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Awful. I look older and worse now than I ever did
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Aweful
heatherluckyladyApril 1, 2021
$1,000
My skin is horrible now around my eyes. I look like I aged 20 years. I am horrified and hopeless. I look older and worse now than I ever did.
I went to get a more youthful appearance being 46, and now I can't leave my house. I can't even conceal what is wrong with make up like I could before. I have these insane wrinkles under my eyes I didn't have prior to having pixel 8 done. And there are indentions right above cheeks. My eyes look terrible. What can I do, and how can I repair this?
The injector says I'm healing but I can't find anything like this anywhere. No one's healing has made them look this bad and wrinkly. Puffy yes. Wrinkly, saggy no.. it's been a week and everyday it's worse and worse.
Replies (8)
May 18, 2021
Your last photo on right looks fabulous! You look young!
May 25, 2021
The last photo was a taken the night before the procedure. I was told by provider that it would just tighten skin and take away some broken capillaries that I got with each pregnancy and birth.
It destroyed my skin, ate the fat I had in my face and severely damaged my under eyes, and left me with horrible sags in skin that was wrinkled and just kinda hung there. It also ate the fat oads in my once beautiful round cheeks, and chin. My temples had already started losing volume but the pixl8 destroyed what fat was there and sunk my temples in faster than normal aging.
I have had to do at home chemical peels as well as spend a small fortune in dermal fillers to restore the volume lost. (Not nearly as nice as what was there before naturally). These dangers need to be explained in length before anyone decides to use any kind of lasers, and practitioners need to recognize and know that multiple people have had this unwelcome side effect and NOT DISMISS THIER CLIENTS when this does occur as mine did.
Thank you for your comments. I appreciate the time you gave to me and my terrible experience.
It destroyed my skin, ate the fat I had in my face and severely damaged my under eyes, and left me with horrible sags in skin that was wrinkled and just kinda hung there. It also ate the fat oads in my once beautiful round cheeks, and chin. My temples had already started losing volume but the pixl8 destroyed what fat was there and sunk my temples in faster than normal aging.
I have had to do at home chemical peels as well as spend a small fortune in dermal fillers to restore the volume lost. (Not nearly as nice as what was there before naturally). These dangers need to be explained in length before anyone decides to use any kind of lasers, and practitioners need to recognize and know that multiple people have had this unwelcome side effect and NOT DISMISS THIER CLIENTS when this does occur as mine did.
Thank you for your comments. I appreciate the time you gave to me and my terrible experience.
August 25, 2021
I just had my second one today. It had been 2.5 months since my 1st one. It takes time for sure. I’m 53. Last week I kept having people tell me how good my skin looked! I was noticing acne scars were lighter. Iv done many regular microneedling (work in salon) but so far nothing has worked like the RF microneedling. Give some time I hope it keeps getting better !!
January 9, 2022
I had frazel for undereye area. 1 treatment no improvement. Dr. feels second will be better I'm not sure if I'm spending the money
January 11, 2022
Hi are your eyes any better? I just had RFmicroneedling 6 days ago and my under eyes are awful too.
UPDATED FROM heatherluckylady
17 days post
It's been a few weeks now
heatherluckyladyApril 13, 2021
Eyes still look terrible. Nothing I do can hide or camouflage them. I truly feel the Pixel8 did something to the area around my eyes including the previous filler. Before pixel 8 I was overjoyed with my appearance and now I am so disgusted I am ashamed to go in public. Every time my children see me they continue to point out how bad it is and how it's getting worse in time.
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May 4, 2021
I am so sorry, hopefully the area around your eyes has continued to improve? Did you talk to your provider about the affect of Pixel8 on filler under the eye? Perhaps what you see IS the filler and it will go away.
June 10, 2021
Go get fractional co2 laser. Should be less than $1000. Will take years off the area and it’s really not expensive
August 11, 2021
Co2 is a lot more than $1000 for full face, and every provider I have asked about it has disouraged it because of the wound/oozing/after care. It is pretty grotesque and you have to to do a lot. Halo Pro might be an option. That can be turned way up and it is both ablative and non ablative. You can also add scuptra to it as a topic that will go beneath the upper skin layers when the channels in the skin are made with the laser. Halo Pro does not have much down time and is not a big deal for after care.
August 17, 2021
I was talking about having around the eyes done. I just had it done for 800.
I am well aware what CO2 does and the cost but it’s well worth it. You just need to find the right person to do it.
I am well aware what CO2 does and the cost but it’s well worth it. You just need to find the right person to do it.
March 18, 2022
I had Secret RF twice and my eyelids changed after the second treatment. They are more hooded and it messed up the crease on one eyelid. They were also very puffy for weeks.
If you're really upset, call your provider and ask them to take a look. I really do think you'll be nicely suprised in a few weeks or a month. It's not like filler, which gives instant results. This takes your body some time to do the work.
Don't despair--not yet.
How much did this cost, by the way?
This procedure completely destroyed the fat in my face. My eyes beca.e sunken, andbthe skin sagged and hung there. My beautiful round cheeks became deflated as did my temples and jaw and chin. All the natural fat in my face melted away day by day.
I was terrified to look in the mirror each morning for fear of daily deterioration of my face.
The last picture was taken the night before my pixel8 treatment, that was meant to tighten skin, restore collagen and remove broken capillaries I have due to child birth and Irish,/German heritage.
My skin looks terrible still(no change in coloring or texture, besides sagging and hollowing). It is now almost June and the only improvement has been at the small fortune I have had to shell out to restore the volume lost.(instead of 20 years older, I now look 10yrs older). At home chemical peels to help with insane wrinkles done once a month have given me some improvement with little cost.
I understand the need or desire to defend these types of procedures especially of your business depends on them, but when these types of serious issues do arise, they should be acknowledged and not dismissed by the provider. This wait its gonna get better approach for such obvious issues is only undermining the confidence people have. These types of dangers are very real and very damaging to those looking for improvement.
Thank you for your time bbn in replying to my horrible experience.