Maritess is positivity personified. Her personality is just pure sunshine when I met her for the first time, I was immediately drawn to her big smile and welcoming personality. I sat down for consultation with her on what look she wants for her wedding. She wanted something natural, wearable, and something classic. She was drawn to Lana's picture (lovely shots courtesy of Stanley Ong) so I had an approximation of what look she wanted. She also wanted her hair down and set in loose waves since her hair had natural curls. And a cardinal rule - no red lipstick and no thick foundation. 
As I did her trial makeup and hair on her, she showed me pictures of magazines. I was drawn to an ad with Francine Prieto as a model, which had warm bronzes, taupes, and browns as a color scheme and another ad in a bridal magazine done by one of my favorite makeup artists. I made a hybrid of the looks, and for hair, i just set it in benders and let it loose and casual. Then, we decided to do some alterations and we came up with a better look:
For the hair, we were inspired by Marian Rivera's look during the last episode of MariMar (her wedding), where the top part was pulled back and we worked on her natural waves. We stuck to an orange-y apricot blush to suit her morena skin tone and coral lips to match with a tad of skintone color. Eyes were basic browns with lots of mascara and I lined the eyes with dark brown liner to define them and contoured the crease with copper and blended it well. Her eyebrows, I just filled in sparse areas with a brown pencil and dotted powder to fill in and set the brows with brow mascara.
Maritess is fond of matte finishes on the lips but to make them look lush and moist, I prepped them with lip balm and used lipstick in a creamy finish. I think matte is also a good choice because aside that it looks so naturally sexy, it's less intimidating.
We both loved the look!
hey you! SMX has a bridal fashion show tomorrow. 6pm. wanna go? Tony might join. 