30 Women Before And After Their Bridal Makeup By Arber Bytyqi (New Pics)
Many brides spend a lot of time coming up with their look for the big day. But when they find their wedding dress, experience that Cinderella moment with the perfect shoes, and spend hours scrolling through Instagram and Pinterest looking for just the right hairstyle, and tick almost every aspect of their bridal ensemble to-do list, all there's left to do is find a makeup artist that pulls it all together.
Makeup artist and beauty influencer Arber Bytyqi is one of those people. We already covered his work in an earlier article, but Arber has been keeping himself really busy, and continued sharing before-and-after pictures of his clients, so we decided to do an update on what he's up to.
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For this one you can say "job well done", I think. Even, I must say, that young lady looks good even without makeup
It's mainly the lips that changed... The makeup made it more proportional to the rest of her face
Load More Replies...Wow she looks beautiful. The groom is going to walk right past her looking for his fiancé though.
Did the makeup job come with lip fillers? Why give her features she does not have? She had enough natural beauty to enhance without drawing on big lips.
That's A LOT of makeup. It's overkill. She doesn't look like herself.. on her wedding day
Since our previous piece, Arber's Instagram follower army has grown by over 100,000. "When I meet my client, the first question I ask is what kind of occasion are they getting their makeup done for. I also ask my clients if they have any specific requests. For example, if they want a natural or dramatic look. Then I ask them [to show me] the dress that they are going to wear. The design of the dress and its details reveal the style of the look the client is going for. Then, I analyze their facial features," the makeup artist told Bored Panda.
Not such a big difference. This bride is looking very good, both with and without makeup
sorry but the first one is just better. I like her eyebrows in the first. The shine on her cheeks in the second one looks oily.
If I was lucky enough to look that good without make up I'd never wear the stuff!
Too much shading makes her face look smudged. Does she normally wear so much make up? She doesn't look like herself.
Arber wanted to become a makeup artist pretty early in life but when he finished high school, his family opposed this idea. "In our culture, a male in the beauty industry is considered taboo," he explained. "So, at first, I got a master’s degree in economics, and only then did I follow my dream and started working as a makeup artist."
Now, he and his team usually serve more than one thousand brides in a year. "The summer, in particular, is a very demanding season for wedding makeup. During this period, we serve as many as 60 or more clients daily."
You will see a lot of the before pics the women have terrible circles and the after pics look fake on most ugh come on people, GET REAL!
So many filters. If the job is good, it shouldn't need photoshop.
I like colours in my face sometimes, but I do not want to not look like me. I found that urge to look like a puppet or a mask very strange.
I don't think it's photoshop I think it's good angles and lighting maybe
Notice the difference in length of her forehead from hairline to eyebrows? The girl on the left's breasts are lower on her chest, too. The space between her bottom lip and bottom of her chin is smaller too? Photoshopped or not the same girl?
That's a lot. But Arber's team consists of 25 people (15 makeup artists and 10 hair stylists). "I have trained these people myself. Some of them ar working part-time and some are full-time employees. We can attend up to 100 clients per day. We start our workdays early in the morning and make sure our schedule has absolutely no impact on the quality of services, satisfying all of their needs."
Of course, the coronavirus has had its toll on these numbers. "In the Balkans, the wedding is one of the biggest events in a person's life. But due to the pandemic, a lot of them were postponed," Arber said.
This one is okay. Not as extremely contoured or photoshopped as the others.
Still, I think she was way prettier in the first picture. I'd have liked to see something more subtle. Nothing inherently wrong with it, though, if it makes her feel confident that's awesome!
Load More Replies...She’s adorable in the before picture, but looks overly made up in the after.
Foundation just a shade or two too bronzed. It would have looked better to just subtly apply the bronzer on her forehead at the hairline, just very subtlely under hollows of her cheekbones, and swept up to the temples. Also underneath her jawbone to give a sculpted definition. This all over the entire face bronzer looks too fake and too flat. Pretty girl though.
it is her wedding day, she can do whatever she wants.
Load More Replies...I'm not in love with the bold red lip, it's pretty but I think something softer might've suited better. Anyway! I hope all these brides felt beautiful because that's the most important thing.
If I'd known this girl without make up, I wouldn't be able to recognize her when she has this full make-up face on
they look beautifull, but all the make ups look the same, with two diferent lips colors
I love her smoky eyes. This is a very sultry focus on her eyes, and it truly focuses all the attention to her eyes. I would, however, have used a tad lighter shade of foundation with the bronzer applied only at her hairline, jawbone for definition and outer points under the apples of her cheekbones swept up to the temples, rather than applying it all over the entire face. With the bronzer just everywhere, it looks too deep and looks flat.
I think this team knows exactly what these lady's want !! If they are there it's because they want a big change and up for it !! It's there day !! Go for it !!!
Flashy white eyes, no pores or moles...i agree, photoshop well done
Load More Replies...It is just me or does she look exactly like Chrissy Teigen in the after shot?
I understand wanting plump lips but damn you natural lips are more bueatiful than makeup lips
Another one who has a longer forehead in the left photo compared to the right.
I wish that the highlighter at the collarbone was more subtle. It's attracting too much attention from her beautiful face.
More subtle makeup would have been better, to accentuate her natural beauty rather than make her look like a totally different person.
also she is SO pretty, the makeup looks her look so harsh and unnatural, when her face with no makeup is gorgeous
Load More Replies...I would use less Photoshop - because no makeup will make so white the white of eyes.
Wow ! The colour choice for her eyeshadow really enhances the pretty shade of her hazel eyes ! So Pretty ! I kinda wish her lipstick wasn't so bold. It would have been better to not have drawn attention away from her eyes. I feel like this bold lipstick was fighting for all the attention.
Nonsense !! She looks beautiful !!! The whole thing about makeup it's to look her best for her day and for her one in a life time , wedding photo's
She's so gorgeous, I feel the the make-up makes her look less. Fake, somehow. I actually prefer her natural look.
With almost all of these so far, I'd bet the groom wouldn't even know who is coming up the aisle. I believe that a bride should look her best with makeup, but she shouldn't become a different person altogether.
All of her skin is a different color. Do they even put makeup on her chest and arms, or is it just photoshopped?
to all of y'all saying "she looks dumb" "she's soooo photoshopped" "she doesn't look nice at all" but im sure that these brides feel confident, loved, and beautiful they way they look with or without makeup. im sure if they didn't want to look like that, they would have or even taken pic of them SMILING. calling them cartoon characters or porno actors is extremely out of place. If these women want to feel really really beautiful, they might want to get their makeup done really nice and sure you may think they look like clowns but they sure don't
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder !!! To me she looks awesome!!!
Please she just wants to feel beautiful in her own skin, stop being so negative about it.. No hate pls.
The incredible "magic" of contouring with the help of Photoshop.
Load More Replies...these are photoshopped or completely different people.. far too much makeup
Lipfillers AND a nose job! Are makeup artists providing plastic surgery now as well?
Yes, natural beauty works the best in my opinion. Not the doll faces.
Load More Replies...OMG! The second one is too overwhelming. They actually messed this one up. Way prettier in the first
Different shaped eyebrows, thinner nose! is this really the same girl?
I don't know if the little crystals at her bottom lash line are supposed to look like happy tears or what ? But they interrupt and take attention away from her smoky eyes. Would have been better to have skipped those entirely.
I'm sure that beautiful face don't need so much makeup, or photoshop... She is naturally very beautiful
I like the lipstick. But everything else is WAY over done on such a beautiful girl!
Load More Replies...The facetuning is out of control in all these pics. Why don't they show what they can actually do with makeup?
Reminds me of the wax lips we played with when I was a kid. Kind of takes over the whole face.
Kim Karkrash is responsible for this trend of porno make - up. This woman doesn't look anything like herself. Nothing wrong with getting made up for a wedding but turned into someone else?
Imagine the fiance trying to figure out if he's getting married to the right woman
Load More Replies...Whether these are ' real' or not, what I don't like is that the makeup makes every woman look thr same. Same boomerang eyebrows, same overdone eyes with drag-queen lashes, same pouty mouth, same faked 'cheekbones', same everything.
this one had an aditional present: the bones below the neck
Load More Replies...Why does this makeup "artist" keep taking natural lips and making them look like they've had plump up injections? I think all the lip jobs on this site are awful. Every single one has lipstick plastered up over her natural lip line and looks almost cheap.
Makes you wonder if they use an eyebrow stencil- slap it on, spray heavily, take off stencil - boom
Load More Replies...The collarbone highlights are way out of control in so many of these. The first one I saw - I figured someone would notice and clean up some talc or something on there by mistake. It’s not a mistake. Well... it is definitely a mistake, it’s just on purpose. This is the new laser beam background from the 90s we all can’t believe was a choice.
Photoshopped nose. No amount of contouring is going to change the tip to that extent.
Some people say the highlighter looks like she's glowing, but I think she just looks like she's sweating. And I definitely would have applied it just above the apples of her cheekbones, not this low. The idea is to keep the eyes' attention as uplifting, not that low and not that close to her nose.
Are we back in the 1940s with this harsh huge red lip? And everyone has the SAME heavy eyebrows!
So #20 and #21 are the same person - which is cool! I’m just hoping I’m not seeing th8ngs.
The contouring on the noses and cheekbones looks nice, but the foundations look like silly putty on their skin- so freaky. I like the eye make-up but lips would look better if they would retain natural shape when outlined.
Too much makeup ! Makeup isn't supposed to completely change who you are. It's supposed to enhance who you are. I feel like I'm looking at her makeup and not seeing her face. Also, her bronzer and blush are applied too low and too close to her nose. It's drawing the eyes' attention too far down and not an uplifting look. That can be an aging look. Would have been better to cheat those cheekbones swept up towards her temples.
Her temples have narrowed, along with the nose. This is photoshop not makeup work. Plus they are all looking the same. Same over all flattening, color wash, glitter on the collar bone, same eye and brow. Blah.
she looks way more prettier than the after photo people should just be proud of what they llok like
Much better without makeup. And by the way ALL look absolutely like plastic after makeup. Who would marry a plastic mannequin?
This is a pretty girl wanting to look glamourous on her wedding day. And she does. It's her day!
They turned her from a beauty into LaToya Jackson (after all the surgery)
nothing she just wanted a tan nothing wrong with plae skin
Load More Replies...This really looks like a whole different person. It is almost scary. I cant stop thinking about the long term effects of this different perception of themselves. So much beauty being standarized!
Makeup can remove circles under your eyes. It can not remove the lower lid and make your eyes bigger.
it literally can. they have tapes to pull up your eyelids and stuff
Load More Replies...I so agree with you....negative and doesn't really know much.
this is a general comment and not for #33 above. seeing all the photos, I think, it's terrifying. As a man I don't want to marry some Barbie doll. If I love a woman I (hopefully) do love she as she is and without one kilogram of color on her face.
That is a refreshing standpoint! I for one do not want to spend hours each day getting made up so my husband doesn't see who I really am. Getting glammed for your big day is fine, but after the honeymoon period when you get a spot etc you'd feel dreadful.
Load More Replies...They women do not look grotesque! That is a terrible things to say!
Load More Replies...The after pictures all tend to look alike instead of showcasing the brides' individuality.
Yeah, guys whining about women wearing a ton of make-up when they usually cannot even tell a difference when a woman wears light makeup. How about we let women dress and paint their faces in whichever they want? Especially during their freakin' wedding day. You don't like it? Don't wear it.
Is this even the same woman? Eyebrows are larger, nose looks different and lips looks larger
I don’t understand the hirsute he-man eyebrow style. But that’s okay. All the people in this thread are lovely looking people. Makeup or no.
Nice...head piece in my opinion could be a little more flattering.
Too much highlighter everywhere ! She doesn't look like she's glowing. She just looks like she's sweating. And lipstick's too dark. I feel that her cheeks look muddy instead of a blushing colour. Eyes are gorgeous !
She looks totally different. Even a different race. She could be the cousin of her former self.
These women will need to wear name tags so their husbands recognise them.
That would be better than the reality, not recognizing her at the alter and marrying a stranger!
Load More Replies...I had professional make up done once, years ago. I took one look and asked that they take it off.
She looks pretty! It's sad how everyone thinks they use photoshop, or that they look like barbies. For ONE DAY, like THE BEST DAY OF THESE WOMAN'S LIVES, can we tell them they look great, and stop hating? You acting like you don't want to look like a queen when you marry. It's so happy, and you ruining it by acting like an uptight prick.
Seriously , even as a womand , i wouldnt want to look that way on my wedding day , in my opinion this is completely exagerated . Yeah , i do want to look pretty and maybe a bit more glamourous than on an average day . but not like a plastic doll and especially not like someone completely else . Imagin your husband would do that , wouldnt you be weirded out by it ?
Load More Replies...Argh....I am sure he has seen her on other days before the wedding.....DAH!
She's going to look back on these photos and wonder, "Why did I allow/want that? I was so beautiful as I was."
I agree, photoshop or something must be involved, the pics on the right look so unreal, would the groom even know who they were? ha ha
Load More Replies...It seems like most people here hate this make-up as much as me. Why is this popular?
The smoky eyes are pretty, however, the deep toned shade came too far up to her brows. It would have been nice to see a lighter shade just under the brow bones. But she's a beautiful bride.
again, how can contouring and good lighting make her nose a totally different shape at the end?????
We can all see the nose isn't right. The lower lid is gone and another chin shrinkage. Plus what is it with the all over skin tone changing?
Gorgeous ! I LOVE that her lipstick is not taking attention away from her gorgeous eyes !! Bravo !
Even the face shape is different. All of these instagram models nowadays think they have to fit this mold to be pretty, so they will use photoshop or completely hide their real, vibrant personality because in their minds, that personality doesn't fit the mold.
Line up all these 'after' shots and it'd be difficult to tell them apart.
The mystical magic of Photoshop and ungodly amounts of hairspray.
Load More Replies...is it just me or do they all end up looking hispanic dont get offended because i am hispanic too just wondering
Are these stick-on eyebrows? They look exactly like the ones on the girl below!!
Too bright of lipstick. Hate the floral garland head piece. Blush applied too low and too close to her nose. Does not impart an uplifted look to her cheeks. Browtone just looks muddy. I feel that this look just missed the mark all together.
They all basically look like Ivanka Trump... some blonde some brunette. Their eye makeup is all the same.
If these women did their regular makeup, they would look so much better than what has happened in the second photo.
seriously on all the pictures the girls have the same eyeliner, guess one trick he does very well l
are the lips and eyes added using a phone app?! Or just photoshopped in from a cartoon?
Are we back in the 1940s? This harsh huge red lip and those Joan Crawford brows!
I would want the woman I was marrying to look like the woman I was marrying.
I would be rather upset if it's my make up. Not my brows, not my eyes, not my anything.
This is the only one that I would actually say is hideous. The woman isn't hideous, obviously, and sure the makeup artist is SKILLED, but Christ, she looks like a blow-up doll in the after. I honestly thought that was a picture of a Barbie doll initially. Get the makeup you want done for your wedding day and all, but no one needs to look like Kartrashian to be pretty for their wedding photos.
And your future husband walks away, because he thinks he is at the wrong church...
Why do all the before pics have dark circles under their eyes? What they all been up to?
Most likely bags under their eyes... I have really bad bags under my eyes 'cause I don't sleep. It's 2:24 am here and I'm still wide awake... hElP mE!!!
Load More Replies...All obvious individuals on the left of each pairing. All cookie cutter fantasy play dolls on the right.
All of them look as if a piece of plastic has been placed on their face. Doesn't the artist (?) know how to follow the natural lip line, they all look to be about the same, ditto with the eyebrows. Most of the cheek bones tend to make the look a bit anorexic
Again, the shirt trying to make yourself look better in the picture
Every woman got the exact same face. He started with uniquely beautiful women and made them all Barbie dolls. The "after" photos are so heavily photoshopped that their skin looks like shiny plastic.
"Here's a picture of your daddy marrying a cartoon character instead of mommy."
This MUA only knows how to do one look. Copy. Paste. And the amount of make-up plastered on their faces is unbelievable: might look good on pictures, but I wonder if it's the same in real life?
A prime example of a disturbing trend where people are not supposed to look like themselves anymore. Of course you want to look your best on your wedding and obviously you might go a bit further then when you would go to the supermarket but apart from personal tastes, most of these ladies do not look like themselves anymore. I find the fact that that seems to be desirable for many people, very disturbing.
Yeah, I totally get wanting to look great on your wedding day but this is just weird. Would they even recognize themselves on the pictures later on? And does this make up “artist” only know one style or something, they all look the same too...
Load More Replies...I did not upvote any of the pics, even though I skimmed them all. I for one cannot appreciate this level of extreme makeover (especially the nose contouring???). The women do not look at all like their original selves. I understand wanting to look your best on your 'big day' but to completely transform into someone else is too much, really. I do not find the homogenised result beautiful or attractive...
Holy Photoshop, Batman! It looks like the "make-up artist" (I'm going to use that term very lightly here) smothered their faces with foundation and then had a field day with the "Face-tune" and "Gaussian Blur" in a digital editing program. This is just sad-- they don't even look human after their supposed "make-overs." They look like poreless, plastic Androids. It's a shame, because they were so much more beautiful before.
You can tell some tweaking was done to the photo just by looking at their shoulders and clavicle areas. The skin tones are all too similar and look spray-painted on, and even the hair color changed in a couple of these!
Load More Replies...I like the before pictures more, maybe because I prefer the natural look. I especially dislike the puffed up lips :(
It's sad that society pushes natural skin (darker under eyes, inconsistent skin tone) on women as something bad. Being constantly bombarded with images of women looking like dolls just reinforces the opinion that women without makeup look tired or sick or unattractive, it alters perspective on what we should look like
These women are getting married and they don't look like themselves at all.
Personally, I don't like the "doll" features look. I think the "au naturale" look is better. Sure, a little makeup is perfectly understandable. If it makes you feel good, wear it. But please, except your natural beauty. You are beautiful on your own. Except yourself for who you are.
These woman are caked with clown makeup and highly photoshopped. They look ridiculous. I suppose this is an advertisement for the makeup “artist” but it looks like a bad joke.
This MUA only knows how to do one look. Copy. Paste. And the amount of make-up plastered on their faces is unbelievable: might look good on pictures, but I wonder if it's the same in real life?
A prime example of a disturbing trend where people are not supposed to look like themselves anymore. Of course you want to look your best on your wedding and obviously you might go a bit further then when you would go to the supermarket but apart from personal tastes, most of these ladies do not look like themselves anymore. I find the fact that that seems to be desirable for many people, very disturbing.
Yeah, I totally get wanting to look great on your wedding day but this is just weird. Would they even recognize themselves on the pictures later on? And does this make up “artist” only know one style or something, they all look the same too...
Load More Replies...I did not upvote any of the pics, even though I skimmed them all. I for one cannot appreciate this level of extreme makeover (especially the nose contouring???). The women do not look at all like their original selves. I understand wanting to look your best on your 'big day' but to completely transform into someone else is too much, really. I do not find the homogenised result beautiful or attractive...
Holy Photoshop, Batman! It looks like the "make-up artist" (I'm going to use that term very lightly here) smothered their faces with foundation and then had a field day with the "Face-tune" and "Gaussian Blur" in a digital editing program. This is just sad-- they don't even look human after their supposed "make-overs." They look like poreless, plastic Androids. It's a shame, because they were so much more beautiful before.
You can tell some tweaking was done to the photo just by looking at their shoulders and clavicle areas. The skin tones are all too similar and look spray-painted on, and even the hair color changed in a couple of these!
Load More Replies...I like the before pictures more, maybe because I prefer the natural look. I especially dislike the puffed up lips :(
It's sad that society pushes natural skin (darker under eyes, inconsistent skin tone) on women as something bad. Being constantly bombarded with images of women looking like dolls just reinforces the opinion that women without makeup look tired or sick or unattractive, it alters perspective on what we should look like
These women are getting married and they don't look like themselves at all.
Personally, I don't like the "doll" features look. I think the "au naturale" look is better. Sure, a little makeup is perfectly understandable. If it makes you feel good, wear it. But please, except your natural beauty. You are beautiful on your own. Except yourself for who you are.
These woman are caked with clown makeup and highly photoshopped. They look ridiculous. I suppose this is an advertisement for the makeup “artist” but it looks like a bad joke.
