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I got two Picoway laser treatments and my face looks worse now than before. Will it clear out any time soon?

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veronika8Apr 21, 2017
I have completed two picoway laser treatments already for brown spots and melasma. I think my face looks worse now that it did before my treatments. My dark spots seem darker than before. It's been two and a half weeks since my first treatment. Will my skin tone improve or is it too soon to tell. Feeling disappointed. It better after my first treatment when the scaling came off. Then it for dark and seems it hasn't improved.

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