I hired Ishnae & Co for my wedding on November 3, 2019. One of the first people I hired when I started planning my wedding was my makeup artist. I know how fast they get booked up and I booked them a year in advance. They were super easy to work with and on time and very professional. They did my makeup for my engagement shoot and for my ceremony and for my reception. Not only was Isha and Renee so easy to work with but they kept me laughing the whole time. They made sure all of my 10 bridesmaids looked so bomb too. Their team is just as good as them which is very rare and I love that about them. I mainly worked with Sonya leading up to the wedding since she coordinates everything and she was extremely nice too. My makeup stayed on through the tears and everything else. I showed them a picture and they recreated that even better. I recommend Ishnae mainly due to one reason: they will make you look like yourself on your wedding day and not someone 10 shades lighter and you won't feel like you have a mask on. My husband and everyone loved my makeup. They knew I was extra and they made sure I looked EXTRA on my wedding day.

Ishnae Beauty is very reliable, friendly, and flexible! I would highly refer them to future brides!

I don’t know if I would recommend Ishnae for Indian bridal hair & makeup due to the lack of communication prior to the wedding. Future Indian brides should know what to expect.
I reached out to Ishnae May 2021 the month I got engaged. In June 2021 I went back & forth with their administrator Sonya for a wedding date. I continuously sent constant emails & even went through the website. I wanted Ishnae as my HMU artists based on recs. My experience wasn’t the same as my friends. I literally booked my wedding date based on their availability. I paid a wedding deposit on June 30, 2021 for January 2022 wedding. If your bride pays you a deposit, there should be a quicker response afterwards if she has questions about her wedding evets, hair & makeup etc. & not take 3-4 weeks to respond. Being a Covid bride, the response time was slow, lacking, stressful ,& frustrating.
When I tried scheduling my engagement & wedding video shoot fall of 2021, again took several weeks to respond & Sonya said they couldn’t do it. I wanted a bridal trial before the wedding, but this did not happen. Sonya confirmed with me back on the phone that Ishnae can do my bridal trial for my bridal shower on January 8 2022. I contacted her December 4, 2021 to confirm the bridal shower date, no response. I sent her pics of my hair so I could confirm she would order hair extensions, no response. I texted her several times, no response. I’m literally getting married January 21, 2022, & when you have paid someone thousands of dollars & they aren’t responding, it’s disheartening, stressful, and unprofessional. On January 5, 2022, Sonya finally responded a month later that it was Renae’s moms birthday and they couldn’t do it. If she responded earlier in December 2021, I could have found another HMU artist for my bridal shower earlier and not last minute.
The wedding week, I asked the makeup artist in person “oh I see y’all post on instagram highlights of your brides,” her response was we only highlight out of town brides ( not dfw brides). Just because someone is not getting married in another state or out of country, each bride should get the same level of equivalent respect. The pics & videos they took of me wedding week I never got them nor were they ever posted on any social medial platform.
If an event was delayed or the order of the person getting makeup changed( my SIL & mom got their makeup done as well), I had to text Sonya & not the actual HMU artists Ishae and Renae. On the wedding week the bride should be able to communicate straight to the HMU artist & give the bride Ishae and Renee’s phone numbers. It was stressful talking to Sonya when she already lacked communication.
Apparently, Ishnae gave a list to of things to do and not do for hair & makeup prior to wedding week to some of their former brides, but they did not for me. We had friends that got married in Louisiana that used Ishnae & they let them know about a list of dos/do nots. I did not receive any proper checklist. You should be giving this to your bride as soon as they pay their deposit months in advance or have a phone call about everything, not last minute.
I gave both Ishae & Renae a tip because I still think people deserve a tip for their hard work. My makeup lipstick was light & did not show up well in pics. My dupatta for the wedding was off centered and not placed properly. My pithi flower tikka was showing through my hair on the top of my head in pics and didn’t look good.
Your administrative side needs work. Ishnae is the only vendor that didn’t ever respond & the most difficult/stressful vendor to deal with prior to the wedding. I could have had more ideas of different type of hair and makeup if Sonya communicated that to me when I paid my deposit several months prior. In hindsight, I would tell Indian brides that they need to look for a hair and makeup artist that communicates to them thoroughly prior to their wedding. I had questions about hair and makeup & no response. A bride should not feel this way when she is confirming everything the month before her wedding.