If you’re a blushing bride-to-be, 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.

The months preceding your wedding day are undoubtedly stressful for a laundry list of reasons. You’ve found your dress, triple-confirmed your guest list, secured your catering and cake situation, and double-checked with your venue that they’re ready to host you on the big day—and the list goes on. Now that the essential to-do list items are out of the way, you get to deal with planning your wedding day beauty look. Aside from locking in a makeup and hair team, you may be thinking about how to get your complexion as glowing, smooth, and photo-ready as possible by tapping the in-office aesthetic treatments and targeted skincare.

Prioritizing facials before your wedding can help address a myriad of skin concerns, ensuring you have the glowing, picture-perfect skin you deserve on your big day. At Touch to Heal Spa, we meet brides and grooms who ask for our skin care advice as they get ready for their important day. To help your skin transition beautifully into the season ahead, we have wedding beauty tips to keep your skin looking “happily ever after”.

Why Are Regular Facials Important Pre-Wedding?

“Is it good to get a facial before the wedding?” – Absolutely! Regular facials cleanse, exfoliate, apply serums and nourish your skin, promoting a well-hydrated complexion and can help your skin look healthier and younger. But when it comes to your big day, the benefits extend way beyond these.

Regular facials leading up to your wedding can combat stress-induced breakouts, keep your skin glowing, and ensure your makeup sits flawlessly on your big day. The key here is regular. Starting a facial routine a week before your wedding won’t provide the same results as a well-planned skincare regimen that begins several months (or even a year) in advance. Think of facials as a workout for your skin – just like regular exercise leads to a toned and healthy body, consistent facials can help achieve radiant and smooth skin on your wedding day.

Because skin takes at least 28 days to regenerate, we recommend regular facials three-to-six months leading up to the wedding, with appointments around every four weeks to allow your skin to adjust and ensure significant improvement. This will give the skin enough time to respond to the treatments and show improvement. If you’re dealing with a certain skin concern, such as acne, hyperpigmentation, or fine lines and wrinkles, we recommend working with an esthetician even sooner and receiving more consistent treatment.

Your wedding makeup will only look as good as the canvas it’s applied on. And facials can be the key to a flawless base. By enhancing your skin’s texture, minimizing pores, and improving hydration levels, facials can help your makeup sit better and last longer. Investing in regular maintenance facials can go a long way in creating that ‘lit-from-within’ bridal glow.

Dermaplaning

Dermaplaning is the most recommended facial for every bride and is the latest buzzword in the beauty space. This non-invasive facial treatment uses a surgical scalpel to gently scrape the surface of your skin in light, feathering strokes, which remove any hair. This is done on the clean, dry skin of your forehead, cheeks, chin, nose, and neck. In addition to acting as a gentle physical exfoliation, dermaplaning can help prevent breakouts, improve skin texture and tone, and reduce the appearance of fine lines, hyperpigmentation, and acne scars.

It’s painless, has zero downtime, and the results are immediate. Not to mention, dermaplaning allows serums and makeup products to penetrate your skin, delivering better results. Imagine how radiant your skin will look in photos!

This with the nearly instant results it provides, makes dermaplaning a tremendous facial to have within one week of your wedding or even the day before! Our only suggestion is If you have sensitive skin or are dealing with breakouts, this treatment has the potential to inflame your skin. It is recommended to test your skin’s reaction to the treatment before so you can be sure your skin will not have an adverse reaction.

Microcurrent Facial

Another type of facial that guarantees similar results to a facelift is a microcurrent facial. This painless, non-invasive treatment uses low-voltage electricity to stimulate the facial muscles, creating a lifted, tightened, and toned effect. Not only are the results instantaneous, but this treatment will also prevent future sagging. It’s also a great choice as it accommodates any skin type and requires zero downtime.

Oxygen Facial

Our skin relies on oxygen to create new cells, and a lack of oxygen makes the skin look dull and drab. The oxygen facial, a go-to with celebrities for red-carpet nights, makes it the perfect treatment for brides-to-be! With this treatment, your esthetician will use a wand to deliver collagen and vitamin C serums with high-pressurized oxygen to the skin’s surface. The end result? Less fine lines and wrinkles, a boost in blood circulation, and an increase in collagen production for clearer, softer skin. Generally, this type of facial is gentle, so any future bride will benefit.

Custom Facial

Since no two brides have the same skin, a custom facial will suit your specific needs, concerns, and skin type. Every process is different, but usually, your esthetician will start by cleansing the surface of your skin, determining a treatment plan after a skin analysis, exfoliating the skin, using gentle peel, removing impurities with extractions, facial massage, and completing the facial with customized masks and serums.

Acne Organic Facial

Wedding planning is a rollercoaster of emotions, and the stress that comes with it can wreak havoc on your skin. Increased cortisol levels (the hormone responsible for stress) can lead to overproduction of oil, clogged pores, and breakouts. Treatments such as Acne Organic Facial or Oxygen Facial can help deep clean your pores, eliminate breakout-causing bacteria, and soothe inflammation.

The Best Preparation Timeline

6 TO 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE WEDDING: Begin with a professional consultation to evaluate your skin type, discuss any concerns, and establish a skincare routine. This is the perfect time to start monthly facials.

6 MONTHS BEFORE THE WEDDING: Continue with monthly facials and discuss any changes you may have noticed in your skin. This is also a good time to start incorporating more intensive treatments like chemical peels or microdermabrasion. Remember, these treatments can initially cause breakouts as they draw impurities out of the skin, so don’t start them too close to your wedding date.

3 MONTHS BEFORE THE WEDDING: Stick with what works. Now is not the time to introduce new treatments or products. Continue your routine and make sure to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

1 MONTH BEFORE THE WEDDING: Schedule your last facial for two to three weeks before the wedding day. This will give your skin time to recover from any breakouts or redness that may occur after the treatment. Continue with a good skincare routine at home, and make sure to get plenty of rest and stay hydrated. Go for a gentle, hydrating facial that will leave your skin radiant and supple without causing any adverse reactions. This is not the time for extractions or aggressive treatments.

Begin a simple At-Home Skin Care routine

Topical skin care products are an important way to maintain healthy, youthful skin, but many require time to show their benefit. Consider fine tuning your skincare routine to include: high quality moisturizer and SPF, anti-oxidants such as Vitamin C, hyaluronic acid products for a dewy skin texture and retinols/retinoids if tolerable. A good skincare routine is key to optimizing the results of professional treatment.

SPF 50: Daily sunscreen use is essential to protecting your skin from UV damage—even if it’s cloudy or you’re mostly staying inside.
Toner: Toner is one of the most overlooked skincare steps. If you have breakouts or severely dry or oily skin, consider incorporating a toner into your routine after you cleanse. A good toner can calm inflammation, balance skin’s pH levels, and even prevent some breakouts before they happen.
Hyaluronic acid: This popular, well-tolerated ingredient is a great way to keep skin hydrated, which can ultimately improve your complexion in several ways, from plumping to improved healing capacity.
Retinol Alternative: Conventional retinol is known as an ingredient that multitasks to help your skin look its best. It increases skin cell production, helps unclog pores, exfoliates skin and increases collagen production, which can reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, giving your complexion a fresher, plump appearance. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Well, for some, it is. Retinol can cause increased irritation, excessive dryness, peeling, itchiness and enhanced sun sensitivity. At Touch to Heal Spa, we use retinol alternative that deliver the same results without the harsh side effects. In other words, all of the upside with none of the down. It can reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, help restore firmness, refine skin texture and even out skin tone in a gentle yet effective way.
Vitamin C: This is another big game-changer for the dull skin. Vitamin C is an antioxidant that helps to prevent free radical damage and pollution from eating away at your skin.
Moisturizer: You don’t need a fancy moisturizer to have celebrity-looking skin. It all comes down to finding the right amount of hydration for your skin type.

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