Unleash your inner glow in a spectacular way on your wedding day by following a disciplined grooming routine. In India, most brides do it at home and head to a beauty parlour a few days before the wedding for some essential treatments and on the wedding day for make up and hair.
With many reputed spas coming up, which as a rule include bridal packages, you can relax and let experts pamper you. You can also bring along your partner or close friends and relatives for a treat.
Bridal Packages
Bridal packages include an array of beauty treatments like facials, body treatments, baths, massages, manicures and pedicures, and hair spa. It includes snacks, drinks and even lunch. The packages can vary from seven days to 45 days or more.
One ground rule is to get the treatments done a couple of days before your wedding. Often, your skin looks ruddy and raw right after a facial and waxing. It is not advisable to go out in the sun or apply make up right after these skin treatments. So, giving your skin a few days to ‘settle’ down is a must.
Facials
There are many facials out there but the gold facial is a favourite among brides. It sloughs away the dead skin cells, removes tan, and rejuvenates your skin. You will be left with clear, smooth, glowing skin that every bride loves to sport on her wedding day. A few other facials are multi-vitamin facials, pearl facials and aroma facial.
Manicure & Pedicure
No matter how gorgeous you are, if your hands and feet are uncared for you lose big points on the well-groomed scale. It is imperative that you keep your hands and feet looking equally good. While henna and alta enhance your beauty, it is a manicure and pedicure that ensures there is some beauty that can be enhanced. You can go for spa manicures and spa pedicures. There are floral pedicures, chocolate pedicures and even pedicures that have fish nibbling away at the dead cells on your feet.
Body Treatments
Body treatments include body wash, body polishing, body wraps, full body massages and body scrubs. These can be Ayurvedic treatments or something more exotic that uses minerals and hot stones. The Lulur scrub is quite popular. The scrub includes rice powder, spices and jasmine flowers and is followed by yoghurt before being washed off. Body polishing, especially back polishing, will ensure that your back looks flawless in the choli.
Massages will relieve all the stress and help your body relax which is essential with all the running around that you need to do right before your wedding.
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Hair Spa
For those of you looking for smooth, silky and glossy hair, the hair spa, a deep conditioning treatment, is the answer. Even if you get it done once right before your wedding, your hair will look its glossiest best.
Superfluous hair
This includes waxing – full body and bikini, bleaching and threading. It is the little things that make you look perfect.
Baths
You can try out rose and milk baths, Jacuzzi, sauna and steam baths. They cleanse and soften your skin and also release toxins trapped within. Steam baths are also known to dramatically reduce the inches on your body.
Visit a few local spas and have a look at their bridal packages and prices. If the treatments are what you need, book yourself a package and prepare to dazzle everyone on the d-day. Which spa package did you choose? Share it here so brides can use the same to glow like never before on their big day!
