Regardless of where your love life's at these days, consider this: Women go to great lengths to ensure they're obsessed with their wedding day makeup—but why limit looking that fab to just one event? Speaking to legendary makeup artists and combing through the depths of internet, MarieClaire.com tracked down the cosmetics used to create the legendary looks of Priyanka Chopra, Kate Middleton, Serena Williams, Amal Clooney, and other dewy brides on their respective wedding days so you can steal them, well, tomorrow. It turns out, most products are way more wallet-friendly than you'd imagine. Here, a round-up of the products used to create the most iconic bridal beauty looks of our generation.
Priyanka Chopra opted for a makeup look that was simple but bold for her and Nick Jonas's Western wedding ceremony. Tapping makeup artist Yumi Mori, the glowing new bride matched subtle eye-makeup with gently flushed cheeks—perhaps taking a page from close friend Meghan Markle’s wedding day playbook. Never one to shy away from bold colors, Priyanka counterbalanced the graceful complexion with a loud fuchsia lip.
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Priyanka’s Bold Lipstick
Marc Jacobs Beauty Le Marc Lip Crème in Boy Gorgeous 222, $30
As revealed in makeup artist Yumi Mori's wedding weekend Instagrams, the style icon exclusively wore Marc Jacobs Beauty. To create Priyanka’s glamorous and sultry lip, Mori used the brand's creamiest lipstick offering in Boy Gorgeous 222, a deep magenta-red that’s been infused with hydrating seaberry and cocoa butter.
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Priyanka's Nude Eyeshadow
Marc Jacobs Beauty Eye-Conic Multi-Finish Eyeshadow Palette – Coconut Fantasy Collection, $49
To recreate the sensual-nude pigments of rose quartz and deep maroon used for Priyanka’s wedding ceremony eyelids, meet Marc Jacobs Beauty’s Coconut Fantasy Collection palette. Containing 7 rich pigments in 4 different finishes, the palette's shades can be worn alone to add a gentle glimmer or mixed and matched together for a variety of bolder looks. The base shade used by Priyanka is 'On The Dance.'
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Priyanka's Lit-From-Within Flush
Marc Jacobs Beauty Air Blush Soft Glow Duo blush duo in Kink and Kisses 504, $42
Yumi Mori used a few swooshes of Marc Jacobs Beauty’s blush duo palette in Kink & Kisses 504 on Priyanka to create romantically flushed cheeks with soft pigments of petal-pink and peachy-rose.
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Priyanka's Lengthy Lashes
Marc Jacobs Beauty Velvet Noir Major Volume Mascara in Noir, $26
To create thick and dramatic lashes, Priyanka used Marc Jacobs' 'Velvet Noir' mascara—a product inspired by Jacobs' mother, who used to shave fibers from velvet ribbon to make her own false lashes. The mascara was developed to give wearers a similar look—thankfully, without the hassle.
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Kate Middleton
Kate Middleton famously did her own makeup for her 2011 nuptials, with only a smidgen of "makeup artistry assistance" from Bobbi Brown pro and artistry manager Hannah Martin prior to the big day, or so it has widely been reported. Kate created a shimmering and swoon-worthy look with black liner on her lids and lower lash line, rosy cheeks, and a creamy pink lipstick.
As one does when marrying a prince in front of 24 million people—or attending any event that might trigger waterworks, for that matter—Kate Middleton opted for a waterproof mascara. Designed to be worn alone or layered atop any other Bobbi Brown mascara (as to make it instantly waterproof), Kate's No Smudge Waterproof Mascara rendered her wedding day lashes flawlessly foolproof.
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Kate's Shimmery Highlighter
Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick Highlighter in Pink Quartz, $48
Rosy cheeks are a staple of the Duchess of Cambridge's beauty look. For the big day, the glowing royal brushed on Bobbi Brown's Shimmer Brick Highlighter in Pink Quartz.
To match her pink blush, Kate opted for the sandwash pink shade of Bobbi Brown's legendary semi-matte lipstick, a creamy product infused with Vitamins C, E, and a beeswax-y moisturizer. Fun fact: this was actually Bobbi Brown's first product ever when the brand began.
Speaking exclusively to MarieClaire.com, Serena William's longtime makeup artist, Natasha Gross, broke down how she brilliantly brought Serena's wedding-day vision to life: "For Serena's wedding look, she wanted a clean soft look. She didn't want the makeup to overpower the dress," Gross shared.
"One of the key products I used was the Armani fluid sheer which gives your skin a glow. Who doesn’t love to have a radiant, luminous look for their wedding day?" posited Gross. The weightless, translucent highlighter can be used with foundation to add polishing definition, or alone as a makeup base.
"The foundation I used was Make Up Forever HD foundation. They have a buildable coverage so I was able to customize the perfect finish for her," Gross said of the 40-shade line.
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Serena's Neutral Matte Lipstick
Too Faced Melted Matte Liquified Matte Long Wear Lipstick - Suck It, $32
"For the lip product, Serena always prefers a more matte lipstick. I did a neutral color from Too Faced melted matte liquid lipstick called suck it," Gross shared.
Despite Kimye's decadent wedding—which amounted to an estimated $2.8 million—Kim's wedding-day makeup only totaled to $180. Makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic detailed the products he used to create Kim's classic and soft look to The Cut following the 2014 nuptials.
Would it really have been a Kardashian wedding (or any Kardashian excursion) without highlighter mastery? Answer: obviously not. To accentuate her cheekbones, Dedivanovic opted for Urban Decay's Naked Flushed palette in 'Going Native.'
Let's all please take a moment to soak in how Kim Kardashian, whose wedding (again) cost $2.8 million, wore an eyeshadow that costs $2 more than a round-trip subway fare in New York City. Kim wore Eternal Sunshine, the golden shade pictured on top.
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Amal Clooney
For the occasion of becoming Mrs. Clooney, the human rights lawyer and fashion icon wore a soft-focused look with pink lips, glowing skin, and shimmering eyeshadow. The full and complete steps on how to obtain Amal Clooney's stunning bridal look are detailed on the website of Charlotte Tilbury, Clooney's makeup artist. Pictured here is Amal at her civil ceremony (photos from the actual big day can be seen here).
To bring Amal's cheekbones to sculpted perfection, Tilbury used her Filmstar contour palette. Make no mistake about it, George Clooney's better half has stunning cheekbones as is. What Tilbury's palette allows for is extra highlighting for that photo-ready finish. Whitney Port and Kate Moss also wore the Filmstar contour palette on their respective wedding days.
To polish off Amal's wedding day cheeks, Charlotte swished her Cheek to Chic power blush on the apple of Clooney's cheeks after applying her Filmstar palette. In effect, this created a dripping in candlelight glow.
For Amal's lips, Tilbury blended together two of her different lipsticks to create a sultry, burnt rose look. You can't buy the combined shade, but you can re-create the look yourself: First apply the matte revolution lipstick in Bond Girl (pictured here), then blend the Walk of Shame lipstick in the center of the lips.
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Meghan Markle
By now, almost anybody who follows the royals ::raises both hands in the air and waves them around like I just don't care:: should know that makeup artist Daniel Martin used Dior Backstage Beauty to create that Royal Wedding Markle Sparkle. Speaking to Glamour, Martin describes how he and Meghan were inspired to create a look that could be described as "timeless, effortless, and chic." Like all brides, Meghan wanted to look like her best self.
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Meghan's Eyeshadow
Dior Backstage Eye Palette in Warm Neutrals 001, $49
The royal bride opted for Dior Backstage's new eye palette in Warm Neutrals 001 (which was released to us commoners a week after the royal nuptials). The blendable palette comes with brown neutrals with warm undertones and also has an eyeshadow primer that reinforces hold.
Martin used Dior Backstage Face & Body foundation in matte finish, which kept Markle's freckles visible and created that universally-coveted look of fresh, luminous skin. Martin noted in an interview with GMA that he only used foundation where needed to balance out any redness or uneven skin tone.
Martin told Glamour:"There’s something magical that happens to the irises of her eyes when you add warm tones of rusts or copper close to them (in the tight line or waterline). With this in mind, I wanted her eyes to almost 'flutter' as she looked up at Harry (he's 6'1)." To bring the flutter effect to life, Martin opted for Dior Diorshow's liquid eyeliner with a super flexible tip.
For her lips, Martin used a cult-favorite: the Lip Glow (literally, six of these sell every minute around the world). The sheer balm not only moisturizes and protects lips, but it supposedly enhances natural color through a technology that reacts to each person's lips to give them a color that suits their skin tone. Meghan wore the peachy Coral Glow shade, which has a satin finish.
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Gwen Stefani
Gwen Stefani famously went for a non-traditional bridal look during for her wedding to Gavin Rossdale, wearing a custom-made pink-and-white Dior gown by John Galliano. Also worth remembering (and replicating) is her bold wedding day makeup, which was the stuff of rockstar princess dreams.
The No Doubt singer opted for a bold lip with a smooth, satin finish on her wedding day. According to Stefani's longtime makeup artist Tommy Quinn, Giorgio Armani Beauty Rouge Ecstasy Lipstick in #503 matches her choice.
Jaimie PottersAssociate Manager of Content PartnershipsJaimie Potters is the Associate Manager of Content Partnerships at Hearst Magazines Digital Media, and a digital contributor for MarieClaire.com, ELLE.com, HarpersBazaar.com, ELLEDecor.com, and OprahMag.com.
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