March wedding

Saturday March 28th, 2015 at 3:30

Christine and David's wedding 

Overbrook Presbyterian Church in Clintonville, OH

It might have been cold outside, but Christina was warmed by the friends and family that came to celebrate the day with herself and David. CTBT was there to help make the brides hair beautiful. This is what we came up with!

Chris of Columbus Traveling Beauty Team created this soft curl with twists on Christina, using noting but her natural hair. When Christina first got in contact with CTBT she thought she might have needed some help with hair extensions. Obviously you can tell she didn't need them. She has plenty of hair. It just takes a team that know how to work with hair to make it stand out more.

We  can't wait to see pictures of Christina in her dress! Amanda Muschlitz of Mushchlitz Photography, LLC. 

Congrats Christina and David. 

We love our photoshoot hair and makeup

When it comes to doing hair and makeup for photoshoots some people think, "I'll just do it myself so I can look like myself". Then when they see the pictures they are always surprised on how they look. Some wonder, what happened to their makeup? Don't be surprised again! Let a true professional hair and makeup that knows how to makeup you look your best (without overdoing it) help you out! 

Our team works side by side with Rich Carpenter photography for his family and senior portraits. 

photo compliments of Rich Carpenter Photography

2014, what a fantastic year!

2014 was such a fun and fantastic year for Columbus Traveling Beauty Team.

We started our year knowing that we had already won best
of the knot 2014 and couple's choice award 2014 from weddingwire.com, then we finished our year knowing that we won Best of the Knot for 2015, also.

Then we had a true life beauty to start the year off. Early January we showed up to help this beautiful young pageant lady who ended up coming in 2nd place. We kept hoping she would have come in first to become the youngest Miss Teen Columbus. For this look we help thicken up her hair with some clip in extensions, a little extra curl on her own hair, then brought out the beauty (keeping it age appropriate) on her.

Before performing in the Miss Teen Columbus, this little gal was showing off her true beauty. 

After that we ended up participating in 48 weddings, 3 bridal shows, quite a few prom and homecoming ladies, several photoshoots (boudoir and high-school seniors) and a fashion show. 

Our travels ranged from Granville (just love going to this quaint town), going down to Hocking Hills (for an Ash Cave wedding), up to Mohican Forest (at the Grande Barn where Pete Nelson of Treehouse Masters has made 2 treehouse on the property for the bridal parties), Circleville (for a beautiful outdoor wedding), and to Fort Jennings (around Van Wert, OH. Would love to go spend some more time there. The scenery is stunning). Most of our other weddings were held in the Columbus area.

The goal for this next year is to travel even further. One of our reasons for starting the team is to be able to see some new areas of Ohio (if not even further), plus do what we love to do (meeting new people, showing off our skills, and making people happy, while giving the most beautiful lasting memories). 

Makeup applications, why do they cost so much?

Do you ever wonder why professionals charge so much for makeup? Let us help answer that for you.

At Columbus Traveling Beauty Team we require all of our artists to hold either a cosmetology or aesthetics license (and an independent contractors license). If you end up going to school for it these days it runs between $8000 to $26000 for your education. Then you need to take the exam (and pass) to hold your license. The renewal costs ends up being around $105 plus continuing education (have to pay for the classes as well). The state of Ohio requires a minimum of 8 hours per license (16 hours now for a cosmetology license and independent contractors license). Each class can run anywhere from Free (hardly ever find those classes) to $2000 (yes, I actually paid $2000+ for a hair extension class).

What's in my makeup kit?

Urban Decay's eyeshadow primers (4 of them). 20 each= $80
naked (1,2, 3, and basic's) palette's, Vice palette, Ammo palette, and Electric palette $334
Cannonball mascara $20
4 24/7 eye lining pencils $20 each = $80
All nighter makeup sealer $30
Chill makeup sealer $30
de-slick makeup sealer (travel) $14

Tarte primers (3 of them) 1 is $19 the other 2 are $30 each= $79
5 cream eyeshadows ($19 each) =$170
10 different lip surgence $24 each= $240
 4 lip butter's $16 each = $64
10 lip-glosses $19 each= $190
1 Lip Exfoliant - $16
1matte waterproof bronzer = $30
1 smooth operator pressed finishing powder = $34
Lights, camera, and splashes = $20
8 pots of waterproof liner $24 each = $192
1 set of eye lining pencils $50
3 waterproof eyebrow mousse $28 each = $84
4 smoulder eye liner $21 each = $84

Smashbox primers (6 travel size to make sure there is plenty of room in our kit) $15 each= $90 eyeshadow palette $65

Stila: Eye's are the window shadows palette's Body, Mind, and Spirit $49 each = $147
In the light palette $39.
6 convertible cheek colors $25 each= $150
2 custom color blush $20 each= $40
4 Waterproof liquid eyeliner $20 each = $80

Mirabella Bridal palette= $225
16 lipsticks $26 each = $416
6 pressed color powders $42 each $252

NYX 10 different Love in Paris eyeshadow palette's ($10 each), 3 dream catcher palette's ($15 each), and 4 smaller palette's ($7.50 each), 2 brightening cream color's $6.50 each = $188.
10 lip glosses $5 each = 50
6 waterproof lip pencils = $4.50 each= $27
3 waterproof eyeliners - $4.50 each = $13.50

2 Kett Beauty cream foundation palette's $105 each= $210

Morphe Brush 4 eyeshadow palette $20 each= $80
2 blush palette's $16 each= $32

12 Sephora lip balms at $12 each= $144

Temptu  1 Aqua foundation set $228
1 SB foundation set $300
1 dura foundation kit (travel size) $45
2 airbrush compressor at  $195 each= $390
4 airbrush guns (atleast) $90= $360

25 pairs of lashes at $5 each= $125
2 lash glue at $4.50 each=  $9.
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 for a total of $5534.50

Which does not even cover the cost of:

Zuca Makeup artist bag $295 (to hold most of makeup items). Most of the time we need to have another bag since we have to accommodate for so many different skin tones and styles).

We also left out our brushes (usually around 4 sets or more), disposable mascara wands, lip applicators, sample size container (to give you touch up products needed to keep your look lasting all day long), latex-free sponges, cotton swabs, makeup remover (2 different types, for different purposes), 3 stainless steel mixing palette (so we don't cross contaminate our products), moisturizers, brush cleaner, makeup sanitizing solution (to spray on our products to keep bacteria from spreading and causing any issues), towels, mirrors, tweezers, utility scissors, and holders to keep things organized for us.

(this is just some of my kit set out)

When it comes to the actual application we do a primer on the eyes, eyeshadow, eyeliner, mascara, (most of the time lashes, which requires lash glue), eyebrow filling in, foundation, contouring,  bronzer, cheeks, pressed powder, lip liner, lip stick,  lip gloss, then set with a finishing spray. 

We hope this helps with understanding the cost in making people look and feel their very best!

Beauty Security for your wedding

When it comes to planning your wedding hair and makeup, think about using a team that has the network of several hundred people, just incase!

Columbus Traveling Beauty Team started when Christine Carpenter started working within the Salon Lofts organization. Salon Lofts is the largest salon/ spa company that allows independent hairstyles, estatician (works with skin care and makeup), and nail professionals all to rent an area of space within one of their salons. As of June 2014, there are over 50 locations throughout Ohio (Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Dayton), Florida (Tampa), Indiana (Indianapolis), Missouri (St. Louis), and Georgia (Atlanta). There are around 1100 artists within the Salon Lofts organization. 

On your wedding day, you don't want to have to worry if your hair and makeup are going to be taken care of if something happens to your artist. We have come across several independent artists that have had their child get very sick and no one to take care of them (except their mother), a death in the family (causing the artist to have to cancel to go out of town), or just being sick.

The great thing about the ladies of Columbus Traveling Beauty Team, if anything were to happen to anyone of them, we have others in our team that can take over, and if they happen to be booked, we have an entire network that we know and trust to get the bride taken care of. 

We also have an entire network of wedding professionals that we can assist you with other aspects of your wedding. We know several event planners (which is handy to have for your day of the wedding, "just in case"), photographers, cake places, florists, videographers, etc....  If you have any questions, we are happy to assist you with them. We do like to consider ourselves at the concierge beauty artists (meaning help in any way we can!).

Let the team that has the power to always help you out for your wedding, without the worry. Let Columbus Traveling Beauty Team be your go to hair (hairstyling and extensions), airbrush makeup (or traditional), and nail team.

Time is a valuable thing to waste, especially when it comes to weddings!

If you have ever been involved with the behind the scene of a wedding, you know that everything come to down to good timing.

When we here at Columbus Traveling Beauty Team are asked to do work for a bride to be (and bridal party members, too), we make sure to ask how many people are getting services. At 3 weeks before the wedding we have the bride take care of the total balance of all the party members. This way we know exactly how many people we need to take with us to make sure that everyone gets ready in a timely manor. 

Starting out, we used to wait until the day of to collect the balance. We have shown up thinking we were going to do 5 people and here 5 more decided to get their hair or makeup done, then we would wait for everyone to have to pay us. It took up so much time waiting on payments, we felt like everyone was running behind.

Once we started collecting in full, everything ran so much more efficiently. Our aim to get the party members completed in less than 3 hours, no matter how big the party size is. Because we do wedding parties, most weekends during wedding season, our team knows how to make everyone look and feel their best in a short period of time.

When it comes to looking for the best wedding (bridal) hairstylist (that also specializes in affordable hair extensions), airbrush makeup (and traditional makeup), and nail artists that travels throughout Ohio, that keeps your party running on time, check out the award winning team of Columbus Traveling Beauty Team!

Tips for preparing for your big day!

To makeup sure your hair and makeup look best on your wedding day, follow these tips.

Hair:

• ·      Don’t shampoo your hair on the day of (neither should any of your other party members)
• ·      Don’t try anything new on your hair care products at home the last week before your wedding (just incase if it cases you to break out.
• ·      Don’t flat iron your hair after your last shampoo before your big day so curls will actually stay in your hair.
• ·      Do highlight 2 weeks before your wedding at the latest so you don’t show up too bright on the day of. (also, you’ll have time to get it corrected if it comes out too light)
• ·      All over color should be applied 1 week before your wedding at the latest.

Makeup:

• ·      Make sure to let your artist know any allergies you have, and if any product did not work for you during your trial (if you had one)
• ·      Get waxed 3 days before your wedding at the latest so that your skin is somewhat back to normal and makeup will take to your skin properly.
• ·      Do NOT spray tan the week of your wedding. Don’t want to see anyone orange in pictures or streaky at all.
• ·      Make sure to start exfoliating your face once a week until 1 week before your wedding.
• ·      When looking in the mirror, you might think your makeup looks like there is a lot, but the camera actually takes 25% of the color out of your face. We can take a picture with our phones to show you how you might turn out in pictures.
• ·      If you are getting tattoos covered, please shave those areas (if you are able to) and do not moisturize in those areas (so the cover up will go on smoothly and look natual).
• ·      Make sure to moisturize your knees and elbows so they don’t look dull that day (coconut oil works great)
• ·      You can use a mixture of Coconut oil and granulated sugar as a good lip and facial scrub. (really helps remove makeup too). And anyother dry areas on the body.
• ·      Avoid salty food (makes you retain water, especially in the face) carbonated sodas (if possible,), lots of dairy (can upset an anxious stomach), beans (can bloat you) and starchy foods (can cause bloating and gas). I know, not much fun.
• ·      Get plenty of sleep the night before and drink plenty of water the last few days before your wedding and on the day of.

 Arrange to have a trial for hair and makeup within 1-2 months of your wedding so that your hair and skin are close to the condition they will be on your wedding day. If you do a trial before then you can at least see the work of the artist, but keep in mind all of the changes that might occur between now and then. Contact Columbus Traveling Beauty Team for any of your hair, makeup, or nail needs!