Will Medium Depth Blue Peel Tighten my Skin?

An Obagi Blue Peel is really best for correcting pigmentation problems and superficial sun damage. It will correct some fine wrinkling and minimally tighten the skin but there are other, more effective treatments for this such as laser resurfacing.

A blue peel will usually improve wrinkles and tighten skin a bit, depending upon the concentration of TCA used. In fact, any acid peel or laser resurfacing procedure has the potential for these benefits. The benefits are usually proportional to the depth of injury and the period of down-time. In other words, don't expect a great deal of improvement with something you have done during lunch with no down-time.

All chemical peels (and laser peels for that matter) will lighten a patients skin. Realize that dyschromia (pigmentation problems) is one of the most common results of sun damage. Your skin makes pigment (melanin) to help protect it from UV rays. Over time, some abnormalities in pigment production occur and these show up as freckles, brown spots or staining, and generally, irregular pigmentation. A chemical/laser peel will remove a lot of this pigmentation. Some of the deeper pigmentation... more

I have been getting Blue Peels on myself and performing them on patient's for over ten years and it does some very nice things for the texture and quality of the skin but it doesn't go deep enough to have much effect on skin tightness and wrinkles. For those things you should look into fractionated CO2 laser resurfacing.