Tips
Choosing the Perfect Prom Dress for 2012 Prom Night
Prom night is still months away, but just like your friends you are already in the middle of preparing for the big night, the biggest night in your young life. One of, if not the most important items in your checklist is your prom dress. Choosing the perfect prom dress is proving to be a big challenge because you want to be your prettiest for that special night. You want a prom dress that will make you look awesomely gorgeous. Your date for the prom night is your crush and your goal is that he won’t have eyes for no one else but you on that big night. To help you out, consider the following tips on choosing the perfect prom dress so that you’ll achieve your goal:
Nail down what you like – With the humongous styles, colors and designs of prom dress out there, choosing the perfect prom dress can really be intimidating if you don’t know what you like. Ask yourself if you want a long or short prom dress, with sleeves, straps or strapless, vintage or contemporary and try to picture in your mind how you would want to look on prom night.
Do some due diligence work – Do some research – browse fashion magazines, surf the net and try to find something that come close to the perfect prom dress in your mind. Bring the magazine or print your choice when you go shopping.
Make sure that you get the perfect fit – The fit of a prom dress will make the difference between being comfortably gorgeous and awkwardly ill at ease. Your prom dress should fit perfectly to flatter your figure.
Find an age-appropriate prom dress – Sure, you dream of a prom dress that is lovely, elegant, and stunning but it should also be age appropriate. Choose a prom dress that will show off your fresh and youthful beauty and not one that will make you look like you’re aping your elders.
Choose your colors well – Choosing the perfect prom dress entails choosing the color that best compliment your skin tone and eye color.
The final tip for choosing the perfect prom dress: it should make you not look beautiful but also make you feel beautiful.
2012 Prom Hairstyle and Makeup Ideas
Prom night is the most awaited night in a young girl’s life. Long before the event, the dress, shoes and accessories for this very important occasion have been chosen and everything is ready. Now, all that is needed is the hairstyle and makeup, two very essential elements to make this night a really magical night. The best muses for hot and fabulous prom hairstyle and makeup are, of course, our favorite celebrity icons. Whether it’s vintage inspired, old Hollywood glam, simple and elegant or colorful and bold, there is always a celebrity hairstyle and makeup to draw inspiration from.
Blake Lively
Blake Lively as Serena in “Gossip Girl” sports a Rapunzel-like sexy braided ponytail that is a perfect prom hairstyle. This stylish and super glamorous updo is based on the rope braiding technique. For the prom, keep the sides and top sleek and the braid a little messy to avoid looking like a schoolgirl. Pair this fabulous updo with a natural look makeup like Serena’s with well defined brows, subtle color on the cheeks to warm them and bright pink or coral high-shine lip gloss shade.
Emma Watson
If you have a flawless skin like that of Emma Watson, then flaunt it! You can accentuate your lovely complexion for your prom makeup by using pink eye shadow on the outer edge of your eyelids and white eye shadow on the corners. Skip the eyeliner but apply tons of mascara on your curled lashes and give it a finished touch with clear gloss on your lips. For your prom hairstyle, wrap a fun red ribbon headband around a bun and you’re done!
Ashley Tisdale
If you want a striking look for the prom, try Ashley’s rosy cheeks, fiery red lipstick and half up/half down hairstyle. A barely-there makeup with only one dash of color is a more obvious and eye-catching prom makeup than makeup done with a heavy hand.
How to be an Effective Prom Planner
How to be an Effective Prom Planner
Being chosen as the prom planner or head of the prom planning committee for your prom is a great honor and distinction. To be given such a responsibility means that the school recognizes your management and executive capability. It is however, a big task that requires great attention to details and a lot of coordination to ensure that the prom turns out to be perfect. To help you plan a perfect prom that will do you, your committee and your school proud, here are some planning pointers for you:
• Prepare a check list of all the details, big and small, that need to be attended to and do a tasking assignment. Assign tasks to committee members within their known area of expertise.
• The theme of the prom should be decided by the entire committee but the details of the decoration can be assigned to a member.
• If the prom will be held outside of the school and choosing a venue is one of the duties of your committee, take this task as your own personal assignment. This is a most important element in ensuring the success of the prom.
• Prepare evaluation criteria of what would be an ideal prom night venue such as price and what the price includes, safety and accessibility of the location, ample parking space, venue capacity, its sound and lighting facilities, and the venue’s capability to handle a band.
• You can also request for suggestions from your members and evaluate the proposed venues as a team.
• In choosing entertainment, ask the committee member assigned to take care of this aspect to submit at least three alternatives that the whole committee can deliberate on. All the committee members can even go and watch the bands perform live so that you will have a basis for comparison.
• Selection criteria for a band should be its flexibility and ability to perform different types of music and its dependability. You want to make sure that when prom night arrives there will be a band to provide the music. Some bands are pretty notorious for their unreliability.
• DJs have become very popular fixtures in proms. Discuss with the committee if the prom budget would allow the hiring of a DJ. The selection of a DJ should go through the same process as selecting a band.
• Once the committee has selected a band or DJ or both, have a contract of undertaking prepared with all the details that you have agreed upon written in clear and understandable terms – the price and what it includes such as sound and light equipments, mode and time of payment, time, date and address of the prom venue, time they are expected to be in attendance. Be very explicit to prevent some switch and bait ploy. Ensure also that the band or DJ or both are covered by a liability insurance.
• Call for regular committee meetings to get an update of each and every committee member’s progress in their assigned task. If help is needed by a particular committee member assigned to a task of say coming up with fund raising activities, or prom décor, all the members of the committee particularly you, as the head of the committee should be ready to lend a hand.
