Microneedling for IPL Damage

So, I've gone as far as I can with my indentations and the microtears with my dermarollers. The needles are just too widely spaced for small areas. Therefore, I've gone and done two things: A) bought a 1.5mm dermastamp for the indentations off eBay; and B) extracted a 1.5mm needle from my 1.5mm dermaroller with my eyebrow tweezers to use on the microtears. (I have already spot-microneedled the microtears with the extracted 1.5mm needle once, and will continue to do so, even though it's tricky not to drop and lose such a tiny object on the floor.)

I will continue to report on any significant developments.

Thank you for reading my review!

*Sigh* When one microtear closes, another one opens. The super-harsh light of my bathroom mirror (a.k.a. "the Mirror of Dorian Gray") has revealed a new, very small tear about half an inch north of the big one which still hasn't healed -- and that seems to be expanding! The new one is very shallow and is the size and diameter of a dot you could make with the tip of your pen.

IPL really is the gift that keeps on giving!

GAME PLAN: Since the rollers aren't equipped with enough needles to hit these two tiny targets in a reliable fashion, I'll start monthly spot-needling with tiny individual needles sunk to about 1mm in the two microtears (there was a third one that healed).

I will report on all microtear events in each update on this review. Thanks for reading!!!

In case you missed it, I'd like to re-report another bit of good news. As you know, the right side of my face took the brunt of the IPL (the wrinkling is worse on the right side, the right side is where the indentations are, and soon after the treatment the lymph node right under the right side of my jaw swelled up for a week for no reason my doctor could figure out). But I also developed a grainy, gritty texture on the right side of my neck. If you look at pic #33 in cupcake0526's review of her botched Yag laser procedure, what you see on her face and neck is how the skin of my neck felt. But today, thanks to 3-4 monthly sessions with my .50mm dermaroller and some applications of .025% prescription tretinoin, that skin is again as smooth as the skin on the left side of my neck.