Bridal Hair & Makeup Artist Jobs in DFW
Keep your chair. Add Saturdays. Something Blue by Lee Graves is adding bridal hair stylists and makeup artists on contract across the Dallas–Fort Worth area.
This is not a request that you leave the salon you are in. Our bridal team works on contract, which means wedding work can sit alongside whatever you already do during the week — or alongside no salon at all, if you are a freelance makeup artist.
You Do Not Have to Quit Anything
Almost every bridal listing you will read is written as a job posting — come work here, leave there. This one is not. Bridal is the one part of Lee Graves Salon that works on contract, so an artist can join the wedding team without touching their weekday arrangement. Applying here does not require giving notice anywhere.
What that changes, practically, is who this is for. It is not only stylists who are unhappy and looking. It is anyone with the skill for a wedding morning and a Saturday they would rather have booked.
Stylists already working somewhere else
You like your salon and you are not looking to leave it. You would still like Saturdays to be worth something. Contract bridal work sits alongside a weekday column instead of replacing it.
Freelance makeup artists
No salon affiliation, no cosmetology license, MUA certification in hand. You are eligible, and makeup-only artists are a genuine part of this team.
Licensed stylists working part-time
You stepped back from full-time behind the chair and you want event work rather than a full schedule. A wedding is a defined day with a defined end.
Newer stylists building a book
Your weekday column is still filling. Wedding mornings are work you can add now, in a division that already has brides booking it.
What the Work Actually Is
Wedding-day hair and/or makeup for brides and bridal parties, on location. That means the getting-ready room rather than the salon floor — hotel suites, venues, and family homes on a wedding morning, working to a timeline with a first-look photo at the end of it. Trials are part of the picture too: the bridal trial is where the wedding-day look actually gets designed, and you can read how we run it on our bridal services page.
It is a different rhythm from salon days. Earlier starts, a room full of people, a hard deadline, and no second attempt. Artists who like that pace tend to like it a great deal, and the ones who do not usually know within a wedding or two.
There are two sides to the bridal division, and both are written out on our career path page as the bridal travel team and the bridal coordinating team. This page is about the first one — the artists who go on location. If weddings appeal to you but Saturday mornings in a hotel suite do not, read the coordinating track instead.
Hair, Makeup, or Both
Makeup-only artists are eligible, and you do not need a cosmetology license. MUA certification is accepted for makeup-only artists. That is worth a full sentence rather than a line in the fine print, because a lot of excellent bridal makeup artists assume a salon-run wedding team is closed to them.
If you do hair, an active Texas cosmetology or esthetician license is what we ask for. If you do both, say so — on a wedding morning with a bridal party of eight, an artist who can move between hair and makeup is the most useful person in the room.
You Would Be Joining an Award-Winning Team, Not Starting One
Something Blue by Lee Graves is a winner of The Knot Best of Weddings 2026, holds 5.0 stars on The Knot, and is recognized on both The Knot and WeddingWire.
For a bridal artist, that is not a plaque on our wall — it is portfolio currency. Brides who book through an award-winning division arrive already trusting the team, which changes the consultation you have with them. The work you produce sits under a name that reviews well and shows up in the marketplaces brides actually search. And when you describe your own experience later, a Best of Weddings team is a line a freelance artist building alone does not get to write.
You can see what the division puts out in our wedding gallery.
There Is a Real Coordinator
If you have done bridal work freelance, you know the hard part is not the styling. It is the inquiry that goes quiet, the timeline that changes twice, the bridal party that grows by three, and the morning that starts an hour earlier than anyone told you.
Leah is our Executive Assistant and Wedding Coordinator, and she is the organizational force behind our Something Blue bridal division, ensuring every bride's experience is seamless from inquiry to wedding day. That is a named person whose job is the part of bridal work most freelance artists end up doing at night for free.
Who You Would Be Working Alongside
This is an existing team with existing artists, not a new venture looking for someone to build it. Two of them:
Crystal
A Level 3 stylist with over a decade behind the chair, known for color and highlights, and a proud member of Something Blue by Lee Graves — our elite bridal hair and makeup team.
Brianna
Fourteen years in, specializing in blonding, extensions, and vibrant color. Bri is a makeup artist on our bridal and special occasion team and an Aveda Ambassador.
The culture behind them matters as much as the credits: respect and teamwork, and a salon that steps in when a client is aggressive or rude rather than expecting an artist to absorb it. Every bio is on our team page.
Where the Work Is
The salon is at 6101 Chapel Hill Blvd, Suite 103, Plano, TX 75093— Chapel Hill Blvd in West Plano, near Preston Road. Wedding-day work, though, happens wherever the bride is, and our published service areas describe the market this division draws from:
- Plano, TX
- Frisco, TX
- Allen, TX
- Richardson, TX
- McKinney, TX
- The Colony, TX
- Carrollton, TX
- North Dallas, TX
- Prosper, TX
- Murphy, TX
- Wylie, TX
North Texas weddings are spread out, and the role asks for a willingness to travel for on-location services. Where a given wedding lands is a conversation per event rather than a rule we can print on a page.
What You Need
The requirements for the Bridal Stylist or Makeup Artist role, exactly as they read on our careers page:
- ✓Active Texas cosmetology or esthetician license (MUA certification accepted for makeup-only artists)
- ✓Portfolio of bridal hair and/or makeup work
- ✓Saturday availability for wedding days
- ✓Willingness to travel for on-location services
Send the portfolio in whatever form you already have it — an Instagram handle is fine. Bridal work photographs itself, so we would rather see the weddings than read about them.
Questions Bridal Artists Ask
Add Saturdays to What You Already Do
Apply for the Bridal Stylist or Makeup Artist role through the form on our careers page, or email klg@leegravessalon.com with your portfolio and tell us whether you do hair, makeup, or both.