Rare Bird Beauties + 312FILMS | Chicago Wedding Hair & Makeup

The best bridal hair and makeup is the kind that survives the whole day intact, through tears at the ceremony, a bagpiper-led entrance, and hours on the dance floor, and still looks polished in the last frame of the film. Across two weddings we’ve filmed, Rare Bird Beauties has been behind that look.

About Rare Bird Beauties

Rare Bird Beauties is a Chicago-based luxury hair and makeup studio at 2248 W. Grand Ave, specializing in bridal and special-event beauty, along with custom hair extensions, spray tan, and wax/lash/brow services. The company has been featured on the cover of Chicago Style Weddings and in Martha Stewart Weddings and Modern Luxury, and has won WeddingWire’s Couples’ Choice Award every year from 2018 to 2025.

The Weddings We’ve Shared

• Grace & Vincent’s military winter wedding at the University Club of Chicago and Saint Clement Church, where Rare Bird Beauties handled hair and makeup for a February celebration that included a saber arch and 222 guests on the dance floor.
• Jenni & John’s summer wedding at Chicago Illuminating Company, where Rare Bird Beauties shared beauty duties with Holli Beauty for a 100-degree August day that started with hair and makeup at 7 AM.

What Rare Bird Beauties Brings to a Wedding Film

Hair and makeup that holds up on camera has to survive more than a single photo moment, it has to survive hours of continuous coverage: the first look, the ceremony, golden-hour portraits, and a full night of dancing. That’s the standard bridal beauty gets held to when there are two cameras rolling for eleven hours, and it’s what we’ve seen from Rare Bird Beauties across both of these weddings.

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