Tried high-frequency treatments on active acne and it made things worse for a week before it got better

I zapped a cyst on a client's chin in my Tempe studio last Tuesday with the argon setting and it swelled up like a grape, so now I'm wondering if anyone else skips HF on inflamed breakouts or pushes through the purge phase?

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anthony_campbell8827d ago

Skip HF on inflamed acne, it just adds more heat to an already angry spot.

nina_campbell27d ago

Oh great, so now I'm supposed to just let zits throw a tantrum without zapping them into submission? (womp womp). But yeah, @anthony_campbell88 is probably right about the heat thing, even if it stings my ego a little. I had a client last week whose chin cyst basically said "oh you wanna treat me? watch THIS" and swelled up like I fed it a bag of salt. The purge phase is real, but on active acne it feels more like playing roulette with a fire extinguisher that might just shoot flames instead. Honestly, I'm leaning toward skipping HF on anything that's already a volcano and saving the zappy stick for the non-inflamed offenders. Trial and error, baby, but my error meter is currently pegged at "grape-sized regret".

elliot_patel25d ago

Wait, so I can't just nuke every zit into the next dimension with my fancy gadget? That sounds like a personal attack on my spot-zapping lifestyle. But yeah, @anthony_campbell88s heat thing is probably why my face looks like a crime scene every time I try to "help" a pimple.