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After - see, it's much larger... Don't do this on your own. I never want anyone else to play with 100-% TCA on their own.
Well, I'll start out with "i should have ben more...
Well, I'll start out with "i should have ben more patient."
I bought 100% TCA online several months ago for a disgusting recessed pore or two that seemed to drag my face down and give an optical illusion of scarring much worse than just a "ripped pore". I have other tiny pits due to years of small, recurring cystic acne pustules and its done a number on my face. The two pocks that i treated were the two that offended me the most. Between my cheek / nose / mouth. I simply should have been more patient...
1. Apx 2pm - dipped toothpick into 100% TCA vial. Stabbed gross pock with lightly dipped end. Saw light frost, felt no real pain (30% TCA on a broader area patch testing hurt more, before and gave fewer results). I wondeed if it was working..
2. 8pm - I didn't see the "bruising" or greyness that has been apparent with other peels so i AGAIN used the toothpick concerned nothing of significance had happened .
3. 3 days out - ew, scab
4. 9 days out - partial scab recedes..area around icepick that i must have spread peel to on my second adventure has no scabbing. pocked small icepick still scabbed with light crust (very different from highly scabby 30% broadly applied TCA).
5. Day 12 - no scab! Hooray! However, theres two really shallow, soft, lightly purple / pink boxcar scars where my nasty ice pick scars were.
*** word to DIY plastic surgeons *** don't hesitate to have a derm do this. If you cannot afford it and need to play with fire, please go at the ice puck gently. It need not HURT. Even 100% TCA shouldn't do much more than *tingle* and ypu shouldn't let the toothpick *sit there* fast, dunk, remove, on to the next, no time to let it drizzle to surrounding skin.
Good news: NO MORE ICE PiCK. I hated that mar!
Bad news: Two gently roling box cars that i dont think will look as nasty as an ice pick, ultimately. I learned a lesson.
I will try again, again even if there is some bad / good. And do it right for better results with patience.
In the end, nothing is uglier than an icepick dot the size of a period and im glad it's gone and expect healing to continue.
I bought 100% TCA online several months ago for a disgusting recessed pore or two that seemed to drag my face down and give an optical illusion of scarring much worse than just a "ripped pore". I have other tiny pits due to years of small, recurring cystic acne pustules and its done a number on my face. The two pocks that i treated were the two that offended me the most. Between my cheek / nose / mouth. I simply should have been more patient...
1. Apx 2pm - dipped toothpick into 100% TCA vial. Stabbed gross pock with lightly dipped end. Saw light frost, felt no real pain (30% TCA on a broader area patch testing hurt more, before and gave fewer results). I wondeed if it was working..
2. 8pm - I didn't see the "bruising" or greyness that has been apparent with other peels so i AGAIN used the toothpick concerned nothing of significance had happened .
3. 3 days out - ew, scab
4. 9 days out - partial scab recedes..area around icepick that i must have spread peel to on my second adventure has no scabbing. pocked small icepick still scabbed with light crust (very different from highly scabby 30% broadly applied TCA).
5. Day 12 - no scab! Hooray! However, theres two really shallow, soft, lightly purple / pink boxcar scars where my nasty ice pick scars were.
*** word to DIY plastic surgeons *** don't hesitate to have a derm do this. If you cannot afford it and need to play with fire, please go at the ice puck gently. It need not HURT. Even 100% TCA shouldn't do much more than *tingle* and ypu shouldn't let the toothpick *sit there* fast, dunk, remove, on to the next, no time to let it drizzle to surrounding skin.
Good news: NO MORE ICE PiCK. I hated that mar!
Bad news: Two gently roling box cars that i dont think will look as nasty as an ice pick, ultimately. I learned a lesson.
I will try again, again even if there is some bad / good. And do it right for better results with patience.
In the end, nothing is uglier than an icepick dot the size of a period and im glad it's gone and expect healing to continue.
Provider Review
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Me. I did tem. See a pro, derm, surgeon. I couldn't afford it.