Are you a bride-to-be looking for that “lit from within” glow on the big day? Whether you’re the blushing bride, a member of the bridal party or an eager wedding guest, you all deserve to look your best on that special day of matrimonial bliss.
We’ve put together the perfect pre-wedding skin care routine designed to brighten and treat the visible signs of aging and problem skin. This routine will tone your complexion without overdrying. We’ve also gathered some wedding beauty tips to keep your skin looking “happily ever after.”
Pre-Wedding Skin Care Routine
For optimal results, wedding skin care prep includes five key steps as recommended by the licensed estheticians on the Eminence Organics Product Support Team:
- Cleanse
- Tone
- Treat
- Eye Care
- Moisturize
This order of application best preps the skin for each following step, ensuring your complexion receives the maximum benefit from every product. The products suggested below are recommended to help tone and smooth the complexion, but a licensed esthetician at your closest Eminence Organics Spa Partner can best assist in fine-tuning and personalizing your pre-wedding skin care routine.
Step 1: Cleanse
To remove impurities and buildup, we recommend cleansing with our Mangosteen Daily Resurfacing Cleanser. This milky gel lightly lathers to slough off dead skin without manual exfoliation or over-stripping. The Lactic Acid Complex and mangosteen in this cleanser work together to restore a smooth, radiant complexion, leaving you with a summer wedding glow! You can also try the Bright Skin Cleanser which contains two actives, Swiss Alpine Plant Extracts and Natural Hydroquinone Alternative to brighten the appearance of your skin.
Step 2: Tone
To smooth and tone the skin, the Mangosteen Revitalizing Mist is a must-have for pre-wedding skin care and touch-ups on your wedding day. Mangosteen is an antioxidant-rich ingredient that promotes natural radiance and minimizes the look of environmental stress. Red clover flower extract refines and improves skin tone to minimize pore size. You can learn all about the benefits of mangosteen here.
Step 3: Treat
With skin toned, it is now prepped to treat. First, smooth on a few drops of Eminence Organics Bright Skin Licorice Booster Serum. It contains a BioComplex, a booster of antioxidants, coenzyme Q10 and alpha lipoic acid to reduce the appearance of wrinkles and improve the appearance of your skin.
Next, to minimize pores and eliminate the need for primer, apply our Mangosteen Daily Resurfacing Concentrate. Should you have any pesky blemishes, fear not. Our Clear Skin Willow Bark Booster-Serum infuses willow bark and tea tree oil to fix the appearance of problem skin.
Step 4: Eye Care
The last thing any bride wants is to deal with dark undereye circles. Eminence Organics President Boldijarre Koronczay recommends our Wild Plum Eye Cream — along with hydration and a balanced diet — to minimize the appearance of unwanted circles. You can see my review of the Wild Plum Eye Cream and photo results here.
Step 5: Moisturize
Moisturizing is essential to lock in hydration, reinforce the skin barrier and protect the complexion from environmental stressors like pollution and UV rays. Research shows that maintaining a healthy skin barrier helps prevent moisture loss and reduces sensitivity caused by external aggressors. For daytime, we recommend our Lilikoi Daily Defense Moisturizer SPF 40. For evening, we suggest layering our best-selling Bamboo Firming Fluid beneath Clear Skin Probiotic Moisturizer. Not just healthy for your insides, probiotic skin products are the perfect addition to your pre-wedding skin care routine.
Now that you’ve considered the skin care routine portion of your preparation, we’ve gathered some bonus skin care tips to get your complexion as ready as possible for your big day.
7 Wedding Skin Care Tips
1. Plump & Hydrate
Start using a product with vitamins C and E about six weeks before your wedding to help repair the look of past damage and support collagen and elastin production. This combination can visibly improve skin firmness and elasticity. Our Eminence Organic Product Support Team recommends the Rosehip Triple C+E Firming Oil, a luxurious facial oil that fights the signs of aging, smooths the appearance of wrinkles and hydrates deeply for firm, youthful-looking skin.
2. Smooth Things Over
The key to flawless bridal beauty is smooth skin. Celebrity facialist and Eminence Organics devotee Joanna Vargas recommends applying our Strawberry Rhubarb Masque before your big day to exfoliate, moisturize and brighten in one step.
3. Keep Breakouts At Bay
If you struggle with problem skin, don’t let your fear of an overnight eruption disturb your beauty sleep. A treatment like our Clear Skin Willow Bark Booster-Serum is the perfect product pick to help you rest easy, as it calms the look of irritation. Infused with willow bark and tea tree oil, this concentrated serum helps to improve problem areas for a noticeably smoother complexion.
4. Calm The Look Of Inflammation
The best way to truly enjoy wedding festivities is to keep calm. Easier said than done, right? Stress and tension can show on your face in the form of breakouts or irritation, especially for more sensitive and reactive skin types. To keep your skin looking calm and balanced, we would recommend the Hawthorn Tonique, a gentle formula consisting of hawthorn, chamomile and marjoram to reduce the appearance of skin irritation.
You can further bring your body and mind into a deeper state of pre-wedding zen by making lifestyle changes to reduce inflammation, starting with reducing your caffeine and alcohol intake and eating a healthy diet without fried, fatty and salty foods.
5. Reduce Puffiness Around The Eyes
Even after a few nights of missed sleep, your skin will start to look sallow with increased puffiness around the eye area. We know this is cliché, but “beauty sleep” is vital when it comes to looking your best. Over time, chronic sleep loss can lead to lackluster skin, fine lines and dark circles under the eyes.
To combat the look of tired, puffy eyes, we recommend our Hibiscus Ultra Lift Eye Cream. This eye treatment helps to reduce the look of puffiness around the eye area and it contains an Advanced Instant Lift fX eye treatment that improves the look of wrinkles and fine lines.
6. Protect Skin With SPF
When it comes to summer weddings, there’s no escape from harmful UV rays. Even on a cloudy day, ultraviolet light can still do sun damage to your skin. For SPF protection, we recommend our Sun Defense Minerals. This formula uses zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, two of the most effective physical filters for broad-spectrum UV protection. This SPF comes in six versatile shades ranging from sheer to dark, making it easy to find multiple shades to perfectly match your skin tone.
7. Give Yourself Kissable Lips
And last but not least, what about that perfect wedding day pucker? For the brides out there, you want your first kiss as a married couple to be a memorable one. For soft, supple lips, try our Citrus Lip Balm with sunflower seed oil, which is rich in vitamins and promotes a supple look and feel on the pout.
Are you excited to start your pre-wedding skin care routine? Let us know in the comments below and share with us on social media. To boost your glow, we also recommend visiting your local Eminence Organics Spa Partner for professional treatments and consultation. Not only will your esthetician be able to assist with building your personalized pre-wedding skin care routine, but also in planning and scheduling facial treatments.
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