The Ultimate Bridal Skincare Guide: How to Achieve Healthy, Glowing Skin for Your Wedding Day

It’s that time of year when proposals and weddings are happening one after the next. If you’re one of those 2025 or 2026 brides, you likely know the flood of emotions — from love and excitement to the pressure and stress of planning the perfect day. While narrowing down your guest list and saying “yes to the dress” may fall into the latter category, we’re here to make sure your skin doesn’t become an added stressor.

Below, our Head of Education and Licensed Makeup Artist of 20 years, Rosalba Martone, breaks down everything you need — including her exact product recommendations — to achieve healthy, glowing skin ahead of your nuptials. 

6 MONTHS BEFORE WEDDING DAY

• Start using retinol if you don’t do so already. Retinols take time to work their magic, so beginning 6 months before your big day is key to reaping maximum benefits and results. Our Triple Retinol Renewal Duo, including our next-generation face and eye treatments, is powered by a proprietary triple retinol blend, coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) and beta-carotene to accelerate surface skin renewal with less sensitivity than traditional retinols. In doing so, this duo can be used both day and night to diminish the look of fine lines, wrinkles and uneven texture and deliver the visibly firm, collagen-rich skin of your wedding day dreams.
• Incorporate Vitamin C Ester into your daily routine. Achieve a more even-toned, glowy and youthful-looking complexion so your skin doesn’t require as much heavy foundation come time for the event. Visibly minimize discoloration over time while instantly boosting radiance with Vitamin C Ester Brightening Serum. Gentle enough to be used in conjunction with retinol, this supercharged treatment boasts a potent, highly stable form of antioxidant vitamin C known as Vitamin C Ester. It boosts skin brightness and reduces the appearance of dark spots — all with less irritation than traditional vitamin C.
• Don’t skip the neck cream. Walk down the aisle with a beautifully sculpted jawline, lifted neck and smooth décolletage by using a targeted treatment twice daily. Our iconic Cold Plasma Plus+ Sub-D/Neck will give you that with the help of a proprietary crystal delivery system that deliver key ingredients effectively to promote the most visible signs of a healthy, youthful-looking neck and chest. In doing so, it targets and visibly improves loss of firmness and sagging while contouring the neck and jawline.

TIP: Schedule regular facials, aiming for once per month.

1 MONTH BEFORE WEDDING DAY

• Swap out your retinol with Alpha-Hydroxy Acids (AHAs). As your wedding day inches closer, you’ll want to switch your focus to boosting hydration and radiance. AHAs are the perfect addition to your regimen at this time as they’ll keep your skin clear while minimizing the look of texture, controling excess oil production and enhancing luminosity. Advanced, no-rinse Vitamin C Ester Daily Brightening & Exfoliating Peel is a brilliant option for not only an immediate brightness boost, but significantly tightened and toned skin over time with visibly less discoloration and dark spots.
• Layer in hyaluronic acid and niacinamide. Complement the skin-illuminating Vitamin C Ester Brightening Serum in your regimen (yes, you should still be using this) with ingredients that help support your moisture barrier. The ever-popular niacinamide and hyaluronic acid are ideal for this, making High Potency Intensive Smoothing Serum and Hyaluronic Intensive Moisturizer must-haves during the one month countdown. The niacinamide in the second serum will help deliver tremendous smoothing benefits to improve skin’s overall appearance and prep it for flawless makeup application on the day you say “I do.” For eye cream, Cold Plasma Plus+ Advanced Eye Cream is essential. It’s packed with omega fatty acids to ensure optimal hydration and radiance while diminishing the look of fine lines, crow’s feet, dark circles and puffiness.

TIP: Schedule your last facial about 1 ½ to 2 weeks before your wedding day and avoid any new services.

1 WEEK BEFORE WEDDING DAY

• Stop using any acids (AHAs, BHAs or PHAs) or enzymes daily. Now just 7 days out, you’re ready to retire the daily AHAs. Instead, stick to using the Vitamin C Ester Daily Brightening & Exfoliating Peel once per week for maintenance, but avoid using it the night before the wedding as it can cause makeup to separate the next day.
• Continue focusing on hydration & radiance. Keep glowing with the Vitamin C Ester Brightening Serum, High Potency Intensive Smoothing Serum, Hyaluronic Intensive Moisturizer and Cold Plasma Plus+ Advanced Eye Cream. Plus, seal in the hydration with nutrient-packed Essential Fx Acyl-Glutathione Chia Oil to intensely renew, plump and contribute to skin’s overall glow.

1 DAY BEFORE WEDDING DAY

• Use an AHA-based product in the morning. Though you’ll want to skip the AHA tonight to avoid makeup separation the following day, using an AHA-based product the morning before is important to rid your complexion of dead skin cells to ensure smooth, crease-free makeup application come morning. Follow it with your remaining hydrating products — High Potency Intensive Smoothing Serum, Hyaluronic Intensive Moisturizer and Cold Plasma Plus+ Advanced Eye Cream.
• Double cleanse and mask before bed. Kick off a night of restful beauty sleep with a double-cleansed slate. Start with Hypoallergenic Clean Correction Gentle Cleanser to gently yet thoroughly wash away impurities, dirt and debris while soothing skin. Then, use Essential Fx Acyl-Glutathione Chia Cleansing Balm to melt away any remaining makeup or residue while replenishing and conditioning. Finally, follow with our High Potency Hyaluronic Intensive Hydrating Mask to infuse skin with a concentrated burst of hydration courtesy of four forms and two natural building blocks of hyaluronic acid, plus firming DMAE and moisturizing shea butter. Not only will this leave your skin feeling instantly refreshed, supple and radiant, it doubles as a much-needed moment of quiet on the eve of your vows. 
• Layer on moisturizer. Maximize the nourishment by applying your go-to moisturizer on top — preferably one you already know your skin loves.

WEDDING DAY MAKEUP PREP

• Properly & thoroughly cleanse with a gentle, non-drying cleanser. You know that gentle, non-drying cleanser (i.e. Hypoallergenic Clean Correction Gentle Cleanser or the like) your skin has been loving this last month? Use it again on your wedding day. No need to double cleanse — it’s best to keep it simple.
• Use a toner only if you have oily skin. Adding in a toner like our No:Rinse Intensive Pore Minimizing Toner will help absorb excess oil and shine, leaving oily skin-havers with a natural, semi-matte finish as well as visibly tighter pores.
• Apply a brightening serum. Commit another morning to your trusted Vitamin C Ester Brightening Serum. Press it into the skin with the palms of your hands, all over your face, eyes and lips. It will give you an instant radiance boost without disrupting the wear of your makeup. 
• Use a lightweight moisturizer. There’s no moisturizer quite like Cold Plasma Plus+ Advanced Hydrating Complex link before publishing, especially when it comes to your wedding day. It’s extremely lightweight yet powerful so your skin will be hydrated all day long without there feeling like an additional layer of product on the surface of your skin. This is essential as it doesn’t cause makeup to slip, separate or crack. What’s more? It works wonders under all types of makeup primer (water- or silicone-based). 

TIP: Avoid using any moisturizers with silicones in them as this isn’t guaranteed to play well with your primer.

• Use half the amount of eye cream you normally would. Continue using your trusted eye cream (i.e. Cold Plasma Plus+ Advanced Eye Cream). Be sure to avoid the eyelids and don't get too close to either top or bottom lash line.
• Skip the SPF. You read that right, we know. The one and only day we will ever encourage this is your wedding day. That’s because sunscreen can cause a white cast to appear in any photography taken with the flash.
• Don’t forget the lip balm. Make your “you may kiss the bride” moment even more unforgettable with lips that are irresistibly soft, supple and hydrated. Cold Plasma Plus+ Lip Therapy is one lip treatment that does it all to deeply nourish while improving the appearance of lipstick feathering, vertical lip lines, loss of volume, lip discoloration and dry, rough texture.

Now let’s get glowing! There’s no time to waste before beginning your countdown to healthy, luminous skin for your wedding day.