An Essex Wedding - September/October 2023 (Issue 112)

Imogen Baxter, Lifehouse Spa & Hotel says... We have just added a new product house called Grown Alchemist which I’d recommend for pre wedding or results driven treatments. The Regenerator facial decelorates signs of ageing with a total skin reboot. Potent Triple-Weight Hyaluronic Acid and Peptides 3+8 are used to encourage collagen production and improve firmness. These actives are combined with specific application techniques and tools, including lymphatic drainage & cryotherapy for instant results. This customised treatment is based on your skin concerns, such as; loss of plumpness, uneven tone and texture, fine lines, and wrinkles. The spa also offers a range of technology facials with Elemis. TOP TIP! The night before the wedding use a sleep mask. Use an instant smoothing serum before applying your wedding make up to give you a smooth complexion and help keep your make up in place all day! www.lifehouse.co.uk Victoria Merrill, Owner, Women’s Lifestyle Collective says... For brides to feel and look their best on their wedding day (and beyond), it’s not just things like getting enough sleep, drinking plenty of water and having a good skin-care regime in place that are important. It’s deeper than that. It’s the inside work that’s the elixir to looking and feeling your best! When we feel good in ourselves and our body, that self-confidence, calmness and happiness radiate. From our facial expression to how we move our body and the energy we exude on the big day. Here’s how to get started on making the mindset shifts that will leave you feeling and looking your best... Use motivational questioning - notice any repeated negative thoughts about yourself and your body. Remind yourself of how you want to feel on your wedding day (confident, calm, beautiful…) and decide more helpful thoughts you can replace the unproductive ones with. Then practice them! Every time you look in the mirror, practice the new thought you want to have about yourself. When we change our thoughts, we change how we feel. Create a Win Wall - every win you have, whether it’s with planning your wedding, work related or how you handle a situation, put that win on a post-it-note and stick it to a wall. That wall will become your Win Wall. Times when you’re struggling, feeling stressed or being hard on yourself, take a look at your Win Wall and see how amazingly well you’re doing. It’s easy for all the things we’re doing right to get diluted in being busy with wedding planning. A win wall releases stress and gives assurance that you’ve got this. Embrace journaling - offload your thoughts on paper. This releases any mental baggage weighing on you. Keeping our thoughts unchecked can lead to feeling stressed and burned out. Thoughts can get catastrophised and it means we’re stressing over our wedding day instead of enjoying the day and the lead up to it. TOP TIP! Don’t put your best feelings on hold until the big day and miss out on life and the fun leading up to it. It can be easy for stress to take over and deny you of the enjoyment you deserve. Remind yourself of this every day, practice my three strategies and you’ll find yourself looking and feeling your best on your wedding day (and beyond)! https://womenslifestylecollective.com 64

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