The Perfect Bride

Amidst the chaos of the rings, roses and rituals, looking your definitive best is of key importance! Bandhan takes a look at the five ways in which you can ensure a perfect ‘YOU’ on your wedding day.

If ‘natural’ isn’t your thing – then we’ve got Dr Maria Kattar of the Aesthetica Clinic giving us minimally invasive advice and Dr Maurizio Viel of the London Clinic For Aesthetic Surgery giving us invasive options to make sure you do the right thing for your outer self.

1 Weight loss non-invasive:

• Eat – Don’t be a run-down bride. Get a dietician who can guide you to your best weight!

• Indulge – Don’t deprive your body. Just ration the portions of sweet. Remember that you need the energy, so give yourself what you need!

• Workout – Get a personal trainer or maintain a workout regime for six months prior to the wedding.

Month 1: Start your routine with 20-30 minutes of aerobic activity three times a week.
Month 2: Increase the duration of aerobic exercises to 40 minutes and include stomach crunches and push ups.
Month 3: Introduce squats, bicep and tricep curls.
Month 4: Introduce chest presses and increase the sets of crunches, push ups and squats.
Month 5: Increase the counts or duration for the areas you want to focus on.
Month 6: Aim at maintaining your routine!

Invasive:

• Vaser Liposuction
In cases where brides are unable to reach their desired size, liposuction helps removes fat from specific parts of the body using internal ultrasound wave energy.

The great thing about Vaser as opposed to regular Lipo? You don’t go under general anaesthesia, you are just sedated, which is one of the biggest boons to this treatment. You only wear a corset for 10 days after Vaser, as opposed to wearing a corset for three months, which is what you have to do if you go for regular Lipo.

While regular Lipo takes four-six months to show, you can see the results of Vaser by the second week right upto six months. Moreover, you can do the surgery and be back on your feet in a couple of days, whereas with regular Lipo it would take you two weeks just to recover.

With Vaser you will be beach-ready in just three-four weeks, whereas with normal lipo it would take you much longer. There is no doubt that Vaser is twice as expensive as regular lipo, but isn’t it worth the double price when you get seven times the convenience?

2 The face non-invasive:

• Beauty or cosmetic products
Creams, serums and gels are completely non-invasive and long-time effective. La Prairie’s Skin Caviar Crystalline Concentrate is a nutrient-rich serum that combines diamonds with a powerful caviar extract rebuilding, re-plumping and re-firming the skin. A perfect formula for all brides!

La Prairie’s Cellular Anti-Spot Brightening Serum also works as the perfect solution for making the skin look brighter and more luminous. It controls pigmentation therefore preventing age spots and blotchy skin tone. Of course, the famed La Mer is also the other slightly more expensive option, which we love!

Minimally-invasive

• Platelet rich plasma facial rejuvenation
Dubbed as the new botox, this process is apt for those brides who wish to see a remarkable difference in the quality of their skin, reduction of eye bags and disappearance of fine lines. A sample of the individual’s blood is centrifuged to obtain the platelets and plasma, and then re-injected all over the face area, just under the skin.

Invasive

• Lipofixing
Our bodies’ reactions to stress cause adverse effects. Some brides, who lose weight rapidly might experience that their faces droop. Lipofixing, where fat is removed from one area of the body and re-injected into another to fill in droopy areas, help the skin look healthy.

• Rhinoplasty
This is primarily used to reshape the nose! This process can change the size, the shape of the tip or the bridge, narrow the span of the nostrils, or the angle between your nose and your upper lip.

3 Body hair non-invasive

• Waxing
Not quite the fastest or the most painless method of hair removal, but over the years, waxing has become one of the most reliable methods of hair removal. Brides can opt for fruit wax versus sugar wax as that efficiently removes the hair follicles and reduces hair growth in the long run.

Minimally-invasive.

• Laser
Dealing with the removal of facial or body hair on a regular basis can be cumbersome, especially for a bride. Laser treatments like Harmony XL tackle this issue in an effective and not-so-painful fashion.

4 Cellulite and spot fat reduction non-invasive

• Accent XL
Brides can reverse the ageing process and show off youthful skin on their wedding day with the Accent XL. The treatment improves the overall skin contour and texture resulting in a toned and firm effect. It also helps to release toxins and produce new collagen to result in improvement in cellulite and skin tightening.

5 The body shape non-invasive

• Yoga
This traditional mental and physical discipline is known to have an effect of improving the health, calming the mind and reducing your weight. Through the daily practice of yoga, excess flab is shed and weight is lost in the long run. Another extremely beneficial result of yoga, specific to brides, is the complete detoxification of the body that it provides.

Minimally-invasive

• Injection lipolysis
Sometimes exercise is not enough for getting our body into shape. This is perfect for brides who are focusing on a specific part of their body. Getting rid of those stubborn bits of fat from your lower belly, thighs, knees and buttocks, that just refuse to budge is never easy, and some say, not even possible with natural exercise unless you lose all body weight and look emaciated.

INVASIVE

• Breast Augmentation
What may have been a popular reason for low-self esteem for the past so many decades, can now be sorted out very routinely. Breast augmentation is a popular surgical procedure used to enhance the size and shape of breasts using implants. For those women who are considering a treatment like this, the use of Perthese Sensitive implants are recommended as they are of the best quality made with an elastic, soft and cohesive gel. Implants have never been as easy as they are now!