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Meghan Markle used Pinterest to find her wedding day look & same
Meghan Markle’s wedding may have been a royal one, but she prepared for it just like any other bride: with Pinterest.
This surprising insight into the 38-year-old Duchess of Sussex’s nuptials comes courtesy of celebrity makeup artist Daniel Martin, whom Markle tapped to glam her up on her special day. Martin spilled the royal tea on the inaugural episode of the Gloss Angeles podcast and revealed how Markle and he shared makeup inspo and nailed down her day-of look.
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“I didn’t have a makeup trial with her because we couldn’t make the time,” he explained. “I knew what she liked and didn’t like. We exchanged Pinterest pictures over text.” Hey, we did the same thing with our (non-royal) friends.
Martin went on to add, “I think for anybody, Pinterest is an incredible tool to use as a reference. For the bride, that’s their red carpet moment. And I feel like you can’t stray too far from who you want to be and who you are because the last thing you want to do is look at these pictures and think, ‘I was not comfortable looking like that.’ You still have to have a sense of who you are.”
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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Sussex hold hands in the Ascot Landau Carriage as their carriage procession rides along the Long Walk, on May 19, 2018 after their wedding ceremony.
(Photo by Yui Mok – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex emerge from the West Door of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor, on May 19, 2018 after their wedding ceremony.
(Photo by Ben Birchall / POOL / AFP)
Ms. Meghan Markle walks down the aisle at the start of her wedding to Prince Harry in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018 in Windsor, England.
(Photo by Danny Lawson – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leave from the West Door of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor on May 19, 2018 in Windsor, England.
(Photo by Ben STANSALL – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex on the steps of St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle following their wedding ceremony in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018 in Windsor, England.
(Photo by Danny Lawson – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and The Duchess of Sussex leave St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle after their wedding ceremony on May 19, 2018 in Windsor, England.
(Photo by Andrew Matthews – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Princess Charlotte sticks out her tongue as she rides in a car to the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018 in Windsor, England.
(Photo by Andrew Milligan – WPA/Getty Images)
Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex kisses his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex as they leave from the West Door of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor, on May 19, 2018 after their wedding ceremony.
(Photo by Danny Lawson / POOL / AFP)
Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex wave from the Ascot Landau Carriage during their carriage procession on Castle Hill outside Windsor Castle in Windsor, on May 19, 2018 after their wedding ceremony.
(Photo by Paul ELLIS / POOL / AFP)
US actress Meghan Markle, accompanied by Britain’s Prince Charles, Prince of Wales walks down the aisle toward her husband-to-be Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor, on May 19, 2018 during their wedding ceremony.
(Photo by Dominic Lipinski / POOL / AFP)
Meghan Markle and her mother, Doria Ragland, are driven along the Long Walk as they arrive for her wedding ceremony to marry Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor, on May 19, 2018.
(Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during their wedding service, conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018 in Windsor, England.
(Photo by Dominic Lipinski – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Princess Charlotte on the steps of St George’s Chapel after the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018 in Windsor, England.
(Photo by Jane Barlow – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex emerge from the West Door of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor, on May 19, 2018 after their wedding ceremony.
(Photo by Ben STANSALL / POOL / AFP)
Meghan Markle is driven to St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle along with her page boys Brian and John Mulroney at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle before the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle on May 19, 2018 in Windsor, England.
(Photo by Toby Melville- WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, stand together at the altar in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor, on May 19, 2018 during their wedding ceremony.
(Photo by Dominic Lipinski / POOL / AFP)
Prince Harry, arrives with his best man Prince William, Duke of Cambridge for the wedding ceremony of Prince Harry and US actress Meghan Markle at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018 in Windsor, England.
(Photo by Odd Anderson – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex arrive back at Windsor Castle in the Ascot Landau Carriage after their wedding ceremony and after their procession in Windsor, on May 19, 2018.
(Photo by Steve Parsons / POOL / AFP)
Meghan Markle’s mother Doria Ragland, Britain’s Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Britain’s Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall leave the wedding ceremony of Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle.
(Photo by Ben STANSALL / POOL / AFP)
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The Duchess of Sussex famously wore light makeup and let her freckles shine through for her wedding to Prince Harry, so it looks like Martin’s words definitely sunk in with her.
Martin also noted that using Pinterest’s skin tone filter helped them find makeup looks that were well suited for the duchess’s complexion.
We may not have a celebrated makeup artist on speed dial, but we definitely have the Pinterest app. For now, that’s definitely good enough.
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