*sounds klaxon* 30% GA peel shizzle that you can do at home

[SeasonOfTheWitch]

thought i ought to do a public service and announce it properly as hardly anyone seems to know you can buy this stuff to use at home - and it works out sooo much cheaper than having it done at a salon even tho it's the exact same stuff.

i've only used it once so far (for 3 mins) but have been properly amazed by the results - as i posted on another thread, my 11s have reduced by 50% [holy grail] and my skin generally looks brighter and more even.

you do it weekly, building up the time over 6 weeks and then have a break.

the magic goo is here: www.bravuralondon.com/glycolic-acid-30.html

don't forget to get the neutraliser (apparently just bicarb but maybe has crushed fairies' castles in it too so your choice) and use sun block in the day.

anyone a veteran of the stuff and care to share your results?

p.s. i don't work for bravura and i'm a MN regular recently name-changed to separate my S&B chat with my over-sharing on other threads.

Miss Beh did you neutralise the acid during your patch test? or just wash it orf?

No, you neutralise it twice during

Heh?

I thought you slapped on the acid, slapped on the neutraliser and looked like Helena Christianson

Slap on acid
Wait 2/3 mins
Slap on neutraliser (Having removed lid and mixed some up first)
Wait 1 min
Slap on another coat of neutraliser
Wait 1 min
Rinse whole lot off
Regard Helena Christianson- like visage

Roger Wilco

OK, WHAT are 11's?

Vertical lines between brows.

I had major ones pre Botox!

I had Botox for 11's last year, had to stop due to budget cuts but don't forget the Botox won't fill them in so if yours are deep (like mine) it takes a long time for them to go if at all. I'm hoping that the peel will help but if not I'll go back to Botox when funds allow.

LtheWife Thank you :)

Mine were deep (I thought) and it has got rid of them.

I now need a bit of luminosity!

Oh! I've got a 1. just one side. very annoying.

mine were are like '1 and then a load of _ above them

cyb my bisto patch has almost gorn so should work for you

Very exciting, my GA arrived today, was taken in by the neighbours so I only realised when they gave it to ds about 6. Naughty postman hadn't left a note in the letterbox! Rushed upstairs to do a patch test immediately, did both wrist and face at same time, so far so good! Is there a trick to getting the chuffing lid off the neutraliser?! I tried for ages before applying the GA, eventually gave up and got some bicarb out of the baking cupboard but would quite like to use the real stuff now that I have paid for it!

To whomever else is waiting, I only ordered Monday and didn't have a dispatch email, it just turned up!

Righto
I am using the 10% snizzle GA twice a day now
I had botox and my forehead is brill and my eyebrows are not a la Fiona Bruce

Shamefully I have only really starting to use a proper sunscreen now

I am about to start the Retin A

I'll be an embryo soon

I have just done my first one!

Face feels very smooth. It did sting a tad!

Wow perry sounds great!

ok.. I thought it had no effect but

my dark circles are greatly improved
pores are less noticeable
face feels very soft and smooth
make up sits on my face better
I don't get all shiny anymore - and I spent last night dancing in a karaoke bar, so it should have been shiny face central but wasn't
People have commented that I look much less tired

Roll on the next one!

what would happen if one didn't wait a week to do the next one?

Ok, so I also purchased the Bravura GA :o (Purchased last week, got a dispatch email on Saturday and it arrived on Monday, patch test same night and 1st peel last night, should anyone be interested!)

Fairly mixed resulted tbh, skin definitely looks fresher and glowier, and feels much smoother too but the peel seems to have revealed a multitude of blackheads - I now seem to have far far more than before, something that has made me rather depressed. (I don't know, maybe they were lurking under the layer of skin I've just removed )

Am hoping next weeks peel addresses this issue although am wondering what to do about them in the interim.

Like CrispyHedgehog I am also wondering the same thing about waiting a week to do another application..

Baaaa

After you've slapped the acid on to clean dry skin, and then whacked the neutraliser on, can you use moisturiser or not? My skin is dry and I'm not sure about leaving face overnight with no moisture on it. Can I slather in E45 or something?

oo

whoever said that they now see how crap their skin is .... blackheads etc
i was like this with both blackheads, pot hole pores and thread veins once I started in this path about 6 weeks ago

but using a decent bha and then working up to the ga daily has left it completely different
I bit the bullet and had botox which was brilliant but the GA also seems to be sorting the surface out

Retin A next to try to blur the fine lines

I know this is madly vain

So you're all putting it right up under your eyes?