Drug Store Diva: Low Cost-High Impact

Brides are spending so much on their weddings that the last thing a bride wants to worry about is cutting back on their wedding day makeup. Your wedding day is a day for you to shine and when you walk down the aisle you want to know that your makeup will be just as flawless as the carats on your finger. Bridal makeup is just as important as the wedding dress, the wedding photos and the wedding cake. So how do you look as fabulous as a Hollywood celebrity on your wedding day, but on a budget? My favorite budget makeup is L’OREAL PARIS cosmetics.

Here is where a glam girl begins:

To create the glamxurious look I used the following items:

• L’OREAL PARIS Studio Secrets Professional Magic Perfecting Base

• L’OREAL PARIS Studio Secrets Professional Color Smokes Shadow in Blackened Smokes

• L’OREAL PARIS HIP High Intensity Pigments Color Truth Cream Eyeliner, Black

• L’OREAL PARIS True Match Blush in Baby Blossom

• L’OREAL Voluminous Mascara in Carbon Black

• L’OREAL Colour Riche Lipcolor in Sea Fleur

So when thinking about being on a budget, don’t be alarmed! Selecting makeup from a drugstore can be advantageous for your look and your purse and still make you glamxurious on your wedding day.

Credits

Makeup by: Celebrity Makeup Artist Brandy Gomez-Duplessis

Photo courtesy by: Beebe Tran of Studio Tran Photography

About

Brandy Gomez-Duplessis is also a L’OREAL Paris Pro-Makeup Artist. Brides can book Brandy in New York, Miami, and New Orleans. Brandy will be in New York working Fashion Night Out & Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in September. Follow Brandy on Twitter and read all of her glamxurious tweets.

Brandy's Bronzed Beautiful Brides

Doesn't matter if you are a blonde, brunette or a redhead, we all want that radiant bronze look. No more stained hands or baking yourself and the sun damaging your skin. For an instant beauty tan gratification that is healthy for you, I suggest using a bronzer to give a flawless Caribbean finish. If applied correctly bronzer can be a girl’s best friend. Even I don bronzer on my boogie down brown skin.

To create a natural goddess-like glow or a radiant sun kissed look just sweep a bronzer powder on the face, over your cheeks, eyes, shoulders, décolletage, or anywhere you dare to bare skin. Matte bronzers are great for the face and shimmer bronzers are great on the eyes, shoulders and body.

Some of my favorite bronzers are:

TheBalm Bahama Mama Bronzer, $19

Stila Stila Sun, $26

Smashbox Bronze Lights, $28

Josie Maran Bronzing Powder, $30

Lancome STAR BRONZER - Magic Bronzing Brush - Automatic Powder Brush for Face and Body, $33



On my bride I stroked her face with the Smashbox Bronze Lights. So, I won't tell if you don't tell where you received your tan...

Makeup By: Brandy Gomez-Duplessis with BGD Makeup Artistry
Wedding Photos by: Beebe Tran with Studio Tran