To achieve the look you choose, you must decide from the onset what you want for yourself. The key word here is the 'emotion' you feel with regard to the big day.

When I begin a collection, I search first for the underlying emotion. When I get that special 'feeling', I make sure all the pieces in the collection are flavoured with it. Once I've decided that the emotion is 'airy', 'fluid' or whatever, the rest is easy.

And it is the same principle that works to create a 'look'.

Jose de Sousa

He was trained in Paris by the house of Guerlain, Stendhall, Paris, Lancôme Paris. Today he is an internationally acclaimed and respected beauty therapist and make-up artist with his own school in Parktown, Johannesburg, where he lectures on amongst other things, make-up, beauty therapy, body massage, Indian head massage, pedicures, manicures, and facials.

He has been involved in many fashion shows, has designed many faces for magazines covers including Miss South Africa, and still travels to many different countries lecturing in the art of make-up.

He is the SAIndianWedding.com Beauty advisor and will be wrting both the make-up column and the beauty tips columns. They will be updated twice every month.