Complete & Honest Pros & Cons Reviews After 1 Fraxel Application with a 24 Y/o Male. - Montreal, Canada

Ok.

First of all Fraxel is more of an extreme measure than I had previously imagined.

Let me explain:

Once Fraxel began taking effect, the "chemistry" on my face changed. Sorry for the lack of better terms, but basically I noticed that my face started drooping, and feeling numb, and had texture changes and new damage. It was HELL.

1 month and a half in, despite a major feeling of depression I decided to "go with it". I started drinking water like this was war. I started using creams religiously. I started working out in different ways. Heck, I changed a number of my body language habits to lower my overall stress. This was a challenge.

3 months in? Wow. How can I explain. I'm a healthier person overall because of these indirect change, but get this: my skin both got damaged permanently, and improved significantly. My skin thickened in a way that looks healthier. I'm more flush. Certain parts feel tighter. BUT, when examined closely, I now have tiny little holes and scratches......

I don't know whether I can recommend Fraxel or not, given that there was a 3 month downtime. That said, I think I can explain why there are so many negative reviews.

Fraxel is something that should be included with a number of other procedures and lifestyle efforts. This isn't something to try casually.

Also, if you already have larger pores (larger than say, your pores in your late teens) then the downsides aren't that big of a deal.

I look healthier. I look older / tired. It is a good procedure. I do NOT recommend it. Let an experienced and proven doc be the one to recommend this thing.

Also sorry for the messy room cause I'm sure that matters....

I've added one last picture for today. You can see that 1 eyelid has a "ridge" and the other eye doesn’t.

.... That was never there ........ neither do other family members have that.

But yeah as I said it's coming back to normal slowly, so this particular issue I'm not paying much attention to.

Also yes I do need a haircut -- but I work from home and the weather only just got warm around here, so do please forgive me.

Lol, I've shed alright. A long time ago.

The real issue is that there's been some seemingly permanent damage done to the skin. Allow me to demonstrate with a couple of pictures:

- before the procedure, (taken before going) (2 months ago)
- 2 days after, the scabs had peeled
- 5 days after, the redness begins to go away
- taken with lighting to show that fatty deposits around my nose & eyebrows have changed as result of the laser. (positively) also redness had cleared up
- this last one taken up close with red light to show the little holes and lines that have happened as a result of the laser.

Overall I shy away from mentioning this procedure to people just in case someone ends up with little holes on their forehead because of something I said.

I'd personally value a demonstration of this kind of scarring going away, otherwise it has the be said that with this many negative impressions the Fraxel procedure really does look like a dead end deal.

One improvement I've noticed is that for a while the eyelids had thickened and loosened, but it seems that they're slowly coming back to normal. That said, there are a lot more little white dots.