Beauty & Style

Month Before Wedding

By admin On Feb 24, 2010

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Avoid using perfumed soaps and chemicals based body wash. Instead follow in the footsteps of your grandma and use freshly grounded ubtans. You can use ubtans by using marigold, orange, herbs and milk as its ingredients or paste that is mixed with almond powder, rice powder, mint and rose petals. Applying these ubtans every day will give great results. Follow a regular pre-bridal skin care regime. The to-be-bride should indulge into variety of body massages, scrubs, body polish, facials and spa treatments. The ingredients although should be gentle and natural. If you have problems like acne, scars and blemishes, start the treatments in advance to improve skin texture, toning it and refining the pores.


Your wedding’s next week


Massage your body either with honey and lime juice or sour curd for 5 to 10 minutes before the shower. Massage the scalp and hair with warm coconut oil an hour or two before washing them will keep your tresses shining and tough to withstand all the chemical abuses done during the pre-wedding functions. For oily skin use a mask containing fullers’ earth, sandalwood and rose water alternate evenings for 10 to 15 minutes. Choose the skin care products according to your skin type. It is best recommended not to try too many new products close to your wedding days.


Managing Mane


Hair care is also an important part of your pre-wedding grooming. Apart from eating healthy and getting good sleep, you need to start your hair care regime almost three months prior to your wedding. The best three hair care rituals are – Strengthening, Nourishing and Color Protection. Would be brides can opt for these rituals five to six times three months before the wedding. The rituals can be repeated twice in 15 days, one month prior to the wedding.


Just a week before the wedding the bride can indulge in treatments that strengthen her hair and scalp. Moisturize lock and heat protection treatments are important as hair will undergo styling, chemical application and blow drying for the pre-wedding ceremonies. A bride must start using hair care products at home too apart from hot oil massages, taking Aloe Vera shots and drinking plenty of water. Massage your scalp twice a week with warm coconut oil, followed by hot towel wrap treatment, to have lustrous and healthy tresses. A weekly henna treatment mixed with lemon juice and coffee, two raw eggs, hair oil and enough tea water before wedding also adds volume and shine to hair.


Body Contouring

Get yourself booked with fitness expert and weight management centers that would help you with right advice and a customized weight loss and inch loss programme for you. Apart from that, spas also offer body shaping body wraps. The body is cocooned in a wrap that helps to reverse cellulite formation by stimulating the body’s own natural lymph elimination functions. A series of four to six wraps are recommended as a part of anti-cellulite programs.

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