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| - I wish I didn't have this bad experience still replaying in my head since my wedding a couple of weeks ago. Besides kicking myself for not following my gut feeling of doing my own makeup (I was a bride and I wanted to be pampered) I'm still trying to figure out how it is I'm that one bride with the one negative review from so many others who have had raved reviews. I just don't get it...But on with the review...Let me start with Megan who I have to say from the moment I inquired about their services, responds to emails lightening fast and makes you feel as though you've known each other for years. The day of my wedding Celina (makeup) and Courtney (hair) show up on time, start setting up and I show them both pics of what I have in mind for my hair and makeup. Courtney did my hair better than any pic I showed her and nailed it perfectly. I LOVED my hair and it stayed in place all night. As Courtney was doing my hair, Celina was doing my makeup (I requested a sexy smokey eye) and from talking to her the day before going over what I wanted and didn't want, I had felt confident she would nail it and got what I wanted. As soon as she told me to look into the mirror, that confidence quickly turned to horror and the only words I could utter out were 'Oh sh#t' because my worst nightmare had come true. I looked like the bride of Frankenstein with heavy, black, uneven, blotchy eyeshadow from my eyelid all the way to my brows! My brows, which I pencil and shape in, were not even with eachother, drawn in thin and all blotched. The airbrush makeup was not as great as I had read about either. I could see up close it looked all caked and dried out. I also thought it was transfer resistant? At the end of the night when I removed my dress (she airbrushed my chest, which also had caked dried blotches near my collarbone) there was all makeup on my dress (on the inside) in the bust area. Now, they showed up at 1 p.m. and the limo was picking us up at 3 pm and here it is 2:40 pm and I'm trying to undo what I could of what she did while crying and shaking! Because of this, I missed being able to do my first look photos and had to rush getting into my dress and getting to the limo who had been waiting now until 3:15! This was by far not the experience I had paid for or wanted or even expected for that matter with all the rave reviews. I did email Megan the next day with my complaint, she was understanding and she did give me what I feel was a 'partial' refund of $75.00 for the makeup. I feel what I had to go through should have been more than that (I paid $250). My advice is do a trial so you avoid going through what I did and can have great memories of getting ready and riding off to the chapel happy and not all stressed out and disappointed :(
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