Your wedding day is one of the most memorable days of your life, and naturally, you want to look and feel your absolute best. Achieving radiant, flawless skin is a top priority for many brides-to-be. Here’s a comprehensive guide to some of the most effective skincare treatments that can help you achieve that bridal glow. It’s recommended to start your skin prep at least 3-4 months before the wedding to ensure optimal results.
Skin Boosters: Hydration and Radiance
Skin boosters are injectable treatments designed to deeply hydrate the skin, providing a dewy and luminous complexion. These treatments typically use hyaluronic acid, a natural molecule that attracts and retains water in the skin, plumping it up and reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. The benefits include:
Intense Hydration: Keeps your skin moisturized and glowing.
Collagen Stimulation: Promotes collagen production for firmer, more elastic skin.
Immediate Results: Provides a quick boost to your skin’s appearance, perfect for the lead-up to your big day.
Profhilo is a unique injectable treatment that contains high concentrations of hyaluronic acid. It provides intense hydration, improves skin firmness, and enhances overall skin texture. Profhilo works by stimulating collagen and elastin production, leading to smoother, plumper skin. It is particularly effective for those looking to improve skin hydration and firmness with minimal downtime.
Profhilo Structura is the next generation of this innovative treatment. It specifically targets deeper structural changes in the face caused by aging. This new hyaluronic acid injectable is designed to regenerate subcutaneous fat, providing improved structural support and a lifting effect. Profhilo Structura combines high and low molecular weight hyaluronic acid, making it ideal for restoring facial volume and enhancing overall skin quality.
Sunekos, on the other hand, combines hyaluronic acid with amino acids to stimulate collagen and elastin production. This treatment not only hydrates the skin but also promotes tissue regeneration, making it ideal for addressing fine lines, wrinkles, and skin laxity. Sunekos is versatile and can be used on various areas of the body, including the face, neck, and hands.
Differences and Benefits:
Profhilo: Focuses on deep hydration and skin tightening. It is injected into specific points on the face and requires two treatment sessions spaced about a month apart. Profhilo is best suited for individuals with mild to moderate skin laxity.
Profhilo Structura: This advanced version of Profhilo targets deeper structural changes in the face caused by aging. It specifically regenerates subcutaneous fat, providing improved structural support and a lifting effect. Profhilo Structura combines high and low molecular weight hyaluronic acid, making it ideal for restoring facial volume and enhancing overall skin quality. It is particularly beneficial for individuals seeking more pronounced lifting and structural improvements
Sunekos: Emphasizes collagen stimulation and overall skin rejuvenation. It involves a series of injections spread out across a larger treatment area and typically requires 3 sessions spaced two weeks apart. Sunekos is suitable for more challenging skin concerns, such as severe wrinkles and sun-damaged skin.
Starting skin boosters 3-4 months before the wedding allows your skin to fully benefit from the hydration and collagen stimulation, ensuring a radiant glow on your special day.
Anti-Wrinkle Treatments: Smooth and Youthful Skin
Anti-wrinkle treatments, such as Botox, are popular for reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. These treatments work by temporarily relaxing the facial muscles that cause wrinkles, resulting in smoother skin. Key benefits include:
• Reduction of Fine Lines: Smooths out crow’s feet, forehead lines, and frown lines.
• Preventative Care: Helps prevent the formation of new wrinkles.
• Quick and Effective: Visible results within days, with minimal downtime.
Treatment typically takes about 2 weeks to take full effect and lasts approximately 3 months. The ‘sweet spot’ for optimal results is around 6 weeks post-treatment. For best results, it’s advisable to start anti-wrinkle treatments a few months before the wedding to allow any necessary adjustments and to ensure the effects are at their peak.
Dermal Fillers: Plump and Perfect Lips
Dermal fillers, especially those containing hyaluronic acid, are used to add volume to the lips and smooth out wrinkles around the mouth. Benefits include:
• Fuller Lips: Enhances lip volume and shape.
• Wrinkle Reduction: Smooths out fine lines around the lips.
• Natural Look: Provides a subtle, natural enhancement.
Starting dermal filler treatments 3-4 months before the wedding ensures that any swelling or bruising has time to subside, leaving you with beautifully enhanced lips.
Skin Peels: Clear and Smooth Skin
Chemical peels involve applying a solution to the skin that exfoliates and removes dead skin cells, revealing fresher, smoother skin underneath. Benefits include:
• Decongestion: Unclogs pores and reduces acne.
• Improved Texture: Smooths out fine lines and wrinkles.
• Even Skin Tone: Reduces hyperpigmentation and dark spots5.
Regular skin peels should be started several months before the wedding to allow your skin to recover and to achieve the best possible results.
Dermal Needling: Rejuvenation and Repair
Dermal needling, also known as microneedling, uses tiny needles to create micro-injuries in the skin, stimulating collagen and elastin production. This treatment is effective for:
• Reducing Scarring: Improves the appearance of acne scars and other types of scarring.
• Fine Lines and Wrinkles: Promotes smoother, firmer skin.
• Overall Skin Rejuvenation: Enhances skin texture and tone6.
Combining dermal needling with LED red light therapy can significantly enhance the results. Red light therapy promotes collagen production, reduces inflammation, and accelerates healing. This combination can lead to even more radiant and rejuvenated skin.
If dermal needling seems too intense for you, nano-needling is a fantastic alternative. Nano-needling uses tiny cone-like structures to create microscopic channels in the skin, enhancing serum absorption without penetrating deeply. This treatment can be done more frequently, even weekly, and is ideal for improving skin texture and tone.
Differences Between Dermal Needling and Nano-Needling:
• Dermal Needling: Penetrates deeper into the dermis (0.25mm to 1.5mm), stimulating collagen and elastin production. It’s effective for treating deep wrinkles, scars, and skin laxity. Treatments are typically done every 4-6 weeks to allow the skin to heal and regenerate.
• Nano-Needling: Targets the epidermis with tiny silicone cones, creating nano-channels for better serum absorption. It’s less invasive and can be done weekly, making it suitable for maintaining skin hydration and addressing surface-level concerns.
Both needling techniques significantly increase serum absorption, enhancing the effectiveness of skincare products by allowing them to penetrate deeper into the skin. This leads to better hydration, improved skin texture, and a more radiant complexion.
Starting dermal needling treatments 3-4 months before the wedding allows your skin to fully benefit from the collagen stimulation and rejuvenation effects.
To complement your skincare treatments, we recommend our Radiance Supplement Pack consisting of high-dose marine collagen and H3O hydration.
High-Dose Marine Collagen is essential for brightening the complexion, boosting collagen production, and reducing hyperpigmentation, fine lines, and wrinkles. Marine collagen helps improve skin elasticity, thickness, and hydration, making it a powerful anti-aging supplement.
H3O Hydration provides an essential dose of electrolytes in a hypotonic solution, which is crucial for optimal hydration. This solution helps deliver water molecules into the cells more efficiently, ensuring your skin stays hydrated and radiant.
Both products contain hyaluronic acid, a key component of the dermis. Hyaluronic acid plays a crucial role in maintaining skin hydration, elasticity, and overall health by attracting and retaining water molecules. It possesses hygroscopic properties, enabling it to retain water up to 1000 times its weight. Present in the skin’s dermis and part of its natural moisturizing factors (NMFs), hyaluronic acid acts as a humectant that draws water, keeping the skin plump and reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
We offer specialized Bride and Groom Skin Treatment Packages tailored to help you and your fiancé look your best on your special day. These packages combine various treatments to address your unique skincare needs, ensuring both of you have radiant, flawless skin.
Conclusion
By incorporating these treatments into your pre-wedding skincare routine, you’ll be glowing with confidence, radiant and flawless skin as you walk down the aisle.
Get in touch with us for a complimentary skin strategy consultation. Our experts will help you create a customized skincare plan that aligns with your goals and timeline, ensuring you achieve the best possible results.
Mandatory Statements
Profhilo
Profhilo® Medical Device Class III.
For the redefinition and laxity remodelling where skin laxity is a problem.
Profhilo has risks and benefits Contains low & high molecular weight hyaluronic acid (64mg / 2ml). Ask your doctor if Profhilo is right for you. For product information check with your doctor or from product details with the supplier Accelagen Pty Ltd. Whanganui.
PROFHILO STRUCTURA
PROFHILO® STRUCTURA containing low and high molecular weight Hyaluronic acid is a class 3 medical device for face treatment and for restoring adipose tissues -in the dermal tissue repair process, and in cases of acne scars. PROFHILO® STRUCTURA has risks and benefits. Do not use it along with treatments such as laser resurfacing or medium/deep skin peeling. Do not inject into inflamed areas or intravenously or intramuscularly. Possible side effects are pain, itching or swelling at the injection site. Dermocosmetica Pty Ltd. Auckland. TAPS BG4145.
Sunekos
Sunekos containing hyaluronic acid and amino acids is a class III medical device that modifies the structure of mature skin, restoring volume, filling wrinkles and folds in the skin and in scar sites. Sunekos has risks and benefits. Sunekos should not be used on patients: with known hypersensitivity to any of its components; presenting with a general infection, inflammation or irritation in the area to be treated; or in patients predisposed to coagulation disorders. A local reaction may rarely occur, caused by hypersensitisation phenomena, with symptoms that include oedema and sensation of burning and/or itching. These reactions normally resolve within two days. Consult your healthcare professional to see if Sunekos is right for you. For more information refer to the instructions for use. New Zealand Sponsor: AA-Med Pty Ltd Distributed by: Xytide Biotech NZ Pty LTD
Botox
Botox®, Prescription Medicine For the treatment of frown lines and crow’s feet round the eyes Botox® has risks and benefits. Ask your doctor if Botox is right for you Botulinum toxin type A 50, 100, 200 Units. For product information check with your doctor or Consumer Medicine Information on www.medsafe.govt.nz Click for further details. Allergan, Auckland.
Dermal Filler
Teosyal® from Teoxane® Medical Device Class III.
Is a space- occupying supplement to correct skin contour deformities (e.g. wrinkles, folds, scars especially round the eyes. Teosyal® has risks and benefits.
Contains Hyaluronic Acid in various volumes with lidocaine 0.3% by mass. Ask your doctor if Teosyal is right for you.
For product information check with your doctor or from the supplier. Click for further details. Distributed by Healthcare Logistics Auckland.
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