I love New York City.  I recognize that I am blessed enough to live in a city cool enough for people from all over the world to want to come here and get married here.  Sometimes I forget that it really is an awesome place to be.

Stephanie & Dan came over from London for a small courthouse wedding, with just Stephanie’s sister and her husband. They had amazingly balmy warm December weather, lucky them.

Stephanie is one of the coolest, most stylish brides I’ve had the opportunity to work with. It’s so interesting to me how stylistically, peoples’ makeup preferences are usually linked to where they’re from.  I find that my international clients are way more into glamour and full makeup than NYC gals, who usually prefer to keep it natural.

Something super important to note… Attention future clients: See how the makeup reads as fairly dramatic, but not crazy overdone? In person, she had quite a lot of makeup on. As she was coming from the UK, we didn’t have time for a trial run, so I had to just wing it on the day. She wanted a silvery bluish, fairly heavy smokey eye. It was pretty dramatic in real life – but notice how in the photos it’s not that much? Here’s a great example of what I mean when I say that the camera erases a lot of the in-person drama.

Thanks so much to the crazyamazingtalent that is Katie Jane Photo for these photos – such a gorgeous addition to my body of work.  And a shout-out to the very talented Sissi Chan on hair – again, having not done a trial run, and coming up with that awesome creation?  Well done.

I loved getting to work on these two gals.  They both wanted fairly dramatic makeup, which I rarely get to do for weddings, so that was a lovely change.  More importantly, they were both so happy to be in NYC and so appreciative of everything the city was offering them (a boat cruise down the Hudson river after the ceremony…etc).  They really helped remind me why I moved here in the first place, all those years ago!  So thanks Stephanie, and congrats!

The Foundry is one of the prettiest spots in all of NYC to get married.  It’s modern, bright, and super versatile.  I always know when a client is getting married there, that they have fantastic taste.  Cathy is no exception to this rule!

I really loved working with her and her bridal party.  It was a really creative day for me – as you can see, all the bridesmaids look totally different.  Different skin tones, eye shapes, and bone structures.  So I couldn’t get lazy and do the same face on everyone – it makes for a much more interesting and challenging work day.

Cathy’s makeup design was comprised mainly of shimmery neutral tones – coppers, bronzes, and a hint of gold.  And a nice sharp eye line to go with the modern line of the dress.

Her skin is like porcelain.  Lucky girl!  Congrats!

A few weeks ago, I was one of the vendors at the Lovesick Expo which took place at the Music Hall of Williamsburg.  Pretty cool to be able to show at a wedding fair without leaving the comforts of my own neighborhood.  It was a fun day - I got to hang out with my fellow Brooklyn Betrothed colleague Kristina Hill, who was being helped out by another BB'er, Tammy Golson.  It was a lovely day full of music, networking, meeting potential clients, and mini-makeovers.

I had a raffle on my table to win a free trial run with me, and I had little slips of paper for people to submit their names on.  Me, being me, thought the whole thing needed some fun added to it, so, the form read like this:

Just because I was super curious as to what kinds of answers I would get. Also I thought it was a pretty good icebreaker. Weirdly, hardly anyone asked about it, but almost everyone dutifully answered. Here are the results. (the non-responders didn't get a slice of the pie).

Pretty cool right? Unicorn, of course, was the clear winner (as well it should have been). Centaur had a surprisingly strong showing. And I was psyched by the more creative answers (Marcel The Shell and seahorse with wings, I'm looking at you!). These are the kinds of people I want to be working with! Kisses to all!!!