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Depending on what type of peel was performed, make can be applied a day after your treatment. With a light to medium peel, make up can be applied the next day. Deep chemical peels will have more downtime and the skin should be protected with Polysporin or other post peel ointment. With these peels no make up should be applied until the skin has calmed down and started healing. This is to avoid causing an infection to the treated area.
I would suggest shaving a day or two prior to having a chemical peel. If you shave just a few hours prior to a peel, the skin may be too raw and become excessively irritated. If you do not shave have still have whiskers when you have the peel, the treatment may not be as effective in...
An exopeel is basically a variant phenol/croton oil peel. As such, it has a substantially higher risk of scaring than a 30% TCA peel which is marginally a medium depth (more like an aggressive superficial peel. WIthout meeting you, I would be concerned that the deeper peel is...
Far more important than the technique is the skill and experience of your plastic surgeon. Choose your surgeon rather than the technique and let them explain why one technique may be better than another. See the below link on some suggestions on finding the most qualified Plastic Surgeon for y...
In my practice, I try to stay away from these combination regimens, as cortisones are non-selective inhibitors of melanocytes. I would recommend my patients to start Melarase AM and Melarase PM for the pigmentation. I would start with an intense skin rejuvenation protocol for age spots that i...
However, I do both the fill and the peel. This means that I know precisely where the product is placed. If you are having different providers to these treatments, I would advise waiting about 10 days between services so your peeler does not mush your product.
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