NUman

If it is free, go in for a consultation. If you meet a good dermatologist (do not go to spas, bad reputation everywhere) he or she will recommend the best treatment for a good price. Unfortunately, it...

I would like to suggest "rabb.it" as a plausible platform because it allows you to also perform video streams from sites like youtube or netflix. In other words, it opens the option of movie n...

On 7/19/2016 at 11:11 PM, il90 said: Also, what Numan said, we think people are as obsessed as we are about skin perfection but they really aren't they are probably obsessed with something else (...

Here's a mental exercise-- Not a daily ritual, a mental exercise, do not use it like a ritual because it is not intended that way. Think over it slowly, flip it over in your mind, forget it afterwards...

Figures I add a story to this dog pile, here goes. When I was in college, it was nearing the end of my severe acne phase (cystic acne destroyed my skin during high school, I never had accutane), but s...

I am sorry for what you are going through, 19 is an age of terrible mood swings for me and I relied heavily (back then) on sugar-free (read "sugar-free") energy drinks (don't do this) to elevate my mo...

Hello all, I hope this post finds you well. Allow me to preface this with a reintroduction, I had 1 session of CO2RE laser done 4 years ago and 1 session of RF Sublative done 3 years ago. My initial ...

I have done CO2RE about 2 years ago (cannot recall the date), and I have Fitzpatrick III skin. All I can say, after 2 months post-treatment, there was about <10% improvement. It may just be my skin...

Hello MsBubbleTea,   Thank you for starting a photo journal about your progress. I think it is an important driving factor in this subforum and provides raw insight into scar treatment. Unfortun...

Update: an additional thing I should mention:   regardless of your treatment, it is important to find a derm that genuinely cares (or at least, holds onto the Hippocratic oath) for his/her patie...

I did an RF sublative treatment about 1~2 years ago (before that, CO2 laser, 1 session at $3k, not too impressed, painful, different dermatologist). The dermatologist actually recommended about 3~5 tr...

Oh yes, I apologize for being away for some time. Anyway! The first laser scar treatment actually did not impress me that much. However, I went for a different session of RF subablative treatment. An...

If your skin is tingly and burning, do consider toning down your application a little. Say, reduce it to once every two days for instance, or once every three days until your skin gets used to it. Rem...

Tretinion (retin A) has a very case-by-case basis evaluation. I personally have a good experience with it and I regret not starting earlier. My jawline was littered with whiteheads and after a month's...

Subcision first, then laser might be the way to go mate. Some of them look quite deep, so you might not benefit much from laser first hand. I personally think that combined treatment is the way to go,...

To me, I think it is best that your derm/PS is well acquainted will the laser that they are operating, regardless of its properties. I would die before I allow a medispa staff apply laser resurfacing ...

Thank you very much for this Michelle! I think it is really marvelous of you, especially since, I concur, there is little to no documentation about subscision despite hearing about its results. I thin...

The red dots look kind of like freckles to me, actually.

I am close to post 2 months CO2RE Fractional CO2 laser resurfacing and my results are simply wonderful so far. I have also continuously used Tretinion cream which helped my skin texture after about 3-...

Actually, nose piercings DO leave hypertrophic scarring on occasion. The key difference I suppose, is that acne is induced by bacteria infection and piercing is USUALLY sterilized first. Muddying the...

Swelling usually stems from trauma to the skin, so no, there is probably no way for doing this aside from purposefully inducing trauma like skin needling does.

Redness is just fresh skin healing up and it is normal. I think they should not concern you that much since they would fade over the course of months, but I would say that you get a mild topical retin...

I will probably go for fillers instead because I am of opinion that implants would look terrible as you age, as they do not change over time.

I got to admit, this is really really cool since there is visual evidence. I actually did dermastamping on one cheek at one time and only applied tretinion after, but I only done that twice without se...

What would you like us to say then? I can always parrot, no problem. But I'm going to say this again. All I see are enlarged pores and scattered scarring, but I won't classify it as severe because th...