Glamxurious lips by Brandy.

My holiday brides are normally the ones that request the most for glamorous and luxurious lips…old Hollywood inspired. I personally think this may be one of the hardest looks for a bride to pull off but, definitely the most glamorous. To achieve that high pigment & high gloss lip color, I am going to share with you a beauty industry secret.

My newest love when it comes to lipstick for brides is OCC Lip Tar from Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics. OCC Lip Tars are an amazing non drying high pigmented long wearing lipstick with a high finish gloss. The Lip Tar goes on very easy, just a little goes a long way. When it dries it has a great satin finish and the hemp and peppermint oil feels slick and minty on the lips. I find that I almost forget that I am wearing it. When applying I prefer using a lip brush because the texture is very smooth. Great to use with or without a lip pencil.

OCC Lip Tars are also GLAMTASTIC when it comes to Hi-Def Video and Digital Photography.

For the modern bride, who loves the attention and loves all the paps flashes, make sure your makeup artist has OCC Lip Tar in his/her makeup kits. The best Lip Tar colors for brides are:

Lip Tar Indashio-a deep sea coral

Lip Tar Hush-antique bridal pink

Lip Tar NSFW-a scarlet red lacquer

Lip Tar Vintage-a deep burgundy

 

High sparkle for your spackle

So what do you get a platinum bride that has everything? How about Swarovski Crystals, and enough of them to put a smile on any bridezilla’s face. Swarovski… are also a girl’s best friend.

Waterford Giselle Crystal Blush Brush
It’s has an 8”crystal handle with elegant cuts of the stemware suite.
Priced at $100.00
http://www.waterford.com/

Pucker up for a shot of sparkle

Socialite Swarovski Clear Crystal Lipstick
The Socialite Collection is a brand of wealth that symbolizes couture and class. The lipstick case is encrusted with over 1200 Swarovski handset crystals plus 4 refills, with the “it” Lipstick Colors of the season. The Lipstick comes with 1 year of Lip concierge, which means clients have access to a new lipstick refill once a month for one full year. A Catalog with tons of colors to choose from plus your own personal client number to access your concierge service.
Priced at $150.00
http://www.socialitecollectionandco.com/

Rock royalty for your rouge

Rock & Republic Bronzer
and Highlighter Compact
Indulge yourself with a silky fine jet milled powder, the most luxurious matte bronzer on the market. The highlighter/bronzer is a refillable compact comes with an exclusive Kabuki Brush. The top of this luxe compact is encrusted with 445 sparkling Swarovski crystals.
Priced at $225.00
http://www.neimanmarcus.com/

Dressing room table drama

Bond no. 9 Crystallized Amphora
Swarovski in a bottle…This 42 oz amphora vitrine, breathtakingly covered with 16,500 hand-applied platinum Swarovski stones. The Swarovski Crystallized Amphora filled with your choice of a Bond no. 9 fragrance, is covered with platinum Swarovski stones. The bottle top is an elliptical mirror with a honeycomb base and a handy golden spigot. Comes in a white patent leather gift case, also adorned with crystals.
Priced at $3500.00
http://www.bondno9.com/

 

Welcome to Beauty Bar! I’m Brandy Gomez-Duplessis, celebrity makeup artist and my main goal in life is to make you look like the best version of yourself on your wedding day and beyond. I met the ladies of Antibride.com and Destination I Do Magazine last Fall for our Operation Aisle Style event at the W Hotel, New Orleans. My makeup, teamed with the gowns of Austin Scarlett of Project Runway not only helped the models rock the runway, but was also the basic of our cover look for the January 09 issue of Destination I Do Magazine. If there are any tips, tricks or vexing beauty issues, let me know and we’ll knock em out tout suite. Enjoy!

Many of my avant-garde brides have requested at their bridal consultation that I create “THE CAT EYE” look on their wedding day, a makeup look that is more ideal for a candle lit evening wedding. I suggest to my brides, if you decide to walk down the aisle with t his sultry look to keep the eye shadow neutral and shaped filled brows is a must. Use a matte non-shimmer bronzer for blush, because you want to have the cheeks contoured without a lot of color. The face should be very clean and highlight only the key areas on the face. Your main focus should be the cat eyeliner, the red matte lipstick and of course you, the Bride.

To create the perfect cat eye, dip the Bare Escentuals Buxom Lashliner Brush into Bare Escentuals Buxom Lashliner in Leatherette and swipe a thin line along the upper lash line and wing it out at the end. Rim the lower lash line with Bare Escentuals Buxom Insider Eyeliner in Onyx to balance out the dramatic lids. Finish by coating lashes with Bare Escentuals Buxom Lash Mascara in Blackest Black.

		Bare Escentuals Buxom Lashliner Brush
		Bare Escentuals Buxom Insider Eyeliner in Onyx
		Bare Escentuals Buxom Lash Mascara in Blackest Black
		Bare Escentuals Buxom Lashliner in Leatherette
		Bare Escentuals SPF 15 Matte Foundation
		Bare Escentuals Buxom Big & Healthy Lipstick in Barcelona

For matte yet velvety skin, buff in Bare Escentuals SPF 15 Matte Foundation. For a pout, line and fill lips with Bare Escentuals Buxom Big
& Healthy Lipstick in Barcelona. It also has a built-in sharpener. MeWow!

 

So I wake up this morning, and the shadow literally looked like I had just applied it, but what happens next is truly going to blow your mind. So later today I went surfing, (albeit looking like I was headed to the W in killer eyeshadow), I was only in the water for about 1.5 hours, but I figured the stuff would wash off because it was powder. Generally, the salt of the ocean scrapes off anything you have on your face, and can be a little corrosive (which is why I highly recommend using Aquaphor before a session). So I get out, change out of my wet suit look in the car rear view mirror, and low and behold, the eyeshadow is not only completely on, and looking amazing but it also looked like I just applied it.

So then I had a revelation: many brides shed a few tears on W-day  and tears, like the ocean are comprised of salt. So, Anti-brides, if you want your eye shadow to have nerves of steel, staying power, live through everything from a surf session to a hellacious crying jag, rely on Urban Decay to be there on the big day….

Note: My fav rockin colors are Midnight Cowboy Rides Again, Sin (of course) and the best-named eye shadow in the industry, Polyester Bride.

Pigment Rich with minimum binders, you get color that packs a wallop in cute color-viewable subway token containers.

About the Eyeshadow:

Excerpted from the Urban Decay Website:

This is the product we were born to make – our best-seller! Professionals, celebrities, and makeup junkies swoon for our wide array of shades. Each one is pigment-rich: we load the shadow with color, and add very few binders (the stuff that holds shadow together), resulting in beautiful color that blends easily and lasts. Lots of finishes to suit your mood: sparkle, shimmer, duotone or un-sparkly satin. Our subway token compact comes complete with a window (see your shade without opening), and snaps shut with one hand – no more lost lids.

Tips:
All Eyeshadows can be used wet for more intense color, try them as a liner! Dust sparkly shades on cheekbones and shoulders with our Powder brush for unearthly shimmer.

Fill Weight: 1.5g e 0.05 US oz

Price: $16.00