Wedding Obsessions

Beauty Products to Have You Sparking Top to Toe

Happy Friday, Knotties! What a fun, sparking week we’ve had. We’ve taken a look at some dazzling engagement rings, embellished gowns, listened to a possible first dance song and learned how to match your jewellery to your dress. We wouldn’t want your beauty style to be anything less than colourless, clear, cushion –cut quality. Here are some beauty products to help you shine bright like a diamond.

If you want gleaming skin on your wedding day (and you do!), you will need to start thinking about your skincare routine and the products you’re using ASAP. Just like a beautiful diamond, perfect skin doesn’t form overnight. At least three months out from your wedding day, start using any products you’d like to be applying closer to the day. This will give you time to see the difference in your skin to make sure it will be glowing in all your photos. If you’re looking for a product to increase the firmness and elasticity of your skin, La Prairie Skin Caviar Crystalline Concentrate, $485, 1800 649 849, is the flawless, colourless, 10-carat princess cut diamond of skincare products. It contains diamond (yes, diamond) crystals to reflect light across your skin to help it look illuminated and glowing. The perfect combination for a flawless photograph!

Throughout your wedding day, you’ll no doubt want to touch-up your makeup to ensure it looks as fresh at cocktail hour as it did at the ceremony. Keep your eyes looking fresh and bright with an illuminator like Estee Lauder Ideal Light Brush-On-Illuminator, $50, from department stores. It is small enough to keep in your day-of clutch (or in one of your maids’) and powerful enough to lift your whole look when applied under the eyes, just under the arch of your eyebrows and a touch at your cupids bow. A little goes a long way.

Your hair will be given a workout on your wedding day — washed, straightened, teased, pinned and sprayed to within an inch of its life! Help your locks out by protecting them with a smoothing hair oil. We love Redken Diamond Oil Shatterproof Shine Intense, $49, 1300 650 170. Run a small amount (made easier by the built-in dropper) through the mid-lengths and ends of your hair as a tress SOS before the styling begins.

We know that you’re going to want you whole body to be looking its very best in your dress, so don’t forget to add some sparkle to your legs, décolletage and arms. If you’re not keen on a spray or self tan (which many brides are not out of a fear that it might rub off on their dress), try a shimmer stick like St Tropez Wash Off Instant Shimmer Stick, $34.95, from Priceline, to add highlights down the centre of your shin (if your legs will be seen), across your décolletage and on your collarbones for an enhanced glow.

Make sure your lashes are working to their full extent by giving them a curl before applying your mascara. Though most of you will have a makeup artist apply your day-of face, make sure you have any products that you deem a ‘must have’ handy for her (or him) to use. This fun and diamond-esque eyelash curler, Revlon Diamond Collection Lash Curler, $16.95, 1800 025 488, is a great tool to have on hand and would also make a great gift to give your bridesmaids.

You wedding day manicure is another way that you can let your personality shine. If you’re in to bright and bold colours, you could rock a red nail or if glitz and glamour is more your style, a glitter top coat over your neutral nails is the way to go. In keeping with the diamond theme, we’ve found ORLY’s Shine On Crazy Diamond, $7.95, orlybeauty.com.au, that would work a treat as a topcoat, or layered for your full manicure.

What products will you be turning to in the lead up to your wedding? Which of these dazzling diamonds is your favourite?