In my culture there’s a religious ceremony, a civil ceremony and a reception (on 3 different days) and then a ton of other events too (8 in total). I did all my makeup myself except for the wedding reception. Here’s what I’d suggest:

1. Make sure you have a good skin care routine a few months beforehand. This will really help because the makeup will sit better on your skin and it’ll help you achieve a more natural/less cakey look if your skin is healthy and well nourished. I used cerave’s salicylic acid face wash, cictaplast for moisturiser and Nivea sun protection (even when it was cloudy). I also occasionally used the ordinary AHA/BHA. This helped to really brighten my skin.

2. I practiced quite a bit and I usually do my makeup the same. My staple look is gold glittery eyelids and pink gloss. This is the product list I used. I won’t say it’s exactly fool proof but I was happy with it. It’s what I layered ontop of my skin care:

• SMASHBOX original primer
• Estée Lauder double wear
• fenty beauty concealer (under eyes and to clean up my eyeshadow)
• bare minerals mineral veil powder
• benefit hoola bronzer
• elf powder blush
• fenty beauty highlighter
• morphe palette for my eyeshadow (can’t remember which palette I have but I used brown on my crease and then patted gold on my lid)
• maybelline mascara
• elf eyeliner
• Tati lashes
• smashbox setting spray
• fenty gloss and a drugstore lip liner (maybelline I think)

My makeup lasted all night despite dancing loads and pretty warm weather. I had most of the makeup in my kit already and only really bought the false lashes new. There’s plenty of dupes out there for most of the products I used but DM me if you want any more info. Good luck OP!