Choosing the perfect beauty essentials for your all your wedding celebrations, means choosing hard-working yet gorgeous products that will deliver radiant skin, flawless makeup and glossy hair.
There are so many iconic beauty buys that are perfect for brides – hero foundations, skin-smoothing primers, and incredible at-home hair glazes – but we have whittled it down to bring you the top 10 beauty essentials that deserve a spot in your bridal kit.
10 Beauty Essentials For Brides
Whether it’s creating a flawless hen party look, or glowing sun-kissed skin for a destination wedding, these are the Mary Poppins of beauty buys – practically perfect in every way. And you’ll be wearing them long after the big day has been and gone.
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Best Primer – Dior Forever Glow Veil, €53
Why We Love It: Dior’s universally-flattering primer is a sublime skin treat with 97% natural ingredients that include hydrating hyaluronic acid and floral extracts of iris, wild pansy and red hibiscus. It glides onto the skin before foundation and creates a smooth and radiant base instantly.
Best Foundation – NARS Light Reflecting Foundation, €55
Why We Love It: It’s a hero foundation for brides, and it shoots to the top of our list of beauty essentials for brides for flawless wedding day makeup. Celebrities and MUAs love it, and you will too. Available in 40+ shades, the natural-looking and full-coverage, long-wear radiant fluid is superb for a bride, and you will use it to the last drop before buying it again and again.
Best Concealer – Estée Lauder Double Wear Stay-in-Place 24-Hour Concealer, €34
Why We Love It: Estée Lauder’s Double Wear complexion products are world-famous for durability. This concealer has a new wand shape to get into the inner corners of the eyes, and the finish is a satin-matte, which stops creasing around the eyes. The older version was medium coverage, but this new one is full coverage to disguise dark circles, redness and blemishes.
Best Setting Spray – MAC Fix + Magic Radiance Setting Spray, €34
Why We Love It: MAC’s Radiance Setting Spray does two things – adds all-day hydration and radiance to your makeup and locks it down for a flawless wedding day look. Oily skin types should try our beauty hack for controlling the T-zone for longer, it makes all the difference for keeping shine at bay and makeup intact.
Best Blurring Powder – Charlotte Tilbury Magic Vanish, €35
Why We Love It: The celebrity-favourite Magic Vanish blurring powder has to be on our list of bridal beauty essentials; it’s Charlotte’s worst-kept red carpet secret. Everyone from Demi Moore to Amal Clooney, Kate Moss and Drew Barrymore uses it to smooth away dark circles and under-eye creasing. It’s a wedding day must-have for blurring and smoothing. Available in four skin tone shades.
Best Mascara – Lancôme Lash Idôle Flutter Extension Mascara, €34
Why We Love It: Lancôme’s new Flutter Extension mascara is all about length, stretching the look of shorter natural lashes to increase drama. The wand is narrow, and the brush has 480 ultra-thin micro-bristles tightly packed to catch and coat every lash. In testing (on 28 women), the mascara made the lashes look 75% visibly longer, an increase of +5.5mm to be exact.
Best Highlighter – Chanel Multi-Use Glow Stick, €45
Why We Love It: It is the Rolls-Royce of highlighters, loved by fans of radiant skin with sans glitter; this hums rather than roars. Available in six shades, Transparent (above) is the best shade for brides. Apply it where you want the light to hit the high parts of the face, and try it on the collarbones and along the arms, if desired.
Best Bridal Blush – YSL Make Me Blush Bold Blurring Blush, €46
Why We Love It: YSL’s new Blurring Blush is being tipped for greatness in 2025, and it comes in 9 gorgeous shades. The silky blush powder is long-wear, water and sweat-proof, and it blurs the look of pores and fine lines. Restless Rosé 93 (pictured above) is the perfect shade for all skin tones. It has that pretty perfect combination of pink, peach and gold, a trio that adds warmth, light and a healthy-looking blush. The pink leather casing looks like art, the perfect memento from the most special day of your life.
Best Lipstick – Bobbi Brown Luxe Lipstick, €41
Why We Love It: Your wedding day lipstick is an important piece of kit in your bag of bridal beauty essentials; your lip colour has to be just perfect. Bobbi Brown’s Luxe Lipstick has that richness you need for a long day with the right satin-matte finish. Sandwash Pink (above) was the lipstick choice of Kate Middleton for her royal wedding day and we can’t think of anything better.
Best Hair Glaze – Ouai Hair Gloss, €34
Why We Love It: We are finishing our list of beauty essentials with this star buy from Kardashian-favourite brand, Ouai. A Hair Gloss is a perfect weekly treatment to keep your hair protected from hard water minerals that stain the hair and to boost shine. Used in place of your conditioner once a week, the glaze coats the hair to block frizz and increase glossiness that lasts for a few washes. Great for your honeymoon beauty bag too, it’s the secret to salon-fresh hair at home.
These hero beauty buys for brides are available at the Arnotts Beauty Hall and were chosen for The Wedding Edit, brought to you by Arnotts and One Fab Day, an exclusive fashion and beauty wedding planning event which took place at The Townhouse, Arnotts.
