Last Minute Bridal Beauty Tips

Every bride wants to be beautiful on her wedding day. She wants that quintessential healthy glow that comes as much from the beauty of her body as it does from her excitement over the momentous celebration of her wedding. More, she wants those long lean lines that will allow her to look back at her wedding pictures with true pride.

Hydrate - We all should do this all the time anyway... during the last week before the wedding be sure to drink a full sixty four (64) ounces of water per day. That is just over three twenty ounce water bottles. Yes, that is a lot of water, but our bodies need that water to;

1. Give your skin that soft, healthy glow, and
2. Flush your bodies of excess salt and impurities. This allows our bodies to work their best and look their trimmest and healthiest just in time to outshine your crystal wedding cake jewelry!

Food Choices - Just as the old adage says, 'garbage in, garbage out.' What we put into our bodies has a direct impact on how our body looks on our wedding day. During the last weeks prior to the wedding celebration, if we concentrate on eating lean proteins, and fresh fruits and vegetables as the bulk of our diet, we will give our bodies the opportunity to tone up as much as the time frame allows.

Salt - Salt is an essential component to life. But too much of a good thing is not a good thing, and most of us get too much. More to the point, as we approach our wedding day and want to look as slender and healthy as possible, we are well advised to limit our total daily intake of salt by avoiding salty food entirely and only using the salt sparingly. Why? Because the more salt we have in our system, the more we will retain water instead of allowing the water to flush our system of impurities as it is designed to do.

Makeup - Makeup is arguably a bride’s best friend on her wedding day. It helps her look fresh… and it can also help to give her the appearance of having lost weight in time for her wedding regardless of whether she did or not. How? Simply by the use of highlighting techniques in the area of the cheekbone. Put in the most basic terms this beauty tip involves using a lighter shade on the top of the cheekbones and a darker shade underneath to create the illusion of sunken cheeks. To pull this off a bride should:

1. Play with it in advance,
2. Stop by a cosmetics counter for a little free advice on pulling it off, or
3. Hire a specialist to do their makeup on the day of their wedding.

Earrings - It might surprise some to hear that their choice of earrings can impact how thin they look. It is really only common sense, but it is not something we tend to think about. Simply put, a bride attempting to appear thinner on her wedding day should avoid dangly earrings because visually they fill in the space around the individual’s neck making the individual appear fuller in the face than they really are! Instead choose earrings that stay on the ear lobe that will really draw attention to the difference distinction between the head and the neck. This is usually accomplished with larger / bolder earrings.

Hairstyle - Just like the earrings, your choice of hairstyles can either accentuate the distinction between a bride's head and neck or obliterate it. This is one reason that so many brides choose to wear their hair up on their wedding day. Choosing to wear hair down can look nice as well, but it tends to create the illusion that the bride has little or no neck - even though anyone who thinks about it can see otherwise!

Shoes - We have all heard the joke about not being over weight... just too short! Whether this problem is relevant in the case of any particular bride or not, it is true that by choosing to wear high heeled wedding shoes a bride will end up with a longer, leaner look.

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Good choices are their own reward. Fortunately, even last minute good choices reap some rewards. It only takes a couple of days, for example, to drink enough water to hydrate a bride's skin and flush excess salt from a body to prevent excess water retention, thereby presenting a bride that is slimmer and healthier looking than she otherwise would be. Likewise, understanding how the choices we make in styles and accessories impact our overall look is a simple and cost effective way to creating a slimmer looking and more beautiful bride - all by following these last minute bridal beauty tips.

Last Minute Bridal Beauty Tips