Wedding and event makeup, trials, brows, lashes, permanent makeup and event styling. We match you with an artist along the Wasatch Front and tell you what each service actually involves — including the parts that are harder to undo than to do.
What you need before booking is the beginning of it: what the service involves, what it commits you to, and what happens if it does not go the way you pictured.
Five kinds of appearance work, described as what they are rather than what they promise.
Makeup for an event is built around conditions: the light, the camera, the temperature, how many hours it has to hold. Say what the day looks like and the work is planned around it.
Learn more →Shaping is subtraction and hair grows back slowly. Tint and lamination are chemical services on the face, close to the eye, and patch testing before the first appointment is a fair thing to ask for.
Learn more →Extensions are attached to your own lashes with adhesive, millimeters from the eye. They need ongoing fills, they can irritate, and reactions happen. Those facts belong in the decision.
Learn more →This is a tattoo in the skin of your face. It is semi-permanent rather than temporary, it heals over a period before you see the real result, it fades in a color that may not be the color it started as, and correcting it is harder than doing it.
Learn more →Two related things: how you want to present yourself, and how the pieces of an event morning fit together so nothing is being rushed at the end.
Learn more →Three steps, and the first one is describing the day rather than picking a service.
Indoors or outdoors, morning or evening, photographed or not, at altitude or not. Those details change what makeup is built for more than any reference image does.
Event makeup, brow work, lash application and permanent makeup are different trades held by different people. The match matters more than the studio address, and some of what you need may belong to another Habit site entirely.
Healed photos for permanent makeup. Patch testing for tint and lamination. What a lash set commits you to. What a trial covers. You should have those answers before a deposit, not after.
A trial exists to answer one question: does this look right on you, in the conditions of your event. Most trials get booked for whenever the calendar happens to allow, in a studio lit however that studio is lit, and then everyone is surprised when the evening of the event looks different. It is not that the work changed. The light did.
So book the trial for the same time of day as the event, and go look at it in the setting the event is in — outdoors if the ceremony is outdoors, in the reception hall if you can get in, under warm indoor light if that is what the evening will be. Then photograph it. Use the same kind of camera your day will be shot on, with and without flash. Flash is where a look and a photograph most often disagree, and finding that out in a trial is the entire point.
Give the trial a full day afterwards before you decide. Wear it through a normal afternoon and see what moves, what settles into lines, what you keep touching. Bring specific notes back rather than a general feeling: heavier on the eye, less on the cheek, this did not last past four o'clock. An artist can act on that. Nobody can act on it was not quite me.
Permanent makeup is a tattoo placed in the skin of the face. Fresh work photographs at its darkest and crispest, an hour after it was done, before anything has healed or settled. Every portfolio in the category is full of those images because they are the most flattering ones available. They are also the least informative, because they show a state that lasts a matter of days.
What you will live with is the healed result — softer, lighter, and shaped by how your particular skin held the pigment. Asking to see healed work, photographed months or years after the appointment, is the single most useful question in this category. An artist who has it ready will show you, including work on skin like yours. An artist who cannot produce any is telling you something without meaning to.
Ask the follow-up questions too. What color does this pigment tend to fade toward on skin like mine, because faded permanent makeup does not simply get lighter, it can shift in tone. What does the healing period involve and what am I not supposed to do during it. What happens at the touch-up. And what is involved if I want this corrected or removed later, since correction is a harder job than the original work and not every artist takes it on.
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If the day matters and you have not worked with the artist before, a trial is how you find out whether you agree on what you are asking for. Run it at the same time of day as the event, look at it in the light the event is in rather than in a studio mirror, and photograph it with and without flash. Wear it for a full day, then bring back specific notes instead of a general feeling. A trial at the wrong hour in the wrong light has tested almost nothing.
It is a tattoo, and semi-permanent is the accurate word — it fades and softens over years rather than washing off, and what remains stays in your skin the whole time. It also heals before it settles, so the first days look darker and sharper than the result you keep. As it breaks down it can shift in tone rather than simply lightening. Ask to see healed work rather than fresh work, ask what the pigment fades toward on skin like yours, and ask who handles correction or removal before you book the original appointment, because correction is the harder job.
They are widely done, and they are also applied millimeters from your eye with adhesive, so the honest answer includes the risks. People react to adhesives, sometimes after several sets that were fine, and irritation, redness or swelling after an appointment should go back to the technician — and to a medical professional if it involves the eye itself or does not settle. Sets heavier or longer than your own lashes comfortably carry can stress them. Extensions also need ongoing fills as your lashes shed. For a first lift or tint, ask for a patch test in advance.
No. Habit Image covers the finished look for an occasion: makeup, brows, lashes, permanent makeup and event styling. Anything done to the hair itself — cutting, coloring, extensions or smoothing — is salonhabit.com. Facials, massage, waxing and body treatments are habitspa.com. Injectables, lasers, peels and microneedling are habitmedspa.com. Anti-aging and longevity is habityouth.com, recovery is habitspaandwellness.com, IV therapy in clinic is habitdrip.com, and dental is habitsmile.com. Services performed at your house, hotel or venue are habitmobile.com, and booking a group or bridal party as an event is habitslounge.com.
Habit is a group of separate services that share a phone number. When you call 855-854-2248 a receptionist asks which service you want and routes you from there. Say makeup, brows, lashes or event styling, and you reach this side of it.
Tell us when it is, where it is and what you are thinking about, and we will match you with someone who will explain what it involves before you book.
Get Matched With an ArtistA date and a rough idea is plenty. We will follow up before anything is booked.