Obviously your wedding day is sacred. You do everything you can to make it perfect. You primp and toil and worry and piss people off. It's kind of your duty. You worry about your hair, the way your skin looks with your dress, possible make-up schemes, so very many things, but there are some things that shouldn't be tried. Ever. Here are just a few hints for you:
-Facials are wonderful. I recommend them. But don't get one within a week or so of the wedding. Remember how you felt when you had the chicken pox? Or poison ivy? More importantly, do you remember how you looked? Yeah. While facials are grand and luxurious, our skin does not always react the way we'd like it to. Don't take that risk.
-I'm hugely afraid of skin cancer so I fully support the benefits of sunless tanner. Hell, I love a good sunless tan. My method of choice is to get airbrushed by a professional because she can draw a six-pack on my abdominal fat. She's a genius. Anyway, if you want to get a tan, test it out first. Test the technician doing it, and test the chemicals on your skin. You don't want to resort to even considering taking your father's sandblaster out of the garage on the morning of the wedding. Make sure you get even coverage, make sure you don't react, and see how long it takes to wear off. Do not do it on the day of your wedding. Every time you swish your arms you'll be swiping brown crap on the sides of your dress. Totally not worth it. If you regularly apply self-tanner at home, go for it, but do not switch brands, make sure your product isn't expired and most importantly: start light and build up. And if something does go awry, it can be airbrushed in the pictures. I had one mother of the bride who turned herself bright orange the day before the wedding. Thankfully they were able to laugh about it. If you turn yourself orange will you be able to laugh about it on your wedding day? It would be really, really hard to refrain from becoming upset for most people. I don't think I'd be able to hold it in, so the best thing to do is avoid it.
-This is not a time to try a tanning bed. If you want to be tan, go six months before, figure out the exact timing to get a perfect bronze. The day before your wedding you do not want to turn into a lobster or blister. Or even the week before.
-Six months before the wedding is not a good time to start screwing with your birth control methods. It puts you precisely at a week when the very, very perfect dress just won't fit.
-Don't try a new hair style. It only takes a few extra snips to turn a sassy modern shag into a hideous Billy Ray Cyrus-inspired mullet. Unless you're wearing plaid flannel to the wedding, I'm thinking that's not the look you were hoping for.
-Don't ever, ever follow the urge to change your hair color with one of those nifty little Clairol boxes the day of your wedding. It won't work out for you. I promise, it just won't. The highlighting kits? Nope, they will fail you as well. Plus, unless you're really good at the highlight thing, you don't want to look like you went all Harold and the Purple Crayon with the wand doohickey.