Your Ultimate Guide to Pre-Wedding Skincare

One moment you’re reveling in the engagement, gazing at your ring finger and loving the title fiancée. Then seemingly, in the blink of an eye, your big day isn’t just a daydream—it’s a real date on the calendar, and it’s coming up fast. As your walk down the aisle looms closer, it’s time to think about your pre-wedding skincare strategy.

Curating the perfect bridal skincare routine can seem daunting, and understandably so. You’ll be center stage on your big day, posing for photos you’ll look back on for generations. Let’s make sure you feel as confident and radiant as can be with this complete guide to pre-wedding skincare.  

Wedding Skincare Prep: Get Glowing Skin in Time for the Big Day

An upcoming wedding is an excellent excuse to upgrade your skincare routine beyond topical creams and serums. Aside from the desire to look your best, with the stress of wedding planning, there’s no better time to invest in some self-care. Thankfully, with Omnilux LED, you can achieve that bridal glow from home. 

Here’s how LED light therapy can anchor your pre-wedding skincare routine:

• Smooth fine lines: Wedding planning can get hectic, but it doesn’t have to leave you with wrinkles. LED light therapy stimulates collagen production, helping to counteract fine lines and wrinkles while giving your skin a plump, smooth appearance. 

• Calm inflammation and diminish pigmentation: LED light therapy boosts blood flow to the skin and bolsters its natural healing process. This helps reduce inflammation while fading pigmentation and other visible imperfections, like signs of sun damage. 

• Treat acne breakouts: For those of us with acne-prone skin, wedding day breakouts are an all-too-real concern. Thankfully, LED light therapy is a valuable tool to add to your acne-busting arsenal. Our Blemish Eraser delivers targeted blue and red LED light to eradicate acne-causing bacteria and calm inflammation, helping to address any poorly-timed pimples. 

• Improve overall radiance: The regenerative benefits of LED light therapy can give skin a brighter, glowier overall look, perfect for the big day. 

Wedding Skincare Timeline: How Early Should I Start Treatments?

A successful wedding often comes down to a meticulous timeline, from booking a venue to saying yes to the dress. To reach your skincare goals before the celebration arrives, consider mapping out a timeline for your skin treatments, too.

At-home LED light therapy with an Omnilux mask can yield results within four weeks if you follow the recommended protocol (three to five 10-minute sessions per week). After four to six weeks of this regimen, you can switch to routine maintenance treatments based on your skin’s needs and treatment goals.

It’s generally best to start treatments at least 90 days before your nuptials. This gives your routine plenty of time to yield results. However, if you’re starting a brand-new treatment or topical, give your skin a month (or two) of extra wiggle room, providing your skin ample time to adjust.

LED Light Therapy: Making the Most of Your Treatments

Wedding prep time is limited, so you’ll want to make the most of every treatment. You can maximize your LED light therapy results by:

• Being consistent

The true benefits of LED light therapy become apparent after four to six weeks of bi- or tri-weekly use. To cement this skincare ritual and prevent skipped sessions, we suggest wrapping it into your self-care routine: Light a candle, brew a cup of tea, and crack open a book (or the latest issue of Brides, perhaps?) before putting on your LED mask. 

• Using an FDA-cleared mask

Since at-home red light therapy soared to prominence in the skincare industry, you have an abundance of masks to choose from. To ensure the best possible results, we recommend choosing FDA-cleared LED light therapy masks, like Omnilux LED. This distinction ensures the product underwent rigorous safety and efficacy testing.

• Pairing it with a complementary skincare routine

To bring your LED light therapy results to the next level, take a closer look at your topicals. How you prep your skin matters: A gentle exfoliating cleanser like our Enzyme Powder Cleanser helps slough away dead skin cells and dirt, revealing a smoother skin texture and radiant glow.

After patting your face dry, slather on a dollop of Hyaluronic Acid Serum to lock in moisture before your LED session. After 10 minutes of light therapy, top off your skin with our Peptide Concentrate to amplify the rejuvenating, plumping benefits, smoothing the look of fine lines and wrinkles. 

To keep things simple (after all, you have a wedding coming up), you can purchase these products together in our LED Essentials Bundle. They’re specifically formulated to work together with LED light therapy, so you don’t have to worry about ingredient interactions or subpar actives. 

For those of us with blemish-prone skin, Omnilux has you covered with the Clear Rescue Bundle. Formulated by renowned aesthetics expert Dr. Hany Abi Ghosn, this clarity-boosting trio supports the benefits of LED therapy for breakouts and inflammation. It consists of our Salicylic Acid Cleanser, Noni Balancing Serum, and Squalane Jelly Moisturizer to help you maintain balanced, wedding-ready skin.

Combine and Conquer: What Treatments Can I Do With LED Therapy?

In the months leading up to your walk down the aisle, combining treatments can lead to faster, more noticeable results—as long as you do so thoughtfully. Thankfully, LED therapy is safe to couple with most of today’s most beloved medspa treatments, including:

• Neurotoxins, like Botox (just wait for 24 to 48 hours after your injections before using your mask)

• Dermal fillers (your aesthetician may recommend waiting a day or two after your injections to use LED light therapy, depending on the filler)

• Microneedling and microdermabrasion

• Chemical peels

LED therapy can enhance these treatments’ results by reducing inflammation, speeding up recovery times, and providing an extra boost of radiance.

Skincare to Avoid While Using LED Light Therapy

It’s tempting to throw every treatment at your skin in hopes you’ll reap their combined benefits. But before any major event, especially your wedding, it pays to pump the brakes. Subjecting your skin to too many treatments and active ingredients can damage the delicate skin barrier and lead to irritation, redness, or even major skin reactions—the exact opposite of what you’re trying to achieve. 

So while LED light therapy generally plays nice with others, it’s best to avoid or limit ingredients that could lead to excessive dryness, like prescription-strength retinoids and AHAs or BHAs. If you currently rely on these ingredients, consult your dermatologist about how to safely use them with an active LED regimen. Also, keep in mind that these ingredients increase your skin’s sun sensitivity, making daily SPF (and reapplication) more crucial than ever. 

Avoiding excessive treatments and harsh ingredients has another benefit: Convenience! With LED light therapy, you can trade a time-consuming beauty routine for a simple 10-minute treatment with your Omnilux device. Your mask works hard while you relax from home, so you can get your bridal glow on without pain, side effects, or downtime.

Bridesmaids Gifts They’ll Actually Use

Why not loop your bridal party in on your pre-wedding skincare staples? Omnilux Minis are a convenient (and adorable) way to treat your bridal party to some well-deserved self-care. These targeted, travel-friendly LED devices will help your bridal party feel their best on the big day by brightening their under-eyes, spot-treating pimples, or fading imperfections. Bring them along on the bachelorette trip for photo-ready skin! 

A Little Something for Him

When it comes to wedding skincare, brides tend to get most (if not all) of the attention. But we’ve got the grooms covered, too! As a bride, you can gift your beloved the Omnilux Men red light therapy device. It’s designed specifically for men’s skin, helping to give him complete confidence (and a clear complexion) on the big day.

After all, you both deserve to feel positively glowing as you exchange rings and toast to forever.