Search: 2025

Time for a round-up of last year's weddings, and boy 2025 was BEAUTIFUL! I love that my clients all lean in to looking like themselves on their wedding days, from having fresh faced skin, going for bright colour if that speaks to their soul, wanting eyeliner a particular way, saying hell no/yes to things that light them up. I encourage every one of my wedding clients to go for what makes them feel good on their wedding day; if you feel good, you're guaranteed to look good. And with that, let's see them all in their beautiful wedding day glory!

Looking for a perfect Christmas present that’s thoughtful, personal, and totally guilt-free? This year, give the gift of cruelty-free beauty! As a Nottingham-based makeup artist who’s passionate about ethical, vegan-friendly products, I’ve put together a few gorgeous gift ideas that are perfect for the beauty lovers (or self-care queens!) in your life, that also support little old me as small business owner.

I love doing a little gift guide for you all, so here's my Christmas Present gift idea list for 2025. As per last year, I've kept the list as under £15, over £30, under £60, and then over £60!

Anything that is marked with a * means that if you use my affiliate code, you'll get an extra little discount on top of the prices quoted below and I'll make a little money too. Bonuses all around!

For this year's International Women's Day, I wanted to draw attention to the brilliant company The Spark Company. I'm not being paid to write this blog but there are some ad aff links, which I'll make a little money on if you purchase something via one of their links!

I've got quite a collection of The Spark Company tshirts now, and often wear them at trials or sometimes on wedding mornings. As photographed here on Heather's wedding morning by Ed Godden. I think it's quite ironic as a makeup artist that I don't wear makeup when I'm working, and yet I *am* still radiant and will fight anyone who thinks or dares to say otherwise!

I love a little review of the year! It's a good excuse to go back over my camera roll and my calendar and match things up for all the crazy stuff I've done. And boy, it's been a big year! So, let's go in chronological order yeah?

Oh my, what can I say about Claire? I have to be especially nice as she is my website developer and build/runs this whole online Ms Moo ship, but I will be especially nice anyway because she's one of my besties. Claire was one of the first people I met in Nottingham when I moved here nearly 20 years ago. She's probably the person I've done makeup on the most, other than my own face! When at my birthday last year I albeit drunkly said I didn’t want to do makeup for weddings where I was attending the whole day anymore (it’s tiring to work and then attend physically and mentally after), the colour drained from her face as she was just about to get engaged!

I backtracked HARD as there was never really any doubt that I wouldn’t do her wedding makeup, when her face and friendship is the reason I really started doing makeup back in 2007! Here's a relatively 'newer' shoot for us from 2014 - yanno, only eleven years ago!

Abby and Jamie married at The Renaissance at Kelham Hall on 7 June 2025. I'd met Abby back in 2021 when her bestie Kirstie got married, and we'd stayed in touch on Instagram ever since. Sometimes you just meet people and INSTANTLY get on and have simliar sense of humor - that was me and Abby! When her and Jamie got engaged (finally, ha!) she came to me straight away to lock me in for her wedding makeup. What a babe! If Carslberg did clients... <3 Here's more about her big day and wedding planning experience. 

My gal, Sinaed and her beau Matt finally tied the knot in March 2025 - hooray! Sinead intially booked me for her wedding back in 2020, but we all know what happened then...! A few rescheduled dates later, and the arrival of Freja into their lives, and it was finally time to get that knot tied! I had a super lovely morning with Sinead's family, and her brothers reaction to seeing her in her dress was just gorgeous. 

Kirsty and Nathan got married in July 2025 at The Gilstrap in Newark, then having their wedding reception at BrackenXcapes. 

April married Joe at Brooksby Hall, which is a venue I'd never been to before! It's a 16th Century Manor House in the Leicestershire Countryside, and we had a beautiful sunny day for them. Due to the number of people April had in her wedding party, I had the gorgeous Sian Revill on hand to be my second hand woman getting everyone ready for the 2pm ceremony. 

Paige and George did their "I dos" x 2 at Grangefields in Derbyshire on 21 May 2025. I say x2, as they also did their "I dos" the year before with their nearest and dearest in a smaller ceremony so as to take the stress out of their day. I'm 100% all for this - both doing things your way, in a way that suits you both as a couple is paramount, and then you also get to celebrate twice. Double the fun? Yes please!

Anyone and everyone who's had a lesson with me will know I bang on about SPF a lot. Wearing it every day, in a good quantity and sheltering yourself from the sun is the easiest (and one the best) thing you can do for your skin in the long term. And it's such an easy thing to do each day, and to build into a routine!

But buying one can be super confusing, esp with all the letters and numbers and acronyms. What the flippin' heck do they mean?

Deanna and Will married at Ringwood Hall in Chesterfield in May 2025. She booked me in May 2024, which is just the perfect time to get your wedding make up booked in - at least 12 months or more notice is the best! We booked in her trial in March 2025 and she booked to see her hairstylist, the gorgeous Amie from Mon Amie just after. Booking your trial with your hair and makeup artist on the same day is a great idea for you to work out how you're going to look on the big day - also, two birds one stone of being pampered and you can arrange to go for dinner and/or drinks after - BONUS!

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We are all feeling the cost of living the last 18-24 months, and no more so than at Christmas! So I'm back again with my Christmas Gift guide for all beauty lovers, but breaking it down into price guides and aiming more at the great stocking fillers.

Snap Beauty lashes sent me some of their lashes to try a little while ago, and I used one set on a shoot that I sadly couldn't use the photos from. But I've found another pair recently when cleaning out my studio's lash collection, and they were going to be JUST what I needed for a model content day I was doing with Perfect Silhouette Hair!

Happy Christmas eve everyone!

Emma got married in August 2021 at The Gilstrap, the Newark Registration Office. While we had some worries early in 2021 as to if the wedding would go ahead or not (pesky COVID!) she managed to keep her wedding date as planned and partied hard. Emma's not a big makeup person, and wanted a super light look that freshened her up.

Did you know you could recycle your old makeup at Boots? I didn't!

AND THEY'LL GIVE YOU BOOTS POINTS FOR THEM!

Chloe and Sam married at Cockliffe Country House in September 2024. Surrounded by family, getting ready at her Mum's house in Cotgrave before moving to Cockliffe House, it was a morning full of giggles. 

Your wedding day will be one of the longest days ever, and so you want and need your wedding makeup to hold up! This blog will tell you a few of the tips that will keep your face looking fresh all day and all night.

I used to work with Hannah back in the day at my desk job, and have kept in touch since. It was so lovely to hear from her in advance of her birthday, when she wanted to treat herself to a 1-2-1 lesson with me on her birthday to refresh her makeup skills.

Imogen and Cai married at Donginton Park Farmhouse in October 2024. Due to the registrar not being available at their chosen time, they had their legal ceremony super quick in the morning, in the middle of getting ready! They didn't want to have their whole day start really early so they did it their way - legal bit, back to finish getting ready, then celebrant led ceremony in front of all their family (including Ruby below!) and friends later - wahey! That way there was zero nerves and 100% fun - what more could you want?

Winter weddings are absolutely gorgeous! I love the romantic atmosphere and cosiness of a winter wedding; no overheating or squinting in the high summer sun, crisp and frosty landscapes, complementary rich deep tones, twinkling lights, festive decorations and if you're lucky, maybe even some snow drenched photos.

I'd love some more winter wedding bookings so I'm bringing out this offer to tempt you into having me involved in your big winter wedding...

(Photography: Robyn Ward Photography)