What wedding makeup to use with sensitive skin or allergies?

If you have allergies or very sensitive skin, it is natural to approach your trial with some unease, because you know what it is like when a product makes your skin itch or redden, or your eyes swell. That unease is resolved in writing, well before the trial.

The allergy and intolerance declaration in the contract

The contract includes an annex with a declaration of allergies and intolerances. There you write down everything you know does not agree with you: an ingredient, a type of product, a reaction you once had. It is very important that you fill it in carefully, because it is the information I work from.

How I check the kit product by product

With your declaration in front of me, I go through every product I am going to use on you, one by one, and check that none contains what you have listed. I do not rely on a brand being good in general: what matters is what each formula contains. If one does not suit you, I swap it for another that does the same job with ingredients your skin tolerates, and because the kit is multi-brand, there is always an alternative.

Very reactive or allergic skin

When the skin is very reactive or the allergy is serious, I work with Sensilis, a brand made precisely for sensitive skin. There is no fixed rule: it depends on your skin type, on how severe the allergy is and on what you are allergic to. With some brides I use Sensilis for the whole makeup, and with others only where it is needed, for example in the products that touch the eye when it is the eyes that are sensitive.

Why no allergy should be left undeclared

With everything declared, the makeup is completely safe. The risk lies only in what has not been said, because I cannot protect you from something I do not know about. So it is worth noting down even what seems minor or uncertain. That way, on the wedding day, you do not have to think about it.