We take bookings up to 12 months before your wedding date.

We take a £100 booking fee. £70 of it comes off your final wedding-day balance, and £30 is a non-refundable admin fee. Once your date is secured, we’ll invite you to book your trial.

Hair and makeup for the bride on the wedding day costs £220 in Edinburgh. Your final quote depends on the size of your party and where you’re getting ready.

Prices for your party:

• 2 people: £170 hair · £190 makeup

• 3 people: £250 hair · £270 makeup

• 4 people: £320 hair · £340 makeup

• 5 people: £380 hair · £410 makeup

We offer a lower price for young flower girls, although their hair can take just as long, so it depends on the style.

Yes, you can book us separately, but we prefer to take bookings as a team.

As many as you like. We plan the timings around your party. Most weddings are around five people, and we’ve done up to 12. For bigger parties, we can bring in other hair and makeup artists to help.

It depends on the time of year. Get in touch with your date and we’ll let you know.

Your balance is due in the month of your wedding. Ask us for a payment link, or you can pay in cash.

Unfortunately, we can’t move your booking fee to a new date, because we’ll have turned away other work for your original date.

Yes. If we need to start before 6am, including travel time, there’s an extra charge.

Around an hour and a half. We talk through your ideas, build your look step by step and tweak it until you’re completely happy.

A hair and makeup trial costs £140. Trials are only for brides who’ve secured their date with us.

Three to four months before the wedding. By then your dress, bridesmaids’ outfits and flowers are usually settled, and they all shape your look.

At Monica’s Beehive salon, Out of the Blue, 36 Dalmeny Street, Leith. Saturday slots are usually only available in quieter months, so book early.

Ideally, come without makeup, or in your usual daily makeup (no waterproof mascara). Wear a top close to your dress’s colour and neckline, and bring your accessories and inspiration photos. Photos from our own pages are best because they’re real and unfiltered.

Yes, we work as a team. We only bring in another hair and makeup artist for large parties or very early starts.

Hair takes around 30 minutes per person and makeup around 45 minutes. Sharon allows an hour for the bride’s skin prep and makeup, and with a group of four or more she likes to do the bride second or third.

We’ll give you a start and finish time. Within that, it helps to put together a rough schedule, as you’ll know who’s happy to go first and who needs to go last. We like to do the bride’s makeup, then hair, in the middle of the morning. As long as everyone (especially the first few people) has an approximate time, there’s no need to stick to it rigidly. We’ll keep everything flowing smoothly.

Space, a table, sockets for heated rollers and, above all, natural light. Ideally, set up the makeup chair facing a window, and Monica needs good lighting too. Sharon brings a tall chair for makeup, but she’d be grateful if you can find one so she doesn’t have to. An ironing board makes an excellent makeup table.

Clean hair is best, but go easy on the conditioner. Monica sets dry hair in heated rollers before styling, which adds volume and smoothness.

Yes. If you’d like us to stay for touch-ups after the ceremony, we’ll work out timings and agree a price with you in advance.

We have a network of trusted hair and makeup artists who have all agreed to step in if one of us is ill.

Yes. Ask us for prices for male grooming. We do children’s hair from age 4.

Absolutely. In over 25 years in the industry, we’ve worked with every skin and hair type, and we carry makeup shades for all skin tones.

Yes. Sharon uses hypoallergenic products wherever possible. If you’re unsure, you’re welcome to bring some of your own products.

Yes, at no extra charge. Sharon has a selection of natural cluster lashes, or you can bring your own.

Avoid eyebrow waxing in the week of the wedding, and apply any self-tan two days before.

Yes, your makeup will last the whole day. If you have oily skin, Sharon recommends blotting papers, plus a colourless powder for touch-ups, especially if the weather’s hot.

Sharon’s kit changes as new products come out. At the moment she loves Lisa Eldridge, Fenty and Vieve, plus Huda palettes and MAC lipsticks.

Yes. We cover all of Scotland and travel worldwide for destination weddings.

Outside Edinburgh, we charge £60 an hour for each of us. In the city centre, we try to use public transport, but if we need to pay for parking, that’s added to your bill.

We tailor every destination quote to the location, party size, and services. Travel, accommodation and expenses are included and itemised in your quote. If you live near Edinburgh, we recommend having your trial with us before you go.

Yes. Sharon offers facials with a taster session of hypnotherapy, either in her Tonic cabin or on the wedding day if arranged in advance. This costs £100.

It’s a lovely way to help your mind stay calm and enjoy the day, so worries and anxieties have less hold over you. You can have a session before the wedding, online or in Sharon’s Tonic cabin, or on the morning itself before hair and makeup. Sessions cost £60.

Sharon comes to you for a two-hour lesson. Lay out all your skincare and makeup, and she’ll work through it with you. By the end, you’ll have great tips and recommendations to modernise your look. Lessons cost £145.

Yes, we have gift vouchers for makeup lessons.