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Every day the news contains stories that fill me with sadness and dread and it was lovely to hear something happy and exciting in the news today. Kate and Williams engagement news. I would be rather afraid of marrying in to the English  royal family in the past,  however,  Kate and William do seem to be a genuinely happy couple and I hope that their happiness lasts and is different to previous Royal marriages. My friend and I, one evening were in Boujis nightclub London.  Kate Middleton was dancing away behind us having a fantastic night with Prince William, she looked  like any ordinary girl on a night out with her boyfriend. I hope that they are very happy and am very excited to see what Kate Middleton’s wedding dresswill look like  and her Royal wedding hair and makeup. I wonder if next year and in 2012  following the Royal wedding, we will be asked to re create The Kate Middleton Bridal look, like we are so frequently asked to re create Cheryl Cole’s wedding hairstyle for our brides .  In all of the engagement photos in the press today she looked devine. Her makeup looked flawless, probably the best I have seen her looking, this is probably a snippet of how beautiful she will look on her wedding day  with that natural happy and in love glow, that I see with so many women on their wedding day.

Hello Ladies,

May has started off busy as usual for myself and the team.

I was working around the corner on Saturday which was unusual as most saturdays I can travel for up to 2 hours to a bride. Sharon my bride on Saturday chose a beautiful tight curled look  for her hair with the sides of her hair pinned back and I created fine ribbon detail with the hair to add some detail at the back. I used extra strong hair spray as unfortunatly the weather was a bit drizzly.

I kept her make up simple, yet beautiful. Sharon chose to wear no eyeshadow on her eyelid as she is lucky enough to have a naturally strong contour shadow. So I applied a highlight to her brow bone, and defined the shape of her eyes with brown waterproof pencil which I felt contrasted with her eyecolour to draw her eyes out so not much make up was needed. Her skin which looked gorgeous before any make up! Was enhanced with a light application of Clinique moisturising foundation. I chose a favourite blusher of mine by Nars to bring out Sharons perfectly chisled cheeks bones which gave her just the right colour to her face and and added a glow. I also used another favourite product of mine, Nars ‘South beach’ highlighter on her cheek bone to give an extra emphasis to her bone structure, (this can also look great in photos). Sharon chose to use her own lip gloss a favourite of hers by Estee Lauder and I used MAC Cosmo under it to give it some depth. Sharon’s dress was a beautiful colour that suited her skin tone perfectly,the best way I can describe it is that it had a very faint silver hue.  Her exposed body skin was finished off with a fine spritz of shimmer. Sharons chose to wear ‘Lovely’ by Sarah Jessica Parker as her wedding fragrance. I can’t wait to see her pictures, she just looked stunning and it was a very lovely morning spent with Sharon, her Mum and daughter.

I’m excited to hear how my teams weddings went in detail. As usual I have had messages coming in from them keeping me up to date and apparently as expected all went very well and as usual all our brides headed off to their wedding ceremonies looking radiant and beautiful. Im confident it won’t be long until we have some pictures to post from this Saturdays brides.

Until next time happy wedding planning.
 
Claire Nicole

Hello to all of you brides to be,

I am so excited that my first post is about my Sisters wedding last Saturday (6th June 2009). I can honestly say that the weekend was the best weekend of my life, and my baby sister looked absolutely gorgeous as you will see from these pictures.

We started the morning with champagne at Tylney Hall in Hampshire, where myself and one of my Creative Director’s ‘Emma’ worked our makeover magic on ‘Louise’, (The Bride) and her bridesmaids. My Sister took full advantage of the fact that I was on hand, and so she had, ‘in true princess style’, two hair styles on her big day.

For the day time she opted for an all up clean style with a few tendrils to soften her look, a low bun with elegant detail in contrast to the neat smooth bun. Louise chose a low tiara from www.charlottesboutique.co.uk. For her makeup I complimented her natural beauty and big eyes with a small amount of definition and a subtle wash of creams and gold across her eyelids, her skin looked glowing with Nars foundation and a touch of blusher on the apple of her cheeks that not only accentuated her cheek bones it drew attention to her eyes. I finished with a touch of Mac Lip jelly on her lips for a subtle touch of colour.

For the evening Louise chose a more relaxed style to compliment her Proniovias dress and I curled her hair and pulled it back to one side with a sparkling diamante hair slide from www.charlottesboutique.co.uk.

The day was magical and everyone looked gorgeous as you will see from the pics.

Georgina Creative Director was at Wargrave at Suzie Stubbs wedding who had a marquee in her parents garden with a beautiful setting on the river Thames. Suzie opted for a natural make up accentuating her eyes beautifully and her hair was in a low slung pony with tumbling soft curls.

Jo also one of my fabulous Creative Director was meanwhile attending to the gorgeous laura Wilkinson who was getting ready in traditional style at her parents’ home in Chalfont St Giles, Bucks. Jo styled not only The bride but the brides mother, 2 bridesmaids and a little flower girl.

Please keep an eye open as I am sure we will have some pictures of these weddings soon to show you, as we have already had a lovely letter of thanks from Ayala, Lauras Mum. Who tells us Laura will be in touch on return from her Honeymoon.

Until next week, happy wedding planning!

Claire Nicole xxx