The Ultimate Guide for Brides-to-Be: Achieving Radiant Skin Before Your Big Day
Getting engaged is a truly exciting milestone, and as a bride-to-be, you’ll want to look and feel your best on your wedding day.
Beyond the dress, venue, and all the intricate details that come with planning a wedding, there's something else that often takes centre stage, and that’s your skin. Achieving that perfect, glowing complexion doesn’t happen overnight, so getting started early on your aesthetic journey is key.
This article is designed to help you navigate the world of non-invasive skin rejuvenation treatments, focusing on some of Three Medical Aesthetics most popular in-clinic treatment options. Alongside these, we’ll also discuss the importance of incorporating a high quality skincare routine, so you can truly glow when it matters most.
We’ll also introduce you to Hannah, one of our beautiful brides who embarked on a bridal glow-up journey just five months before her big day. Like many brides-to-be, she wanted to refresh and rejuvenate her skin, ensuring she looked and felt her very best version, and let me tell you, she absolutely did.
Understanding Your Skin’s Needs
Before diving into treatments and products, it’s important to understand what your skin needs. Every bride’s skin is different, whether you’re dealing with dryness, breakouts, sensitivity, or signs of ageing. Knowing your skin type is the first step to choosing the right treatments and products.
- Dry Skin: Feels tight, flaky, and is often prone to irritation.
- Oily Skin: Produces excess oil, leading to shine and breakouts.
- Combination Skin: Oily in some areas (like the T-zone) and dry in others.
- Sensitive Skin: Reacts easily to products and environmental factors, often resulting in redness or discomfort.
- Mature/Ageing Skin: Showing signs of ageing, like fine lines, wrinkles, and a loss of elasticity.
Once we've identified your skin type, we can tailor your approach, making your treatment plan personalised and specifically for you. Here’s a breakdown of our most sought after bridal prep professional treatments, for that picture-perfect complexion of dreams.
Home Skincare Routine: The Foundation of Healthy Skin
While professional treatments can make a significant impact, maintaining an effective home skincare routine is just as important. Here at Three Medical Aesthetics, our skin professional Lucy is an expert in Medical-grade skincare.
Incorporating medical-grade skincare when undergoing medical aesthetic treatments is essential for optimising and maintaining the results of those treatments. Medical-grade skincare products contain higher concentrations of active ingredients that work at a deeper, cellular level, complementing treatments like Profhilo®, polynucleotides, and anti-wrinkle injections. These products help to prepare the skin before injectable treatments by improving hydration, boosting collagen production, and increasing cell turnover, making the skin more receptive to procedures.
Medical-grade skincare typically includes potent formulations like retinoids, vitamin C serums, peptides, hyaluronic acid, and chemical exfoliants that target issues such as ageing, acne, pigmentation, and dehydration at a deeper level than over-the-counter options. At the beginning of any bridal prep journey, Lucy assesses unique skin types, listens to concerns, and creates personalised plans that incorporate the right products for maximum benefit.
Two key products in Hannah’s skin prep:
AlumierMD AHA Renewal Serum: formulated with a blend of alpha hydroxy acids (AHAs), designed to improve skin texture, tone, and radiance. The serum contains lactic acid and glycolic acid, which work together to gently exfoliate dead skin cells, promote cell turnover, and smooth the skin's surface, revealing a more even and glowing complexion.
AlumierMD Ultimate Boost Serum: A lightweight, hydrating serum designed to replenish moisture and provide an anti-ageing boost. Packed with powerful ingredients, such as hyaluronic acid, niacinamide, peptides and antioxidants, this serum deeply hydrates and revitalises the skin while protecting it from environmental stressors.
Polynucleotides: Repair and Rejuvenate
One treatment gaining huge popularity among brides-to-be is the use of polynucleotides for skin rejuvenation. Polynucleotides are chains of nucleotides (the building blocks of DNA) that can improve cell regeneration and repair damaged tissue.
What Do Polynucleotides Do?
Polynucleotides work by enhancing the skin’s natural repair processes, making them an excellent choice for brides who want to tackle sun damage, scars, fine lines, dark circles or general skin laxity. They boost collagen production and improve skin elasticity, leading to firmer, plumper skin.
Why Choose Polynucleotides?
- Improves Skin Quality: Polynucleotides improve the overall quality of your skin by repairing damage at a cellular level. This makes your skin more resilient, healthy, and youthful.
- Natural Results: The treatment stimulates the body’s natural processes, so the results are subtle yet noticeable – perfect for brides who want to enhance and rejuvenate, without looking like they’ve had ‘work done.’
- Brightens Complexion: Polynucleotides help reduce pigmentation, dark circles and even out skin tone, making them perfect for refreshing and rejuvenating under eye circles.
How Many Sessions Will You Typically Need?
Polynucleotide treatments typically require three sessions spaced two to four weeks apart. It’s best to start this treatment at least 6 months before your wedding to allow time for your skin to regenerate and for optimal results to show.
Hannah’s polynucleotide experience: Due to time restrictions, we managed two sessions of polynucleotide treatment to treat the delicate under eye region. Polynucleotides are highly beneficial for the under eye area as they promote tissue regeneration and repair, helping to reduce the appearance of fine lines, dark circles, and puffiness. By stimulating collagen production and improving skin elasticity, we strengthened and rejuvenated the delicate skin around her eyes, leading to a firmer, brighter, and more refreshed appearance.
Anti-Wrinkle Treatment: Smoothing Out Fine Lines
As the big day approaches, many brides seek anti-wrinkle treatment to soften expression lines and wrinkles, ensuring a refreshed and ‘well slept’ appearance for their wedding photos.
What Are Anti-Wrinkle Treatments?
Anti-wrinkle treatments, commonly referred to under the brand name Botox® are injections that temporarily relax the muscles responsible for creating wrinkles. When injected into specific areas, treatment smooths out fine lines, such as crow’s feet, frown lines, and forehead wrinkles.
Why Consider Anti-Wrinkle Treatment Before Your Wedding?
- Immediate Results: You’ll notice a reduction in wrinkles within days of your treatment, with full results typically showing within two weeks.
- Long-Lasting Effects: Anti-wrinkle injections can last for up to three months, making it an ideal treatment to have 4-6 weeks before your wedding.
- Customisable: The treatment can be tailored to your needs, whether you want subtle, natural-looking results or more dramatic smoothing.
Here you can see Hannah’s remarkable results following three areas of anti-wrinkle treatment. To smooth out fine lines and wrinkles, we treated her upper face leaving her with a naturally refreshed appearance. It's important to trial anti-wrinkle treatment at least 6-8 months before your wedding day. That way, we can ensure we get your doses perfect for the big day.
Profhilo®: The Ultimate Hydration Boost
One of our most popular skin bio-remodelling treatments is Profhilo®, especially for brides looking to achieve a hydrated, firm, and youthful-looking appearance, without the use of dermal filler.
What is Profhilo®?
Profhilo® is an injectable treatment that contains one of the highest concentrations of hyaluronic acid (HA) available. Hyaluronic acid is a substance that’s naturally found in the body, responsible for maintaining moisture and elasticity in the skin. As we age, our levels of HA decrease, leading to a loss of firmness due to depletion of collagen and the development of fine lines.
Profhilo® is referred to as a bio-stimulator because it acts differently from dermal fillers. While fillers are typically used to add volume to specific areas (like lips or cheeks), Profhilo® doesn’t fill or shape. Instead, it works by delivering high concentrations of HA deep into the skin, which stimulates the production of collagen and elastin. This bio-stimulation leads to significant improvements in skin hydration, firmness, and texture across the treated area, resulting in a natural-looking, rejuvenated appearance without altering the facial structure.
Why is Profhilo® Ideal for Brides?
- Deep Hydration: Perfect for those with dull, dry, or tired-looking skin. Profhilo® works from the inside out to give you a dewy, glowing complexion.
- Quick Results: You’ll notice improvements in your skin’s hydration and texture within a few weeks after treatment, making it ideal to start around 2-3 months before the wedding.
- Non-Invasive: Profhilo® requires no downtime, so you can return to your daily routine immediately after the treatment.
How Many Sessions Will You Typically Need?
Most patients require two sessions spaced about four weeks apart. However, depending on your skin’s needs, we may recommend additional treatments.
To finish Hannah’s ultimate bridal prep, we completed a course of Profhilo® one month before the big day, to hydrate her skin from within, giving her an all-over healthy glow and the perfect makeup canvas. The results? Hannah looked effortlessly radiant, with flawless, glowing skin on her special day.
Achieving your perfect skin for your wedding day takes time and a combination of professional treatments and consistent at-home skincare. Whether you opt for Profhilo® to hydrate and plump, polynucleotides to rejuvenate and refresh the undereye area, anti-wrinkle treatments to smooth away fine lines and wrinkles, or your budget can stretch to a combination approach, starting your journey early will ensure that your skin looks radiant and refreshed on your big day. By following a personalised plan carefully curated by a medical professional, and being mindful of your skin’s needs, you’ll be ready to walk down the aisle with confidence and the glowing, picture-perfect complexion of your dreams.
