On the wedding day, every person attending makes the effort to look their best, but no one more so than the bride! As a bride, you will invest in a trial run with a professional hairstylist and makeup artist to help realize your dream look for your wedding. Once the trial and consultation are done, consider what you can do to make sure that you are prepared to go into your wedding day hair and makeup appointment to help your selected artist be most successful. Here are some tips for hair and skin prep for your wedding day.
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Get a Trim Before the Wedding
Keep up with the hair care and maintenance routine that you have become accustomed to. Oftentimes, brides try to grow out their hair for their wedding to give themselves more options for wedding hairstyles. That’s totally fine, but as you do that, be sure to maintain regular trims. This will ensure that you remove those dead ends so your hair will look healthy and beautiful on your wedding day if you’re cutting off those dead ends!
With that said, try to schedule your last hair appointment about a month to six weeks before your wedding. There’s a saying that the only difference between a good haircut and a bad haircut is six weeks. Our hair, on average, grows one-half to a full inch monthly. Just in case your stylist is feeling a little scissor happy, you can get a little more growing time before the big day. Also, talk with your stylist about deep conditioning treatments, which will help you have shiny, smooth hair.
Stay Hydrated
When it comes to makeup applications, ask your makeup artists questions about the texture of your skin and how they would like for you to prepare your skin. Follow a consistent skincare routine for your wedding day. If you don’t have one, now is the time to start! The success of your makeup application will depend largely on your skin’s health and condition. If you don’t know what to use or what products would be best for your skin, see an esthetician, and follow his or her recommendations. Makeup can cover skin discolorations. However, it cannot change your skin’s texture, which can only occur through proper skincare and hydration.
For a lot of brides going to a skincare professional can seem like one more cost to your wedding budget, but taking proper care of your skin reaches even beyond the wedding day. Our skin is an organ, and it’s one that takes a beating from the environment and the abuse that we put it through daily. If you don’t find it feasible to go to a skincare professional, look at some of your local beauty schools. Skincare is a large part of both the esthetician and cosmetology curriculum, so any school that offers those programs will likely have a facial service at a discounted rate.
Keep It Healthy
Your general health also affects your overall appearance. If there’s something going on internally, we will most likely see signs of it in the way our hair, skin, and nails appear. Stay hydrated and try to eat nutrient-rich foods! Here’s a tip, the night before the wedding drink freshly juiced carrots! Carrots are rich in vitamin K which gives the skin a natural glow.
No matter what your desired hair and makeup goals are, you will always look radiant with light in your eyes, and a smile on your lips.
Information for Article by Tatiana Rivera of Gabriella Anthoney’s Design Artistry