Indian Bridal Skin Care and Facials

Get Fabulous Looking Skin for Your Wedding Day!

In order to look your best on your wedding day, you (the bride) should have clean, radiant and healthy facial skin. This is not something that can be attained overnight! So a trip to the spa for a rejuvenating facial will not rid your skin of skin problems. Instead, it may exacerbate skin problems leaving red and irritated looking skin. When you apply make-up on injured, or problem skin, the effect is not as good. The make-up acts as a concealer rather than an enhancement.

So read on for some facial tips Indian brides can use to brighten up their skin in time for their wedding day!

Bridal Skin Care Tips

It is not wise to try out new skin care treatments just before your wedding as your skin may react adversely to the new product. Therefore, it is advisable to try out the recommended skin care tips below at least 3 months before your wedding day. This gives your skin time to adjust to the treatment, and also more time benefits the skin.

Best Natural Facial Mask

The best natural facial mask is honey. Place a clean cloth in warm water, and gently wash your face to open the pores up and remove surface impurities. Then, smear on the honey in a thin, even layer. Leave this on for 15-30 minutes. Grab another clean cloth, warm up your water, and gently rinse the mask off. Once your skin is clean, use cold water to close your pores. This type of facial should be used once a week.

For Problem Skin

The best natural facial mask for problem skin (oily skin, acne and blemishes) is yogurt. You should only use natural yogurt with live cultures. You may add a few drops of lemon juice and honey to the yogurt. Then, smear on the yogurt mixture in a thin and even layer. Leave this on for 15-30 minutes. Grab another clean cloth, warm up your water, and gently rinse the mask off.

Voila! Simple bridal tips and tricks for beautifully radiant skin that you can make at home.



With beautiful skin, you can try out stunning bridal make-up looks for Indian brides.

The wedding makeup that plays up the eyes with a dusty, smokey eyeshadow application is suitable for Indian brides. Although this is glamorous, the earthy tones and naturally warm lip color keep it from being too dramatic. Lush eyelashes are also the perfect partner to the eyeshadow and help play up the glam look.

Indian Bridal Make Up Looks
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Mehndi Designs | Beautiful Henna Designs

Dry and Cracked Heel Skin Remedy

The mehndi (henna) party is an important ceremony that occurs before the actual wedding day. During the henna party, henna designs are done on the palms of the hands and feet of the bride.

But if you have less than desired skin on your feet, such as dry and cracked heels, then mehndi on your feet will not be as alluring as it should be. Here is a simple tip that can help you cure dry and cracked heels, in time for your mehndi party.

1) Rub a 2% salicylic acid solution on the dry and cracked heels of your feet. Dip a soft facial pad or cotton wool into solution and rub onto feet. You can use a product as such Stridex.

2) Allow the solution to evaporate, or dry out.

3) Rub a heavy or thick moisturizer onto the heels of your feet. You can use a product such as Eucerin.

4) This is optional, but recommended. Wear socks to cover your feet

Doing this procedure every night before you sleep for two weeks will cure your dry and cracked heels problem!

Some Mehndi Facts:

The actual application of the henna can take anyway from 1.5 to 3 hours depending on the type of designs being applied. The more elaborate and intricate the designs, the longer it takes. The henna designs signifies the strength of love in the future marriage, so the bride makes an effort to keep it on as long as possible. The henna artist will used special ingredients that will enhance the longevity of the henna designs - it is possible for the designs to last for over three weeks after being applied.

While the bride is having her henna done, female guests (usually her close female relatives and friends) will perform dances and sing as entertainment. Traditionally, this is an event that are attended by only the females, but in some modern Indian families, men are also invited to the activities.

Here are some beautiful henna bridal designs we have come across. Hope you are well inspired by them.

Mehendi Bridal Designs

Bridal Beauty Tips | Facial Cosmetic Procedure

Juvederm Smooth Dermal Fillers

I read with much interest about modern brides getting quick facial fixes at the dermatologist or plastic surgeon's office before their wedding day. Apparently, the procedure most favored is the Botox injection.

However, it seems to me that the Botox procedure is much better suited for older brides (35 and above) with more pronounced wrinkles. Botox works by paralysing the facial muscles where it is injected into. It also blocks by blocking the connection between facial muscles and the facial nerves. Botox is supposed to be safe, but it has really been around for less than 20 years. We are not fully sure if there are any long-term effects on people who frequently used Botox.

After all, Botox involves the injection of botulinum toxins, and there have been some reports that suggested that the neurotoxin “can move from its injection site to the brain”. Sounds pretty scary.

This is why I decided to do some research in this cosmetic industry to try and find out what other procedures there might be for brides wanting a quick facial fix.

I found out about Juvederm - a injectable smooth demal filler that mimics what is already naturally available in the skin.

When we age, we lose firmess (through fat loss) in our skin; this leads us to have a droopy effect. In the face, we get those "parentheses" around the naso-labial area. The skin loses stucture and volume, forming lines and wrinkles.

Juverderm corrects this by injecting materials called "demal fillers" into the skin, to achieve a temporary effect on smoothness. The dermal filler used in Juvederm is called hyaluronic acid (HA).

HA is a natural complex sugar found in all living cells, and one of the major components of the skin tissue. HA retains water and hydrates the skin to increase volume and density.

Since Juvederm uses a naturally occuuring substance that is already present in the skin, this is a safe procedure that has no advserse long-term effects. The benefits from the procedure though are temporary, lasting anywhere from 6 months to a year.

Still, this might be the better and safer option for brides looking for a quick facial fix before their wedding date.