Prom is one special night of your life where you want to look your best, here we provide you with all the information you need to look drop dead gorgeous on the night, to make it a night you'll never forget.

In this section, we give you all the things we think are important to create the perfect outfit for prom, from the prom dress, to the jewelry. Browse our Shopping Directory to find all the things you need for your outfit.

Your Prom dress - See our section about what dress features best suits your body type here. Get the dress tailored to your size once you have bought it, a few weeks before prom. Make sure it fits properly around the chest, waist and hips and is the right length. The last thing you want to worry about at prom is if your dress will split if you move. Now, once you have picked out a dress and had it tailored, whatever the style, then you can work around it and your natural looks, to match up your hair, jewelry and make-up to create the best overall outfit. Here are our tips:

Hair - What Hairstyle to choose? Well, this largely depends on your choice of dress, and what hair type you are. But in general, the following go well together, and you can experiment with:
- Strappy open-top, and low neckline dress. Both up-do's and down-do's look good with these dress cuts. If you want to show off your shoulders with your dress then go for a fancy up-do, else half up, half-down, sleek down, and curled down, will all look good on you.
- V-neck and deep neckline dresses look better with hair down, or half-up half-down. Try a hair-do that allows your hair to come down and rest on your shoulders. Slight curls, or wavy strands down the side of your face and neck look especially good.
- Puffy or decorated tops, or with sleeves. Dresses that cover your shoulders and/or have detail around the top look best with up-do's so the hair is not taking attention away from the dress. You can try tight and elegant like the French twist, or more 'straight out of bed' up-do's. Curly hair tied back with curls hanging looks great too.

Shoes - Now the most important rule when looking for shoes is to remember that you are going to be wearing them for several hours and so they need to be comfortable. If you aren't used to wearing heels, then don't go for huge heels which will kill your feet whenever you are standing. Whatever shoes you choose, be sure to wear them around the house to make sure they fit properly and don't hurt, and to break them in. So, our tips:
- Choose shoes that go with your dress and compliment it. Pick a similar color, and the same kind of style as your dress. Don't go to overboard with detailed shoes, simple is elegant. Again, remember you need shoes that you will be ok walking and dancing in.
- For strappy dresses with a dress cut to show your legs, go for strappy shoes. No detail as that will attract attention to your feet, but straps wrapping up and around your legs slightly, or fancy heels are good.
- For dresses with fuller skirts or which go lower down, you can wear slightly more chunky shoes, flat soled shoes are ok too.

Jewelry - For prom night you want to look elegant. So wear jewelry that isn't too chunky, and keep it to a minimum to let yourself shine. One necklace, earrings, a bracelet and possibly simple elegant rings for example.
- For low cut, strappy dresses, both short and medium length necklaces look good, don't choose one too heavy though or it may spoil the delicate look of the dress. Dangly, fancy earrings look good with this style too, and thin fancy bracelets too.
- For V-neck and deep necklines you can wear a slightly heavier necklace that hangs down and compliments the cut. Wear medium sized earrings, not too dangly to avoid cluttering your neck area, and simple bracelets/rings.
- For dresses with covered or puffy shoulders, don't wear dangly jewelry. A tighter simple necklace, and small, classic earrings will look best. Bracelets and rings will compliment your dress.

Gloves and scarves - Elegant gloves, scarves, or shawls look good, but go best with simpler dresses which don't already have detail. Especially good for sleeveless strappy, low cut, and V-neck dresses to compliment the cut and add more to your outfit. Not a good idea for dresses with padded shoulders and long sleeves.

Make-up (cosmetics) - There are lots of places that will teach you all you need to know about make-up, so here we just want to mention the most important things and basic rules you want to remember to look gorgeous for prom:
- Keep it simple. You are going for dinner and dancing not a night club.
- Apply a basic foundation and/or powder that matches your skin color, to even out blemishes, and control shine.
- Apply blusher to your cheeks, but not too much! Just a hint to give you a nice rosy look. Apply to your cheek bone from it's middle, outward.
- Eyes: Use a simple eye liner to outline and accentuate your eyes, focus mainly on above the eye. Then apply a fairly natural shade of eyeshadow, or one that compliments your dress but don't spread it more than on your eyelids or it will take too much attention from the rest of your face. Use a plain dark mascara to give your lashes volume and finish off the look, this is important as your eyes will look bare without it.
- Lips: Use a shade of lip liner and lipstick which is close to your natural lip color. Apply the lip liner around the edges of your lips, being careful not to go over the contours, then apply your natural shade lipstick, dab on a tissue, et voila! Simple but stunning.