Hair and makeup artists who suck

I had a hair and makeup test run last night that went really REALLY bad.. I know the hair stylist through the salon I go to, he gave me his card once and said he does up-do’s and can style for events. He always does a beautiful job on my hair so I messaged him about a hair trial for my wedding. He also told me his boyfriend does makeup, he’s a drag queen but also knows how to do makeup on females. I checked out his page and he really is an artist, he does beautiful work and although I couldn’t find any pics of females he’s done makeup on, I could tell that he knows how to tone it down and do a more subtle look. So last night they both came over, and it was a disaster..

My makeup was terrible - the contour, both eye looks, everything. I even visited him at his job at Sephora before the test run to buy stuff he thought we needed for the pallet I’m going for ($130 at Sephora). I had my phone out the whole time with a picture of the look I was going for and it looked nothing like it. My eye liner wings were ridiculous, he apologized for them and said it was because I didn’t have the right kind of liner. He wants to do another test run for free to get the look down but I have no confidence in him.

The hair wasn’t anything special either.. I had a pic up for him the whole time of what I wanted, mostly down with simple beach waves and a little braid in the back. It wasn’t even close. But here’s the tricky part - he’s holding my $300 hair extensions for ransom.. I bought these extensions a while back and needed them color matched so I dropped them off to him over a month ago to color match. He brought them last night for the test run but they were nowhere close to my color. So he took them with him when he left to color them again.

So I need to 1) figure out how to get my extensions back, I don’t even care if they’re the right color, I’ll take them somewhere else. And 2) figure out how to break the news that I don’t want either of them to do my hair and makeup for the wedding.

Oh, and the cherry on top- they both invited themselves to my reception last night when we were in the middle of talking about how rude my fiancé’s mom is for inviting extra people. I was on the spot, I said yes.. But I think once I break it off with them they’ll be smart enough to realize they can’t come to the reception..