- What to do when you have giant acne scars
from having really severe acne in the past,
and also what to do with mild scars, too.
Now, I'm a big fan of videos that
get to the point immediately
and then get into the long talking part,
so here are the treatments that I have actually looked up
and found people to have high reviews of
that actually work for acne scars,
and here are the treatments from lightest
to most severe of treatment,
and I'm gonna get more into what each one is
as we go into the video,
but I'm just gonna list them right now,
starting with dermabrasion brush,
mechanical exfoliation,
Retin-A, chemical peels from light to deep,
micro dermabrasion,
laser treatments, Dermapen,
and augmentation and fillers,
and that is the list.
Now, let's get into which ones are effective
and which ones I have used and which ones I suggest.
Now, we're gonna move from the light to the medium
to the severe treatments
that you can do for your acne scars,
so these first two are really for people with
very minimal scars, like almost non-visible.
Otherwise, if you have deep, box car,
deep needle ice pick type scars,
these aren't gonna help,
but dermabrasion brush, which is kinda like that
little spinning brush you've probably seen from Clarisonic.
I'm sure there are other ones,
but it's just a spinning brush of fiber-style bristles.
It's not a metal or like a hard surface,
and it just spins, and it's supposed to remove
the top layer of dead skin.
These may or may not work.
Who really knows?
For me, I had too severe of acne for this to work,
so when I tried it, it wasn't doing anything for my scars.
It wasn't doing anything for my acne.
Moving on to the other most common light treatment
for acne scars and acne in general
is mechanical exfoliation,
so you've probably seen this before.
I think St. Ives has a brand of this.
Basically, like a pumice stone
or, more commonly, it's like a wash
or something that you use in the shower
that has little tiny pieces of stone
or something that's mechanically able to scrape your face
as you use it.
That scraping is, again, purposefully trying to remove
that top layer of dead skin,
and once again, this did not help me with my acne
or with my scars after my acne had receded or gone away.
Now, moving on to the medium list,
and everything from this point on to the end
has pretty much been done over and over and over
and has been reviewed thousands of times
by people with true acne scars
as things that have helped with theirs.
I'm gonna get more into it,
and I'll tell you guys about which ones
I think are the best.
Speaking of one of the best, Retin-A.
I suggest this for anybody that can get this
that has some serious acne scars to deal with.
This is just as simple as a topical ointment cream
that you put on your face.
The only reason that it's difficult to get
is because you have to have a prescription from
a dermatologist, a doctor, to get this,
so you have to go in and say what's up
to the guys to get it,
but what this does is you put it on your face,
and it actually removes the top layer of skin.
It is vitamin A derivative,
and it removes that top layer of skin.
It helps create new layers of skin, I believe,
and in that process,
causes your skin to even out the surface levels.
That way, your scars don't look as bad.
Now, I have used Retin-A so many times
during my acne treatment itself,
but especially after my acne treatment
when I was trying to treat my scars.
I saw a significant difference
in my rolling cheek scars, specifically.
When it comes to like I had discoloration
over here next to my ear.
I had a lot deeper ones in certain areas.
Those didn't really get helped much by that,
but those rolling scars were really helped by Retin-A,
so I suggest checking that out.
Chemical peels.
Now, I'm kinda on the fence with chemical peels.
I do know that they do work for some people.
But other people kinda have this up and down experience
where some people see nothing happen from it.
Some people see, or at least they say that
they think that it is the holy grail of everything.
Now, chemical peels all vary in severity
of the actual chemical you're using to peel
that top layer of dead skin off.
Anything from AHA, which is kind of the lighter treatment
that most people can use.
I think you can even just buy it at the store,
on Amazon, no big deal,
and then there's more intense ones.
There's kind of a medium version of TCA,
and then there's a more potent version
of the same treatment with like a higher percentage
of the TCA, and that is the like severe chemical peel.
All chemical peels are going to cause you
to have a very irritated face, very red face.
Depending on how severe it is,
it's gonna stay with you for multiple days.
You're gonna have to stay out of the sunlight,
et cetera, et cetera, things like that,
and they have medium returns, like I was saying earlier.
Some people see great returns on this.
Some people don't, and they can go from cheap
to really expensive.
This one, I think you have to do your own research on
to see if you think it's worth it.
Micro dermabrasion, and there's so much confusion
when it comes to micro dermabrasion and dermabrasion
and like 30,000 other derivatives of the same phrase,
but micro dermabrasion is basically,
it's kinda hard to explain, but basically,
they have this tiny little vacuum
and this little propulsion unit,
and it shoots finally ground crystals into your skin,
and the reason that this is supposed to be beneficial is
it shoots them into your skin, which causes damage,
but all at the same level, because it's shooting them
at the same pressure, and then as it's shooting them down,
another vacuum right beneath it is pulling them back up.
So it's shooting them in, pulling them up,
and then your face is just, you know,
finely ground skin,
and it allows it to grow back at a similar rate
by stimulating collagen growth, et cetera, et cetera,
and the thought process is that
it's all gonna be even afterwards.
This one actually does have some good success in it.
Now, a lot of people have said
they've seen some good success in this one,
but again, this is not one that is seen as
like the holy grail perfect thing
for people with acne scars.
Now, we move on to the heavy,
expensive, long term, lots of side effect treatments.
Now, these are ones that
are gonna yield the biggest results, right?
They're gonna be the most expensive, though,
and they're gonna keep you out of, you know,
normal life for the longest, starting with laser.
Now, laser was what I was suggested,
and there are so many different types of laser.
There's CO2, there's Fraxel, there's like 45 other ones,
so again, you do have to do your own research
on which type is gonna be right for your acne scar type,
because your acne scar type plays a lot to do with
what type of treatment you do,
and also, what your doctor's gonna think and suggest,
because what I did is I went to my dermatologist
with the intention of laser,
and then he turned me on to Dermapen,
which is what we'll talk about,
but laser shoots little lasers into your skin,
and there's a couple different versions of this,
and the idea is that those lasers are at such a high,
I don't think it's a frequency, it's a heat, I don't know.
Honestly, I'm not well-versed on this,
but what it does is when it shoots those lasers
into your skin, it causes little pits,
but the pits are all at the same depth.
All of these ideas are kind of the same,
just with different mediums, different ways to perform it,
and by causing those holes to be all the same depth,
it stimulates that collagen growth
and it'll all grow back relatively even.
Again, most of these treatments
are not gonna work the first time.
You're gonna have to do them over and over and over
to help that evening out process get more even.
Now, moving on to Dermapen, laser is very expensive
compared to Dermapen.
A laser treatment was going to be
about three times the cost
that my Dermapen treatment was gonna be,
so I ended up doing three Dermapen treatments.
It was $350 each session.
It should have been 500,
but because I'm a social media person,
they gave it to me for 350,
so a Dermapen treatment that I was supposed to get
was 500, and I did three,
so it would have cost me 1,500.
A laser treatment was gonna cost me $2,000.
Now, the best way that I can explain a Dermapen,
and probably the simplest way that I can explain it
is just a tattoo gun without ink.
Obviously, things are a little bit different.
The gauge of the needle's a little bit different,
but that's the same kind idea.
They're just going to rub this little opening
on a plastic pen all over your face,
and in the middle of that little plastic pen
are a few metal needles that are shooting straight downwards
into your skin, causing you to have, again,
little holes in your skin that are all the same depth,
thus stimulating regrowth at the same rate.
Now, this should not be confused with,
and a lot of people will come up with this suggestion,
Dermapen shooting these needles in straight
is not the same as a Dermaroller.
A roller has those same style needles
that are supposed to penetrate your skin,
but the problem is that a Dermapen
shoots in your skin and comes right back out of it.
A Dermaroller rolls into your skin,
which causes an uneven scratch.
This is what my dermatologist told me,
causes an uneven scratch, because it hits the surface,
pulls and scratches in,
and then as it comes out of the skin,
it is kind of scooping back out,
so instead of making holes that are straight up and down,
it's actually making scoops as it's rolling,
if that makes sense,
so he said that's actually not a good thing,
to do the Dermarolling, but the Dermapen,
in my opinion, is pretty decent
if you have the money for it.
Now, something I didn't quite understand
is that the Dermapen actually takes up to nine months
to start seeing results,
so you aren't gonna be able to kinda judge your results
in the first six months or anything like that.
I think that's what I was doing.
Now, I have actually seen quite a big improvement
in my actual scarring,
but the thing that I think kind of proved to me
that Dermapen does work in some respect
is I had this very, very discolored spot
next to my ear over here,
and it used to be this dark purple,
very dark purple, kinda looked like a old blood blister,
and now it has alleviated color significantly,
so I would say that Dermapen is actually very effective
if you have the money for it.
If you don't have the money for it,
then I would go with Retin-A.
If you have the money for both of them,
then I would say do both of them.
That's what was best for my type of scarring,
and my scarring was probably about,
I would say, like a C plus or a B minus,
if A plus was like the most severe type of acne scar.
Doing lots of talking in this video,
but I really wanna kind of explain each type of treatment
that you can do.
I don't wanna leave you guys with a short video
that has a catchy title without actually leaving you
with the information, so the last one
I wanna talk to you guys about,
which is proven to work extremely well,
but it's kinda severe, is augmentations and fillers.
Basically, a lot of people with ice pick deep scars,
super deep scars,
will have an augmentation happen
and a filler that happens, where they take that hole, right?
So your skin is right here, and then you have a hole
and then you have skin,
so they take your skin that has a hole in it
and they fill underneath it with,
I'm not exactly sure what they fill it with,
but that causes that hole to be less depressed
by filling the space underneath it,
which causes all of your scars to start to pop up.
The way that they do this surgery is pretty severe.
They actually stick a needle into your skin
and then they kinda wiggle it around like this
to release your skin from
the subcutaneous fat underneath it, and then they fill it.
It looks pretty crazy,
but people have seen pretty good results from it,
so this is one that you'll have to look into on your own,
because I can't make the judgment of whether this is
too scary or severe for you.
So, there it is, my friends.
Those are the treatments that I think are effective.
There are so many other treatments you're gonna find.
There's a lot of different remedies,
and I'm not saying that those ones are bad,
but I'm saying that these are the ones
that I have personally researched,
and have seen like hundreds and thousands of people
leaving reviews saying that they work.
For me, personally, these are the ones that worked for me,
the Dermapen and the Retin-A were by far the best ones
at all for me, so you should check out all of these.
I hope this video kind of lays
some basic ground works for you on what you can do
to help your acne scars get better,
kinda empower you with some information
so you don't feel so lost,
'cause that's definitely how I felt.
I felt like I was just trying to
figure everything out myself
and nobody really had the answers for me,
so I hope that you can take this video,
this information, hit Google with it,
kinda decide what you think is the best approach for you,
and I really hope that that treatment actually helps you,
and I hope it helps get you
to where you want to be with your skin.
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