Wedding of this Bengali Bride: Makeup, Attire and Jewellery

by eleganteves - 20:27:00

Yesssss!!! I got married :D That was the reason for my long absence on Elegant Eves. As you all know that I had always wanted a traditional Bengali wedding completely where all rituals, dresses and even jewellery will have touches of yester-years, my wedding actually did turn our to be a fairy tale for me J

Bengali Bride: Makeup, Attire and Jewellery

I never wanted a Bollywood inspired super-blingy affair at my wedding and neither wanted a simple court marriage thing. Traditionally, Bengalis do not have “sangeet” or “mehendi” ceremonies and I wanted to keep it like that. A “Gaye Holud” ceremony followed by “Ashirbaad” of both groom and bride and then the wedding in the evening (read late night!)

Bengali Bride: Makeup, Attire and Jewellery

If you had read my article on “Wedding Attire”, you would know that I had decided on a fiery red banarasi saree with gold zari, gold jewellery with yester-years Bengali designs (The “Kaan Jhumka was worn by my mother on her wedding too!) and Aalta instead of mehendi. It was a choice different from what is trending now-a-days and so I was super-apprehensive about how it would turn out to be. Another point I was concerned about was the makeup! I had appointed a makeup artist from another city (since my town didn’t have a professional one) and she was charging way less than any other professional artist. This although made me feel happy when I had booked her initially, but as the day neared I was super scared.

Bengali Bride: Makeup, Attire and Jewellery

To my UTTER surprise and amazement, she used ONLY drugstore products on me :-o I have listed the stuff she used on me. Have a look!

1. Kryolan TV paint sticks in four different shades as the base foundation and contouring (That was the only thing I had asked her over phone and she confirmed that she used Kryolan)

2. A random eyeshadow palette from VOV I guess :-o

3. Lakme eye quartet in shade Desert Rose

4. The golden shade in Lakme quartet served as her highlighter

5. Maybelline Colossal Mascara

6. Lakme Insta liner

7. Elle 18 kajal !!!!!!! (She used a black eyeshadow from the palette to intensify the kajal. Inspite of much protests from me, she said it wouldn’t budge and advised me to just relax)

8. A yellow translucent powder to set the makeup (couldn’t notice the brand)

9. MAC Ruby Woo lipstick (She was taking out some drugstore brands again but I promptly gave my Ruby Woo to her). She topped it with a bit of “Cherry Red” from Avon to add a bit of sheen in the center

10. A dusty pink blush with slight golden shimmer (again couldn’t recognize the brand)

11. Two three pancakes of orangish and yellowish tints which she used with a wet sponge on my hands and back. I was amazed at the opaque coverage it gave without any whitish cast! I could only notice that again it was no hi-fi brand.

Bengali Bridal Makeup, Attire and Jewellery

Bengali Bride: Makeup, Attire and Jewellery

I was sitting like a scaredy-cat with my eyes closed thinking if I had made the wrong choice in appointing her. But I saw THIS when I opened my eyes :D It was exactly what I wanted. The only thing I had told her that I want to look like myself and not someone else, very natural makeup but with red lips :P And you can see for yourself how her work turned out to be :D The makeup stayed INTACT till I removed it in midnight (3pm-1 am midnight), without primer or setting spray :-o There wasn’t even the slightest fading

Bengali Bride: Makeup, Attire and Jewellery

I was so happy with the results that it actually showed in my face J Once I reached the venue, I got pleasantly surprised again. I had wanted just yellow, off white fabric and same colored flowers as decoration. I had stressed on this combo along with ONLY yellow lighting because I wanted my red banarasi to stand out ;) I was glad that they could do it exactly how I wanted it to be J

With mom and dad at the wedding :)

Here is a view of the venue

Bengali Bride: Makeup, Attire and Jewellery

Thus, a super happy bride surrounded by childhood buddies and relatives was waiting for her man to arrive (Cheesy yeah!)

Bengali Bride: Makeup, Attire and Jewellery

And this was our “Subho Drishti” – The ritual where the bride and the groom sees each other for the first time (cough! Cough!) ;) This was followed by Maala-bodol (exchange of garlands)

Bengali Bride: Makeup, Attire and Jewellery

The main rituals started. By this time I was super dehydrated (blame my nose ring for not allowing me to drink water even!) and was feeling uneasy L Sorry for the grumpy pictures.