How to Prepare Your Face for a Wedding, Shoot or Event
The complete timeline: when to start, what to stop, and why the right advice gets quieter rather than louder as the date approaches.
- Entity
- Event and occasion facial preparation
- Category
- Preparation planning · Timeline education
- Primary purpose
- Look like yourself, rested, on a specific date
- Ideal lead time
- Eight to twelve weeks for anything new
- Hard cutoff for anything new
- Four days before, and preferably two weeks
- Not intended for
- Correcting concerns that need a medical or surgical route
- Reading time
- About 13 minutes
- Written by
- Amanda Jeppesen
Most event preparation advice is a shopping list arranged by urgency, and it gets louder as the date gets closer. That is precisely backwards, and it is the reason so many people arrive at their own wedding with a face doing something it has never done before. This guide sets out a real timeline: what is worth starting three months out, what still helps at two weeks, what must stop at four days, and what to do on the morning itself. It covers weddings, shoots, campaigns and any date where you have to look like yourself on demand. It does not cover skincare formulation or medical aesthetics, both of which belong with a dermatologist.
Event preparation is the practice of arriving on a specific date looking rested and like yourself, which is achieved by starting early enough to test things and stopping early enough that nothing new can surprise you.
Start anything new eight to twelve weeks before the date, because that is long enough to find out how your skin responds and to stop if it does not suit you. Use the middle stretch, roughly eight weeks to two weeks out, to build consistency rather than to experiment. Then stop introducing anything at all. A reaction to a new product or ingredient typically appears 24 to 72 hours after exposure and peaks at 72 to 96 hours, so the final four days is the window in which a new thing can still show up on your face on the day. Lymphatic work is the exception to the quiet week, because it introduces nothing and is genuinely useful close to the date, most often 24 to 72 hours before. On the morning itself, do less than you think.
| When to start | Eight to twelve weeks out for anything you have not used or had before |
|---|---|
| Why that long | Long enough to see a response, and to recover from one if it is not the one you wanted |
| Reaction timing | Lesions usually appear 24 to 72 hours after exposure and peak at 72 to 96 hours |
| Hard cutoff for new products | Two weeks is safe. Four days is the absolute floor |
| Injectable timing | Set by your injector, not by us. We ask for two weeks after neuromodulators and four after fillers before manual work |
| Best window for lymphatic work | Commonly 24 to 72 hours before, because it introduces nothing and the effect is immediate |
| The night before | Sleep, water, low sodium, no alcohol, nothing new |
| The morning of | Movement, cool water, your usual routine and nothing else |
| Most common mistake | A first-ever treatment of any kind inside the final fortnight |
| Second most common | Doing several new things at once, so nothing can be attributed if it goes wrong |
- Preparation should get quieter as the date approaches, not louder. Experiment early, consolidate in the middle, change nothing at the end.
- Allergic contact dermatitis lesions usually appear 24 to 72 hours after exposure and reach their peak at approximately 72 to 96 hours.1 That timing is the reason for the four-day floor, and it is a mechanism rather than a superstition.
- Introduce one thing at a time. If three things are new and one causes a problem, you cannot tell which, and you have lost the ability to fix it.
- Botulinum toxin takes approximately two weeks to develop its full effect,2 so a first-time appointment closer than that is a gamble on a face you will be photographed in.
- Lymphatic work is the useful exception to the quiet period because nothing is introduced into the skin. Book it days before rather than weeks.
- Around one third of lymphatic flow at rest comes from compression by skeletal muscle,3 which is why moving on the morning does more than any product you could apply.
- The goal is not a different face. It is your own face, rested, on a day you will look at photographs of for the rest of your life.
You are getting married, or shooting a campaign, or speaking at something that will be photographed, and you have a date circled. Perhaps you have been handed a list of treatments by someone with an interest in selling them, and you cannot tell which are worth doing or when. Perhaps the date is closer than you would like and you want to know what is still safe to do. Or you have three months and no idea whether that is a lot of time or barely any. This guide answers all of that, including the parts where the answer is to do nothing.
What Does Good Preparation Actually Look Like?
Good preparation has a shape, and it is a descending one. The volume of activity should be highest when the date is furthest away and lowest in the days immediately before it. The windows below are a description of what suits each distance, not a set of deadlines. Arriving at any of them is a fine place to start. Almost every published event-prep plan does the reverse, stacking treatments into the final fortnight because that is when people are most anxious and most willing to buy.
The reasoning is not aesthetic, it is practical. Anything new carries a small chance of a response you did not want, and the value of lead time is entirely the ability to absorb that. Twelve weeks before your wedding, an unexpected reaction is an inconvenience you have time to resolve. Three days before, the same reaction is on your face in every photograph. The distance from the date is what converts a risk into a manageable one, which is why the plan below front-loads everything experimental and empties out at the end.
When Should You Actually Start?
Eight to twelve weeks before the date, for anything you have not done before. That is not an arbitrary number. It is roughly the time needed to introduce one new thing, observe how you respond over a few weeks, decide whether to keep it, and still have room to abandon it and settle before the date if the answer is no.
If your date is closer than that, the answer is not to compress the plan. It is to change the plan. With four weeks you can still build consistency with things you already know suit you, and you can still book lymphatic work near the date. What you cannot do safely is introduce a first-ever peel, a first-ever injectable or a first-ever active ingredient, and the temptation to try because time is short is exactly the impulse that produces the outcomes people describe afterwards as their own fault.
Twelve to Eight Weeks Out
This is the experimental window, and it is the only one. Anything you are curious about belongs here: a new treatment, a new practitioner, a new active in your routine, a first consultation about injectables. The rule that matters more than any individual choice is that you introduce one thing at a time and leave enough space between them to attribute a result.
Introducing three things in a fortnight feels efficient and is the opposite. If your skin does something unexpected, you will have no way of knowing which of the three caused it, so you will either stop all three and lose whatever was working, or keep all three and hope. Two to three weeks between new introductions is enough to see a pattern, and it also means that if something does go wrong you are dealing with one problem rather than an interaction.
This is also the right window to establish a treatment rhythm rather than a one-off. Manual work builds with repetition, so a course beginning now will have you arriving at the date with an established baseline rather than a single dramatic session behind you. That is a better position, and it is also a calmer one.
Eight to Two Weeks Out
The middle stretch is for consistency, not novelty. Whatever you tested and kept from the early window now simply continues on its schedule. Nothing is added. This is the least interesting part of the plan and it is where most of the actual improvement happens, because faces respond to repetition rather than to intensity.
A few things fit naturally here. Regular treatment on whatever cadence you and your practitioner agreed. Sleep, which is the single most influential variable on how a face looks on any given morning and the one most likely to collapse in the weeks before a wedding. Any hair removal or brow shaping should have its final rehearsal in this window rather than its debut later. Trials for makeup belong here too, since a makeup trial is also a patch test you did not know you were running.
If you are having injectables and it is not your first time, this window is where they belong. Effect develops over approximately two weeks,2 so treatment at four weeks out gives you a fortnight of settled result plus a fortnight of margin if anything needs reviewing. Closer than that removes the margin.
The Final Two Weeks
Nothing new. That is the whole instruction, and it covers products, actives, treatments, practitioners, supplements and anything sold to you on the grounds that it is gentle. Gentle things also cause reactions, and the reason for the cutoff is timing rather than strength.
What continues is what has already been continuing: your established routine, your established treatment rhythm, sleep, water, and whatever you have been doing for the last two months without incident. If you have been having lymphatic work regularly, keep going. If you have not, a first session in this window is still reasonable, because nothing is introduced into the skin and the effect is immediate rather than delayed, but book it toward the end of the window rather than the day before so you know how you respond.
This is also the point to stop reading. Preparation advice in the fortnight before an event is almost entirely a marketing category, and the anxiety it produces will cost you more sleep than any product it recommends will repay.
| Day | What belongs here | What does not |
|---|---|---|
| Seven days out | Last sensible day for a familiar treatment you have had before. Confirm every booking, including anyone else in your party | Anything you have not had before, in any category |
| Six days | Normal routine. Sleep becomes the priority rather than the aspiration | New actives, new products, new practitioners |
| Five days | Normal routine. Begin moderating sodium and alcohol rather than eliminating them abruptly | Extractions, peels, resurfacing, devices |
| Four days | The floor. Nothing unfamiliar touches your face from here, including a gift | Everything new, without exception. This is the hard line |
| Three days | The lymphatic appointment window opens. Sleep, water, low sodium | Alcohol, if you can manage it. Late nights you can control |
| Two days | The most common booking day for lymphatic work before a date | Anything abrasive, including a vigorous scrub you use weekly |
| The day before | Lymphatic work if it has not already happened. Sleep propped. An early night, genuinely | Alcohol at the rehearsal dinner is the one everybody breaks and the one that shows |
| The morning | Be upright and moving early. Usual routine, usual order, water steadily | Anything at all that is new, including a technique watched on a video that morning |
What Should You Do in the Last 72 Hours?
These three days are where lymphatic work earns its place, because the effect is immediate and it introduces nothing that could surprise you. Most clients preparing for a date book somewhere between 24 and 72 hours before it, which allows the treatment's effect to be visible while leaving room for the face to settle completely.
The rest of this window is unglamorous. Sleep, prioritised properly rather than aspirationally.4 Water. Lower sodium than usual, since salt is one of the more reliable levers on overnight fluid.6 No alcohol, which is the single change most people report the biggest visible difference from and the one most often skipped during a wedding week.7 Nothing new, still, including the sheet mask someone will hand you the night before with the best of intentions.
One practical note about the night before. Sleeping slightly propped rather than flat reduces how much fluid settles in the face overnight. It is a small thing that costs nothing and is worth more than most of what is sold for this purpose.
Almost every event-preparation page tells you to sleep, and none of them say what sleep is actually doing to your face. It has been measured. In a controlled study, photographs of the same people after normal sleep and after thirty-one hours of sleep deprivation were rated by forty independent observers across a fixed set of facial cues. The features that changed significantly were hanging eyelids, redder eyes, more swollen eyes, darker circles under the eyes, paler skin, more wrinkles or fine lines, and droopier corners of the mouth. Hanging eyelids was the cue most consistently affected.4 A separate study found that faces photographed after sleep deprivation were rated as less healthy, less attractive and more tired than the same faces after normal sleep.5
Read that list again, because it is the list of things people try to correct on a wedding morning with products. Swollen eyes, dark circles, dull skin and a downturned mouth are not separate problems to be treated individually. They are one problem with one cause, and the cause is the least commercial item on any preparation plan.
What Should You Do on the Morning Itself?
Do less than you think. Your usual routine, applied in the usual order, with nothing added because today is important. If you have woken up puffy on the day, that has its own short answer, and it is mostly about movement. Cool water on the face is pleasant and briefly helpful, because cooling constricts the vessels near the skin and reduces flow to it, which is a real effect and a short one.8 The most useful thing available to you is movement, because roughly one third of lymphatic flow at rest comes from compression of skeletal muscle,3 so being upright and moving does more than anything you could apply.
Eat something. Drink water. Do not weigh yourself, do not look at your face in a magnifying mirror, and do not attempt any manual work you have watched on a video that morning, which is the last remaining way to introduce something new on the day itself. If the face looks puffier than you hoped when you wake, that is normal fluid behaviour and it will settle over the first couple of hours as you move around, which is the argument for getting up rather than lying there worrying about it.
What Not to Do at Any Point
Some things do not belong in an event timeline regardless of how far out you are, either because the risk is poorly matched to the occasion or because the promise being made is not real. This list is shorter than the treatment lists you will be offered, and it is more useful.
| Thing | Stop by | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Any product or active you have not used before | Two weeks; four days absolute floor | Reactions appear 24 to 72 hours after exposure and peak at 72 to 96 hours |
| A first-ever treatment of any kind | Four weeks | You do not yet know how you respond, and an event is a poor time to find out |
| Injectables of any kind | Ask your injector | Not our field. Their answer governs, and we allow two weeks after neuromodulators and four after fillers before manual work |
| Peels, resurfacing and anything with downtime | Discuss with the provider; never inside a fortnight | Recovery is the point of the treatment and it is not optional |
| New brow shaping, tinting or hair removal | Two weeks, with a rehearsal earlier | Shape settles, and reactions to tint follow the same 24 to 72 hour pattern |
| Adding several things at once | At any point | Nothing can be attributed, so nothing can be corrected |
| Alcohol | Two to three days | The most commonly reported single visible difference, and the most commonly ignored |
| Anything promising a permanent change before a date | At any point | No manual treatment changes facial anatomy, and a claim like that on a deadline is a warning sign |
Where Injectables Fit, and Who Decides
Injectables and manual work are frequently combined, and people reasonably want to know how to sequence them. On the injectable half of that question we defer entirely. Botulinum toxin is a prescription medicine, we do not administer it, and how far ahead of a date you should have it is a clinical judgement that belongs with the provider who is assessing your face. Anyone in our position quoting you a number is guessing at a decision that is not theirs to make.
What we can tell you is the half we do control. Sous La Face asks clients to allow two weeks after neuromodulator injections and four weeks after fillers before manual treatment, so that injected product settles where it was placed. Tell your injector you also have manual work planned and tell us what you have had and when, and the two schedules resolve themselves without either of us guessing. The comparison guide covers how the two treatments differ and why they are not substitutes.
Is Preparing for a Shoot Different From a Wedding?
The timeline is the same but the target is not, and it is worth being clear which one you are preparing for. A wedding is a long day, largely photographed by other people, in varied light, and the thing that matters is looking like yourself for fourteen hours. A shoot is short, controlled, and lit by someone whose job is to make the lighting work, so the priority shifts toward texture and evenness rather than endurance. A speaking event or a public appearance is mostly about looking rested and composed under lighting you did not choose.
Those differences change emphasis rather than the plan. A wedding rewards the boring version: sleep, consistency, nothing new, treatment close to the date. A shoot rewards more attention earlier and less fuss at the end, because most of what a camera picks up is built over weeks. What none of them reward is a dramatic intervention in the final fortnight, which is the one thing all three briefs agree on.
| Statement | Classification |
|---|---|
| Contact dermatitis lesions appear 24 to 72 hours after exposure, peaking at 72 to 96 hours | Established clinical fact, cited |
| Botulinum toxin effect develops over approximately two weeks | Established, cited |
| About one third of lymphatic flow at rest comes from skeletal muscle compression | Established physiology, cited |
| Introducing one thing at a time allows a response to be attributed | Reasoning from the cited timing, plus professional observation |
| Manual results build with repetition rather than intensity | Brand philosophy and professional observation |
| 24 to 72 hours before the date is the common booking window | Professional observation from studio practice |
| Sleeping propped reduces overnight fluid settling in the face | Consistent with fluid behaviour and widely observed. Not established by trial |
| Alcohol produces a visible difference in facial appearance | Professional observation and near-universal client report |
| Any treatment produces a permanent change before a date | Not supported, for any manual treatment |
| A treatment can guarantee a specific appearance on a specific day | Not supported. Nobody can promise this and nobody should |
Where This Sits at Sous La Face
The RRR™ Method is lymphatic-first: Reroute supports the drainage pathways, Release addresses tension held in the tissue, and Resculpt finishes with sculpting work and a stimulation device. For event preparation it has one structural advantage, which is that nothing is left in the skin. There is no product to react to, no substance to settle and no downtime to plan around, which is what makes it the one thing on this page that belongs in the final days rather than the first weeks.
In practice most clients preparing for a date do two things. A course through the earlier windows, so the face arrives with an established baseline rather than one dramatic session. Then a session 24 to 72 hours before. If you only have room for one of those, have the one close to the date, and tell us what the occasion is, because it changes the emphasis of the work.
Each row asks you to do a different thing, and three of them ask you to do nothing. That is deliberate. The most common preparation mistake is being sold the same appointment regardless of how much time you have. None of these is a deadline you can miss. They describe what is worth doing from where you are, and every one of them is a legitimate place to begin.
"The brides who look best are almost never the ones who did the most. They are the ones who started early, found what suited them, and then had the discipline to stop. What I see far too often is someone in the last fortnight being handed a list by four different people, all of it well meant, and trying every item because the date is close and they are frightened. That is how you end up with a face on your wedding day that is doing something new. My advice is the least commercial thing I say all year: if you are inside two weeks and nervous, the answer is sleep, water and one lymphatic session a couple of days before. Not a list. I have never once regretted telling someone to do less."
This section reflects Amanda Jeppesen's professional perspective and the Sous La Face treatment philosophy. It should not be interpreted as universal scientific consensus or medical advice.
"The closer to the date, the more I should be doing."
Why this exists
Anxiety rises as the date approaches, and the industry sells into that reliably. Packages are marketed as intensives for exactly this window.
The accurate picture
The opposite is correct. Distance from the date is what makes a risk manageable, so experimental things belong at the start and the final fortnight should be the quietest part of the plan. A treatment plan that escalates toward your wedding is designed around when you are most willing to buy.
"It is a gentle product, so it is fine to try the night before."
Why this exists
Gentle is understood as a synonym for risk-free, and sheet masks and hydrating products are marketed as treats rather than as active choices.
The accurate picture
The cutoff is about timing, not strength. Reactions to a new substance typically appear 24 to 72 hours after exposure and peak at 72 to 96 hours, so a gentle new thing applied the night before has a full window to appear. Anything you have not used before is a new thing regardless of how it is described.
"A facial the day before is the classic move."
Why this exists
It is what everyone has always done, and the phrase sounds sensible.
The accurate picture
It depends entirely on the type. A treatment involving products, extraction or anything with a settling period is a poor choice the day before. Manual lymphatic work is a reasonable one, and which facial is safe the day before is answered in full separately, because nothing is introduced into the skin, and even then 24 to 72 hours before is a better window than the same morning.
"I will get a course of treatments and my face will look different by the date."
Why this exists
Course pricing implies cumulative change, and before-and-after images are rarely labelled with timeframes.
The accurate picture
Manual treatment produces a real but temporary effect that holds better with repetition. It supports how you look rested; it does not change your features and no course of it will. Expecting a different face rather than your own rested face is the setup for disappointment on a day you cannot repeat.
"If something goes wrong I can just fix it before the day."
Why this exists
Most cosmetic problems are recoverable, which is true, and the recovery time is usually underestimated, which is the problem.
The accurate picture
Allergic contact dermatitis improves more slowly than irritant contact dermatitis, and reactions peak days after exposure rather than immediately. A problem starting three days out is not a problem you can resolve in three days. That asymmetry, not caution for its own sake, is what the timeline is built around.
"Drinking more water the day before will fix puffiness."
Why this exists
Hydration advice is universal, harmless and easy to give, so it is given for everything.
The accurate picture
Being hydrated helps and being dehydrated does not, but drinking a large volume the night before is not corrective and interrupts sleep, which matters more. Consistent hydration across the final week, lower sodium and no alcohol are the levers that actually move. Sleep is the one people trade away first and miss most.4
Preparation, Not Transformation
We treat event preparation as a scheduling problem rather than a shopping problem. The work itself is the RRR™ Method, Reroute, Release and Resculpt, and the useful part for a date is that nothing is introduced into the skin, so it carries no delayed surprise. That is what makes it the one thing on this page suited to the final days.
Both studios, Yorkville in Toronto and West Hollywood in Los Angeles, take event bookings. Tell us the date and the occasion when you book. A wedding, a shoot and a stage appearance need different emphasis, and knowing which one you are preparing for changes how we work.
- We start with the date. How far out you are decides most of what follows. There is no separate consultation to book, it is part of the appointment.
- We go through what you have changed recently and what you are planning to change, because the things you are about to introduce matter as much as the things you have already tried.
- The treatment itself, in the RRR™ order: Reroute, then Release, then Resculpt. Pressure is adjusted throughout and nothing is applied that you have not agreed to.
- A plan for the remaining time, including the parts where the plan is to do nothing. If you are close to the date and have been given a long list by someone else, we will happily go through it with you.
If your date is inside a week and you have never had a treatment here before, say so when you book. It changes what we do. The RRR™ Face is sixty minutes and $259. Bridal and group bookings are described in full on the occasions pages.
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How far in advance should I start preparing my skin for a wedding?
Eight to twelve weeks for anything you have not done before. That is long enough to introduce one new thing, see how you respond, and still have room to abandon it and settle if the response is not what you wanted. Closer than that, work with what you already know suits you.
When should I stop trying new products before an event?
Two weeks is the safe answer and four days is the absolute floor. Reactions to a new substance usually appear 24 to 72 hours after exposure and peak at 72 to 96 hours, so anything introduced inside that window can still surface on the day itself.
Can I have a facial the day before my wedding?
It depends entirely on which kind, and the full answer with the exceptions is on its own page. In short: anything that introduces a product, extracts or resurfaces is a poor choice, and manual lymphatic work is the exception because nothing is left in the skin.
When is the best time to book lymphatic work before an event?
Most clients book 24 to 72 hours before. The effect is immediate rather than delayed, and that window lets it be visible while leaving the face time to settle completely.
How long before an event should I have Botox?
We do not advise on this, because injectables are not our field. Botulinum toxin is a prescription medicine and the timing belongs with the medical provider administering it, who knows your face and your history. Ask them, and ask early, and the questions worth asking are set out separately. What we can tell you is our own rule, which is that we ask for two weeks after neuromodulator injections and four weeks after fillers before a manual treatment.
Can I have injectables and lymphatic work before the same event?
Yes. Your injector sets the injectable date and we work around it, allowing two weeks after neuromodulator injections and four weeks after fillers before manual work. In practice that means injectables first and manual work in the final days, once everything has settled.
My event is next week. What can I still do?
Sleep, water, lower sodium, no alcohol, and nothing new. A lymphatic session a couple of days before is the one thing still worth booking. Resist adding products, because a week is inside the window where a reaction can still appear.
What should I do on the morning itself?
Your usual routine and nothing added. Cool water is pleasant. Movement is the most useful thing available, because roughly one third of lymphatic flow at rest comes from compression of skeletal muscle, so being upright and moving does more than anything you could apply.
Why do I look puffier on the morning of an important day?
Usually a combination of ordinary overnight fluid, poor or short sleep, and often alcohol or salt the evening before. It settles over the first couple of hours once you are upright and moving, which is a reason to get up rather than to lie there assessing it.
Does drinking more water the night before help?
Not really. Being hydrated helps and being dehydrated does not, but a large volume the night before is not corrective and it interrupts sleep, which matters more. Consistent hydration across the final week is the version that works.
How many treatments should I have before my wedding?
There is no honest universal number, and anyone quoting one before meeting you is selling a package. Manual results build with repetition, so a rhythm over the available weeks serves better than a single intensive session, and the right rhythm depends on your face and your timeline.
Should I do anything different for a photoshoot compared with a wedding?
The timeline is the same but the emphasis shifts. A wedding is a long day in varied light, so endurance and looking like yourself matter most. A shoot is short and controlled, so more of the value is built in the earlier weeks. Neither rewards a dramatic intervention at the end.
Can preparation change how my face is shaped for the day?
No. Manual treatment supports how rested and defined a face looks and the effect is temporary. It does not change your features, and a claim that something will do so before a fixed date is a warning sign rather than an offer.
What is the single most common mistake?
A first-ever treatment of any kind inside the final fortnight, usually booked out of anxiety. The second is introducing several new things at once, which means that if something goes wrong nothing can be attributed and therefore nothing can be corrected.
Preparing a face for a specific date is a scheduling exercise rather than a shopping one. Everything experimental belongs eight to twelve weeks out, where there is room to recover from a response you did not want. The middle stretch is for repetition, which is where the actual improvement happens and where nothing interesting occurs. The final fortnight is for maintenance and nothing else, because a reaction to anything new appears 24 to 72 hours after exposure and peaks at 72 to 96 hours, and a problem starting three days out is not a problem you can solve in three days. Lymphatic work is the exception that belongs at the end rather than the beginning, since it introduces nothing. And the morning itself asks for less than you expect: your usual routine, something to eat, and movement, which does more than any product available to you. The goal was never a different face. It was your own, rested, on a day you will look back at.
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Written and professionally reviewed by Amanda Jeppesen
Founder of Sous La Face · Creator of the RRR™ Method
Amanda Jeppesen founded Sous La Face in Toronto in 2019 and opened the doors to North America's first studio dedicated exclusively to lymphatic facial sculpting in 2020. She created the RRR™ Method, Reroute, Release and Resculpt, and leads studios in Yorkville, Toronto and West Hollywood, Los Angeles.
Published · Last reviewed · Next review February 2027
This guide is educational and describes planning rather than treatment outcomes. It is not a substitute for medical or dermatological advice, and decisions about prescription treatments including botulinum toxin belong with a qualified medical provider. Individual experiences vary. If you have an active skin reaction, broken skin or any undiagnosed swelling, seek appropriate care rather than booking a cosmetic treatment.