How to Solve Any Wedding Day Skincare Dilemma

Woke up with a zit? No one has to know! Arm yourself with these fast fixes for perfect skin.

By Anne Chertoff

As a bride you're probably working out to get your body in shape, eating healthy, and following a skincare regimen so you're a glowing bride on your big day. But sometimes, no matter how hard we try, a blemish or other skincare emergency pops up.

Don't sweat it, and possibly make it worse. Even for the most irritating problem, with the right advice, you can make it disappear or hide it so no one but you and your makeup artist knows it's there.

To help you avoid a meltdown on your big day, here are simple solutions to eight common wedding-day skin emergencies:

1. Problem: Woke Up with a Zit

Solution: The key to hiding an unwanted blemish is to "blend the concealer on and around it because you don't want the concealer, or the blemish underneath, to be obvious," says makeup artist Laura Geller.

Before your makeup artist works her magic, cleanse your skin with a mildly exfoliating but gentle cleanser and follow up with a tinted anti-blemish cream, such as Guerlain's Crème Camphréa, suggests Lindsay Neeley, Assistant Director of Spa Operations at Guerlain Spa at the Waldorf Astoria Orlando. Adding, "The salicylic acid in the cream will go to work eliminating your blemish while the mild tint helps conceal and blends smoothly under makeup."

As for makeup, Geller recommends first using a primer to even out your skin's texture as much as possible. Next, apply concealer on and around the blemish, making sure to blend in the concealer and finish by setting with a translucent powder.

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