Introducing Jenelle

So, Jenelle - How do you feel about joining "The Glass Slipper" and what do you hope to offer?

I'm super excited to start with “The Glass Slipper!" Weddings have always captured my heart since I was a little girl, so I hope I can offer inspiration and advice. My wish is that EVERY BRIDE feels beautiful on her wedding day. Every girl deserves that. 

Do you have a passion for working with bridal makeovers?

As a makeup artist, working with brides reminds me why I love my job so much. Whenever I work on a bride, I make sure (first and foremost), before I apply makeup to their face, that God created them beautiful without makeup. Every girl dreams of their wedding day and how they want to look breath-taking, not only for themselves, but especially for their beloved. I feel so blessed to be part of something so special.

What is the BEST tip you can give a bride on her makeup?

Hmmm, that's a toughie! I explain to almost everyone at Sephora, that if they bought nothing else – it should be eye-primer! If they listen, I know I have done my job. I cannot express the importance of a primer! Your face wants to absorb that makeup as it sits on your skin all day -- yuck! 


You need a primer to not only act as a barrier - you also need it to be the glue for your makeup hold onto. A face primer can have brightening properties (to even out your skin tone), also have anti-aging benefits, hydrate your skin, and smooth out your skin helping to disguise pores too!

Eye primers can come in different colors, help with discoloration, help brighten your lid, and can tint the color of your eye shadow. I am telling you, when I use primer, I could put my eye makeup on at 5am and by midnight it would still be on!

Some brides think that makeup is superficial and unimportant - what are your thoughts on this?

Makeup can be superficial. If it is your wedding day, make sure you still look like YOU. Don't over-do your makeup to the point that you look back at your wedding pictures and say, “Wow that's me?!” Less is MORE.  

You want SOME form of makeup for your special day, even if you don't normally wear any. In pictures, you want your prize features to stand out- that doesn't mean you have to wear a lot of makeup to do so. Sweep on a complimentary eye-shadow color to make your eye color pop in your pictures! Powder on some HD tinted setting powder to help absorb oil and give you just a hint of color. Wear a matte nude lipstick just to make your lip pop! Even those few things, will make all the difference in your pictures, and you will still look like your beautiful self.

Is there anything you'd like to say or add?

I love my job for many reasons. It gives me the opportunity for even just a few minutes, to make women feel beautiful. It gives me the greatest joy, to know that I helped someone feel her best and I say this, because I truly believe God has created us all divine in his sight. He is sad when we think of his masterpiece as a mistake. I believe every woman should feel beautiful - that's how God created us to BE. 

I Peter 3 says,

“Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and wearing gold jewelry, or wearing fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight."

Psalm 139:14-15

"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place when I was woven together in the depths of the earth."

There are so many other verses too pertaining to the beauty God created us with! We need to walk knowing that our creator loves us, cherishes us, and finds us BEAUTIFUL. ~

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