Kathie Turner with her daughter Kristin
She said to use a mild soap that night and not to be surprised that the water will sting… and it did, but not bad at all. It also stings when you spray perfume on the neck area (so don’t do that)!
The real redness was gone by that evening and the next day you couldn’t tell much of anything but I kept the ointment on. If you looked at my face with a magnifying glass you might have thought it looked like I fell asleep on a paper towel because of a perfect pattern of little dimple prints. You had to look really closely but it was pretty cool to see how uniform it was. It lasted four days.
Four days later and the skin looks good. It went through a stage I could feel a little toughness to it. Then it loosened up and I saw the first signs of the skin getting ready to peel. Keep in mind I have been wearing makeup from day 2 and NO ONE noticed I had done a thing!
I go back in 2 weeks for the same procedure and again 2 after that. Each time I am told it will be the same experience- I’m ready for it and I will show you both the before and after pictures and the video of the procedure (won’t that be cool).
She told me afterwards that I had a laser energy setting of 900. She added that 800 is the low end and if I had a lot of scarring from acne I may have had a setting of, say, 1400 and instead of passing over the face twice they would have also stopped and concentrated over the surface of the scarred skin.
By the way- this weekend I am in El Paso with my 31 year old daughter Alycia and she couldn’t stop asking about every thing under the topic of how to hold the line. If only I had known at 31 what I am learning just now.
HOLD THE LINE
She said to use a mild soap that night and not to be surprised that the water will sting… and it did, but not bad at all. It also stings when you spray perfume on the neck area (so don’t do that)!
The real redness was gone by that evening and the next day you couldn’t tell much of anything but I kept the ointment on. If you looked at my face with a magnifying glass you might have thought it looked like I fell asleep on a paper towel because of a perfect pattern of little dimple prints. You had to look really closely but it was pretty cool to see how uniform it was. It lasted four days.
Four days later and the skin looks good. It went through a stage I could feel a little toughness to it. Then it loosened up and I saw the first signs of the skin getting ready to peel. Keep in mind I have been wearing makeup from day 2 and NO ONE noticed I had done a thing!
I go back in 2 weeks for the same procedure and again 2 after that. Each time I am told it will be the same experience- I’m ready for it and I will show you both the before and after pictures and the video of the procedure (won’t that be cool).
She told me afterwards that I had a laser energy setting of 900. She added that 800 is the low end and if I had a lot of scarring from acne I may have had a setting of, say, 1400 and instead of passing over the face twice they would have also stopped and concentrated over the surface of the scarred skin.
By the way- this weekend I am in El Paso with my 31 year old daughter Alycia and she couldn’t stop asking about every thing under the topic of how to hold the line. If only I had known at 31 what I am learning just now.
HOLD THE LINE
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