Finance Friday: Spending for Makeup Service
Provided by The Wedding Report, Inc.
Let me first say that while this is an interesting statistic it is NO HELP when planning your budget. For one reason, most brides tend to purchase hair and makeup services from the same person, so this price is usually lumped together. Thus, I wouldn’t start assuming when you see this graph that a hair and makeup artist is going to charge you$63. Second, I’ve not seen anything this inexpensive lately. One of my favorite artists charges $95 per person for makeup or hair only, or $139 for hair AND makeup. This is also misleading for budget purposes though, because there are other factors, such as a travel fee for the artist if they are coming to you, or perhaps a discount if you are paying for the entire set of bridesmaids.
So where do you start? First, find out how many women you will be providing hair and makeup services for. For example, if you have 3 bridesmaids, it may be a total of 6 women: you, your mom, your future mother-in-law, and the bridesmaids. Then, think about what services you need, whether you just need hair for the ladies, but hair and makeup for yourself, or if touch ups are needed, or if you want to provide everything. If you are not paying for anyone else, you might want to find out if anyone else would like the services of a hair and makeup artist, so you can all purchase together and possibly receive a discount. Once you know how many and what type of services will be needed, you can start to evaluate if you need to allocate this in your budget and start sourcing an artist and looking at prices.
Good luck!
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