hi everyone it's amanda from reflection center for skin and body and today i'm
excited to share with you my first ever experience with fraxel restore
i'm gonna be walking you through day by day uh what my result looks like but also what that
down time looks and feels like in each step of that healing process oh my god like what what
today dr wix harris and i are gonna do the restore treatment
um i'm really excited to do this i have a bunch of sun damage that i want to address especially
you know on the areas that the sun hits most my forehead the top of my nose
um i've been thinking about doing this since i started here at reflections and i started with
doing clear and brilliance for those of you who don't know the clear and brilliant is part of the
fraxel family as well but it is on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of intensity and results
so i'm excited to kind of upgrade and kind of move on to that next bigger better laser um because
i'm excited to improve my skin i really want to improve the quality of it obviously for anti-aging
purposes but mainly for that sun damage for me and everybody's goals are different and that's
why it's important to kind of make this plan with your physician ahead of time but most importantly
this video is really going to be about walking you guys through what my down time is going to be like
i think for me and for most people that's their biggest concern when doing a treatment like this
not knowing what to expect in the days following their treatment so i'm going to be walking you
through day by day what my result looks like but also what that down time looks and feels like
in each step of that healing process so i'm excited to do that for you and i can't
wait for you guys to watch along okay guys so here is the first step of the fraxel process
numbing here at reflections we use a very special compounded numbing solution to provide the most
numbing possible to be the most comfortable during your treatment so i'm going to show you exactly
what that looks like and but before i do i kind of want to get up close and personal and show you
exactly the areas that i'm trying to treat so if you look closely here i definitely have
some sunspots along my cheek line definitely some discoloration along my nose i do have an acne scar
there too that i would love to improve i have fine lines down here definitely some sunspots down here
but most of all if you take a look at my forehead here all of this color irregularity that is what i
am after today so we're going to keep an eye on those special areas um definitely for my result
but also for the downtime you know what what are those areas in particular going to look like
while i'm healing um so now let's get to it let's start numbing so i'm gonna do this to myself um
now with coven some of our patients are numbing at their home so this is even a great thing for you
guys to watch if you want to learn how to numb how we do so this is the jar that it comes in
it is a lidocaine prylocane mixture and it's almost in this little cream formula
you can see here it's a little white and kind of creamy so i'm just going to mix this up here
and i'm wearing a glove to protect my hands
so you don't need much i'm just going to put a little bit on a popsicle stick here
and then i'm just going to get to applying so the key with this numbing cream more is not
more you want to put a nice thin layer on evenly and you the best thing to do is really massage it
into the skin and i'll show you here so you see i'm not putting a lot on i'm not globbing it on
i'm just kind of very systematically making sure i'm touching every area evenly making sure you get
all the little nooks and crannies definitely along the jawline here is super important
some people tend to not go all the way down and then you know they're not 100 numb
let's see here just rubbing it in i shouldn't see a lot of it on top of the surface of the skin
you want to make sure you keep it away from your eyes as well you don't want to get too
close to your eyes or get it in your eyes of course i'm just using the screen here to apply
it nice and easy again don't need a lot of it doesn't take a lot get around my lip here
and now i am numbing so typically patients numb
anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour for fraxel restore
um so i'm gonna do the same and we'll see you back when we're ready to get the treatment done
okay guys here i am um i just finished my fraxel treatment about i want to say three minutes ago
i came right here to hop on here and let you know what it was like um it definitely was
a hot sensation it's still very hot it feels like a um a sunburn right this moment you can really
see that um i'm a little bit uh swollen right here even my folds have kind of disappeared you can
see how smooth and even red i am um so it really honestly was not what i expected it to be it was
not as painful as i expected it to be and i numbed for an hour um i was totally fine throughout i got
through it of course towards the end it got a little bit hotter since it was probably you know
adding up on the heat it was about the the fourth pass i believe where i started to really feel it
but by the time i started to feel it and be like okay i'm ready for this to end it was over so
i am so glad it's over and i'm so excited for the result and i can't wait for you guys to see
hi everyone so i just got home from work it's about two hours after my fraxel treatment
um i'm still feeling really hot i'm warm to the touch that's for sure
um i feel tight and i'm even a little bit um swollen i can tell in my cheek here not
so bad though um it definitely is really hot still it's just about now calming down
um i'm sure with a little bit more ice that i've been applying on and off it'll feel even better
um so tonight i'm going to be avoiding any hot showers and any topicals that are irritating
such as retinols or acids that i would typically exfoliate with i could use a gentle cleanser if i
need to tonight and the same thing for the rest of the week just to kind of keep my face clean
and any sort of gentle moisturizer too acetaphil eucerin i'm just gonna be using that just to keep
my skin nice and hydrated so tomorrow morning i'll definitely be checking in with you and
letting you know how things are going good morning everyone so it's a little bit over 12 hours since
my fraxel treatment and i wanted to check in with you and let you know how things are going
so i'm obviously still pretty red um i have a lot of brown spots that have darkened up
as you can see here if i get nice and close you'll be able to see that my sun damage has kind of
become more pronounced and that's that's pretty normal we want that to happen things are going to
look worse before they get better but i'm totally feeling comfortable that hot sensation is gone now
um i do feel really tight i do feel a little bit of dryness on the lower face especially and that's
about it in terms of sensation uh obviously i still look red but i wanted to show you this
here i am with my mask on and honestly if i looked at me right now i wouldn't really think anything
you know my forehead looks a little bit red but with the mask people are really not going to know
the difference that i've had anything done so it's a great thing for you guys to kind of see that
because you know if you're on public i don't think anybody would even know um and if you have a zoom
meeting or something like that you're more than you know able to put on makeup it might not be the
smoothest application of makeup you've ever had in your life but it's gonna cover up a little bit of
that discoloration that's happening right now just make sure you wash it off gently and that's about
it so i'll check in with you guys later on hi everyone so i am now checking in with you exactly
24 hours after my treatment still obviously pretty red if i come closer here you can see that i've
maybe a little bit more brown than i was this morning a little more speckled
which is expected in normal the discomfort is 110 percent gone no burning sensations feels tight
dry for sure again especially on the lower half so i'm doing well nobody noticed that work either
except for one person who i work with every day she noticed that my skin was more red and asked
me what i did knowing that lasers do this no patient said anything besides that i looked tan
uh that was one comment um so i really think with masks especially nobody notices these things
and nobody pays close enough attention so that was surprising to me because i look myself and
i see the difference but nobody else knows so i'll check in with you guys tomorrow for day two
hi everyone so i am now officially 48 hours after my fraxel treatment and i wanted to show you guys
what things are looking like and feeling like i'll come in closer here you can see that i'm
certainly a little bit more brown than i was yesterday lots of bronzing as we call
it i think the red has been pretty consistent and today i really want to show you what i've
been using on my skin in the meantime of healing this is the tns recovery complex by skin medica
we love this we use this for all of our fraxel patients we put it on immediately
after their treatment um so i've been using this twice a day um also the fan favorite cetaphil
non-comedogenic moisturizer this is great for dry sensitive skin it's not going to clog your pores
or cause any breakouts and it's not going to trap in that heat that's caused from the fraxel itself
um in addition this is just kind of like a little add-on because i have it i'm using
the elastin skin nectar i really love this it's great for really dry skin and it's great for post
treatment care so i'm excited to check in with you guys for day three hi everyone so it is 72 hours
three days about um since i did my fraxel treatment on thursday night it's sunday now
i've been home all weekend for my down time which was really nice even though i went to the store
and went out and about um so tomorrow i'm going back to work officially today i'm pretty peely if
you can see i'm gonna come a little closer um you know just not too much but i can definitely see
my skin kind of flaking off in areas definitely still have some bronzing left um feels like
really rough to the touch but other than that i don't notice it unless i'm looking at myself
last night it was a little bit itchy but that's just a sign of healing so totally normal
tomorrow heading back to work um so it'd be interesting to see what day four brings
okay so here we are in day four i'll come in closer give you guys a look
um still pretty dry you can see here things are coming off it's really important not to mess with
that or disturb it no exfoliating really resist the urge to kind of pick at things
um so i'm just letting everything kind of naturally slop off but if you look nice and close
you can see some new beautiful skin underneath i'm so excited to show you guys what happens and
we'll see you tomorrow okay everyone we are at day five and i'm just gonna come in and let you see
um most of my dryness has resolved my forehead um is kind of lagging behind everything else
just because i think with the mask on there's more motion and the talking kind of might break
up some of that dryness and skin a little bit faster than the forehead that has less movement
um i'm so thrilled so far with what i'm seeing still red obviously um but i am so excited to
see this result we'll see you tomorrow hi everyone it is officially day six and i wanted to show you
um in some more brighter lighting what's going on um almost all of my dryness is gone now so
really no more peeling left uh i can see some beautiful skin underneath i'm a little bit red
still so we're gonna hang in there for about two more days i'll be taking my after photos okay we
are officially eight days after my fraxel restore treatment i really was fully healed around day
six seven um you know those last few days were really all i had left was a little bit of flaking
and dryness in some areas other than that all of my redness has subsided totally i'm so thrilled
with my result um i don't have face makeup on right now and i i i'm just blown away with how
much improvement i saw with only one treatment typically people are doing fraxels in a series of
treatments monthly you know depending on how much damage they have and what their goals are right so
i plan on probably doing this once a year just to kind of maintain and keep up with any additional
new sun damage that we get even with the best kind of skin care sunscreen regimens
we still get damaged so i am so excited i'm going to come in closer here oh my god like what what
my before and afters will obviously show you guys but i am just so happy with my result and i am so
happy with my down time too it really wasn't bad and i would do it again in a harpy and i would
recommend it to anybody if you do it on like a thursday like i did you're home over the weekend
nobody has to see you and then you're good to go to back back to work um especially with masks
nowadays take advantage while you can um having half of your face covered but honestly it was not
bad um and you know the numbing helps and there's so many different things that we do to make this a
more tolerable comfortable treatment and i was so nervous in the beginning and really for nothing it
was not bad and i am obsessed with the result it really i mean it looks like i have face makeup on
blown away 10 out of 10 would recommend and will recommend to friends and family and if you
are interested in doing something like this for yourself please give us a call we would love to
hear from you and have a consultation about your goals wants needs and whatever else you're looking
to do so give a call we'll see you soon hopefully and i really hope that this video was helpful
for those of you who are considering to do something like this and we'll see you soon