Getting a PhotoFacial..yowza!
In going through and trying to find out what beauty products and secrets work best for my approaching 40 year old body, I tried my first Photo Facial. After many years of my love affair with the sun, I have spots that show up on my face, which I have to say isn’t attractive to me. The Photo facial lightens skin and brings melanin to the surface of the skin where it’s supposed to slough off. The Photofacial can help with skin redness, brown spots, acne scars, age spots, dark circles around the eyes, sun-induced freckles on the hands, chest, and face, broken capillaries around the nose and helps in the reduction of large pores.
To explain how this works, the aesthetician takes a gel and covers your face with it (prevent burning) and then takes a laser gun with a particular laser head on it, and presses it on your face, setting a certain level of light being let through the lens, thereby determining the strength of what they are going to use on you. Better to start low and go up higher, than vice versa, which is what I learned when they set it too high and actually burned my forehead. It’s not a bad burn, and it will come off, but that’s still damaging! So be aware of this when and if you decide to go.
The effect is that it you will see these dark spots show and eventually come off in a few days. Your skin is left more clear and the melanin that’s settled in your facial skin will eventually go away with a certain amount of sessions. Hopefully 3-5 will take care of it.
This is NOT an inexpensive routine, and it’s also a time investment because it takes about 45 minutes from beginning to end. So, to be sure and take care of your investment, be sure to wear face lotion with sunscreen in it, and use gentle cleansers on your face for the first few days after the treatment.
You will feel a slight burn on your face once you are done, and it may be about a day before your face feels normal. You will immediately see the brown spots.
Photo Facials are expensive, so you want to make sure to find the biggest bang for your buck. My friend paid something like $1,800 for hers and I am paying about $800. I found a deal by going online, and finding websites or areas near where I lived and called them.
Proper caring for the skin will help diminish the likelihood of future treatments.
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