NYC Beauty Clique by Sabrina Gilbert

Sabrina and Lianne did an amazing job on my wedding day make up. I’m not someone who really ever wears makeup so I usually feel like I look weird when I do or just too made up. But Sabrina did the perfect job of not too much where it didn’t even look like me anymore n not too little where I looked special for my wedding day (My fiancé was very happily surprised!). She listened to what I wanted and followed my vision. Excellent job on my mom (who looked about 10 years younger when they got done with her) and sister too! I live out of state and found her because of her other great reviews (which were true) and am so glad I did.

Sabrina is amazing! I was very nervous about having someone do my makeup for the wedding because I wanted to make sure that I «still looked like myself» and not overdone but there is no need to worry with Sabrina– she is such a pro! I have never felt more beautiful and loved my hair and makeup so much. Seriously I could not have felt any prettier on my wedding day. She and her assistants were actually ahead of schedule getting everyone’s hair and makeup done which made for a stress free morning. She also gave my maid-​of-​honor a touch up kit with bobby pins, lip stick, face blotting sheets, etc which was super cool and I barely needed it because everything stayed so well. She is so nice and great to work with and I can’t recommend her enough.

Amazing amazing AMAZING!!! Sabrina truly delivers! I’m so happy I chose her to do my hair and makeup for my wedding. She arrived one hour early and made sure that everything ran on schedule. She did my hair and makeup perfectly! My bridesmaids also loved their look. Thanks Sabrina for making my special day so incredible!!!

Sabrina helped make my wedding a very very special day — well… actually, In a word — flawless. I loved Sabrina’s approach, style, discipline in her work ethic and the fact that she set the tone in the room of being cool and focused. I needed that! Sabrina was kind, and everyone in our party absolutely loved their hair. No changes no questions nothing but happy bridesmaids and bride! I completely trusted her with my look and she made me feel wonderful. If you choose anyone other than Sabrina you’re making a mistake. #thankyou

Working with Sabrina was as easy as 1,2,3! I knew I wanted her to be my makeup artist after visiting her website and reading her other reviews. You gotta check out her website… she has such a modern and fresh take on makeup, she makes people glow! Lianne, her assistant, was a sweetheart and she did our mothers’ makeup. They both looked great! I did not have a chance to do a trial before my wedding day, but I gave Sabrina carte blanche to do whatever she thought was best for me and she delivered: she did an amazing job on my hair and makeup. Everyone kept complimenting my makeup the whole day. Even though we got rained on, my makeup stayed intact! She was very responsive from day 1, always answering my questions quickly. She made me feel comfortable just from our email interaction. I am so glad I booked her and wish I could bring her back with me to Miami! Do not hesitate to book her for your special day, she will make you look like a million bucks!

My wedding was June 5, 2015. Sabrina and her assistant arrived an hour earlier than expected so we didn’t have to rush and I was ready before the photographers came to the house. My makeup and hair was as beautiful on my wedding day as it was the day of my trial. And my girls? wow! stunning hair and makeup. Lasted ALL day and night. We were getting compliments left and right! Thank you, Sabrina Gilbert for your expertise.

Sabrina and her team are truly awesome. As an Indian bride, I was initially hesitant about using a non-​Indian for my hair (since it can get pretty complicated with the ridiculous amount of jewelry /​braid extensions /​clothing that gets pinned on there) — but rest assured, Sabrina can do it all :) Every one of my bridesmaids looked amazing, as did my mom! And I loved (LOVED!) my hair and makeup.
Also, just as importantly, Sabrina is incredibly responsive over email, very generous with her time at my trial, and VERY organized with her time. She sent me a detailed schedule for getting ready in the morning, and her and her team stayed right on schedule (despite the usual craziness of weddings).
I wholeheartedly recommend Sabrina and her team for your wedding (or any event!) — you will love them :)

Sabrina is amazing! She is super sweet, very professional, extremely talented and she loves what she does! She listened to my vision and executed it perfectly. She did a beautiful job on my mom and I and we couldn’t be happier. I would book her again in a heartbeat!

Sabrina did a gorgeous job on me and my bridesmaids for my wedding. My hair and makeup looked incredible – even better than the trial. I was shocked that Sabrina could make me look so good!
I took off one star because she was 30 minutes late the morning of the wedding, which caused us to run late 30 minute late getting to the venue. Despite this, I was so thrilled with the hair and makeup that she did for me and my girls that I would definitely recommend her.

I am SO GLAD I found Sabrina, thanks to these Unilocal reviews.
Sabrina did a PHENOMENAL job on my makeup & hair for my wedding day. She is truly a professional makeup artist, and understands what you want. She truly listened to me and helped me achieve the look I wanted (and I think I was pretty particular). My airbrush makeup stayed on ALL DAY and night during the wedding (including dancing), and looked flawless until I went home. Amazing. Please note I also had human hair extensions, which she is a pro at styling.
A little info for reference: I’m Asian and have a hard time finding makeup artists who understand how to make eye makeup look beautiful. Sabrina had no problem getting the look I wanted. Also she mixes airbrush foundation colors so it matches your skin tone perfectly.
Most important: She is extremely calm/​down to earth, not anxious, and so so sweet. A lot of brides don’t think about this, but the personality of the vendors you work with is so so important.
Brides — Don’t hesitate to book Sabrina for your wedding, and book early! If I have an event in the future I need professional makeup for, I am definitely calling her.

Sabrina’s airbrush work is flawless! The make up stayed on 10 hours +, through crying, picture taking and dancing on my wedding day! She also did my hair, which I loved. The style was classic, but with interesting twists and pin curls. She and 2 of her assistants worked on myself and 7 girls the day of and everyone looked beautiful. I am so happy I came across her and her work on Unilocal.She truly made me feel like a gorgeous bride!

Sabrina is great! She did the makeup for my mother, my sister and myself for my wedding. She arrived early to set up and took her time discussed what we liked. She made us very comfortable and gave good suggestions. I love her airbrushing work! THE BEST part was my makeup stayed on and in place the entire day and night! I was crying so much and was so shocked to look in the mirror and my face looked exactly the same as when she first applied it! –Thank you Sabrina!

Many girls dream of their wedding day early on, but I was never one of those. I was actually quite nervous about how I would look on my wedding day that I didn’t really want to give it much thought. (I prob focused more and had more fun planning the food!) So, I started my search online and found Sabrina here on Unilocal!First off, I was very impressed with her website; the design and music show just how stylish she is! There are also videos on her website so you can see her and her amazing work in action!
My bridesmaids and mom were also getting their hair and makeup done, and when I asked everyone all 4 bridesmaids ranked Sabrina first! My bridesmaid who has also worked as a makeup artist was very impressed with Sabrina. We both agreed that each client on her website looked natural, happy, and smiled big to show off her work! My bridesmaid also pointed out that Sabrina played up each clients best and had a different technique for each person, she doesn’t have a «cookie cutter» approach, she’s a true makeup artist.
At my first trial, Sabrina welcomed us into her space which was all set up with a window for natural lighting. I brought pictures via Pinterest and explained that I wanted to look like a more glamorous version of myself. My maid of honor attended the trial with me and as Sabrina was working she kept say «ooh, ahh, that looks amazing!» Sabrina did my makeup how I wanted but even better, and my hair was exactly like the picture! I got the whole works at the trial including airbrush makeup, eyelashes, and hair extensions! Later on I decided I wanted a 2^nd trial with a different hairstyle and makeup color palette and Sabrina was more than welcoming. She even recommended her friend who also works as her assistant on wedding days who’s an eyebrow expert so I wanted to see how my makeup would look with my new eyebrows also.
For the day of my wedding Sabrina had a timeline all figured out of when everyone was getting hair and makeup done. She figures about 45 mins for each service. Getting ready was probably one of the most memorable times for me on my wedding day bc it was just me, my 4 bridesmaids, mom, Sabrina and her assistant. We had music playing, my venue served food, and we were all getting glammed up!
All 4 of my bridesmaids and my mom were VERY happy with how they looked! My friend may even use Sabrina for her own wedding in the near future! I was more than happy with the way I looked; I felt beautiful, confident, amazing, fantastic, glamorous, and like all eyes SHOULD be on me! Sabrina made me FEEL beautiful and look even better than I thought I would as a bride!
My photographer wanted to take pictures outside and unfortunately it was so humid that all the curls in my hair went straight, but Sabrina pinned up my curls and not only did I get two hair styles, but I liked the second hair style even more.
Sabrina made me look and feel the best ever on my wedding day. My trust and confidence in Sabrina was established right from her website and even more when meeting her, and she proves how talented she is through her work. She’s a small package with tons of talent and style!
I will re-​book Sabrina for any/​all of my hair and makeup needs

Worked with Sabrina for my wedding hair and makeup. She was amazing!
She is very professional and well seasoned in what she does.
I was very specific with what I wanted my hair to look like and she took what I had in my imagination and brought it to life. She’s a very lovely person and listens to what you want. All of my bridesmaids looked beautiful as well. The make up was nice and light. Not caked on like some places do.
She was a pleasure to work with and I would definitely recommend her to anyone.

I was fortunate enough to have been referred to Sabrina by TWO separate friends of mine and I couldn’t be happier! She did my hair and makeup for my reception and I honestly cannot speak highly enough of her. She arrived on time to my home where I was getting ready and finished everything in under 1.5 hours. Sabrina is so flexible, speedy, professional and just amazing at what she does. I absolutely loved every single thing about my look that night. There is no one else I will use for my special occasions!
If you’re reading this review, DO NOT WASTE any time, pick up the phone, call her and pray that she is available on your date! You will not be disappointed.
Sabrina, thank you for making me look and feel like a princess on the most magical day of my life!

Sabrina did a great job on my hair and makeup. I was a bridesmaid in an outdoor wedding and she offered great suggestions. Also I had called her the same week I made the appointment so I appreciate that she was so flexible. Glad i was able to have her do my makeup
and hair. Would definitely go back!

Sabrina is truly top notch! I went to her for a Bridal trial and she truly does an amazing job. She’s very attentive to your wants and needs as a bride. We wound up trying two very different plays on hair and makeup and I loved both of them so much. If you are looking for bridal hair and makeup, or even just a great look for a special night on the town, you should absolutely consider hiring Sabrina.

Lets just say I hired Sabrina for a very special day (involving the color white) ;). I probably spent about 2 – 3 hours going through Unilocal reviews, online portfolios, calling the top hair/​makeup studios in NY only to feel like what they offered didn’t really suit me. That’s when I ran into Sabrina’s online portfolio and amazing reviews.
I noticed quickly through her portfolio that Sabrina’s talents aren’t confined to certain face shapes/​types, hairstyles, ethnicities, etc. If you research other salons (carefully), you’ll realize that most seem to «specialize» in certain types of people versus others regardless of how unplanned/​unintentional that may be. As a mixed girl (Scandinavian/Japanese…who gets asked on the street if i’m Brazilian), it was really important to me that my hair/​makeup stylist could work confidently with my features. Looking at the «Brows» section under her portfolio finally helped seal the deal since some witch from a snotty salon in Boston obliterated my brows, literally stripping off 75% of them, leaving me with almost nothing to work with.
Anyway! I contacted Sabrina in a panic with a list of requests/​demands:
— Please make my big face look smaller
— Please deal with my brows… make them look natural and like 3 – 4 times thicker than they are
— I have no idea what makeup/​hairstyle I wanna go for other than I want to look hot, beautiful, sweet, elegant and warm all at the same time (knowing damn well that some of these are mutually exclusive)
— Can you come to my hotel at 7.30am the day after tomorrow?
— I bought a birdcage veil… dunno if I wanna use it
So, fastforward to the day of my event. I changed the meeting time TWICE with very little notice simply because I wanted an extra hour of beauty rest (we drove into NYC at 1am the night before)… I can go from looking like a dog to a semi-​human with the extra hour of sleep, so that was pretty important. Sabrina was SUPER understanding and came to my room at 9am on the dot. She hurried in with a suitcase full of the highest quality makeup — basically the most expensive kind reserved for Vogue magazine and celebrities (when it touches your face, you’ll know what I’m talking about!). I showed her a few photos after googling, «Side swept hair» of what I thought might look ok, and Sabrina was very quick to help me figure out which styles worked best for my face and my event.
Before I knew it, my hair was up and Sabrina was working her magic. Mind you, we also had a very nice conversation in the meantime (interesting/​engaging/​polite but certainly not overbearing like a lot of people in the beauty industry can be). It’s VERY clear that Sabrina does this because she truly loves it, has an incredible passion for it and an undeniable eye for bringing out a person’s best features. There were a few times where I’d express anxiety like, «umm… I’ve never worn lipstick this dark (because I dont wear any), never worn false lashes… do they make my eyes look closed?» etc… and what I appreciated in Sabrina was that she believed strongly in what she envisioned the end product to be instead of using my insecurities to go in a different direction. She also looked at my eyebrows and said that while it’s much easier to work on them after plucking out the stubble (from the HORRIBLE brow waxing job I got a month earlier), she had MY best interest in mind and said, «if you want them back… lets just keep it how it is and I’ll do my best to make them look ok.»… She accomplished the impossible — Sabrina transformed my sad, sad, saaaad eyebrows into precisely what you’d find on her online portfolio — PERFECT like REALLY FRIGGIN PERFECT. I felt like my brows could compete against Megan Fox’s… It’s been a week since my event and I keep looking at the job she did and have tried to recreate it several times to absofreakinglutely no avail.
SO! Makeup was done… I felt nervous because I hadn’t worn that much makeup before (even though everyone later told me it looked REALLY natural!). she moved straight away to my hair… and this part went by extremely quickly. I won’t even try to explain how she did it, but she did… my hair turned out looking better than the picture I showed her. My French boyfriend who is usually VERY reserved in commenting on my looks kept telling me, «you looks very good». I finally saw the end product (hair + makeup) and EVERYTHING Sabrina did made sense to me… She made me pretty much red carpet ready and she was SO sweet to offer a day’s supply of lipstick touch up in the cutest container and bag! My makeup stayed on the whole day and several random people on the street stopped me to tell me how beautiful I looked with many strangers saying they wanted to take pictures. It became very clear to me how/​why Sabrina’s business has exploded in less than 4 years in the most competitive city in the world for beauty. I honestly see her doing bigbigbig things in the world of makeup and hair. LOVE SABRINA!!!

On Saturday, we had our engagement photos done. I decided to go all out and get my hair and makeup done. (probably to feel better about the 10 pounds I’ve gained eating at all these yummy Unilocal places)! I started looking on Unilocal and came across Sabrina. I was very impressed with her makeover before and after photos on her website and facebook. Still, I was a little nervous as she didn’t have many Unilocal reviews. I searched and found online wedding reviews where she had great reviews. This helped ease my mind and I hired her. She was so nice, friendly and helped work within my budget. She came to my apartment, showed up on time, got right to work and brought great makeup and all the necessary things.
We joked about her not having a magic wand but to be honest, when she was done, I was amazed. I looked really great! I used to wear minimum makeup but haven’t really in the last year. Even when I did, it never looked anywhere near as good as when she did it. Both my hair and makeup looked so good. Her before and afters are amazing for a reason! I felt so good about myself. At midnight, I understood how Cinderella with the pumpkin. My fiancé thought it looked amazing too. I don’t have words to describe how good it was. Luckily, I now have the pictures though!
I would hire Sabrina again in a heartbeat! If I weren’t getting married out of state and hadn’t already signed a contract with someone, I would hire her for bridal hair and makeup. And I’m super picky!

I originally discovered Sabrina through «Face the Day NY» and hired her to do my wedding day hair and makeup; I couldn’t be happier with my choice!
Sabrina showed-​up on time to my hotel and immediately rolled out the best beauty products. My eyes starting misting over as I saw products from all my favorite companies (MAC, Temptu, Smashbox, plus others) paraded before me. Sabrina definitely uses the best! I showed her pictures of the «look» I was going for and she got straight to work and recreated it perfectly in under two hours. A plus: Sabrina is fun and easy to talk to. She’ll make your wedding-​prep experience all the more fun!
Although Sabrina’s rates are reasonable (meaning below the insane NYC standard), don’t be afraid that you’ll be sacrificing quality. You don’t need to pay $ 800 for your dream wedding look. Hire Sabrina and she’ll make you look like a princess!
Thanks for everything, Sabrina! My groom started crying when he saw me so I guess you did your job :)