Nearly two months have passed since my little hiccup/drunk/empty stomach/falling face first on concrete accident. Okay, more like six weeks and that huge, dime sized scar below my eye has not faded away yet. Every other person who's never attended medical school tells me that it's still healing because it's a bruise or whatever. I don't believe them.
I visited my dermatologist that I haven't seen since 2006 for a medical opinion. She gave me the same prognosis. It's still healing and there's swelling and looks like a bruise but will eventually fade. blah blah. When will it fade? Six months to a year. NOOO! Unacceptable. She would not even sell me any bleaching cream. So, I went to a beauty spa the following week which surprisingly was SPA WEEK! What timing! Discounts abound! I went crazy and signed up for laser hair removal also.
An hour later, I got my Obagi cream and went around telling my friends what I acquired to their harsh disapproval. I'm prone to have skin allergies from certain soaps, perfumes and a particular hairy ex-boyfriend so I thought I'd be careful with bleaching cream and do a tester on a year old shoulder scar.
I read the reviews on Obagi and it's one of the most popular hydroquinine creams out there to fade scars and tone skin with a 90% success rate. The other 10% suffered from skin rashes or scars that darkened.
I'm only on the second day of bleaching cream usage and I think I've got a slight rash on my shoulder. Damn. I might be in the 10% group. It's possible that the rash is from my bra strap so I'll wait a day or two to see if it goes away. If not, that's $90 of hope down the tube.
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