
Video: Moziko from Wind Productions
Coordinator: Maryam from Delicate Details