With Sunday's Golden Globes, awards season 2014 officially began. Cue the eye-candy parade of celebrities looking extra shiny and perfect—and get ready to steal some of their makeup-application secrets, which work just as well for walking an aisle as a red carpet.
Here are a few awards-show makeup tricks that'll help you look spotlight-worthy—but not overdone—on your wedding day.
* Layer on extra moisturizer, to help you get that added luminosity you're looking for (and for smooth makeup application). At the Globes, makeup artist Nick Barose applied Chanel Sublimage La Creme Ultimate Skin Regeneration Texture Fine moisturizer and eye cream on Lupita Nyong'o and let the products thoroughly sink in while she got her nails done. He then blotted it before applying her foundation.
* Go easy on the foundation. You'd think celebrities are wearing inches of the stuff to make their skin look flawless, but in reality, their makeup artists try to paint on as sheer a veil of foundation as possible, to keep the skin looking natural, not cakey. Brides often think they need to wear extra foundation on the day when all eyes are upon them—or even airbrush it on—but it's easy to go too far. Try just taking more time applying and blending spot concealer to problem zones and leave your overall foundation application lighter.
* Don't do matching lip liner. That old rule about using a lip liner that matches your lipstick is no longer one that everyone abides by—so don't automatically do it for your wedding (one time when you're apt to bother with liner). "There's nothing more aging and less cool than a very hard lip line," says makeup artist Kate Lee, who worked with Emma Watson for the Golden Globes. "It's unflattering and doesn't look realistic." To avoid this, she usually skips liner entirely and defines/controls bold lips by tracing around the edge with concealer on a lip brush. If she does use liner to build the lip shape outward a bit, it's one that matches the actress's lip color, NOT the lipstick.
What are a couple of makeup tricks you're excited to use for your wedding? Any techniques you're wondering about? Ask here and I'll pass along your Qs to the pros and answer them here on Save the Date in the future!