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Original poster

to turn up at Bobbi Brown counter, on the morning of wedding, in my wedding dress?

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erinscupcake · 09/03/2015 18:51

Its just that I won't have time to change and its a lot better value than getting mua, all of whom have been booked up.

Is this a crazy idea? Will wear a hairdresser cloak to stop spills.

OP posts:

Hellohellohowareyou · 09/03/2015 19:10

I have done this in the past when I'm going out in the evening but had intended to by two products (£60/£70 worth) anyway

Cantbelievethisishappening · 09/03/2015 19:10

Don't go in the dress

MrsTerryPratchett · 09/03/2015 19:10

What if they spill a whole pot of powder over you?

OhisHOME · 09/03/2015 19:10

Oh and you can't just turn up you need to book

Floggingmolly · 09/03/2015 19:11

Common practice??? To rock up to a department store's beauty counter in full wedding regalia to get a freebie? You'll make a complete exhibition of yourself...

DandyHighwayman · 09/03/2015 19:12

Certainly you would attract a lot of hmmm faces! Like this:

sparkysparkysparky · 09/03/2015 19:12

I had a bobbie brown appointment a week or so before. Got a tutorial and a map "this goes here". Then I practiced. loads. I am slightly less rubbish now. Good luck.

Hellohellohowareyou · 09/03/2015 19:13

I think op means it's common practice to get make up done at the counter, it's just the wedding dress part she is unsure of!

HoggleHoggle · 09/03/2015 19:13

You are totally crackers to consider going in your wedding dress.

Everything else fine seeing as you've made an appt and will be buying products.

TheWitTank · 09/03/2015 19:13

I wouldn't personally, no. I couldn't walk around a department store (?) in a wedding dress and veil. Far too embarrassing! Can't see the problem with the make up though if you buy the products.

mrsminiverscharlady · 09/03/2015 19:14

I did this! It was their idea as well. I went in to get some make up for the wedding and they did a makeover which I loved. They offered to do it on my wedding day so I took them up on their offer. I changed into my dress when I got home. Lol @ the idea this makes me cheap and tacky.

Weebirdie · 09/03/2015 19:14

The other thing is that it could be very difficult to just turn up and be seen on the spot. Ive generally found that there can be a bit of wait.

SweetValentine · 09/03/2015 19:15

Your dress will be filthy please dont do it!!!!!

Your make up doesn't need to be done that close to time, do it earlier and buy blusher, concealer and lipstick to top during the day.

If you really have to do it on the way, take the dress with you, change in the disabled loo and hoik it up on your way to the car.

mrslol · 09/03/2015 19:20

I really don't think you should wear your dress. Imagine if you accidentally sat on a lipstick or something!

YANBU about everything else though, actually I think it's a great idea so they can show you how to use the products you're buying. Wish I'd thought of this!

BippityBoppity · 09/03/2015 19:23

The last time I had my make up done at a counter was for a ball, not wedding - I went straight from the hairdresser and had lots of people hanging around watching. I can only imagine there would be a lot more scrutiny while you're in a wedding dress.

Also - you won't just materialise at the counter in your dress. You'll have to make it from the car and walk down the high street/through a shopping centre like Mrs Robinson in your beautiful dress - think about the potential for dirty hems, spillages or someone stepping on the hem/train.

While you're having your face done, you'll probably be surrounded by people watching - it's a novelty to see a bride sitting in a department store. Imagine a sticky fingered toddler wanting to touch your pretty dress

Original poster

erinscupcake · 09/03/2015 19:23

OK, thanks. Won't go in dress!

Just a reminder, I have booked. I will buy product. The mua at Bobbi are on board with this.

OP posts:

Weebirdie · 09/03/2015 19:29

Ok dear.

ChipDip · 09/03/2015 19:34

Are you desperately seeking attention, why else would you go in your wedding dress rather than normal clothes like normal people?

TSSDNCOP · 09/03/2015 19:36

How is it a piss take whether she turns up I a wedding dress or goes in jeans and changes at home.

Do BB charge? Clinique didn't last time I did virtually the same for a black tie do. I have always bought a couple of bits like the lip gloss and eye pencil they use as a top up, never paid anything else though.

I bet if you rocked up at BB counter on a Saturday in a wedding dress the attention you'd draw would warrant doing it for free.

HelpMeGetOutOfHere · 09/03/2015 19:37

Definitely get the make up done. But change in the car or the loo, don't go in your wedding dress. Have everything else on, hair up etc but just chuck in some tracky bottoms:yoga pants and a zip up hoody (so as not to have to keep taking on and off clothing over your hair) and then change in the car park! Surely you have time to get back home and change though?

I had to go to the hairdresser like that as stupidly booked our wedding for 10.30am and the hairdresser opened early for me at 8.30 but still had to have my wedding underwear on ready to slip my dress on once done. Luckily I was getting married in a registry office and wearing a non wedding dress just a really nice monsoon one.

Charlotte3333 · 09/03/2015 19:39

I went to the Chanel makeup counter at Selfridges in Birmingham and asked if any of them were freelance makeup artists in their free time, one was, I bought the products she suggested, she came to Shrewsbury on the morning of the wedding and I looked amazing for the first time EVER without a bag on my head.

They are amazing at their jobs, the people on those counters.

Tiredemma · 09/03/2015 19:42

We had a MAC girl come along to do ours when bridesmaids- she made me look like I had a stunning new head.

Cantbelievethisishappening · 09/03/2015 19:44

How is it a piss take whether she turns up I a wedding dress or goes in jeans and changes at home.

Because the original post made no mention of the fact the OP had arranged it in advance and would be buying the products. It seemed the OP was just going to turn up in her wedding dress asking to have her make up done.... which would have been a piss take IMO.

Trooperslane · 09/03/2015 19:46

Go for it!

SofaSpud · 09/03/2015 19:50

Some nasty responses here! Agree with others about changing afterwards though. Congratulations

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