i cancelled my makeup artist less than 2 months before my wedding

Hello.. just thought I would leave my advice based on my not so great experience.. so I’m getting married on November this year.. I booked my makeup artist earlier this year.. but I made several mistakes before hiring her.. have in mind that all this wedding planning thing is new to me, I’ve never had anyone else close to me get married, nor have I gone to a wedding.. so this is how it all starts.. I was searching for makeup artists all over and actually had some in mind.. then one Saturday, I decide to go with my mother in law, and sister in law to look for a bakery shop for the wedding cake.. when I arrive to my MIL’s house, my SIL’s best friend is there.. she tells me about a friend of hers who does makeup and hair.. I of course ask to see pictures of her makeup work. She shows them to me, and I instantly love the way she does makeup.. my first mistake? I only asked to see her makeup work, but not the way she did hair.. so I instantly decide to tell my SIL’s friend to ask the makeup artist for prices (I should have done that). She would charge me $120 for both makeup and hair.. I thought myself that was a good price, having in mind that the other makeup artists I wanted to hire would charge me $300 for both makeup and hair.. so me being so dumb, decide to hire her for my makeup and hair.. mistake #2: I hired this lady before even having a makeup and hair trial! So I end up texting the MUA to give her the details of my wedding date and all those type of things.. she also asked me for a deposit of $50 for her to book me. (My SIL’s friend also told the MUA my MIL wanted to do her makeup and hair too) so at the time I didn’t have cash on me because i get paid with direct deposit.. so my MIL tells me she’s going to let me borrow the $50 for my deposit.. this is where my 3rd mistake comes.. we ask the MUA where we could leave her deposit.. she didn’t text me back quick so I make the dumb mistake of asking my SIL’s bestie to take our deposit money to MUA (which in total was $100 for me and MIL) since she’s her close friend as well.. i ask the MUA if that’s fine with her and she said yes.. (my MIL and I shouldn’t have sent the money with someone else because the deal was ours). A few days later, I search the MUA’s Facebook page, to see what ideas I can get for my makeup. When I looked at her work on hair, I didn’t like it.. don’t get me wrong, she does a good job on updos, but i didn’t want an updo. I wanted my hair down.. when I saw the way she did hair for brides who wanted their hair down, I didn’t like it so much, and that’s when I regretted not asking for a trial before hiring her. So I decide to text her and ask her if there was any way she could only do my makeup but not my hair.. she tells me that she only works by package when she works with brides (something she didn’t tell me at the beginning) so I decide to give her a chance and ask for a trial.. I still wasn’t happy with the idea of her doing my hair.. my aunt who is a hairdresser also does hair for brides and XV’s so I asked her if she could work with me if there was to be an emergency on my wedding day, and she said yes. So my SIL gives me an idea of what I could plan with the MUA for her not to do my hair but also not make her lose her day. She basically told me to trade my hair being done with her doing my mom’s makeup instead.. that way she would still have the full price and neither me or her would end up losing.. I call the MUA and she agrees.. it is now the end of September, and my MIL decides she doesn’t want to hire the girl to do her hair and makeup. So she asks me as a favor to let the MUA know of her decision.. mistake #4 I should have given my MIL her number for her to deal with that, as that wasn’t my problem but hers.. I text the MUA to let her know what was going on. She tells me that’s since she never spoke with my MIL, the deal was on me.. (I’m guessing she’s trying to tell me that i was responsible for paying her even if my MIL cancels her and she doesn’t do the work) I tell her that that was not how it’s supposed to work since my MIL is another client and the deal we had agreed on was that she was going to do my makeup and my mother’s makeup.. after going back and forth with her through text messages and sending screenshots of what was said, my SIL texts her bestie and tells her what’s going on.. the MUA then calls me and repeats the same thing she said through text.. and then for some reason she tells me she’s going to call me back.. after a while she calls me again this time all upset saying I had told my SIL’s bestie that we had a bad altercation and that I shouldn’t be going around saying that (I don’t even have that girl’s number in the first place) and that’s when she starts raising her voice at me and since I had her on speaker, my MIL hears her and starts going at her.. Makeup girl clicks on her.. then texts me saying that she only needs to talk to me since I’m the one with the deal (again claiming it was under my account) I was really frustrated with her yelling at me over someone else’s decision like it’s my fault.. I wasn’t even the person cancelling her and yet she was going back and forth with me.. she later claimed that she didn’t receive the $100 that we sent her and that she only received $50.. that’s when another red flag comes up.. so apparently the other $50 are now missing, which makes no sense since the $100 were 5 $20 bills.. so how is it that she never received them?! My SIL confronts her friend about it and of course she decides to act all dumb saying it was only $50 which it isn’t even true (my SIL saw with her own eyes we gave her the money) and now the MUA texts me again saying that she was going to accept my MIL’s cancellation and still keep going with my services but that there was no way she was going to do my services at my location claiming she had told me at the beginning, and of course that’s a lie ( we agreed that she was going to do me and my mom’s makeup at my place).. after her going off on me, I tell her I don’t want her services anymore.. she then still keeps texting me she was still going to do my services but not at my place even after I told her I don’t want her service anymore.. she then tells me if I want her to put money by her part and again I tell her No I don’t want to deal with her anymore, and I block her.. I learned my lesson and my advice to you all is #1 to please always ask for a makeup trial before you hire a MUA #2 Pay attention to all the bad signs #3 don’t speak or text for someone else as a favor even if it’s your closest friend #4 ALWAYS pay the MUA artist the deposit directly.. don’t do the same mistake as me... by the looks of it, the MUA was just trying to find a way to make my MIL stay with her service (almost forcing her) which isn’t right because you cant force anyone to hire you specially if there’s no contract..