Teresa Giudicewas a every bit the Jersey bride for her luxewedding to Luis Ruelas— and that’s all thanks to her glam squad.
TheReal Housewives of New Jerseystar turned to her go-to team, makeup artistPriscilla DiStasioand hair stylistLucia Casazza, for her “go big or go home” bridal moment, creating a look fit for “the queen of Jersey,” as DiStasio puts it.
“If people know her, then they will totally understand what it means when I say iconic,” DiStasio tells PEOPLE when asked to sum up the star’s ultra-glam bridal makeup.
DiStasio turned to what she calls her go-to “X-factor” products to complete the look. For Giudice’s base, she went in with the Estée Lauder Double Wear Stay-in-Place collection and theEra Beauty Airbrush Foundation. For a smokey eye, she opted for a shadow from Pat McGrath and a Lilly Ghalichi lash set to add “a little drama and a little jersey” to the makeup.
For her lips, she went with a Christian Audette lip trio —Sueded Lip Liner in Paradise,a nude lipstick in Company Cardand alipgloss in Jardin de Paris— as well as a matte liquid lipstick from hercollaboration with Ricón in the shade Pure, which she says is a bridal must-have.
“It was such a soft bridal pink — it went with her dress which you guys saw. Her [first] dress had an undertone of a blush pink, so we kept her palette very soft and pastely,” DiStasio tells PEOPLE, referring to Giudice’scustom Mark Zunino Atelier bridal gown.
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And, to keep Giudice’s glam tear-proof, DiStasio relied on theCharlotte Tilbury flawless Finish Pressed Powderin medium and theBen Nye Final Seal Setting Spray. (“It’s like hairspray for the face, everything stays,” she says.)
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DiStasio was on duty all night telling PEOPLE that she was with Giudice “until four ‘o’clock in the morning taking out her hair.”
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The viral wedding hair was a close collaboration between Giudice andCasazza, who wanted her client to look like Jersey royalty.
“As we know, my girl Teresa is the queen of Jersey, so we needed hair that was fit for a queen,” Casazza revealed in aninterview with Andy Cohen SiriusXM’s Radio Andy. “You go big or you go home. [Teresa] said, ‘My hair has to be over the top.'”
Casazza also revealed that Ruelas prefers Giudice’s hair out of her face, which she was mindful of when creating the look and pulling Giudice’s locks into a twisted half-up look styled inside the custom crystal tiara fromBridal Styles Boutiquein Brooklyn, N.Y.
As her makeup artist for 14 years, DiStasio says that she didn’t do any kind of trial with the bride.
“She’s like ‘when are we going to do a trial?!’ and I said to Teresa ‘we have been doing trials for over a decade!'” she tells PEOPLE, calling the final look “clean, soft and glowy.”
“When it comes to my relationship with Teresa as her makeup artist [and] as her friend, there’s definitely a lot of trust there and she knows that I will never let her down,” she adds.
While Giudice hoped to test the beauty waters at first, DiStasio says she was actually “calm, cool and collected” in the glam chair.
“Teresa I guess may give the impression of like this diva or this like bridezilla what have you but she was none of the above,” she shares. “Teresa is so much more pure and calm and so much fun than people give her credit for. She was a breath of fresh air, there was not one peep out of her.”
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It wasn’t until the final makeup touch-ups at the chapel that she started to feel the jitters. “It was like watching a 25-year-old girl getting ready to walk down the aisle to the man she loves.”
“Theresa loves love as we all know. She’s got it all, she’s ready!”
source: people.com
