Adore Makeup Salon

I had the absolute pleasure of working with Shirley and Terra for my wedding hair and makeup, along with my bridesmaids. They did an incredible job on everyone, and we were all so happy with how everything turned out! From start to finish, they created such a fun, relaxed atmosphere, helping make the morning enjoyable and stress-free. My hair and makeup held up beautifully through the entire event, and I received so many compliments throughout the night. I highly recommend Shirley and Terra for anyone looking for talented, professional, and truly lovely stylists for their big day!

Rhea, Gina and Kelley were absolutely amazing! They did the wedding hair and makeup for me and my bridesmaids, and everyone was very happy with their look. The artists were very fun and were able to recreate exactly what I wanted and had shown inspiration photos of. I asked for soft glam makeup and Hollywood hair waves, and they did a phenomenal job. My hair is thin and can barely hold a curl, but Kelley was able to style my hair so it held the wave all night long in 90°+ heat! Very pleased with our experience!

Let me first say that my makeup artist Jessica was EXCEPTIONAL! I’ve never felt more beautiful than I did when she worked her magic on me. I rarely wear makeup, so I was going for really light and natural looking makeup. During our trial she eased my fears that bridal makeup would make me look like a clown. She is an artist and it shows. If you are looking for a makeup artist that will bring out your natural features and won’t cake on product, Jessica is your girl. So talented! I also brought in my childhood hair stylist who I have known for years to do my hair because she’s always been like an older sister to me and I wanted her to be part of my special day, so Adore didn’t do hair for me or my mom. This will become important later on in this review. I had 6 bridesmaids with hair and makeup services, plus a MOG hair and makeup, and makeup for my mom. The main issue was with Perla who did 2 of my bridesmaids’ hair, and her attitude was pretty bad. She didn’t have a very open or nice demeanor, which was obvious to us all. Especially compared to the other artists. And she made one of my bridesmaids feel really bad about her hair. Pressing her on when she washed it last (literally that morning), and then saying she couldn’t do a simple curl and bobby pin on her hair because, “her hair felt so heavy and there must be too much product in it”. Cut to that same bridesmaid going to my hairstylist I brought in for me, and she was able to do her hair no problem. It was pretty disappointing. She also just didn’t fully curl another of my bridesmaid’s hair, and my hairstylist had to do that for my other bridesmaid too. I don’t know if Perla felt weird that there was an outside person in the suite doing hair, but this was clearly communicated to the Adore team ahead of time, so it shouldn’t have been a point of contention. Perla did do 4 of the makeup services and knocked it out of the park. She is very talented in makeup, I just wouldn’t recommend her for hair unfortunately. Shirley, Adore’s coordinator for weddings, was really wonderful and great, so this review is not a reflection on her or the overall quality of her team’s work because the third artist Sara was so pleasant and very talented too. It was just such a bummer to have someone in the bridal getting ready area that brought down the mood so much. It was really very noticeable, so much so that we started to section ourselves off from that area because the energy was just so bad. I know everyone has crappy days, but to bring that into a group setting and ruin the mood on my wedding day just sucked. To end this review on a positive note, I went to Adore a few days before my wedding to have them clean up my brows and the end product was phenomenal! If I lived in Austin, they would become my go-to brow place.

It was so important to me to find a HMU team that didn't have a heavy hand when it came to makeup. Shirley was so kind and helpful. She was very responsive over email and we even shared a conversation about how important wedding makeup is that you still look like yourself. She truly did a perfect job of making me look and feel beautiful and I never felt odd or awkward at the amount of makeup I had on. She and Perla did my hair + makeup and my bridesmaids HMU and we all had such a great experience. Perla did my hair exactly how I had pictured it and it stayed all night despite lots of dancing! :) I am so thankful for the Adore team and cannot recommend them enough!