This week You! shares a guide on how to tackle this shadi season....
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Winter is here, as well as the shadi season which means family gatherings, dance practices along with garam moongphalis, mehendi-stained hands and chai sessions. It’s a beautiful time of the year, chaotic and boisterous. As fun as it is, it can become stressful too. This week You! shares a guide on how to tackle this shadi season.
Shadi season is a stressful time, with shopping in the afternoon and dawatein during the evenings and having to squeeze in appointments, dress fittings and social gatherings all in 24 hours, which causes panic, chaos and confusion. Planning in advance can not only save up on time but it can save money as well. Booking urgent appointments, whether it be at the salon or the designers, they tend to charge extra for the sudden meetings or even worse do not entertain walk-ins. Save yourself the hassle and book makeup artists, fittings, hair stylists appointments whatever according to your needs ahead of time. Don’t leave anything to the last minute.
Whether you are the bride or the cousin of the bride, it is a special day for everyone. The people, the pictures, the videos are keepsakes for life. In order to prepare yourself for good pictures and great makeup on the day of the event, some actions need to be taken. Starting off with develop a skin care routine, one that suits you. Not a trendy one but one that is personalised for you by a doctor. With skincare comes hair-care which is essential. Protein treatments, haircuts and oiling are great to make your hair ready for the constant heat, styling and excessive products. Skin-care and hair-care treatments and regimens should be started at least a month before.
You come first
Amidst the chaos and the clutter, it is quite easy to forget yourself. It is important to partake in events and late night gupshups but it is more important to take care of your needs and what your body requires. No one can pour out of an empty cup. A good night’s sleep is essential to fuel your body and your mind, sleep should be prioritised no matter how fun all-nighters can be, they should not be done on a regular basis as it can impact your health negatively. Staying hydrated is also one key element that most people forget about in between all the busyness of the bazaars and everything else, one solution to this is to carry a water bottle with you wherever you go and aim to finish it.
One mistake all of us are guilty of is leaving everything till the last, whether it’s not trying the outfit before the main event. This is a recipe for disaster! Try the outfit on with the jewellery. This is essential to know if the outfit needs alteration or any changes. Leaving this till the end moment, could result in ill-fitting of the dress. Trying the jewellery on to make sure it complements the outfit in the way you want it too. Sometimes things look better in our imagination than in real life, trying the outfit on beforehand eliminates this. The makeup look, specifically if you are planning on a new style of makeup, should be practiced on your face before the event. The reason being if the experimentation fails on the day of the event, it’s going to stress you out and delay other things on the agenda. This applies to hairstyles, haircuts or treatments, practice them before to understand if they suit you instead wasting time on the day of the event.
The winter times in Pakistan are great but they bring upon added stress as well. From tailors to designers to even family many things could go wrong. But it is crucial you keep your cool. Working out and meditation are great tools to help you manage your emotions in a healthy manner. Light exercise like yoga, brisk walk and even low intensity interval training are great to balance your emotions and to keep you active. All the incredible food at the shadis and dawatein are sure to add up, sustaining a workout routine is going to minimise the stress and keep you energetic.
For a smooth sailing wedding season, make a list. Write down the tasks, the dos and the engagements, tick them as you complete them. This would aid you in not forgetting anything and everything is in check. Next, the outfits that you’ll wear on the events, keep them ironed or steamed and hung up somewhere clean and dry, this would help you in avoiding last minute blunders. The shoes, the heels, the khussas, regardless of the shape or the colour, it is essential that you break in your shoe. Wear them, walk in them for at least an hour to gauge whether they would be comfortable for the long haul. Always keep extra bobby pins, safety pins and double-sided tape on hand, you don’t know who could need them. They are lifesavers, from hiding rips and tears to covering up whatever needs covering up.
