You spend months and sometimes even over a year planning your wedding. All of the hours of planning to ensure that your big day is seamless. When it is finally time for your wedding day, there should not be anything left for you to do. The chef’s prepare the food, the photographer takes the pictures, and the makeup artist does your makeup! Doing your own makeup should be the last thing you do on your wedding day. Hiring a makeup artist takes that stress off of your plate. It allows a professional to create a beautiful glam on you to make you feel special. In particular, Indian wedding entail a series of different celebrations. Some occur in one day and others can take place across 2-3 days. These celebrations occur quickly after each other and with the help of a glam squad they are able to run smoothly. Hair and makeup artists are trained to be able to create flawless looks beautifully in a short amount of time. They are able to add on or slightly change your looks based on which celebration is happening. Still on the fence on whether or not to hire a stylist for your wedding? I have listed 10 reasons to convince you as to why you should hire a makeup artist and hair stylist for your wedding.

1. You don't want to be in charge of your own look: You have spent so longer planning this picture perfect day. Your wedding day should be a day where everyone is working around your wants and needs. Hiring a makeup artist will eliminate any stress or worries surrounding your looks. They are there to give you a relaxed day.

2. Create less stress: Pick a makeup artist you trust. The worst thing you could do is hire someone that you have never met and did not do a trial with and have them create a look on you. Make sure you are comfortable with your hired artist and do not be afraid to ask them to alter or change something. They are working for you.

3. Someone else can do an artistic better job than you: There is always someone better than you in the specific craft. The makeup artist or hair stylist is trained to be able to create breathtaking looks that will make you feel special on your big day.

4. It’s very hard to style your own hair: Hair is so hard to do on yourself! Whether you are a professional hair stylist or not; it is still hard to do hair on yourself.

5. You want someone there that is going to be able to touch you up throughout the day: It requires a lot of time and effort to be in charge of touching yourself up if you do not hire an artist. You don’t want to take any time from your big day by having to touch up your hair and makeup throughout the day.

6. If you cry, you have someone on site that can fix you up: Who doesn’t cry on their wedding day?! The happy tears will be flowing! Because of this, you want to have someone who is there to fix it so you makeup does not run.

7. Best quality, fast: It is their job to do makeup, so it is no shocker that they will be able to create a stunning look in a short amount of time. This will allow you and your entire bridal party to have their makeup done in an appropriate amount of time.

8. You want to look “natural”: Makeup artists and hair stylists are trained to make their wedding day clients look natural. They know all the tricks to make a look that will elevate your features and make you appear the best in photographs.

9. Your whole bridal party will have a similar look: It is important that your bridal party all looks the same on your wedding day. Not to mention all of the memories that are created while you and your bridal party sip champagne in your matching robes getting your makeup done.

10. Quality products: Makeup artists have the top makeup in game. It is all fresh and made to give you a high quality look. All of the products in their makeup kit are designed to fit in any situation possible.