Will the new skin stay pink for long?

How long new skin stays pink decides how you time events after resurfacing. For a reader in Dexter, Michigan the answer comes in two time frames.

The usual window

plasticsurgery.org describes the sequence: "After that, the new, rejuvenated skin will be pink, but it will gradually lighten over two to three months." The color fades in steps. It does not switch off on a set day.

The longer window

The same source adds a limit on the other end: "It may take up to a year for the pinkness to go away." Plan around the first window and treat the second as the outer edge.

Where this falls in the sequence

The pink phase begins once the surface has healed and ends when the color has evened out. Everything you decide about covering it, such as timing events, belongs inside that stretch.

What to gather before you plan around it

• The date of your treatment and the date the surface healed
• A note of any event you want the color to fade ahead of
• Your clinic's own estimate for your skin, to set beside the figures above

The next step

Read how a retrospective study compared fractional carbon dioxide laser with microneedling fractional radio frequency for acne scars, then look at a randomized study of fractional erbium laser methods in photoaging. Both give a sense of how resurfacing results are reported.