It's challenging to estimate how long wedding hair and makeup will take. As you can imagine, the more elaborate your hair and makeup, the more time you need to budget. Some like doing a hair trial and makeup test run to get an idea of what everything will look like and how much time to budget. The average wedding look will take 60 to 90 minutes for hair and makeup for the bride and around 30 to 60 minutes for bridesmaids. Leave yourself extra time.