muac 30% - Colorado

For some reason the website won't let me change my "worth it" or not button to WORTH IT! I was almost completely done peeling a week after the peel. I thought it would be WAY more intensive than it was. I thought I would get much more red and swollen, for much longer. Just after the peel some deeper lines looked like they were completely gone. At the same time, there were some pretty deep new wrinkles that I feared wouldn't go away, just from where the peel had wrinkled and drawn my skin in (mostly around my mouth) on the days when it was so extremely tight and leathery. But those went away, and the deep lines I originally treated turned more similar to how they were pre-peel, only some of them are way less bad. I would say overall, including the lines that decreased and those that didn't so much, they are about 30% improved. Way worth it!

Probably the biggest change is my skin tone. The best way to explain the difference is that I've ALWAYS used foundation. I've never considered not using it, because although my skin is pretty good compared to some, it can be ruddy and slightly mottled looking and foundation just gives it a porcelain smoothness. But since the peel I haven't been using it!!! Yes, I could look better with it, but I LOVE the idea of just having a fresh, makeup free face! I never would have thought I would feel comfortable enough to go without, but indeed, that is the result of my peel!

I am going to repeat the peel as often as I can get off work to do it.

Oh yay the peeling! Finally! After two days of darkening and tightening, to the point that I could barely make face expressions and had to cut my food up very small, I finally woke on day 4 to peeling today. And this is GOOD, FULL ON, huge sheets coming off. I'm trying to resist helping it along by just staying away from the mirror. I was beginning to think I was never going to peel (well, it felt that way), so this is great progress.

I finally gave in last night and put some vaseline on my whole face, and it immediately seemed to help with the tightness, and then tiny bits of peeling began within a few hours. Maybe it was just time, or maybe the trapped in moisture helped it along; either way, that was a noticeable difference. I'm alternating between using it for a few hours and then CAREFULLY washing off, so that the skin doesn't peel much earlier than it should...kinda like a scab loosens up sooner than it should if soaked in water. I want to give that precious fresh skin underneath every chance to be protected and prepared to meet the world. :-)

OK I'm just about 24 hrs in and I'm feeling much better about the whole thing. I was worried my entire face was going to swell up and my skin might all immediately just fall off my face :-/ but alas, after about 2 hrs the burning calmed down, as did the redness. Woke up this am with some tightness but not bad. For most of the day I looked mostly normal, if you didn't know me. As I'm into natural products and don't tend to use drugstore stuff like Aquafor and such, I've just been putting argan oil mixed with goldenseal powder on my face and chest. Goldenseal powder has been a miracle medicine on many 3rd degree burns in the past, so I figured it would be a soothing remedy to use on my face. Over the past hour or so my face is getting progressively redder and darker. Will update again tomorrow and/or as soon as something different starts happening.