Make up not showing up in photos

[AWafferthinmint]

I've been on a few nights out recently. Felt I applied quite a lot of make up compared to normal but when I look at the photos it looks like I'm completely bare faced! In all honesty I look like shit I'm wondering if I'm too used to seeing instagram posts and have a skewed idea of what make up should look like. For instance, I pencil in my eyebrows but they look non existent in photos!

I go slightly more than natural, so darker brows, lashes and lips and usually end up looking ok.

Nars radient long wear set with Charlotte tilbury pressed powder looks amazing in photos but not cakey in real life.. Always go a tiny bit darker with your brows if they are fair-ish too. And a couple more coats of mascara than usual.

That's if you're going out and want a nice photo..

YY to this. I've seen this type of makeup, girls I worked with, on a night out would absolutely cake it on with double or triple sets of false lashes, heavy contouring, heavy dark brows, mirrorball highlighting etc. It looked really odd in the evening daylight at pre drinks, like totally overdone stage makeup . However, in the night-out photos they looked amazing and I looked like the aforementioned washed out potato face.

I pondered doing the very heavy makeup myself but weirdly, sometimes when I go a bit overboard it looks ok and I think I've cracked it. But sometimes (most times) it doesn't photograph well and in fact it looks just as bad in photos as it does in real life. Exactly like the overdone makeup it is in real life.

Can't win.

I had my make up professionally done for our wedding. When she'd finished I was shocked at how heavy it all looked, and she'd also put faux lashes on too. But on our photos my make up looks lovely and fresh, not heavy at all.