Bridal · Newport News
Wedding-ready skin, planned with your special day in mind.
The best bridal skin isn’t one treatment the week before. It’s a plan that starts with your date and works backward, so every result has peaked and every day of downtime is behind you before the photographer arrives. Every treatment below is performed or overseen by a nurse practitioner, and consultations are free.
Win a carbon laser peel
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The drawing is closed right now. The next one opens at our next Showbride expo. In the meantime, build your own wedding skin plan below: tell us your date, your skin type and what you’d like to improve, and we’ll show you what to start and when.
Build your wedding skin plan
Four quick questions: your date, your skin, what you’d like to improve and anything we should know. You’ll get a plan that shows what to start and when. Nothing you choose leaves your phone.
Your bridal skin timeline
Find how far out your wedding is and start there. If you’re closer than you’d like, skip ahead; there’s still plenty that works on a short runway.
12 months or more out
Start the slow work
- Fractional CO₂ resurfacing New this winter
- Our strongest treatment for lines, sun damage, crepey skin and acne scars. About a week of recovery; one or two sessions six to eight weeks apart. Finish at least three months before the wedding. Face $1,800
- Er:YAG laser resurfacing
- Clean resurfacing with less heat, our pick for medium-brown skin or anyone prone to dark marks. Performed by the nurse practitioner only. Refresh $700 · Correction $1,200
- RF microneedling
- Acne scars, pores and texture, safe for every skin tone. Usually a series of three, four to six weeks apart. Face $750
- Tattoo removal
- Most tattoos need six to twelve sessions, six to eight weeks apart. Want one gone or faded before the dress? Start a year or more out. From $150 a session
6 to 9 months out
Even out tone and texture
- IPL photofacial
- Sun spots, freckling and redness. Three sessions about four weeks apart, finished at least a month before the wedding. Series of 3: face $800 · face, neck and chest $1,200
- Microneedling
- Smoother texture and smaller-looking pores with a day or two of pinkness. $350 · with PRP $750
- Facial veins
- Broken capillaries around the nose and cheeks, treated with a vascular laser. $300–$400
- First-time filler
- Cheeks, chin or jawline. Try it now so you’ve lived with your result for months before the photos. Placement can be guided by ultrasound. $575–$800 a syringe
3 to 4 months out
The trial run
- Wrinkle relaxer trial run
- See your result and learn your dose now, while there’s time to adjust. Priced by the unit, never by the area. Botox $14 a unit · Letybo $11 a unit
- Jaw slimming
- Softens a square jaw and eases clenching. It takes six to eight weeks to show, so it starts here. Priced by the unit
- CO₂ light peel New this winter
- Brighter, smoother skin with one to three days of flaking. A series of three, four weeks apart. Face $650 · series of 3 $1,650
- Lip filler
- Swelling settles in about two weeks, so a first lip treatment belongs well ahead of the wedding. Revanesse Lips+ $575 · Juvéderm Volbella $700
- Hand rejuvenation
- Your hands are in every ring photo. Er:YAG resurfacing for sun spots and crepey skin. $450
1 to 6 weeks out
Final touches
- Final wrinkle relaxer
- Two to four weeks before: full effect by about two weeks, with time to fine-tune. Botox $14 a unit · Letybo $11 a unit
- Underarm sweating
- No sweat marks on the dress or in the photos, for months. Quoted at consultation
- Filler touch-up
- No later than four weeks before, so any bruising or swelling is long gone.
- Carbon laser peel
- A fast glow with no downtime: brighter, smoother, less oily-looking skin. Our favorite last step, about a week before. $300
The final two weeks
Nothing new
We don’t start a new treatment in the last two weeks before a wedding, even if you ask. That’s the window where a surprise bruise or a reaction can’t be fixed in time. The one exception is a carbon laser peel about a week before, which has no downtime. Sunscreen, sleep and your usual skincare do the rest.
For the wedding party and the partner
A lip flip, a carbon laser peel or a quick wrinkle relaxer appointment fits almost any schedule. Book together and we’ll keep everyone’s timing straight.
Every treatment starts with a free consultation and exam, where we decide together what’s right for your skin and your date. Results vary from person to person. Prices are per visit unless noted and match our price list, except the CO₂ treatments, which launch this winter at the prices shown here. Peninsula Aesthetic Medicine is not affiliated with Showbride.