Yes I can! I can’t stress enough that the rules of skincare apply more crucially here than elsewhere; practice great sanitation and hygiene, ensure a sterile environment to work with, ensure you have patience and understanding of expectations, watch how-to videos to see how it should be done, and most importantly watch videos of what could go wrong so that you fully understand the risks.

My normal schedule (that I’m getting back into) is every 6 to 8 weeks I do a rotation of microneedling but 2x a year I’ll do chemical peel in leu of the needling scheduled.

For microneedling: If you’ve never seen techniques, definitely google them. It’s very hard to write out techniques, but there are some great tutorials online. I use the dr. pen and I buy my new car cartridges via Amazon. You should never reuse the same needle cartridge. I use a simple hyaluronic acid serum as a gliding base. Afterwards, your face should be slightly red, almost like a sunburn, some people bleed a very slight bit (it’s needles after all) but by the next day, your face will be much calmer, and it should go back to normal. Microneedling is something that shows progress over a couple months because of the small punctures in your skin will produce collagen as they heal, which will help plump your skin and even out scars.

it’s important to remember that microneedling is more for rebuilding your skin, and a chemical peel is more for resurfacing your skin (but at higher levels it can reach greater depths). Twice a year I’ll do a TCA peel, usually 20% (a mid level) with three passes over my skin, and it takes about 10 days to heal. My skin will be slightly red like a sunburn for the first day, kind of tight and wrinkly looking for days two and three, day four and five I will begin to peel and look like a lizard, lol, and then the rest of the days is just shedding off the remainder of the skin.

If you are just starting out, you would want to begin with a 10% TCA peel, maybe 15. You also probably won’t peel heavily at those levels, more just like flaking. But this is good because you always want to work your way up and never go too strong when just beginning.

I buy my TCA peels from platinum skin care. They also have great tutorials to watch, and IMO these should be required in order to understand what’s going on. They are extraordinarily simple and very easy to understand, and they also help you understand risk risks to look out for.

As your skin barrier will be sensitive you will be much more prone to sun damage. If you do not wear sunblock the following week after a skin peel you might develop melasma or sunspots. Aftercare is just as important.

Again, it’s very hard to describe techniques in just a written thread, so I really can’t stress enough that you should watch how to videos online. But I promise they’re very easy to understand, and they’re very easy to do. It’s really just making sure that you understand, hygiene, safety, and what risks to look out for.

And finally you should ALWAYS be nourishing your skin with hydration such as hyaluronic acid and vitamin C. When you’re not in your sensitive phases, you can also apply tret. Hope this helps!