Not Fun or Cheap, but See Some Improvement

I still have acne scars, obviously, but they are better than before Fraxel. (As I've said, with this scarring I should have just done C02, but it scares me!) My skin is doing SO great lately, for me anyway. Not nearly as red, very little acne. I even stopped wearing heavy foundation and now just wear concealer and a BB cream that is basically a tinted moisturizer. I would have never dreamed of just wearing that before Fraxel or even a couple of months ago when my last pics were taken. I still have sun damage issues (look at the top of my cheekbone along eye socket) that was probably caused by my skin becoming extra sensitive to the sun after Fraxel, but those are improving with a dark spot corrector. It will probably never get all the way better, so that sucks, but I guess I'll live. AVOID THE SUN AFTER FRAXEL.

Had my fourth fraxel a month ago, went in for pictures today. Looking at the photos, the results are not very good. I have developed discoloration from sun damage or fraxel damage, not sure. My face was extremely red today (unrelated to the Fraxel I am pretty sure, something is just angering my skin right now), so that makes it harder to see any changes unfortunately. Despite what the pictures show, I promise, my skin DOES look better over all, scar-wise anyway, obviously the dark spots don't look great. As you can see, the one big scar on my cheek is MUCH better, which is awesome, because it is the one that bothered me the most. My pores are also a bit smaller and overall texture of my skin is a bit better. But now I have to figure out how to deal with the discoloration and apparently redness too, because geesh, I am red. Overall, I don't think Fraxel is worth the price or the possible damage it can cause. Maybe I shouldn't have been so scared and just gone for the C02 resurfacing like originally recommended, but it just sounds so scary I couldn't bring myself to do it. The woman who has done my fraxels recommends I try something called Fractora that she has seen great results with, but I have better things to spend my money on.