[Review] Hydrafacial.. personal experience

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I had the Hydrafacial done. I saw a bunch of Youtubers doing them, so I wanted to see what the hype was about. It was $195 for a treatment. I have A LOT of clogged pores, like if you squeezed anywhere on my face, you could probably extract a sebum plug. It's weird. You probably couldn't tell just looking at me. I deal with skin-picking, so it is great to be clogged lol, but also my skin is pale, so any picking stands out. I used to have cystic acne, but it calmed down and I rarely break out now. I deal with red marks left over from old acne. I have pock marks too that I fill with filler.She first did some suction with glycolic and lactic acid. Felt like nothing. Wish it lasted longer. No tingling or burning, thank goodness. I opted out of the salicylic acid treatment because my skin gets easily irritated by that. She then steamed my face and did manual extractions, which I hate. I had a facial once and every stinking pore they extracted turned into a little white head. Ugh.Of course, it was painful to get your face squeezed 50 times. After that, she used a red and blue light on my face to calm it down. Oddly enough, the red light felt like nothing, but the blue light felt strangely warm. She did one more round of suction, but with antioxidants in it for a total of 2 suction rounds. She included a calming mask also, which I pray does not break me out. She put on a calming mask, lotion, hyaluronic acid, and SPF on my face. Of course, I check the ingredients of one of the products and it had petroleum in it. Needless to say, I went home and removed all the skincare items quickly. HA actually breaks me out and one esthetician told me the molecules are too big for my pores (?).How does my skin look immediately after? It is just speckled with red dots from the extractions. It isn't bright red all over due to the peel like I worried about. I have a "strawberry" nose, which just means it has a ton of sebaceous filaments in it and they're still there, sadly. She showed me the dirty water from the procedure and it reminded me of carpet cleaner water lol. She said I should come back once a month. I'm good with that.. if it doesn't break me out.Please say a prayer to the skincare gods that I don't break out from this!!
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