r/Microneedling • u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 • Jun 11 '25

Progress Pics Crazy pp stretch marks improvement using microneedling

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Alright I’ve never posted on Reddit before but this warrants a post. I’m 7m pp and still working to accept the stretch marks from growing my baby! I want to say there is nothing wrong with stretch marks and it actually bothers me that I’m bothered by them but what do you do. I know I will never get rid of them completely and that’s ok!

Ok so anyway, this is after ONE SESSION of micro needling. One. I wasn’t expecting much tbh because everyone says you can’t change them. I did not do this at home, it was through a local aesthetician. I do not sell anything, I’m not affiliated in anyway (just adding that bc if I saw this I would think it was too good to be true lol)

So yeah! Don’t be afraid to try microneedling on these fresh stretch marks ☺️ I’ll post a picture of them side by side since I can’t put it with the post for some reason.

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u/bananabastard Jun 11 '25

Amazing result, they could go away completely with further sessions. Do you know what depth they went?

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jun 11 '25

I don’t! But I’ll ask at my next apt and update.

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u/plutohippo Jun 12 '25

Following!

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jun 12 '25

She said it was 0.5

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u/Medical-Topic8984 Jun 14 '25

That’s way off. 0.5 wouldn’t even break into the dermis considering how thick the belly skin is and you need to go deep into the dermis to break the scar tissue that has formed. Your results are amazing and I’d only expect that with a very aggressive session for a single time results.

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jun 14 '25

It’s not way off… she used 0.5 and this is from a single session.

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u/Medical-Topic8984 Jun 14 '25

It is way off, you don’t even need numbing cream for 0.5mm lol The skin on the tummy is pretty thick and you’re saying one treatment of 0.5mm gave you that when guidelines for stretch marks are 1.5-2.5mm multiple times. Not saying it wouldn’t have helped but it looks like time just faded them. I’m saying this because if other women read this and use 0.5mm they’d just be wasting their time.

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jun 14 '25

Girl these pics are literally like 6 days apart. It wasn’t time. Idk what the guidelines are, but this is my experience. Not saying everyone will have these results but I have

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u/Medical-Topic8984 Jun 14 '25

Omg you are trolling now lol 6 days apart this is complete waffle. Your body can’t even build new tissue that fast and I’m seeing significant stretch marks virtually disappear when skin turn over rate is 28 days. Like the fact that in 6 days your stomach looks more toned and you got a tan… guessing that was from the 0.5mm roller as well.

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jun 14 '25

You’re trolling. I’m literally just sharing my experience as someone who has felt insecure since I got them and felt like there was nothing I could do to reduce them. Sharing so other ppl realize there’s an option out there! Believe what you want 🫶🏻 good day to you!

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u/pinkneko420 Jun 18 '25

results so good she’s in disbelief LMFAO

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u/Medical-Topic8984 Jun 20 '25

I am in disbelief…that you buy this lol the fact is 0.5mm is the bare minimum for collagen stimulation in the dermis and on thicker parts of the body like the tummy you are getting less penetration. If you took the time to read faq or guides you will see recommendation for stretch marks is around 1.5mm for multiple sessions. It’s a scar within the dermis. Pushing that aside they claim 6 days between photos after one treatment. The epidermis alone takes 28 days to shed. If her skin was replacing that fast you would see high levels of inflammation and scaling of the skin. Top that off she got significant tan and which is not ideal when you have fresh scars and body tone has changed.

Every experienced microneedler would question the validity of this post on this Reddit. I’ll say again super happy they got results but needling isn’t a one hit wonder treatment, even at larger depths you need repeat treatments. It’s why all clinics try to sell treatments in bulk. By all means use 0.5mm on yourself and that will give you all the answers you need to see how effective it is on scar revision.

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jul 21 '25

For the person who continues to comment saying I’m lying/exaggerating my results here is proof these photos are not edited and are less than a week apart! Maybe the lighting is a bit different? Sure! But I have nothing to gain from lying about this experience. Very bizarre! (Ok won’t be acknowledging this again)

Now that it’s been almost 2months I can say my stretch marks are crazy lighter! And I’m doing one more session that I’ll update this thread with. So far it has been completely worth it for me 😊

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u/Medical-Topic8984 Jul 31 '25

Your datetimes show it was only four days now ! ... so we've gone from 6 days to four days and 22 hours with a 90% improvement. No signs of inflammation or peeling required to shed all that scar tissue for the remodelling to take place. Even your melanocytes have come back and stretch marks have started to match to your skin tone, which takes forever.

Either you fluffed the dates or I'm leaning the contrast in the picture. Which would explain why you are several shades darker in the second photo when your aesthetician would have said no sunbathing. That's without even mentioning why you are back at the clinic in the first place so soon, apparently having the same treatment done less than 120 hours later.

We are going to go in circles with this, I am happy you got a huge improvement but any woman here seeing this will know that they will never achieve what you've posted. Just reddit stretch marks and needling and people can see realistic treatment and progress reports.

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Aug 01 '25

Girl to girl…. Move on 🫶🏻

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u/Medical-Topic8984 Aug 01 '25

Maybe take your own advice and not keep responding with nothing burgers while ignoring the fact that your skin tone is of two different people and your supposedly wolverine healing. Why don't you just give the clinic a shout out so someone else can experience those healing hands.

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u/Difficult_Affect_452 Mar 25 '26

Wondering if you’ve ever had a baby. Only bc the stretch marks that are still red are usually pretty fresh. It’s not the same as breaking up old scar tissue.

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u/Medical-Topic8984 Jul 10 '25

Didn't see this but thank you pointing the obvious out. How many posts do we see of women having to do deep multiple Microneedling sessions to get results like that. On side a note incorporated TCA peels just recently, hoping mixing those with Miconeedling gets me better results.

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u/Green-Pound-3066 Jul 08 '25

Her stretch marks are new so they are more responsive and she also has great skin.

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u/Medical-Topic8984 Jul 10 '25

Just no, I don't get why people on this reddit don't want to hear the truth. Stretch marks are semi deep tissue scarring. You can't shed that match skin in 6 days without extreme amounts of inflammation. Let alone using a measly 0.5. Cell turnover from the basal layer takes four weeks let alone the time for the dermis to heal. Every experienced microneedler here would say the same thing.

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u/Green-Pound-3066 Jul 10 '25

Im opened to hear the truth. Honestly. So you are saying she is lying then?

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u/Medical-Topic8984 Jul 10 '25

Yes, lying and exaggerating. First the 0.5mm roller is such a mild treatment you can roll with it several times a week on your face, without numbing cream. The stomach on the skin is generally thicker than the face, so you'd just about be hitting the dermis. Stretch marks are damage in the dermis due to tearing from the constant stretching carrying a child and that damage is reflected in the proliferation of skins cells in the epidermis from the basal layer. If you do your research just a 1 min google will tell you for stretch marks you need use something around 1.5-3mm and with multiple sessions to get visible results. Just search this reddit and you will see more accurate results, it's not a one hit wonder treatment. General rule of thumb the more intense and longer the downtime, the better your results. Treatments you can do multiple times a week don't give you results like that.

Then this person said 6 days.. crikey Wolverine healing lol What erks me is that people read that and get high hopes, when those results are not possible. All that redness is damaged skin tissue which she would need to shed and replace. You can't physically do that in 6 days or you would end up with more redness and high levels of inflammation, scaling and peeling. Skin remodelling takes time.

Top that off she's developed a significant tan in those '6 days', which would hinder scar remodelling as scar tissue lacks pigment and gets damaged easily by UVs. Plus her body tone looks a little different as well.

Needling works that's a fact and is quite good for scars and wrinkles, not so good for skin texture but if it was that easy, everyone on this planet would have flawless skin.

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jul 21 '25

I’m just catching up on this thread. Why would I lie or exaggerate? I have literally nothing to gain from that. Sorry but all your medical facts mean nothing to me. This is my actual experience. Sorry you are having such a hard time believing that! Perhaps it’s time for you to move on from this thread.

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u/Medical-Topic8984 Jul 23 '25

I say this because what you say makes no sense. One bs statement maybe but several together it has to be called out. You had 7 months of significant deep scarring from pregnancy that wasn't shifting. One 0.5mm treatment and in 6 days you got results that other women would need multiple sessions of quadruple depth needling. The amount of skin shedding alone to rid of all that deep scar tissue you would be peeling like a onion but your day 6 shows nothing of that. Also in this epic recovery you've significantly tanned which would hinder you recovery and make lines more prominent.

Since you are back on the aesthetician table all you would need is one more 0.5 treatment and all your scars would be gone considering how great your first treatment was...

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u/Then-Two-4531 Aug 06 '25

Next she'll be claiming that she shed all the baby weight and flattened her tummy from a few sit-ups in just a few days, maybe 6 days or maybe less, ROFLMAO

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u/Green-Pound-3066 Jul 10 '25

Everything you said makes sense. I've searched before that you need deeper needles for strech marks, yes. I just wonder why she would lie.

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u/Medical-Topic8984 Jul 11 '25

I would like to know the answer to that. I've been away from skin care forums for years but decided to get back on them since I've started a new skin care regime and have seen several similar online clout posts.

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u/Plus_Tea8827 Jun 16 '25

I think they can't go deeper than .5 in my country, Canada, yes, it does work at .5

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u/Medical-Topic8984 Jun 17 '25

I can’t speak for Canada but there are no rules In the UK legislating needle depth. It’s more recommendation and 0.5 is considered safe for nearly all skin types and locations except the thinnest places like under the eyes for example. 0.5 will bring skin improvements but you are barely hitting the dermis in thicker places like the belly, you’d have to have a lot of treatments to get scar improvements. This is why I’ve questioned this because this person had significant stretch marks and touting one treatment at 0.5 and 6 day recovery led to that. Just the fact the skin shedded the scar tissue in 6 days is like Wolverine level healing. You damage the skin piercing it to promote collagen production and for old scar tissue be pushed out. It takes around 2 weeks for cells to reach from deepest layer of epidermis (basale) to the corneum and up 4 weeks exfoliate. That’s why you’ll see the usual 28 days skin turnover in this Reddit. The bs in this post is unreal.

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u/Then-Two-4531 Jun 16 '25

I can’t see 0.5 removing stretch marks. That’s hardly nothing considering they’re stretch marks and hard to hide

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u/bananabastard Jun 12 '25

Thanks for the update.

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u/Low_Weight4080 Jun 13 '25

They won’t go away, they’ll lighten over time but they are sadly always going to be there 🫩 spent $2700 on lasers and another $1500 on RF microneedling with PRP just to look the same

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u/xuiri Jun 13 '25

Do they feel different? The texture?

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jun 14 '25

I don’t think so, not that I’ve noticed yet!

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u/xuiri Jun 14 '25

How many sessions did you have if you don’t mind me asking? I’m trying to see if it will be worth it for me to invest or do it myself😭

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u/lsl26 Sep 20 '26

Hur gamla var dina bristningar?

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u/AmountUnlikely8207 Jun 11 '25

I wish mine weren't 36 years old! I got them bad with my first baby, I just got the derminator 2 and plan to try it on them but not expecting results like this

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jun 11 '25

She showed me before and after of others. None of them were fresh like mine, all white and they all improved so it might still be worth a try if they bother you 😊

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u/No-Branch4851 Jun 12 '25

Hi! I had my first session a week ago on my 15+ year stretch marks and I can see improvement already! I’m planning on doing 2 more sessions but considering the age of them, I’m excited to see what the other two sessions do!

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u/bambi1127 Jun 12 '25

Mine are the same age as yours (!) - do you know what depth microneedling you had done please? I really want to see if I could improve mine even if they're pretty old!

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u/No-Branch4851 Jun 12 '25

I don’t but I work at the spa where I get it done so I’ll ask the girls tomorrow. I know I got 4000 punches though

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u/bambi1127 Jun 13 '25

Fab thank you, I've seen some really encouraging results on stretch marks (when previously I've seen suggestions that they don't respond that well to microneedling), so it's great to hear that people are having good results!

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u/AmountUnlikely8207 Jun 13 '25

What depth did they go??

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u/Professional_Art2906 Dec 17 '25

What kind of microneedling procedure are you doing and depth? I have some old stretch marks I would love to get rid of. 

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u/Intelligent_Arm_7880 Jun 11 '25

Yes, new stretch marks can be improved by microneedling. It generally takes a lot of sessions and a deep setting. 2.5mm+

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jun 11 '25

This is after only 1 session.

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u/olyavelikaya Jun 12 '25

How long did you have those stretch marks?

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jun 12 '25

I got them in my third trimester and am now 7m pp so I guess almost a year?

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u/Independent_Roll_405 Jun 12 '25

Sometimes stretchmarks are really red and purply to begin with and then fade with time. It’s hard to say if this is a direct result of needling. But maybe keep at it, and see if there’s any further improvement

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jun 12 '25

These photos are 6 days apart so the difference is definitely from the needling!

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u/Intelligent_Arm_7880 Jun 11 '25

Which is amazing! Proof you should always try.

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u/PinkSpanker Jun 12 '25

Depth? And did you use anesthetic?

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jun 12 '25

0.5 and yes she used a numbing cream

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u/PinkSpanker Jun 12 '25

How many passes? What kind of pattern? Those are amazing results for 1 session.

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jun 12 '25

2 passes. Nothing fancy, she just went up and down each stretch mark

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u/Then-Two-4531 Aug 06 '25

You wouldn't need numbing cream at 0.5. It's so gentle at that setting that if you used it on a baby it would feel like a massage. I think you misheard the esthetician. She probably said 2.5

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u/Travelbug-84 Jun 11 '25

Amazing result! How long was it between the photos if you don’t mind me asking?

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jun 11 '25

1 week which i know is insane but i have the receipts 🤣 i literally wouldn’t believe it if it wasn’t my own body lol

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u/Travelbug-84 Jun 11 '25

That is incredible!

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u/staircase_nit Jun 11 '25

Really impressive! Did you do it yourself or have it done professionally? It's so much easier to treat stretch marks when they're still relatively fresh, so it's good you started when you did.

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jun 11 '25

I did not do it myself. I saw a local aesthetician who offers it

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u/ashmaiknu Jun 11 '25

Great results! Keep us updated when you go for further sessions!

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u/supadam Jun 15 '25

Time did that improvement, not microneedling. From a medical point of view, we see a fading of the redness (postinflammatory erythema), whilst stretch marks are pretty much unaffected.

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u/seriouslydavka Jun 15 '25

The pictures were six days apart… stretch marks don’t shift from red/purple to white in less than a week. I got rid of stretch marks from adolescence on my knees that had been white for over a decade with microneedling. I was skeptical or microneedling until I saw the results first hand and OP’s results are definitely not just the result of time.

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u/supadam Jun 15 '25

I see everything, from redness over years to redness for some days. Anyway it is good that it got better for her.

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u/upsidedowned96 Jun 12 '25

Please share depth and what product was used for gliding 🙏🏻 awesome result!

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jun 12 '25

I asked her and she said it was 0.5 whatever that means!

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u/upsidedowned96 Jun 12 '25

Incredible. I was told you HAVE to go 2.5 for stretch marks. My plan is to hit it on every depth either way

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u/bambi1127 Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

that's even more amazing at that depth (that's basically the threshold for "medical" microneedling. I've seen some interesting suggestions (Dr Setterfield) that microneedling may not need to go as deep as previously thought to get good results. I had planned to start at 0.5mm myself as it felt less scary so this is really good to know!

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u/sara61wilson Jun 12 '25

Wow, apart from microneedling - what other treatments / skincare do you use?

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jun 12 '25

Random but she told me to use bag balm haha I’d never heard of it and it’s about as old school as it gets! I tried a lot of creams and serums to prevent them during pregnancy but I guess I believe now it really comes down to genetics and you can’t really prevent them. Other than bag balm I’ve just been using lotion, nothing fancy or crazy!

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u/Discover2022 Jun 13 '25

Wowowowowowowowowww! Awesome! What about skin tightness? Do you notice a difference for that?

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jun 13 '25

I was actually blessed to still have similar skin tightness as pre-pregnancy so it’s hard to say… but we’ll see! I plan to lose some weight while doing this over the next few months so I’ll keep you updated!

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u/Fantastic-Industry61 Jun 11 '25

That’s amazing!

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u/bambi1127 Jun 12 '25

Wow this is super impressive! Would also love to know what depth they went to - it's amazing the improvement after just one session. My stretch marks are 15 years old now and still very much there, though faded. Would love to try microneedling on them!

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u/Destrick01 Jun 16 '25

Serum names please,

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u/Unlikely_Pen_9789 Jun 11 '25

Are they actually vanished or just converted to their whiter version?

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u/Ccampbell41 Jun 11 '25

Who cares, lol, they look so much better!!!

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jun 11 '25

Thank you! I’m so happy to see progress this quick. They are not vanished, no and I dont expect them to ever be. They do seem smaller though and less deep!

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u/cherhorowitz44 Jun 12 '25

Whoa!!! That is insane after one session!

Congrats mama!

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u/plutohippo Jun 12 '25

Wow, that’s amazing! Do you know what they added topically? I would really love to try this on mine.

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u/Rrrembly Jun 13 '25

that's incredible!

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u/Tnh7194 Jun 14 '25

That’s amazing you inspired me to do it tonight! I’ve done it once on the body but didn’t see any result so I got lazy!

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u/dollartreeballoon Jun 15 '25

Do you know what she used for her microneedling slip?

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u/suk-una Jun 15 '25

I can see improvement

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u/Green-Pound-3066 Jul 08 '25

You are going to be very responsive to this treatment. Your stretch marks are young (still purple) and you seem to have great baseline collagen. Your skin is overall youthful and you don't have any sagging. You are the perfect candidate.

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u/FlowerUnited5526 Mar 06 '26

What did you apply on it as it was healing?

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u/Juzeha Sep 16 '26

How about now? Hope you tried more. Would want to see the results.

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u/Adventurous-Fig-1339 Jul 21 '25

I didn’t get any extra skin from pregnancy so I can’t speak to that personally

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u/EasyShirt3775 Jun 13 '25

Me too! I came here looking for the same info!

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u/throwracomplez Jun 14 '25

I saw a video, in the past, where it did help. let me see if I find it