- [Jennifer] Ready for the first one?
Feels like a little bit of a sting.
One, two, and three.
- Ah!
- [Jennifer] How was that?
- (laughs) Okay.
Hey, I'm Nikki, and this is my fiance' Kelsey.
We're getting married this year,
and we can't wait to make this perfect day our own.
It's Wedding Season, and this week,
we're talkin about skincare.
I'm getting married this year, and I'm very excited,
but also there's a lot to do.
And that's not just for wedding planning,
but everything to do with being a bride.
For the next few months, I'm going through all
of the ultimate bridal prep, that I possibly can.
That's going to include skincare, hair,
nutrition, working out, accessories, makeup,
to see if I can actually do it.
My current skin care regimen is very, very simple.
I wash my face in the morning and at night,
with a simple cleanser for sensitive skin.
For my skin care journey, I'm going to consult
a dermatologist and an aesthetician,
to help me find out what my ultimate skin care routine
should be for me to look amazing.
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- Hi there, how are you?
- A little nervous.
- About the wedding or about me?
- Both.
I've never been to a dermatologist before.
I've never gotten a facial.
I really have no idea what I'm getting into.
- I was a bride not too long ago, almost two years exactly.
- Congratulations!
- Thank you, it's a stressful time.
- Yeah.
- A lot of things with the skin are related to stress.
So when you're under stress things,
of course, especially acne.
- I'd say I have pretty average skin.
I have some, like, dry splotchy patches,
like kind of around my cheeks and face area.
- I'm going to call out a lot of stuff,
and I don't want to overwhelm you, but this is what my eye
and my clinical judgment, expertise sees.
- Okay.
- These lines should only be there when you're moving,
but as you can see, there's two lines here.
Frown in the middle like you're mad.
See how these kind of form.
These are called your un-lev-en lines.
So, another area where Botox can help.
It's a little bit hollow under your eye.
I think it would be nice if your chin came out
a little bit more on the lower part.
You have a little bit of rosacea.
- Really?
- For the redness we have a laser called the XLV.
- Ah.
- And then we have another device
called Clear and Brilliant.
It smells like burning rubber.
If you want to do some Botox today,
we can do it here if you like.
- Eh.
- Is that a lot of information?
- Yes.
- Alright, so let's get started.
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- [Jennifer] It feels like a little bit of a sting.
One, two, and three.
- Ah!
- So we're selectively targeting red blood cells
to heat up your vessels.
- It's like a teeny tiny needle.
Ah.
- Okay, that's it.
Good job, you did it.
- That was way more intense than I thought it would be.
We did two different lasers, one for redness,
and one for pore minimizing.
The experience was not super pleasant.
It was kind of shocking.
- [Jennifer] So this is the Laser Genesis.
How's that?
- That's okay.
I can smell it.
- [Jennifer] Yeah, that's the debris on your skin,
is that it makes your skin smoother.
It's a textural thing.
- Do I look beautiful yet?
- [Jennifer] Alright, get angry for me.
- Oh my god.
- [Jennifer] Good job, gonna go right in the middle.
- Ah, whoa!
Is that, what is that?
- [Jennifer] It's a bubble.
- Why?
What's happening?
- [Jennifer] The bubble of Botox,
it goes away in like five seconds.
- Eh,
uh,
ugh.
- Easy and quick.
Three to four days it starts working.
Alright, it was really nice meeting you.
- Thank you so much!
- Good luck with everything. - Yes.
- Um, so that just happened.
(laughing)
Yeah, wait til I tell my fiance' that I got Botox today,
cause she does not know.
What do you think of my Botox?
- Looks so smooth.
- I'm gonna be beautiful.
- You are beautiful.
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- Hi, welcome to Kiehl's.
- Thank you.
- We get a lot of Brides to Be coming in to Kiehl's,
and we call it, let's get you ready for wedding day skin.
- I picked Kiehl's because a lot of my friends
use Kiehl products, and I should really, really love them.
So I was really excited to get, like,
an entire regimen from them.
- Do you wear makeup?
- I do, a little bit.
- Do you wear sunscreen?
- I don't, but my dermatologist gave me one, so I do now.
- Okay, you have to.
I'm gonna use our skin barrier testing tabs.
- Okay.
- And I'm gonna actually diagnose your skin type.
- They're only going to pick up your natural sebum.
- Oh.
- You're definitely a little bit oilier
on the forehead, and dryer on the cheek.
So this is a dehydration analyzer tool.
This sends an undetectable micro current
ten layers deep into the skin.
So ideally I'd like you to be at 50% hydration,
you came back at 34.6.
- That's so bad.
- It's okay.
No, it's not horrible.
So I'm gonna pull out our skin strengthening complex.
This is the base of any apothecary preparation.
Pore minimizing, and then we're also gonna do
our neutralizing of the redness.
You're gonna just do two or three drops morning and night.
There's your apothecary preparations.
- Thanks.
- Calendula cleanser and toner, morning and night.
Great moisturizer, creamy eye with avocado for the eyes.
Your sunscreen, soothing hydration mask,
the micro derm abrasion, one time a week.
- Did not expect to get that many products.
If anything, I'm going to smell like a whole new woman.
It's only been a day since I've been at the dermatologist,
and you can kind of already see, like,
I'm way less red than I normally am.
Is there anything different
you guys can tell about my forehead?
- There are less lines.
- [Nikki] Yes!
- Did you get Botox?
- [Nikki] Yeah.
- [Friends] What?!
- Did it work?
- I think so.
- It worked.
Botox worked.
I have fewer lines up here,
but I would be hesitant to do again.
For me, it's just very disconcerning telling your brain
to move a certain part of your body,
and that part not moving.
So that was very odd for me.
The lasers, those things worked really, really well.
I'm glowing.
So I'm a few days in to using my, all my new products,
and my skin is actually really, really dry.
I just, you can see there's like, skin flaking off.
My skin did freak out a little bit.
I think I honestly just made the jump too quickly.
I went from using, like, two products, to using like, eight.
I think I figured out it's the toner,
the toner that came with the face wash that I use.
When I reintroduced that, my skin did the same thing.
It got really, really dry,
and like would flake off just to the touch.
It's just not right for my skin,
so I'm going to stop using it.
But other than the toner, like, the serum is great.
I still use my rosacea cream.
Eye cream is really nice.
So I have my daily routine,
and then I have the weekly mask, which is lovely.
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- Hi, I'm Mickle, and I'll be working on your face today.
- Great.
- And we went over your allergies, discussed all that.
So I'm going to start by cleansing,
and I'm gonna take a look and see what's going on.
- Great.
- Okay. - Sounds good.
- [Nikki] So I had a facial for the first time.
It's not that I never wanted one.
I think it's just on the spectrum of things I wanted
to spend money on, that was just pretty low priority.
I met with Mickle, who was an aesthetician,
who gave me that HydraFacial.
- [Mickle] We do a lot of exfoliating in facials.
There's different ways.
There's chemical exfoliants.
There's physical exfoliants.
Today, I'm going to be using kind of a combination of both,
a machine called HydraFacial.
The machine does everything your skin needs.
It cleanses, it exfoliates, it extracts,
it protects, and a peptide infusion.
So they help protect and strengthen the skin.
- Oh my goodness, my pores.
- [Mickle] Don't touch it.
- Oh sorry, am I glowing?
She was just able to clean my skin
in a way that I'm not able to do myself.
It was so relaxing.
It was so nice.
My skin feels very, very clean and soft.
So after 30 days, I definitely noticed a difference.
Now that my skin has gotten used to the products,
I do feel a lot clearer.
My skin feels a lot better.
It's softer, and I am a lot less red.
Here are three things that I learned from this experience.
Number one, sunscreen.
Sunscreen is like the number one protector
of keeping your skin not damaged.
Two, there are a lot of factors that can affect your skin,
stress, genetics, hormones, and your diet,
and that's just a few of them.
So even though you're taking really good care of it,
you should watch out for other impactors as well.
And finally, give yourself time.
Talk to a doctor six months in advance.
Try a new regimen at least three months ahead of time.
So getting your perfect wedding day skin is actually
a lot harder than I thought it was going to be.
I got like some of the best care from some
of the best professionals I could find,
and even then, I got a zit on my face last week.
I do think I achieved that glow that I was looking for.
Everyone is talking about being glow-y on their wedding day.
It's definitely possible.
If I can do it, you can do it.
Next, on Wedding Season.
- [Friends] Oh my god!
- Weddings are like, 50% making everyone else happy
and 50% looking as hot as you possibly can.
- [Friend] Yeah, you look so tall.
- Ding.
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