How to Choose a Bridal Hair and Makeup Artist in Athens

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How to choose a bridal hair and makeup artist in Athens

Choosing your bridal artist is choosing who spends the most important morning of your life beside you. Portfolios help. The right questions tell you more.

BY STAVROS SISMANIDIS6 MIN READOCTOBER 2026

The wedding morning, Athens

Athens has hundreds of hair and makeup artists, and most of them have a beautiful portfolio. What separates them is how they handle the morning itself. Before you book bridal hair and makeup in Athens, ask these seven questions.

Do they do a trial, and where?The trial is where the look is designed for your dress, your venue and your light. It is not optional.

Who exactly comes on the morning?The artist in the portfolio should be the artist at your door. Ask for names.

Can they handle the whole party?Ask how many artists come for a party your size, and who goes first. The bride should go last.

Do they come to you?The morning should not include traffic. A private team comes to your home, hotel or venue.

Do they plan for the weather?Sea air and wind on the Riviera, heat in the city. Products and styles should be chosen for both.

Will they send a written schedule?To you and your planner, before the day. Without one, the morning is improvised.

Do they stay for touch-ups?For long celebrations, a touch-up artist keeps the look intact for the photographs.

The portfolio shows what an artist can do. The questions show how they will do it on your morning.

Where in Athens

A private team should cover the whole city: the northern suburbs, from Kifisia to Psychiko; the centre and Kolonaki; and the Riviera, from Glyfada to Vouliagmeni. Seaside weddings bring their own considerations, which we cover in wedding beauty on the Athens Riviera.

Hair first, makeup after

The whole family, one schedule

The best mornings are planned as one schedule: bridesmaids, mothers, guests and the groom. With femme by [sēnsei] for the women and [sēnsei] for the groom and the men, everyone is ready at the same time. For the full week before, read the wedding week, hour by hour.

THE SHORT VERSION

Choose the artist who does a trial, names who comes, sizes the team to your party, comes to you, plans for the weather and puts the schedule in writing.

Questions

When should I book my bridal artist in Athens?

As soon as you have your date and venue, and earlier for larger bridal parties.

Do bridal artists come to the hotel?

A private team comes to your home, hotel or venue anywhere in Athens and on the Riviera.

Can the groom be looked after too?

Yes. The groom and the men are looked after by [sēnsei], on the same schedule.

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STAVROS SISMANIDISFounder & Creative Director of [sēnsei] London Group. Award-winning artist, formerly backstage at Milan, Paris and London Fashion Weeks.

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