August | 2016 |

An essential aspect of your day is the health of your skin. It’s no lie that you want to look good as you walk down the aisle and for the photo session. I mean, it’s the one day you are getting married and part of it is in looking good and feeling great!

Here are handy tips on how you can ready your skin with natural products to get that radiant look.

(P.s. This is not dermatological advice, if you have certain skin challenges consult your dermatologist before trying this.)

For all these steps, do some light steaming before proceeding to the next step. Quite a D-I-Y, place some hot water in a mid-sized bucket and cover your face over it with a towel for about a minute or two.

Exfoliate

Do this once or twice a week depending on the type of your skin or choice of ingredients. If you have oily and sensitive skin, reduce the duration. If you pick a product that is coarse, limit the exfoliation to once a week.

Products that you can use: oatmeal or rice flour or gram flour or sugar with fine granules.

The mix of oatmeal with sugar works quite well.

Mask

Once you’ve exfoliated, it’s time to mask.

Products: Blended Pawpaw or Blended Tomato or Egg White + Lemon or Bicarbonate of Soda + Rose Water or Mashed Ripe Banana + Natural Yoghurt.

Leave the mask on for 15 to 20 minutes and rinse.

Don’t forget to steam!

Tone

Now it’s time to get the final dirt out and even the complexion.

Products: Cucumber juice or Green Apple juice or Lemon + some honey.

Moisturize

This depends on your skin type – dry, sensitive, oily, combination et al.

By this point, you should have found the product that works for you.

Preferably, choose something with few ingredients and without parabens or sulphates. The more organic it is the better.

Otherwise, if you’re going natural, you could try light olive oil, jojoba oil (perfect for night time), rosehip oil (a combination of this and jojoba is great for day time), castor oil and hemp seed oil. Most of these natural oils don’t clog the pores but penetrate and regenerate skin cells.

And one last thing brides, please use sunscreen! Every single day! Protect yourself from those UV rays.

Final tip, extend the process to your neck to achieve an even look.

Happy wedding day miss glamorous, you look amazing!

The Samantha’s bridal partnered with the Nairobi County government in its bid to take the vision to another level. In this Expo, Samantha’s bridal founder and director Dr Catherine Masitsa together with Anna Othoro, the Nairobi County Executive Committee Member of Trade, Industrialization, Co-Operative Development, Tourism & Wildlife flagged off the bridal bus tours.

Gilad millo, who was this July’s Samantha’s Bridal Expo ambassador brought the house down with his outstanding performance.

Samantha’s Bridal prides itself as the place where dream weddings are made and it is on this note that we congratulate Gitau Robert Bob and Stellamaris Charagu , our VVIP Platinum ticket holders for taking their relationship to the next level.

“The Make Me a Bride “ activation is a session where lucky brides-to-be are transformed into beautiful brides, resplendent with dazzling hair,make-up and get to wear a magnificent wedding gown by the glam squad, Lorna Mutegi, director ChenAlly Make up and Mobile Spa and Uturi CEO Corrine Nyumoo. This July, our lucky bride-to-be was Kamaureen Ka Semo was our lucky winner and we would like to congratulate her for the win!

It was all roads to Samantha’s bridal Expo on Saturday as The AP Band, the National Kenyan Police Administration band gave an outstanding performance.

The kanjo choir bringing the house down with their excellent performance.

The Samantha’s bridal prides itself in nurturing talent and we were honored in this July’s expo to to work with Mr. and Miss universities from Kenyatta University, JKUAT, Technical University of Kenya, USIU, Daystar, Mount Kenya University as well as St. Paul University.

Guests were treated to a sensational line-up of breath-taking fashion shows, which enabled our brides to be, make an informed choice on what gowns to wear.