I received a BBL/Halo treatment on Friday of last week (exactly 7 days ago). I experienced the normal darkening of pigment and the sloughing off process by day 3-4. However, as the new pink skin has emerged it now has a finer sandpaper texture as well but lacks the dark pigment (these ones are similar to the mends that I experienced within the first few days of treatment) When will these go away? Am I having some sort of an allergic reaction? I contacted the aesthetician and she has not responded to me.
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Although the MENDS are usually gone 7 days after treatment, the “sand paper” texture can persist up to 10 days. The pink skin that is seen on your skin could potentially be caused from a reaction to a topical product being used at this point in the healing process. I would suggest trying to cal...
Antihistimines shouldn't hurt your results at all. We've been using it in 100% of our patients for 4 1/2 years and people get great results. If having a terrible histamine reaction helped produce collagen, I would move somewhere with a wretched allergy season and have beautiful skin around my ...
