If you are getting married this summer, you’ve no doubt perfected the table plan, finalized fittings for your dress and decided on the finishing touches to your bridal bouquet.
While your facial skincare routine might have been in the making for months, it’s possible you haven’t even considered the best pre-wedding body care to take you up to the big day.
Our founder, Consultant Dermatologist Dr Alexis Granite, is on hand to deliver her expert advice on your bridal skin prep, ensuring glowing skin for your wedding and beyond.
Perfect Pre-Wedding Skin Routine
The ideal pre-wedding skin prep focuses on making sure you have the right skin care to deliver smooth, hydrated - but most crucially - healthy skin.
It is important to start early (not introducing any new body care too close to the big day), and be consistent - and make sure you are choosing self-care that is formulated with high-quality, powerful ingredients to protect your skin barrier.
I’d also recommend keeping your pre-wedding skin care routine fairly simple: focusing on ensuring hydration and combating specific skincare concerns (such as bumps, laxity, stretch marks or cellulite), and not falling into an over-complicated routine that you’ll find hard to continue.
2 Months Before Wedding Skin Care
Now is the perfect time to begin boosting your bridal routine with simple but skin-supporting body care, super-powered with potent ingredients.
With two months to go, I would start with a simple two-step routine that will effectively kick-start your skin prep for your wedding.
First, lather up with a gentle and skin-moisturizing cleanser such as our Vitamin-E enhanced MOON SWIM Hydrating Body Wash, which will replenish, nurture and support your skin without drying.
Next, ensure daily hydration using a moisturizer with potent ingredients that will help retain water whilst repairing the skin barrier. Our LITTLE LOVE Nourishing Body Lotion and SUNDAY SOFA Moisturizing Body Butter are rich in both hyaluronic and amino acids, designed to deliver smooth, hydrated, refreshed skin.
If you are concerned about keratosis pilaris (those pesky bumps on the backs of your arms), this is the ideal time to reach for our KALEIDOSCOPE Smoothing Body Serum. We’ve blended potent shikimic acid, azelaic acid and licorice root - an innovative formulation that is clinically proven to improve skin smoothness, softness and the appearance of keratosis pilaris in as little as six weeks.
1 Month Before Wedding Skin Care
With just four weeks to go, this is where I would layer in an exfoliator to your bridal body care routine. Regular exfoliation will remove dead skin cells to deliver radiant, smoother skin whilst preventing pigmentation and in-grown hairs. If you are considering a self-tan or spray tan for your big day, exfoliating will also create the perfect canvas.
Start just once a week, gently smoothing on the scrub in circles and concentrating on particularly dry areas such as knees, feet and elbows. If your skin tolerates exfoliation well, increase to 2-3 times weekly. Our creamy sugar and chia seed VIOLET HAZE Polishing Body Scrub is fortified with radiance-boosting actives and skin barrier-supporting prebiotic inulin to deliver refined skin.
If loose, bumpy or scarred skin is weighing on your mind, this is where you might want to consider a targeted treatment. Our award-winning DAYDREAMER Firming Body Serum is powered by a unique biomimetic peptide-sapphire complex alongside 17 active and botanical ingredients to improve the appearance of crepey skin, cellulite and stretch marks, with clinically proven results in as little as 4 weeks.
1 Week Before Wedding Skin Care
It’s important to stay consistent with your body care in the days before your wedding: cleansing and moisturizing each day, and layering in your exfoliator and treatment as required.
This is also the perfect opportunity to prep your hands for their close up - making sure your skin is as radiant and bright as your ring. CONFETTI SKY Multitasking Hand Treatment is supercharged with firming peptides, vitamin E microspheres and a skin-brightening licorice root complex, proven to improve skin elasticity, radiance and hydration.
On The Day Wedding Skin Care
On the big day: do not change a thing! Lean into your established bridal skin routine and give yourself a moment of mindfulness as you sweep your body care on.
Both LITTLE LOVE Nourishing Body Lotion and CONFETTI SKY Multitasking Hand Treatment are proven to deliver hydration that lasts for days, so your skin will be smooth, soft and bright from walking down the aisle to dancing under the stars.
I would also suggest taking time to slowly inhale the scents of your self-care. It’s scientifically proven that fragrances can impact your mood, calming and centering you for the celebration ahead - and creating a scent-memory that will last a lifetime.
Best Pre-Wedding Skin Care Products
Ready to tie the knot with a skin-smoothing self-care ritual? We’ve debriefed your bridal shopping list below:
- For Radiant Skin: MOON SWIM Hydrating Body Wash, VIOLET HAZE Exfoliating Body Scrub and LITTLE LOVE Nourishing Body Lotion
- For Hydrated Hands: CONFETTI SKY Multitasking Hand Treatment
- For Smooth Skin: KALEIDOSCOPE Smoothing Body Serum
- For Tight, Toned Skin: DAYDREAMER Firming Body Serum
