Beautiful Bridal Hair & Makeup Vids by BHLDN – 4 Looks With Products Used

BHLDN.com is a European bridal site that offers editorial picks on everything bridal for your wedding day, kind of like an online “bridalzine” if that is a word.  My cousin Paolo Valenciano’s fiancee, Sam, messaged me this morning encouraging me to do video tutorials inspired by these ones she saw on BHLDN which actually stands for BEHOLDEN from the Dutch word “to keep” or “preserve”.  I’ll embed the Romantic video look below, but you’ll have to check the rest on BHLDN.COM or directly at these links which are the Lady look, Bohemian look, and the Muse look.

Sam worked with me on my first studio folio shots as a makeup artist and actually helped launch my professional career and next year she’s getting married to Paolo <3.  I wanted to share these with you because these simple hair and makeup how-tos by BHLDN are nothing short of exquisite.  Note to those who’d like to follow these looks, no foundation was used apparently in most of them, just skincare, a bit of unmentioned concealer maybe and pressed powder, I’ll include the list of products they used as shared on their site.

My Mane Musings – Hair Inspirations, Hesitations, Limitations, and Inclinations

Throughout a huge chunk of my life my hair, more often than not, has been long and very feminine and worn down like this with the natural waves towards the end.  I do almost wish I could exude the same “Stare if I care” aura everywhere I went as the girl does in this photo LOL.

Then there was that sly bit of self that’s nagged me my whole life with the yearning to be edgier and STRIKING rather than cute in a sense.  Tonight I was searching for shorter hair options because alas I have hairfall, and I think my hair problem has less to do with age and more to do with my past life as a post production artist.  I’ve just come out of a steady, not very alarming, but constant stream of hair loss that now flows into my freelance life. I probably have only slightly more than half of the hair density I used to have and the hair loss has nothing to do with recoloring.  Before cannonballing into the millions of available hairstyle images online I defined my search making sure my facial shape and huge forehead were factored in.  What surprised me was among the many photos that surfaced in results I actually found a “petite” model with similar body physique and an overall cheeky facial shape/structure almost identical to mine.

This model’s hair taunts me no end and gives me one of those “I-wish-I-had-straight-thick-hair” moments.  However, I know for certain that because of our identical physique and facial shape this insanely high-maintenance hairstyle would most certainly suit me well but would also most certainly be a pain to achieve on a daily basis.  Once upon a time before puberty, my locks were this straight in grade school, life was so much easier that way.  It was quite easy to fix my hair, all I had to do was comb through and leave it down.  This is Sucker Punch’s Emily Browning (who actually turned down the role of Bella Swan for Twilight).  Her hair here is styled straight but if I’m not mistaken it’s naturally wavy just as mine is today.

When I turned 13 my straight smooth locks became a thing of the past and suddenly out came these huge burdensome waves that hadn’t yet fully formed into the lovely twists they turned into later on in my life, the new waves made my hair look lopsided at times.  It was really hard getting my new wavy hair to work with me back then.  During the 90s in Manila it was all about super straight,smooth, bouncy hair, with split-free ends that turned inward as inspired by Jennifer Aniston’s Rachel in the hit TV Show, Friends.  So in high-school I hated my wavy hair, but warping back to now I have come to appreciate my natural beach waves.  Read more to get the full post and the revelation of a personal hair inclination.