Peels (a lot of questions)

Re: Peels (a lot of questions)

Do the white circles/patches look anything like what’s in this picture? Did you keep the peel longer than the last time?

My immediate thought is that you need to go 2 weeks minimum between the peels. You waited 2 weeks to do peel #2](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=2) , and approx. a week with #3](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=3) (correct me if I’m wrong b/c I’m going by the dates on your last 2 posts here). The whiteness or “frosting” occurs when the peel goes too deep. This can happen for several reasons: peel too strong, you kept it on too long, your skin is extra sensitive for various reasons etc.

If your skin is extra sensitive, then the frosting will occur sooner (let’s say you kept peel on for 12 minutes and it was fine…but next time the same amount of time causes frosting b/c the skin is extra sensitive). My personal guess is that b/c you waited on about 1 week to do #3](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=3) , your skin was not fully healed from #2](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=2) and that led to the frosting (ie. your skin was still very sensitive from peel #2](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=2) ). While there is nothing wrong with frosting, it increases your healing time and increases chances of scarring if you’re not super careful (frosting indicates the chemical went deep into the skin). The deeper it goes, the whiter the skin appears.

My personal recommendation (ie. what I would do if I were in your shoes) is to wait at least 3 weeks before doing the next peel. Allow the face to heal 100% from the frosting and not take any chances. And after that, wait a minimum of 2 weeks (14 days) in between peels.