Saturday, December 13, 2025

Laser facial day today! She first dermaplaned my face (basically using a razor blade to take off peach fuzz and dead skin cells - ick) and then I got a carbon laser facial. She first numbed my face because I am a pain wimp unless I'm the one doing to myself. Then she smeared my face with black carbon stuff and then hit it with a laser which vaporizes the carbon and takes the clogged pore gunk the carbon stuck to with it. Also cuts redness and improves collagen production. It smelled like a campfire, but my skin looks great. She also zapped some more broken capillaries in my cheeks and another sebaceous thing I figured was a mole on my chin, but wasn't. So I will have a few little scabs, but all in all, glassy skin. The lidocaine cream was strong! My face is just waking up 3 hours later.

Not much else happening here. It's shot day. And no roofers today or tomorrow. Hair appointment tomorrow...

I've never done facials. You all are giving me ideas about things I didn't even know existed! Fillers, black carbon etc. I have done the derma planing myself with a tool I bought, and it does feel so nice, especially after using lotions and potions. My daughter just cringes when I tell her I derma plane myself because she has the kind of skin that get angry if she uses too rough of a wash cloth. My skin is very nonreactive. I credit the saunas of my youth.

My skin gets upset by some things (some sunscreens or anti-aging products get sting-ey), but apparently you can run over it again and again with a razor blade to no ill-effect! I was trying to equate what it feels like now to other sensations. It's a bit like if there was menthol on it? Not at all irritated, but cool and tingly.

Ohhhh CC, nothing like a good salon facial! Sounds like you had an extra special one. To DD try a basic salon facial at a good place that knows what they are doing. So relaxing and refreshing. You will love it. ds

Great that it wasn't too uncomfortable and you like the results (if not the smell LOL). I hope the OTC lidocaine cream that I bought works as well as the stuff you had when I get the next Evenity shots. They really hurt!

yay fun.