Help I am Turning De-Pigmented - Page 2

guesswhoiam · 11-07-2009, 03:24 PM

lol, tca peel was last yr.

never again.

thk goodness the PIH cleared up nicely with retin-a use (after 6 mos healing)

im just saying i found retin- more helpful than tca.

goatlady · 11-07-2009, 03:27 PM

I am using the TCA to take off years of brown gunk from sun damage and yes when it peels the brown gunk off I look whiter. I may have to do it one more time but it is taking most of it off.

tennisfan · 11-07-2009, 03:30 PM

@ goatlady - COol.. and is your lightened complexion lasting ?

also LEXI - when did you use retin a after the peel? like four five days later or something ?Pleasee respond to my questions ....

@ guesswhoami- doesnt matter, my sympathies over your hyperpigmentation still here !
take good care of your skin wiht retin a . Thanks

guesswhoiam · 11-07-2009, 03:40 PM

lol all hyperpigmentation long gone since spring but thx mate.

ps: i should have used lightening agent for 4 weeks PRE-peel, to prevent PIH, but i am against most lighteners, go figure. so it was my own fault.

goatlady · 11-07-2009, 03:42 PM

Just started to peel so as for lasting can't say, but be sure to find a very VERY strong sunblock.

Lexi2009 · 11-07-2009, 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by tennisfan

OK cool.. I was thinking of going ahead with using retin a for a few weeks without any lightening agents.....

Now im sure to consider the tca peel.. where can i buy it to do it at home ? Lexi I am desperate to get your response on this...

and how many bottles would you suggest I buy ? Do they last long or not too long ????

Please respond at the earliest.. I will start tca immediately .. I need to get white like you are right now..

MUAC also. I bought about 6 20z bottles which turn out to be 12 1oz they do not send 2oz, they seem not to have them. It hurts like hell. Pre-treating with retin-a and 50% glycolic helps A LOT. I did 15 minutes of head to toe 50% glycolic each time before a peel wherever I was peeling. I also was using 20%AHA daily and retin .1% leading up to my peels.

At the times of peels I also combined jessner on areas of deep discolouration.

JUST FYI--buy a bottle or two rather, then in days they usually send you a code for a 20% d/c (I also started a thread on here look it up it may show the current code for d/c it is "DOES ANYONE HAVE A DISCOUNT CODE FOR MUAC)

Guesswhoiam---yes I too am ONLY now about 5 weeks later able to go out and not look like I have leprosy. I have some DE-pigmented areas but with continued retin-a the surrounding areas peeled and have been successively whiter. I am now whiter than my niece who is less than a year old, I am SO white people ask me if I am bleaching. I have actually added some colour to myself so I do not appear albino (self-tanners) THAT is how white I turned. I do still have some pigment issues on my stomach and decolletage especially and slightly on my back (which was REAL hard to do).

My suggestion again, after all the pre-treatment I would use an eyeliner pencil and DRAW lines where you want to treat. My mistake was NOT doing that at first and as a result had to redo an arm as I panicked that I was frosting TOO long and it burned like nothing I felt in my life so I just neutralised too quick ALL the arm. Now I just do one part at a time. The downside is that it hurts and you are in a lot of pain as you go down. But it has made me look REALLY white and clear skinned (freckles gone, all pigment gone!).

guesswhoiam · 11-07-2009, 03:53 PM

Originally Posted by Lexi2009

it has made me look REALLY white and clear skinned (freckles gone, all pigment gone!).

congrats lexi!

"white" is often subjective; do u literally mean ur skin color is now the color of nicole kidman or lighter?

what was your skin color originally, ie, your color at your age 1 year old baby?

tennisfan · 11-07-2009, 04:53 PM

congo.. lexi.. i have currently restarted retin a cream.. when i run out of it .. iw ill use my tube of retin a gel.. at the moment i dont have enough of it to use on my whole body so im using it mainly on my face and neck and mix it with glycerine to spread on other parts.. of body ....

i will order tca when I make some money and my folks send me some which is sometime next week...

if it made you white... thats what im looking at.... i hope my skin is ready to move from light brown to white... I want that so bad !

Lexi2009 · 11-07-2009, 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by guesswhoiam

congrats lexi!

"white" is often subjective; do u literally mean ur skin color is now the color of nicole kidman or lighter?

what was your skin color originally, ie, your color at your age 1 year old baby?

Yellow brown was my baby colour. I was never pink/white. I am now WHITE like Nicole Kidman. Some areas still need another go but most of me is white, white, white. So white that it looks unnatural (I do not suggest most go this white) and I use some tinted moisture/self tanner now to make it look a bit more normal. It is also VERY clear.

EggoMini · 11-07-2009, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by Lexi2009

Yellow brown was my baby colour. I was never pink/white. I am now WHITE like Nicole Kidman. Some areas still need another go but most of me is white, white, white. So white that it looks unnatural (I do not suggest most go this white) and I use some tinted moisture/self tanner now to make it look a bit more normal. It is also VERY clear.

OMG Lexi..are you the same member who posted about the love affair with the sun?? If so, I think I posted in your thread when I first joined?

guesswhoiam · 11-07-2009, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by Lexi2009

Yellow brown was my baby colour. I was never pink/white. I am now WHITE like Nicole Kidman. Some areas still need another go but most of me is white, white, white. So white that it looks unnatural (I do not suggest most go this white) and I use some tinted moisture/self tanner now to make it look a bit more normal. It is also VERY clear.

oh, cool, so it was the tca peel that turned u WHITE like nicole kidman?

where exactly did you do tca peel, all over your face AND all over your body?

how does your tca-peeled face compare to somewhere you didnt peel, say, ur leg or foot?