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[BBB123]

Well this is my first post here so anyways,
a friend of mine recently had a little outbreak on her forehead, after 2 days the pimples and 1 cyst were gone and she was left with some hyperpigmentation, now after only ONE DAY her forehead looks beautiful like it looked a week ago, she isn't covering it up with makeup i know that FOR SURE! the first day that her hyperpigmentation disappeared there was a little chicken-pox-like scar where the cyst was just a few days ago, but it blended in with her skintone. this "scar" is now completely gone and her skin looks flawless again. at first i thought she simply cut out the area of hyperpigmentation (terrifying i know) or used a very strong bleaching product. but wouldn't that have left a scar? how on earth did she achieve this miracle?

[BBB123]

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[mWilso]

Can you ask her? That seems like the most direct way to get an answer.

[BBB123]

well she is on vacation untill the end of september and i have no way of contacting her since she's out of the country. plus i kind of dont feel too comfortable asking her but i guess its the only way of getting this information. i just thought maybe somebody would know and i find it quite fascinating that hyperpigmentation can be healed so fast while we all wait for months..

[mWilso]

I think some skin types (obviously ours! since we're on this forum) are prone to the hyperpigmentation, while others (like your friend) don't get the PIH naturally.
Or is this a one time sort of thing and you've seen PIH in the past?

Now that I think about it, my boyfriend who is acne-prone, doesn't have any noticeable PIH. Darn him!

[snsdgirl14]

Yes, some people are more prone to PIH than others. I'm medium olive toned skin and I get PIH INCREDIBLY easily....kind of sucks. But thankfully, all of my marks fade, I've never been stuck with permanent scars that last years or something.

She might have used a bleaching product, though, you never know. Some people report having success with hydroquinone (skin lightener) within 1 - 2 weeks.

[===]

The likely answer is that it wasn't really PIH, just the breakout healing. Given that her skin is flawless, she's probably not at all PIH-prone (damn her). Back when I didn't have to deal with PIH, I would often find that there would be a flat area of redness after a lesion had run its course that lasted for anywhere from a day or so to a week.