Meghan Markle prefers to keep things simple when it comes to who does her makeup. The Duchess of Sussex enjoys sitting down and doing it all on her own without the help of a professional makeup artist.
Meghan’s longtime friend and wedding makeup artist, Daniel Martin, revealed to PEOPLE, “She’s gotten more comfortable doing her own makeup. She loves makeup and she’s good at it!”
“She’s been doing her makeup herself. She’s not fussy — she’s just trying to get it on and get out the door.”

“She likes a stronger eye, her brow is a lot more defined now,” he says. “But it’s still her. If anything, she’s going to experiment with different tones, and now that she’s more tan she’ll use warmer colors. But she doesn’t stray too far from her technique, she’s very formulaic with her routine,” said Martin.
Martin also confirmed that Meghan’s beauty style hasn’t changed much since he started working with her for press events for Suits and that she prefers to feel comfortable with her look. He also revealed that we will never see Meghan with a bold lip for one specific reason.
“The one time she did a red lip, she just didn’t feel comfortable in it. She likes to talk and she’s not a fussy person, so she doesn’t want to have to worry about anything,” he explained.

Martin is often asked by fans how he managed to get Meghan’s famous freckles to show through her makeup on her wedding day.
“She has great skin, and I had to deal with natural light, her in the church, her being televised and then her going outside again during the carriage procession,” said Martin.
“She couldn’t have a ton of makeup on because it would look so different in every variable, so less is more. It was literally skin care, a bit of foundation selectively and concealer, but that’s when you really saw her skin come through.”

Meghan’s more natural wedding look had a big impact on the beauty world.
“It’s about owning your own beauty. We’ve been inundated on social media with contouring and highlighting and it’s created this narrative that you need so much makeup to be beautiful, and I think that day when they saw her, it was just her looking beautiful with not a lot on. They embraced her rather than her face first, and that was the intention.”
“I’ve had so many moms reach out to me saying thank you for showing my 14-year-old daughter that she doesn’t need to go to school with so much makeup,” explained Martin.