How Can I Remove my Pregnancy Mask?

Laser skin treatments, peels and topical creams may help treat melasma. Sun exposure will make the condition worse, so please keep your skin protected.

Before you attempt to treat lower eyelid wrinkles with chemical peels or fraxel laser, remember that your skin is prone to develop post inflammatory hyperpigmentation because of your melasma, or pigmentation, mask of pregnancy.  Any resurfacing treatment provides the risk of developing post inflammatory hyperpigmenation and as you are susceptible to this, you should not have a treatment without a test spot done or the most conservative settings employed. 

Melasma can be treated with hydroquinone-containing medications but they are sometimes irritating, Lumixyl is also used, light chemical peels may be done periodically to decrease the barrier to penetration of the lightening creams.  Fraxel Dual, 1927 nm. laser can provide great improvement in some patients with hyperpigmentation.

As the other doctors have said, Peels are probably going to be your best solution. Bags require a lower lid blepharoplasty and this is done thru an outer or inner incision.

Hi Donna.  You packed quite a few issues into this short question.  

For Melasma, the pregnancy mask, we recommend high strength bleaching programs with hydroquinone.  Our programs vary between 6% - 8%, which is higher than the normal prescription.

As for the bags under the eyes, we would either recommend a lower Blepharoplasty or Restylane injections depending on how loose the skin is.  

Finally, Botox can be great for wrinkles, but it depends where they are on the face and whether they are cause by muscle contraction or not. Botox is great for areas of the face that have wrinkles caused by muscle activity.  The Botox relaxes the muscles, smoothing the wrinkles.  Good luck.

We have different options, you can do a Retinol Peel or IPL to gently lift the pigment as well as at home products to work as maintenance to continue in prevention.For the wrinkles I recommend coming in for a consultation to see if your a candidate for Botox or Filler.