BRIDE FAQs - Part I

1. How do I know if Victoria Roggio Beauty is the right fit for my bridal makeup experience? 
1. At Victoria Roggio Beauty, we believe that great makeup begins with great skin. We’ve built all of our bridal packages around this premise by including two facials in each package. While we’re proud to feature artists with a variety of personal artistry styles and skill sets, our signature style is timeless, sophisticated makeup.  
2. I’m really struggling with my skin, when should I start coming in? 
1. Right away - don’t wait for the ring. Whether you’re an impending bride or not, if you’re struggling with your skin, we want to support you on your journey to clear, healthy, beautiful skin. If you’re engaged and planning a wedding, come in as soon as possible. We recommend setting up either a skincare consultation appointment or a VRB Signature 60-minute facial in order to meet with an esthetician and start the process of figuring out a home care routine and facial schedule to address your skin concerns as far away from your wedding as possible in order to have the most treatment options available to us. 
3. How far ahead of my wedding should I book my bridal makeup services? 
1. While we love that so many of our brides reach out to us as soon as they’re engaged, even upwards of two years in advance, we’re only accepting wedding inquiries one year in advance. This is to allow us to ensure our team’s availability for your date as accurately as possible. You can reach out to us on the first day of the month 12 months before your wedding to inquire. For instance, if your wedding is 9/22/2024, you can reach out on 9/1/2023. Most of our brides book between 9-12 months before their big day, so we do recommend getting in touch with us as soon as that one year mark arrives to be sure we are not already booked. 
4. What should I be doing to prepare my skin for my trial?
1. If you’re already in the care of an esthetician at VRB, stick with your current routine ahead of your trial. If you haven’t started seeing us for skin services yet, we recommend exfoliating 3x per week (or more, if your skin is accustomed to more) with a chemical exfoliant such as P50, and hydrating with a gentle moisturizer. All trials start with a skin assessment and skin prep tailored to your skin needs to maximize makeup performance, so the most important thing is that you come with exfoliated and hydrated skin. 
5. How do I find my bridal makeup style? Should I pick my hairstyle first, or my makeup first? What about my dress? 
1. Finding your bridal makeup style is a step in finding your overall wedding aesthetic. To have a successful trial experience, it helps to have a general idea of the vision for your wedding. Is it outdoors? In a church? How will the lighting impact your makeup? The weather? Is your dress the star of the show, or do you want your glam to be the focal point? The answers to these questions help us as we work together to create the perfect makeup look. This holistic approach to makeup, complete with facials and home skincare, is what sets our brides apart. 
6. Where should I hunt for inspiration photos? 
1. Ask any makeup artist on earth and they’ll tell you: year after year, we see the same 10-15 Pinterest photos shown to us over and over again. Usually, the images we see are professional models, highly photoshopped, shot in ideal lighting with every pore airbrushed away. Most often, the model doesn’t resemble the client in any way. While we can certainly ask you questions about which parts of the photo you like - the colors used, the “vibe,” the amount of blush/highlight/liner used, etc. The result is often that the bride herself doesn’t have a great idea of the makeup itself or what that type of makeup style could look like on her, because it’s not a realistic photograph. 

Instead, we recommend a few alternative methods of finding inspiration photos. 

1. Find a photo of yourself where you LOVED your makeup - focus on being able to point out to your artist which aspects of your makeup you like, what you don’t like, and if you remember how it wore throughout the day. Extra points for being able to speak generally about your favorite features of your face and the things you may be a bit more self-conscious about, so we can work together to use your photo as a jumping off point and adapt it to the elements you want to emphasize versus minimize. 
2. If you have a celebrity doppelganger, visit their instagram page and look at photos of them with their makeup professionally done. Again, know that the images may be photoshopped, but since this person resembles you in some way, the way a makeup aesthetic appears on them should be relatively similar to the way it appears on you, too. This might give you a clearer picture of what styles you like and don’t like if you don’t have a lot of experience having your makeup applied by a professional. 
3. Visit wedding blogs/magazines to find the names of artists on Instagram who work on real brides, to give you an idea of different makeup styles on real, regular people. 
4. Most importantly, visit the instagram page or portfolio of your chosen artist. Their own work on real brides will help you get a sense of their style, and they’ll have a clearer picture of what products and techniques were used to achieve the look since they created it themselves. You’ll be able to really clearly discuss elements of each look to figure out what will work best for you and your features, what you liked and did not like. 

1. Help! I had a trial and I didn’t love it! What do I do now? 
1. Whatever you do, try not to panic! The entire purpose of a trial or “preview” appointment is to get an idea of what your wedding makeup could look like. It’s meant to be a trial-and-error appointment in every respect. Often, brides will come with a specific aesthetic in mind, and when they see that makeup style on themselves, they find they either don’t like it or don’t feel it suits their wedding. Other times, the trial provides an opportunity to see how the makeup performs throughout the day. It’s not uncommon for a bride to experience performance issues on the day of her trial, but delivering that feedback helps the artist adjust the techniques and products used to create the look with more longevity. Sometimes, the feedback and some updated reference photos/videos is all that both parties need to feel comfortable with the adjustments from trial to wedding day. Other times, another trial is needed for both bride and artist to feel content that they’ve hit the mark. Either way, it’s a matter of “trial” and error until the desired result is achieved.