Makeup artist not 100% reliable

I would give her until end of day today and then if I didn’t hear back from her I would hire the other person....and I would text her and tell her that’s your plan. Good luck

This situation mirrors my own so much! My wedding is in 3 weeks and my makeup artist, who I booked via a deposit back in March, contacted me via text saying that she was now double booked and couldn't do my wedding. Mind you when I originally booked her she was available for my date. She never gave me a contract so when she decided to take this other client's wedding (aka bigger wedding party so more money) there was nothing I could do. I immediately started looking for other makeup artists and reaching out to them. Given the time crunch, there's not much time to do makeup trials and explore options.

I say you should go ahead and start reaching out to other makeup artists, especially since you have such a limited amount of time before the wedding. Firstly, you shouldn't have to worry about the artist not giving her best effort or rushing so she can service other clients that same day. Secondly, her inability to confirm her availability for the time you requested is a red flag. Good luck and I hope it works out for you!

View Quoted Comment Yes I hope so! Thank you!

View Quoted Comment Oh no I’m sorry that you are going through the same thing! Yes that’s the only thing about not having a contract it very unreliable because you never know what can happen and they don’t feel as responsible because their is no contract to hold them accountable! And yes I’m kinda feeling bad for some reason about canceling even though I know shouldn’t because she is not being reliable about being there. Hopefully everything works out for you! Keep me updated to see how everything goes hun!

I was in a similar situation when I did my bridal portraits. My HAMU person cancelled on me after I had already paid the deposit and then come the day of she became very rude and tried to keep my deposit and say I was the one who cancelled. Lucky for me she had referred me to a fellow HAMU friend who was able to do my appointment and also transferred the deposit to her. My new HAMU person had my wedding day available so I cancelled with the original girl since the wedding deposit had not been made just to have a peace of mind about the wedding day.

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I agree with this. It would also worry me that she didn't reserve the whole morning for you since that is common for wedding day makeup.

View Quoted Comment Oh wow that sucks! Good thing you were able to get someone for the day of your wedding!

View Quoted Comment Yes that’s the one thing that concerns she never communicated that she had another event the same day and apparently very close in time.. she did reach out to me just a moment ago and she said that she was going to “try” to change the time but that we were going to be short on time 🙄

If she intended to book multiple jobs in one day, she really should have confirmed times before she accepted additional gigs. It's not uncommon for MUAs to have multiple jobs, but it is unprofessional to not schedule them properly. Personally, I would just tell her that you really don't feel comfortable with the time crunch and that you will be going with someone else. There's no contract, so you can get out of it just as easily as the MUA can. Keep us posted!

I had a similar situation with a photgrapher though! The one I was going to hire did not have a contract. She ended up having some life events happen, and didn't respond to my messages after a while. So I decided to do some research and seeing that you should have a contract with all vendors, I let her know that something had come up (we had to move our date out further) and then she responded with okay! and that was it. nothing in response to my questions i had for her and such. So I immeditely started looking for other photographers. I have a meeting with one next week, but had a meeting with one last week and it was one of the best meetings I have had.

Hope that helps at all!