when it comes to prom there are two kinds of girls the ones that have
everything planned out in the ninth grade and the ones who plan to do it
before and I was definitely in the first category I can honestly say prom was one
of the most fun days of my life all the planning all the appointments that day
pictures with friends being with my boyfriend everything about it was really
amazing I had so much fun at prom and the reason I'm doing this video now
rather than in prom season is that the exact videos I was looking for at this
time of the year last year our videos like this and I couldn't find any to
watch I was obsessed with prom I had watched every problem you ready with me
every picking the prom dress every single video like that and there are
none that just explained the process of getting ready for prom and the best
timeline to use so today I'm bringing to you the ultimate prom timeline of
everything you have to get ready for prom
now here we have our prom in June so this is all centers around if your
prompt in June but if your problems in a different month just shift everything by
a little bit and everything only perfectly fine so like throughout this
video I'll just put a few pictures of me at prom because prom is so much fun and
I am blessed I'm actually going to prom again in June I mean my boyfriend hasn't
actually asked me yet but we've been dating for a really long time now so I
have a feeling I'm gonna get to go with him and I'm actually in the process of
getting all this stuff also that's all over again so I'm going to prom again so
the first important thing to do and going to prom is to set a budget and I
should be the first thing you do because if you don't set a budget and you start
buying things there's no chance you can stick to it so figure out what you want
your prom budget to be and then stick to it for me I have to admit I didn't
really set a budget last year because I wanted I wanted to be able do everything
the best I possibly could and I was really blessed that my parents were
happy to chip in so absolutely ask your parents and see if they'll help you out
instead of giving me a Christmas gift last year my dad his wife just gave me
money to our prom and I appreciated it so much what they gave me extra half of
my dress and my dress was like my dress was X or Bentley expensive it was
ridiculous so once you set a budget figure out how you're going to make it
work so if you need to work to have that money you need to start working if you
need to ask people or if you need to tell everyone for my birthday for
Christmas for all these upcoming gifts I want money that's what you have to start
doing this you have to start doing it so because if you get to prom date you
don't have money for your nails hair makeup tan it's gonna really really suck
so the second thing you need to do is find a dress now for example in Halifax
it's almost a bit late to be buying a dress now all the dress stores get their
stock in in November and in January so I guess it right now you can be there for
the second wave but the other stock in November and in January and then those
are the prime times to buy dresses after that you're having to buy things that
are off the rack rather than ordering them in and that means you'll get to
choose your color well I can just choose the right size and chances are people
will already have that dress now personally I wasn't a huge fan of
dresses in Halifax I tried on I am sure hundreds
dresses I tried on everything that came in to all the stores I had some of the
stores order things with me to try specially now I just didn't like any of
them and what happened was I'm just scrolling
through my Instagram and I saw buff bunny and she had posted a picture of
her at a red-carpet event in a dress and I clicked on the dress manufacturer and
I fell in love and that sucked because the dress was in Australia it costs so
much the dress action was not expensive in itself but the import to Canada was
going to be around $300 it was absolutely crazy so I spent a few months
convincing myself was the right dress convincing my parents speaking to the
company ask them what we could do about imports and duties and then just the
biggest blessing happened to me my friend's mom is travelling to Australia
and we were able to get it shipped to her hotel and she was able to bring it
back for me and that was just I'm so grateful because I don't know how I
would have known to afford the dress otherwise it would've been so incredibly
expensive this was actually kind of scary for me because that meant I didn't
get my dress until April when I promised on June 8th in getting your prom dress
very far in advance is extremely important because you're gonna need
alterations you need to buy accessories you need to match of tide of the color
of your dress so you wanna get the dress as soon as
you possibly can what might seem a little bit boring have your dress
sitting in your covered for months but it really helps another important reason
to get your prom dress and advance is to figure out what kind of shape you need
to be in to fit in your dress so my grass is a really tight dress so I want
to dedicate myself I want to be pretty lean I wanted work on my back widening
it out and toning it I wanted to work on my butt and having looked good in my
dress so if you get a tight dress you can work toward that if you have a
looser dress you can wear whatever your goals are for that so that will really
help you decide on what your goals are fitness wise if you get your dress
sooner rather than later so the next thing you have to do is book all of your
appointments and you have to really think about all the important ones that
are to make for me I had a Tanny appointment nail appointment hair
appointment and makeup appointment so I booked my hair and makeup in January
when I come is in June and then in March my makeup
artists she stopped responding to all my emails texts and calls so I booked
another makeup artist at that time which I was really blessed for and then I
booked my tan about a month before prom and I booked my tonight book my nails
only a few days before prom because I was going like a really small nail place
and I know me really well so they were able to fit my friends and I in but
booking all those really far in advance is so important especially because like
for example with me with a makeup artist just disappearing the blue Amen I was
able to still have time left to book someone else whereas if I had only found
out choosing a veil on me a few days before prom I don't know who I would
have got to do a makeup the other thing in disguise back in the budget thing is
if you both these all really far in advance you know exactly what your sack
costs are prom are going to be so my makeup was however much money my hair is
this much I can add all that but I knew exactly how much money I was going to
spend on the day of prom so you want to get your hair and makeup done the day of
prom obviously and you want your hair done first and your makeup done second
now I know lots of people who for my promo and makeup done first and then
their hair done that's totally fine too but I wasn't really a huge fan of the
idea of my makeup done and then having something like touching all over my hair
because I don't want to risk them like ruining it or getting hairspray on my
face or something so that's just the way I did that I got
my tan done two days before prom and what's important with the tan if you're
gonna get one done is to go about a month before that and get a practiced
hand on to figure out how you like it so I went a month before and I got a medium
tan and I waited a few days to see what I like to color the best and I nude
after three days is where I like the color the best so got my tan three days
before prom and then the last appointment I had was my nail
appointment which I told you guys I got done day before prom so it might show
how it works is you have all of your exams and then the next day is prom so I
finished it with my exam day before I went and got my nails done and I'm and
then the next day was prom you don't want your nails done too far in advance
and you don't want your nails done before your spray tan
there's always a risk of a tan staining your nails something you want to do at
the same time you're booking your appointments is booked a photographer
and this was really easy for me because my dad is an ABS
amazing photographer I knew because I had him for my grad he would he pictures
me my entire life I knew that no matter what I was gonna like the pictures
heated so I didn't have to book him he was coming to my prom anyway and he took
some amazing photo but you're gonna want to book a photographer and this is one
of the things you really should do pretty far in advance because if
everyone at your school is booking a photographer there you're gonna want it
done really quick next thing you do is find a date now
having a date to prom obviously is not necessary but it makes it a lot more fun
and it makes your pictures necessarily not necessarily look better but it makes
your pictures a bit more fun you can draw like the cute boy girl poses so my
prom date was just automatically set for me it was my boyfriend we'd already been
dating for four years by the time prom came around so it's not like it was any
shock we went together but the reason you need to pick your date ahead of time
is so that you can match a tie boutonniere a pocket square whatever it
is that you want to match you should do that really far in advance or it's hard
to find matching colors if you're into a prom pose a lot something you have to
point out in advance too so although it was obvious like boyfriend and I were
gonna go to prom together we had our promposal a few months before
and I think I'm gonna do a whole video on different promposal ideas for prom
2019 but the way I did it I thought was actually really really cute and I'll
tell the whole story of that in that video once that video is done I'll link
it down below actually I'll put like my whole prom playlist down below so after
you have a date you're gonna want to start buying accessories and the reason
I told you to wait on accessories until you have a date or if you know you're
gonna have a date is so that you can match everything together so my prom
accessories with my red dress were a pair of gold shoes a pair of gold
sparkly earrings of gold clutch my friend actually she left me a necklace
for prom and then for my boyfriend I picked up a little bow tie it was so
cute I can get him a pocket square and then he went to a flower shop and bought
the corsage and boutonniere which is something you also need to order ahead
of time maybe like just a few days ahead of time so that gets done in time so
after all that you're gonna want to start having your practice appointments
which is what I talked about before so definitely get a practice tam if you're
gonna have a tan for prom it is imperative that you have
this one um makeup it depends on how much you trust your makeup artist I had
the utmost trust her makeup artist she is known so well in Halifax for being
the absolute best I will link her below because anyone in Halifax you should go
to this woman she is amazing but there was no reason we have a practice done it
would have been really expensive to have a practice done but also it just would
have been unnecessary because I knew she wasn't doing an amazing job either way I
think I'm definitely going back to her this year I already have my appointment
booked actually I'm so excited she is so good at what she does instead of me
saying here's a look I wanted for problem I showed her my dress and then
she did something to match it and it was just perfect
but if you're going to a smaller makeup artist or if you're just not sure what
the quality's gonna be like it's always a good choice doing have a practice
session first and the same goes for hair I had no reason have a hair practice
done either I was sure that my hair person was gonna do an amazing job so it
wasn't stress doing it at all but if you're worried it's always good have
that practice done and a lot of people will offer a package I know it a lot of
the hair salons they had like inside of it costing you twice to have your hair
done it only cost like one half times so if that's worth it to you then that's
absolutely a good idea now for me with nails I had had gel nails done a bunch
of times before and I knew the quality of a slaw and I was going to I knew they
were into a really good job and I knew they could do what I wanted them to do
so I really didn't have any reason to go to practice on that but if you've never
had gel nails before I totally recommend getting a practice done because
otherwise you're not gonna be used to having gel nails for prom and it's kind
of hard to do things that very first day I'm getting them done and if you're used
to it honestly it kind of hurt just like a little bit on your nails so definitely
do that so at some point you're have to buy your tickets that will obviously be
through your school or whoever you go to prom with but for me it was just a
couple weeks before prom I had to put it on you know we're going so it was like
my family and my boyfriend and I and then what we were gonna have as our prom
meal so that's just thing you have to keep in mind that you're gonna have to
pay for those tickets so definitely consider that when you do your budget
after this I'm gonna die would say at this point you're what a month out from
prom it's important to start focusing on your skin
so I was doing face masks hi ready max clearing masks I was focusing on my diet
I totally don't have enough water there's a lot of things you can do to
make sure that your skin is really good for prom and you really have to focus on
that now I just get really close to prom I'm talking in that last week is when
all those appointments come up you have your hair and makeup all that plus it's
time to start whitening your teeth that's something you're interested in
I used Crest Whitestrips leading up to prom so that my teeth could be all shiny
and sparkly new for time we got to promise so I think that is most of the
things I wanted to mention about everything leading up to prom and a good
timeline of things you have to get done I'm sure there are other things you have
to get done for prom too with those the ones that really stuck out to me as
important I think I'm gonna eat another video on like had a new prom on a budget
because I think that's a really important thing for people to consider
too because I don't know for me I was really saving for this I was lucky that
my parents involved but for some people prom is a really big expense and there
are some really easy ways to do prom in a budget that I'd love to share with you
guys but as I mentioned I think this is gonna be an entire like group of videos
I'm gonna do because I don't know I found this was really missing from
YouTube last year as being for them there was all kinds of prom gear ends
with me and I swear I'll do one of those when it comes to prom this year but
there weren't a lot of getting ready leading up to prom type things so I
think this is something that I do on my channel so something once I'm gonna do
for sure our prom on a budget promposal ideas just all that fun stuff but anyway
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