Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
The Clare Byrne Show on Newstalk. With Aviva Insurance. Well, from glow-ups to stress breakouts, wedding skincare has become a huge part of pre-wedding preparation. And not just for the bride, let me tell you. Rosemary Coleman is Consultant Dermatologist at the Blackrock Clinic here to talk me through all of this.
Rosemary, this is like, you need a degree in this now, getting ready for the wedding. I have a degree. Well, you have, but the rest of us, I mean, you have to start months and months and months in advance.
Well, there is that nowadays.
Chapter 2: What are the essential steps for wedding skincare preparation?
Well, the important thing is that if you have something you want to correct, don't pitch up to the dermatologist three weeks before your wedding, having spent a fortune. getting beauty treatments and gimmicks to try and get rid of your acne, your rosacea, pigmentation, dermatitis. Give us a chance to correct your skin of any flaws, shrink the pores, get rid of the pigment.
That's going to take a couple of months. So this is a marathon and not a sprint.
OK, so what are the things that you would be recommending in an ideal situation now? We'll take the bride as the person we're looking after here. When do you start? What do you need to do?
OK, well, a common problem I've had is brides coming in four to six weeks before the wedding with acne. So if you're the bride, don't tolerate. People don't often realize that a couple of spots on their chin all the time is actually acne and it's scarring their skin. So don't tolerate any skin problems. Don't be covering them up with makeup 10 months in advance.
So I would say deal with any skin abnormalities that need medical treatment like acne, rosacea, severe broken blood vessels, pigmentation, young girls, melasma, pigmentation of the pill or of pregnancy and things like that. And what is the treatment that they would need for things like this? We would use medical treatments largely and then we'll complement them.
So if somebody has acne and acne scarring, we will treat their acne medically, but we will treat their acne scarring with lasers, microneedling, occasionally peels, mainly lasers. And you need downtime because they might need three to six treatments a month apart. So you need that 10 to 12 month run in time for the correction phase.
Or if they've melasma, we will treat them with a prescription grade hydroquinone, kojic acid, vitamin C creams, plus microneedling. They might need three a month apart. We like to do that well in advance.
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Chapter 3: How far in advance should brides start skincare treatments?
And with things like microneedling, are you going to have a bit of redness after that? So, I mean, just thinking about people who might get this done a few weeks before the wedding and they're turning up. They shouldn't.
The operator shouldn't touch them. They should do nothing a few weeks before the wedding. Nothing different. Nothing new. No new products. No new facials. Just stay very conservative because you do not want to develop an allergic contact dermatitis or an infection a week or two before your wedding. Be conservative.
My philosophy on Botox is do not try it for the first time within six months of the wedding because Botox has to be fashioned for each individual. Everybody needs a slightly different touch depending on their facial structure. It takes two weeks to take full effect. Most people find Botox only lasts three months, but some people will get six months out of it.
That's fabulous normally, but not if you don't like what was done to you. So don't try Botox for the first time sooner than six months before the wedding so that if you don't like it, it will wear off. Yeah, you don't want to not like how you're looking on your wedding day.
Exactly.
And you could be stuck with it. But ideally, then get the Botox right. Maybe, you know, somewhere between 12 and six months. You might and your budget might not allow you to do it regularly, but you might want it for the big day for a particular area like a frown.
then do not do it closer than four to six weeks before the wedding it takes two weeks to kick in and then if you need a little tweak it takes two weeks to that kick for that to kick in and i always think it looks its best at four to six weeks when the face relaxes around it okay so this is again is down to timing and working well in advance so people want to look sort of glowy fresh healthy on their wedding day that's the ambition isn't it yes and how do you get there
Now, Clare, most brides are young and they look like that already. OK, girls, youth is beauty. You don't need much. So the mothers of the bride, that's a different kettle of fish. But the run in treatments for the last period.
So in the last four to six weeks, you should or even the last two weeks only have treatments that you have tried before and that you know whether or not there's any downtime. So, for example, a very popular one is something called Clear and Brilliant. The only thing I don't like about that laser is the name, but it actually does deliver.
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Chapter 4: What common skin issues should brides address before the wedding?
What if you're allergic to the local anesthetic cream that's used? You have to be prepared for every eventuality. What if you get an infection or an outbreak of herpes or something? So two weeks before the wedding or there is a laser called a YAG laser.
Now, men love this because like it or not, the fairer sex have a higher pain threshold and we're more focused when it comes to cosmetic treatments. This is utterly painless. And it's great for the red face men. The grooms and the groom's fathers or the bride's fathers are often marched into us around 10 to 12 months to get rid of the red face.
Because the yag is painless.
It's not sore. It's utterly painless.
And there's no downtime.
I know. I know. We hold their hands. They usually say the wife sent me in, but I've yet to meet a man who doesn't like looking better either.
Of course. And so when it comes to skin care, so moving on from the treatments, what sort of skin care should people be looking at? Should you be now, if you're a year out from your wedding or six months, be starting to use active products? That's exactly right.
Try to get retinol into your skin. skincare regimen if possible but don't keep doing it if it doesn't suit you too many people are using retinol and they shouldn't it's stripping their skin and they're peely but they think i'm using retinol so it's better you have to look better with the product try to get retinol in try to get glycolic acid products in vitamin c I won't bore you with sunblock.
You're sick of that.
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Chapter 5: What treatments are recommended for acne and scarring?
So you won't have no sunblock, but you definitely will not have a factor 50. If you're out playing tennis at nine o'clock in the morning, it's hot and sweaty, you're blowing your nose, rubbing your face, you need to reapply as soon as you've finished. If you're out playing golf, you need to reapply halfway because you're out there for four to five hours.
It's very difficult for people, say, who are jogging and running and sweating a lot. If they're going for a very long run, it's very important to wear clothes, a high neck, sleeves in. Try and get the SPF clothing that will suit your sport. In the summer, I'll play tennis with long sleeves. You know, it's a very light fabric.
Because it's very hard to protect. You can't rely on the SPF in those circumstances because of the heat. I have a question in from Jeanette. What to do about a skin rash that hits the moment I'm in the sun? On the face, the arms, the chest and the hands, I seem to be allergic to it. I wear a factor 50, which helps, but it doesn't always stop it.
And Jeanette is very lucky because she's heading off to Barbados in July. OK, that's a very common disorder.
It's called polymorphic light eruption. And it's extremely common. It's usually a UVA sensitivity. It normally comes on around day five to seven of the sun holiday. What she should do is go to the GP and get a course of oral steroids, prednisolone, and take that on holidays with her. The minute the rash hits, she takes them. And that should, that'll settle it down and stop it flaring up.
Is this a Celtic skin issue? Yes, it's largely, but not exclusively. And I had expected you to tell me that Jeanette should cover up in the sun. Well, like that goes without saying. If you're going to get a sun sensitivity and you lie there and sunbathe, she can't sunbathe once she's got that disorder. Even on the steroids?
No, it's going to be a gift because at the end of the day, she's going to have to protect her skin more. But it's tender. It ruins your holiday. It's itchy. It's unsightly. It often won't appear on the face because the face has had what's called hardening. Her face has been exposed to UV 365 days.
So it's become tolerant to that wavelength. OK, now I distracted you from your skincare regime for brides-to-be and included in that was the SPF, which is a given.
Well, Clare, you know, this sounds boring, but say you're on a strict budget and you really want to have the best skin of the day. I swear, if you use very serious sunblock and nothing but it, you will see a change in your skin in a year. So that's the cheapest way to do it. Apart from that, get your skincare products organized. You don't have to suddenly start lashing everything on.
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Chapter 6: What should brides avoid doing close to their wedding day?
They're probably in a lot of the products you're already using. So they're fashionable now because that's the current trend. They've been around a long time and they do complement skincare, stimulate collagen, etc.,
OK, Rosemary, thank you very much for coming in. Good to see you as always. Rosemary Coleman there, consultant dermatologist from the Blackrock Clinic. Get your sunscreen on.