Bukhari Commercial · DHA Phase VI
Bridal and editorial makeup, skin, hair and nails under one roof in Karachi — finished the way it photographs, and worn the way it feels at hour fourteen.
The menu
Makeup, facials, hair and nails are all done in-house, so a bride can walk in for a trial and walk out with brows, skin and nails already settled.
Current price list is shared on WhatsApp — rates move with product, season and function type, so we quote on the day you enquire rather than leave a stale number here.
Bridal
A Pakistani wedding is rarely one face. Packages are priced by how many functions you need covered — and the more we do, the more the look can be planned as a set rather than three unrelated days.
The soft, close-up brief. Skin left looking like skin, for a room of forty people and a lot of photographs at arm's length.
On request
The main event. Heavier pigment, stronger eye, and a base engineered to survive stage lights, a long rukhsati and a Karachi December that still runs warm.
On request
Mehndi, Barat and Walima planned together, with the skin prep starting weeks out so the base has something good to sit on.
On request
Party & guest makeup
Dholki, mayun, engagement guest, a shoot, a birthday, Eid. Party makeup is booked the same way and takes about half the time — and in peak season, guest slots on a Barat morning fill before the bride's does.
Step by step
Numbered because it genuinely runs in order — each step depends on the one before it.
Send your function dates on WhatsApp. You get availability and a quote back the same day.
Day oneA short course of facials so the base has good skin underneath. Started early, never the week of.
6–8 weeks outWe build the look with your jewellery and dupatta in the room, shoot it under flash, and adjust.
2–4 weeks outStudio or on-location. Makeup, hair, dupatta setting and a touch-up kit before you leave the chair.
The dateMehndi, Barat and Walima are deliberately different faces — planned as a set, not repeated.
Through the weekPortfolio
A selection of recent work from the studio. Tap any frame to enlarge; arrow keys move through the set.
The Academy
Small groups, real models, and kit you will actually be able to buy in Karachi. Courses run through the quieter months between wedding seasons.
About
Sadia Ejaz trained under Bina Khan in Pakistan before studying with Mario Dedivanovic, Samer Khouzami and Jordan Liberty — three artists who disagree with each other about almost everything. What survived from all of it is a single idea: the makeup should be built for the light it will be seen in, and for the woman who has to wear it for fourteen hours.
The salon on Bukhari Commercial keeps makeup, skin, hair and nails in the same building on purpose. A bridal face is only as good as the skin under it, and that work starts weeks before anyone opens a palette.
In their words
Collected from brides and clients at the studio.
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I sat in the chair at seven in the morning and the base was still exactly right at the rukhsati. That is the whole review.
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She listened at the trial instead of talking. I asked for lighter and she actually went lighter — I have had the opposite experience everywhere else.
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Booked the facial course six weeks before my Mehndi. My skin had never behaved like that, and the makeup on the day barely had to cover anything.
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Booking
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Shop No. 3, 6-C, Bukhari Commercial Lane 1,
Phase VI, D.H.A., Karachi
Bridal bookings start earlier than opening hours by arrangement.
Securing the date
Three routes, all of them instant and none of them charging you a fee. Send the receipt on WhatsApp and the date is held.
After you pay. Send the screenshot to +92 321 1499976 with your name and function date. You get written confirmation of the date the same day.
Before you book
Four to eight weeks for most dates. For Barat and Walima between November and February — peak shaadi season in Karachi — three months is safer, because those Saturdays go first. If your date is close, message anyway; cancellations happen.
A trial is included with the Barat/Walima package and the Complete Bride package, and can be added to any other booking. Two to four weeks before the function is the right window — late enough that your skin prep has taken effect, early enough to change your mind.
Yes, across Karachi as standard and outstation by arrangement. On-location is charged on top of the service and depends on distance, call time and how many artists are needed. Outstation bookings need travel and stay confirmed in advance.
Professional, mostly imported base and colour, matched to your skin in person rather than to a shade name. If you have an allergy, a reaction history or a preference for a particular brand, say so at the trial and we work around it.
Yes — but not the week of. Facials are booked as a short course starting six to eight weeks out so the skin has time to settle. Anything done days before a function risks showing up on the day, which is exactly what we are trying to avoid.
An advance confirms it. Until the advance is received the date stays open to other enquiries, even if we have discussed it. Advance terms and any cancellation policy are confirmed on WhatsApp when you book.
Yes. Say how many people in the booking form and we allocate the slot and the number of artists accordingly. On a Barat morning the family slots fill before the bride's, so mention them in the first message rather than later.
The salon is ladies-only. Children accompanying a booking are welcome, and light makeup for young girls in the family can be added to a function-day slot.
Visit
Lane 1, on the 6-C side — ground floor, shop number 3. Parking is easiest before midday and after eight.
Shop No. 3, 6-C, Bukhari Commercial Lane 1, Phase VI, D.H.A., Karachi, Pakistan.
Directions →+92 321 1499976 — the quickest way to reach the salon for availability and rates.
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