Getting your skin wedding ready!
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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.
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.
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
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:34
2
What are the essential steps for wedding skincare preparation?
0:34–2:30
3
How far in advance should brides start skincare treatments?
2:30–5:04
4
What common skin issues should brides address before the wedding?
5:04–7:16
5
What treatments are recommended for acne and scarring?
7:16–10:19
6
What should brides avoid doing close to their wedding day?
10:19–10:50