Brides ask this every week, usually about extensions: how long does it take, really? Not the appointment, the whole thing. So here is the honest answer with numbers, because you deserve to plan a morning rather than hope for one.
Getting-ready hair for the bride is typically seventy-five to ninety minutes for a style without extensions, and ninety to a hundred and twenty with extensions. The extra time is not the styling, it is the blending, the checking, and the pinning so nothing shifts. A bride in K-tips who wants an updo gets the full ninety minutes, and she should.
Party hair runs thirty-five to fifty minutes per person for hair down or a simple half-up, and forty-five to sixty for a full updo. Multiply accordingly. Six people with mixed styles is roughly four hours, which is why the chair times matter more than the total.
Makeup runs forty-five to sixty for the bride and thirty to forty per person for the party. When hair and makeup are booked together, we overlap them so one person is in the makeup chair while another is getting hair, which cuts the total morning by nearly half.
Add fifteen minutes at the end for the bride. Not for styling, for the finish: the veil test, the mirror check in two kinds of light, the photographs in the room, the moment to breathe. It is the most valuable quarter hour of the morning.
Seven or more hair services adds a second artist, and that is not upselling, it is arithmetic. Our investment page explains the structure, and inquire with your headcount gets you a written timeline.
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