Starting to peel

It is starting to peel now and itches.
Doesn't hurt anymore, though.

Not too bad, actually

Here it is 2 days since the last post, and it has turned into a nasty "sunburn". I think this is the perfect amount of time for the TCA to be on the skin. If this were anywhere else on the body, it might be a different story. On the leg it doesn't hurt too much, but I could imagine if this were on my face, it would totally suck!


I have a freind who had a TCA peel on her face to reduce acne scars, and her description of the discomfort seemed pretty unpleasant as I recall.

I think I left it on too long!

I applied the next peel like I said I was going to, but this time I kept the area soaked in a puddle of TCA for almost 6 minutes, and it was burning like an SOB, then I rinsed it off and the skin turned white:

The peel before this one, I felt that I did not leave the TCA on long enough and that it didn't peel very much. I think I over compensated!! We'll see how this baby heals. I'm off to put on some Neosporin so it doesn't get infected.

Happy 2007! More peeling!

It's been over a month, and I'm not sure how much different the tatoo really is. It looks a little faded, but hard to tell for sure. Here is a pic of applying the 3rd peel:

The skin turns whitish after about 5 minutes of the acid being on it:

Here applying some "healing serum" after the peel:

And here is two weeks later (today) :

I'm doing another peel today (even though it's been only 2 weeks) because the skin has heeled so well. Looks like the tattoo is fading a little!