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So what are wet doing about acne? Any good toners or serums I should know about?

I am using beauty of Joseans oil cleanser>> gel cleanser >>vitamin C>> haruharu black rice barrier toner>> spf?

Anything good to add? I am kind of oily at baseline.

Do cannulas get *harder* to use the more you use them?

I am practicing, sorta getting better, just using hyaron or saline for my practice. I have so much fibrous tissue, pretty much no matter where on my body that I practice. I am worried that the more I practice, that I am going to make it worse by creating scar tissue. And by the time I am ready to use a big girl product, it is going to be so sclerotic, I won’t be able to maneuver the cannula enough to get the product where it needs to be.

Or at least that is what I am working out in my brain.

Thoughts?

ETA: I am not a beginner to DIY. I’ve been doing tox, meso, microneedling, and peels for a while. Very comfortable with needles, been giving injections and IV’s for 20+ years. Just a beginner to biostimulators.

Which one is more forgiving for a beginner? Have a lot of crepey and loose skin all of a sudden cropping up on my neck and décolletage. Yes, I am THAT age, and yes, I am already on HRT.

Anyway, wanting to do a collagen stimulator, but so worried about nodules because I am very thin at baseline, and now my skin is very thin. Any kind of nodule is going to show so easily. So debating between a hyperdilute radiesse and a PDLLA product (Beaux from meamo).

Going to do some Juvelook on my face, but really want a heavy hitter for the neck/chest. Regular meso with PN and PDRN isn’t cutting it.

Which is harder to mess up?

Ummmm, has anybody heard of this before??? Of course, the algorithm started to scare me by showing me videos of doctors reacting to what has now been termed “China bubble face”. Basically, it is wildly uncontrolled growth of faces after injection of “growth factors”, some of them delayed reactions. Like truly, truly disfiguring faces. These poor women look like lumpy aliens.

At first, it’s like, nuh uh. No way. Fake. Rage bait. This is for engagement. But upon digging, it does seem that this is actually holding some water. There have been many cases of uncontrolled amorphous tissue growth on faces after “growth factor” injections. Not infections, not granulomas. Something that resembles lipoma like tissue under a microscope? Some were able to be treated with injected triamcinolone, some had to have these bizarre growth removed, but a third of them had them grow back.

Does anybody know about this? Fact check? Do we know what these “growth factors” are? Or how common it is?

It’s hard because as an English speaker, I can’t do more good research or know what is a reputable source. Not really seeming to be happening in western countries but I am wondering if that is because it is just no FDA approved and is DIY’ers seem to be very much in the minority. I just can’t tell what to think.

I’ve been ordering all the beauty products I can get in my rfy in an attempt to train my algorithm to give me more beauty stuff. It is definitely working, and I am getting some stuff I like, but unfortunately I am getting offered a ton of China cheapie garbage. I don’t know how to review it because I know we aren’t supposed to say it is a fake or counterfeit product and we aren’t supposed to mention the experience with the seller.

Sooooo what do I do when I do some digging and find out the seller sells some fancy looking expensive PDRN face cream but also sells car parts, cheap doorbell cameras, and flip flops? I want to warn people not to put this stuff on their skin or near their eyes, but if we are JUST supposed to be reviewing the product and not the seller, and there are no obvious red flags about the product, what do we say???

Ok, finally diving into working with cannulas. I started off with a 25 gauge, 50mm cannula, and since I’ve never done it before, I decided to practice with some sterile saline on my leg to get a feel for it and get some techniques down before I moved to other places. Watched a bunch of videos and it looked pretty easy. I am an RN, and have been placing IV’s and giving injections for decades, so this isn’t my first rodeo, but this was different.

Numbed everything up. Made the pilot hole, no problems. Was able to place the cannula, no problems. But had a lot of problems advancing it in certain areas. It felt hard and crunchy, and then it would just like… Push through easily. And then hit another hard, crunchy spot that I had a hard time pushing through. I don’t think I was adjusting the angle of the cannula at that time. It would just like start and stop and start and stop. Tried pushing through some areas, and it just bent the cannula. I could never see the cannula under my skin, so I know it wasn’t overly shallow, but I could fairly easily palpate it. Went in at about a 30 degree angle. I tried stretching the skin a bit too, but that didn’t seem to help.

I tried practicing a fanning technique and just kept hitting resistance everywhere, and it just wasn’t happening. Almost felt like adhesions, but I can’t imagine why it have any of those in my legs as it’s virgin skin. Have a dime sized bruise around the pilot hole as well.

Is it just the leg skin that is harder to do? Do I need a thicker cannula? I want to do some beaux in my hands, but not until I figure out how to do this safely with good technique.