Company Christmas parties, Thanksgiving dinners, New Year's Eve, family photo sessions — the season when you're photographed the most. Makeup built to survive a warm room, a long night and every camera flash.
Between the company party, the family dinner, the friends' gathering and New Year's Eve, November and December produce more photographs of you than the rest of the year combined. They also produce the hardest conditions makeup ever faces: overheated rooms, hours of wear, and flash photography that shows every detail.
Holiday makeup is a different technical problem from everyday makeup, and it's built that way from the first layer.
Polished enough for colleagues, elevated enough that you feel like yourself at your best.
Warm, soft and natural for a long day of family photographs.
The one night to go bolder. A look engineered to still be perfect at midnight.
Makeup made for the camera — even skin, no flashback, no shine in photographs.
Three things ruin holiday makeup, and each one is solved before it happens:
Getting ready with friends before a party is one of the best parts of the season — groups are scheduled back to back so everyone is finished together and nobody is waiting around.
Weekend evenings in December are the first to go. Send your date now and I'll confirm availability — there's no obligation until you do.
As early as you can for December weekends — Friday and Saturday evenings in the first three weeks of December are the busiest dates of the year. Weeknights and daytime appointments usually have more flexibility.
No. Certain products contain ingredients that reflect flash and create a white cast in photographs. Those are avoided for any look that will be photographed with flash, which at the holidays is essentially all of them.
Eight to twelve hours. Skin prep and setting technique are adjusted for the venue — a warm, crowded room needs a different approach from a quiet family dinner.
Yes, and it's one of my favourite bookings. Groups are scheduled back to back at $160 per person so everyone finishes at the same time.
Yes. Travel is included within the Pittsburgh metro area — your home, a hotel or the venue itself.
Yes, and New Year's Eve is typically the single most requested date of the year. It should be reserved well before mid-December.