Your pregnancy skin care
and maternity wedding day beauty tips

Skin often changes during pregnancy! With your maternity wedding coming up you need to know what to expect!

The most common pregnancy skin care worries are

• Acne ... and acne during early pregnancy is especially common!

• Stretch Marks ... on tums, bums and thighs!

• Varicose Veins and spider veins, which are troublesome and uncomfortable, and

• the Mask of Pregnancy which is also known as Melasma.

Luckily you can treat all of these skin problems! And there's lots you can start to do now to be sure you look your absolute best as you tie the knot.

9 Pregnancy Skin Care Tips to get you looking great for your maternity wedding day

1. Eat healthy for optimum pregnancy skincare ... fill up with plenty of fresh fruit and veggies to make your pregnant skin simply glow with health.

   If you're suffering from acne during pregnancy, following a healthy diet is doubly important!

2. Drink lots of water (at least 8 glasses a day) as this will help to hydrate your skin and flush out toxins ...
   
   ... and give your baby the best possible start by cutting out caffeine and alcohol too!

3. Cleanse your face and neck with a gentle cleanser twice a day.

4. Moisturise your face (and your whole body!) every day.

   Pay special attention to your belly, bottom and thighs with a rich cream for stretch marks ... there's simply no better way to prevent those ugly stretch marks!

5. Stay out of the sun and use sun protection cream religiously!

   

   Apart from the ageing effects of sun damage, going out in the sun without any sun protection cream could leave you with the Mask of Pregnancy to worry about!

6. Exfoliate gently once a week to keep your pregnant skin in tip-top condition ... being pregnant is no excuse not to feel great in the buff!

7. Apply an intensive conditioning treatment to your hair once a week to keep it healthy.
   
   Top Tip: Burt Bees Avocado Butter Hair Treatment smells divine and it will remoisturise, condition and protect your hair too!

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8. Give your smile a check-up by visiting your dentist (be sure to mention that you are pregnant).

9. If you're a smoker ... do yourself and your baby the biggest favour and ask for some free help with quitting.

10. Get plenty of sleep ... it's THE 100% natural beauty cure!

Start your new pregnancy skin care routine early ...

Why not grab a free beauty consultation?

Lots of beauty counters offer brides-to-be free beauty consultations, so why not take advantage of the offer?

Of course, they're hoping you will buy products from them, but you shouldn't feel pressured into buying anything you don't want or need ... a good consultant will be only too happy to share her knowledge with you.

You'll need to be completely honest about any pregnancy skin care problems you have and tell the consultant whether your skin has changed during your pregnancy ... it's a great way to help you find skin-care preparations which will best suit your pregnant skin.