The Unexpected Agony of a Skin Booster Treatment
There's a certain kind of pain that catches you completely off guard—the kind that makes your hand shake and your breath catch. I was halfway through my skin booster treatment with Miracle L when I had to stop. I'd watched the videos, I knew there would be some stinging because the formula contains no lidocaine. But knowing and experiencing are two very different things.
I had already injected this side of my face, the area where I've noticed the most collagen loss over the last four years. That's where I needed the treatment most. But the pain was far more intense than I had prepared for. So I took a break. I cleaned my hands, and I applied a 9.6% lidocaine cream to the still-uninjected side. That was my first mistake the first time: I hadn't applied enough. I could feel every needle going in.
I didn't have any saran wrap, but I had baking sheets—yes, I don't even bake, but they were around. I placed one on top of the numbing cream to prevent it from evaporating, hoping that covering it would help the lidocaine penetrate deeper. I let it sit for about fifteen minutes, waiting for the numbness to take hold.
When I resumed, it was still rough. If you don't have a high pain threshold, and I don't consider myself someone who does, I would strongly advise using a dermal stamp or a miso pen instead. In fact, that's exactly what I plan to do next time—a five-pin miso pen. The manual injection process was awkward, painfully slow, and honestly felt like some form of medieval torture. I'm getting threads in about a month, and I suspect even that will be less painful than what I just endured.
But I had a little bit of the Miracle L serum left in the bottom of the vial. So I loaded it into my derma stamp—the same one I used for my botox facial—and tested it on a different part of my face. Leaning back made it easier. The difference was night and day. It was certainly a lot less painful, and I'm hoping the results are similar. That's the path I'll take next time: less pain, more precision, and a much more bearable experience.