I can't believe I'm sitting here today foundation free with just mascara and
lip balm, brushed my eyebrows. For those of you that are new here, I have been
battling acne since I was 12 years old. It has been well over ten years
and I finally got my acne under control. I have videos of these in the past where
I've done chemical peel, microneedling and I'm up to this point where I
remember in my chemical peel video I said I would love to walk out the door
and confidently not wear foundation and here I am today. But I've been left with
hyperpigmentation that I have been dealing with the past couple of years.
The biggest thing is the sunspot. Peels, micro-needling, nothing dealt with it. So
then doing a little bit of research I was like oh I want to do Fraxel. And then
coincidentally I got connected with a friend from university, Lily, and she
works at Glo Medi spa. Lily brought me to Dr. Wong who works there. So I go in for
my consultation and I meet Dr. Wong and I was like Dr. Wong
I want to get Fraxel, and she stopped me right there and she was like Fraxel is a
very high-risk procedure. If you have more melanin in your skin you tend to
have thicker skin. She said in Caucasian skin age shows up as wrinkles but for
Asian skin age shows up as hyperpigmentation and it blew my mind.
Usually people with paler skin if they have freckles laser can easily take
those away they sit like just below the surface of the skin. Whereas a sunspot
especially on darker skin types is sitting very deeply under the skin. It's
highly impacted pigment. Fraxel works as just a traditional laser that heats up
pigment under the skin so you're prone to burning your skin and causing even
more hyperpigmentation. Picosure on the other hand is a mechanical laser that
shakes the pigments up and disperses it in a totally different way. So before any
of this started Dr. Wong warned me that because my area is just so deeply
impacted she said it's not guaranteed that
picosure will fix it. I felt a lot safer going ahead with this and I felt like my
skin was well taken care of. So with treatment decided I went through
the rest of my consultation which involves getting very uncomfortably
close to my skin. This is currently my skin. So after speaking to Dr. Wong and Lily
said we want to work on some congestion. Right now there's still some congestion
here here. We're going into this machine. Hello. This what your skin looks like in
daylight. Wow that's so pretty. And then we're gonna go switch into LED. Oh can't
I just see your teeth and the headband. You can see that like your spots are not as bad as
you think they are. They aren't? I definitely see sun damage. Okay
definitely see sun damage. This focuses on the sebum.
So the oils. Okay and then this goes into the pores, so you can see Oh my goodness
that's all my pores.
These are sun spots on your face right. These are sunspots?!
I thought I just had that one.
*cringes*
Whoa.You see the depth of it. I need to capture your face.
Don't touch your face. Stop touching your face.
So the treatment that we decided for me was to do picosure combined with chemical peel
The chemical peel is paired with a picosure because it preps your skin. It
removes kind of like surface level hyperpigmentation but also gets your
skin ready for receiving the laser better and clearing up any remaining
congestion and breakouts. After a chemical peel you have to wait a minimum
of two weeks before you do a laser so to speed things up my first appointment was
a peeling facial so that the next week I can immediately get a picosure
appointment. So I'm headed off to my first picosure appointment. I'm very
excited about that. So Lily says to expect for my skin to
tan a bit and we'll see how it goes. I'm very excited too because this is the
first thing that's gonna be attacking this sunspot.
Serious.
It's so cold!
You'll feel quite hot. It's not actually burning the skin, it's just a sensation.
So if you're worried about pain I would say picosure is, it kind of feels like
rubber bands snapping on your face but then with the cooling tube it makes
things a lot easier. This is a lifesaver. I wouldn't say it's that painful it's
very tolerable it hurt the most around the mouth area. So my face was a little
red but actually there's even less downtime to picosure than chemical peel
as well as Fraxel. You can absolutely walk in public but you have to put on
sunscreen. From this whole experience I have learned to be so much better with
putting on sunscreen. My face doesn't even hurt anymore
but now I have to avoid the sun for a few days. Ah sun! It doesn't feel, it
feels tight like it's been plumped up like I had Botox. But yeah I'm so excited
I was so excited to see my skin change. Y'all. I am shook.
First session. This unwelcome tenant for many years, and promised many things that
would fade it. So this is my progress after one session. I can't believe the
sunspot disappeared so much after the first procedure, but then actually a week
later I found that it got even darker than it originally was. And going into my
peel and my second laser I explained that to them. And so picosure can
actually cause your skin to tan even more so just understand that it's a
process and depending on how many sessions you get you know your results
can vary. I'm here for my first chemical peel. The first round before picosure was
a peeling facial and then this one's an official chemical peel. I have to say
when I first started this I had a lot of congestion along my jawline.
They weren't breakouts but they were kind of like under the skin blackheads. I
switched out my moisturiser which helped but also getting the chemical peels were
super helpful in clearing those up. They stopped returning which was my
biggest issue, that these things were recurring and they wouldn't go away. I'm
here for my last - no, my second picosure appointment. It's hot! look at my face. This is the
picosure machine.
This is my best friend. You see how red my face is? Don't touch my face! Your fingers
aren't clean. Now it's ruined all of the laser's ruined. Stupid boys and their
nice skin. Ask this guy has he ever washed his face in his life? Working in a in a
dealership in a car in a car shop? Covered in grease? Car grease not regular
sebum. He has some really nice blackheads that I now have the satisfaction of
extracting. So after the second session I took a break for the summer and was told
not to come back because the sun, you're gonna be outdoors a lot and so I came
back in the fall, I did my last peel before I did my last laser. So I would
say after my second laser was when I started seeing results of my acne
hyperpigmentation. I still hadn't quite noticed much with my sunspot and so I
wasn't holding out too much hope. I'm at my last picosure appointment. After my last
appointment my face stopped turning red after the session, and the pain is
totally different. I happen to run into Dr. Wong my last appointment and she
said my skin was looking a lot better. I didn't quite notice it myself until I
started editing this footage and looking back on my old videos, even the level of
active breakouts for some reason are fixed. I would say definitively the
sunspot is 50 percent lighter. I'm just shocked at the overall condition of my
face and then because picosure stimulates collagen production, I didn't
know this but I had like a forehead wrinkle that was permanent and now it
only shows up if I flex my eyebrows. I went into this thinking that I needed
something super invasive like Fraxel and then hide from public for like a week
while my skin fell off to this. It was such a good experience talking to a
dermatologist that really knew what she was talking about that's POC friendly
first of all you really need to find somebody that is experienced with your
skin type. Like Dr. Wong said, my sunspot is not completely eradicated it is a
tricky spot she said there's a different application of picosure that actually
requires downtime that can fix it but I no longer feel the need to cover it up
I no longer feel the need to wear foundation period.
I think the chemical peel and the micro needling was great in terms of fading
recent acne spots very quickly but deeper spots that I had built up over
the years that I couldn't get rid of a hundred percent picosure. If you
have questions feel free to leave it in the comments I'm happy to answer them.
If you have more acne related videos you want me to make let me know and I will
talk to you guys next time bye!