Tria Skin Rejuvenating Laser, new item on TSC
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free skin care · Thu Dec 13, 2012 9:21 pm

I noticed that the Tria DVD divides the face into four zones that exclude the nose. I don't want an old nose in my rejuvenated face. Sad

The DVD said it is okay to use the Tria on the skin over the cheekbone and the eye orbital (not close to the eyes); is the skin over the nose too close to the bone? Has anyone tried it on the nose?

free skin care · Thu Dec 13, 2012 9:24 pm

tessera wrote:

I noticed that the Tria DVD divides the face into four zones that exclude the nose. I don't want an old nose in my rejuvenated face. Sad

The DVD said it is okay to use the Tria on the skin over the cheekbone and the eye orbital (not close to the eyes); is the skin over the nose too close to the bone? Has anyone tried it on the nose?

just a thought, may be they are trying to protect the nose cartilage, I would suggest to check with Tria folks first...

free skin care · Thu Dec 13, 2012 11:35 pm

tessera wrote:

I noticed that the Tria DVD divides the face into four zones that exclude the nose. I don't want an old nose in my rejuvenated face. Sad

The DVD said it is okay to use the Tria on the skin over the cheekbone and the eye orbital (not close to the eyes); is the skin over the nose too close to the bone? Has anyone tried it on the nose?

Tessera, I used it on my nose without any problems and I think everyone else here has also.

free skin care · Fri Dec 14, 2012 10:13 am

kzfou wrote:

Rebecca1 wrote:

Mishey wrote:

Bec would you mind telling me where you got yours from please? I'm seriously considering a purchase here Bad Grin

Hi Michey....

webuyitforyou....dot....com

will also send you an email Smile

xxx

It looks like they ship FROM the US. Has anybody used their services to ship TO the US?

It looks they do. USA is listed on the Place Order page.

free skin care · Sun Dec 16, 2012 3:04 am

I've just bought mine off the UK site, so excited can't wait to get started...

free skin care · Sun Dec 16, 2012 5:58 am

Rebecca1 wrote:

Bermie2 wrote:

Rebecca1 wrote:

Bermie2 wrote:

I am vey interested in the Tria and the microcurrent Caci unit.

Does Tria ship to Australia? I wish EDS would do these gadgets!

Hey Bernie, i am in Australia and no they don't Sad

You cannot even pay on your Australian credit card. I used a service called "we buy it for you". It might have cost me extra, but certainly worthwhile. Delighted with this device.

HTH

thanks Rebecca! If you can't use an Australian credit card how did you pay? if you don't mind me asking?

The company "we buy it for you"...purchases for you. You pay them direct, plus their fee, plus postage etc.

hth

thanks Rebecca1 Smile

Sun Dec 16, 2012 6:47 am

Hi all. I was reading all your post re: Tria. I finished my treatment and now taking a four week break. I took picture before, during and after the treatment. Unfortunately I cannot share your enthusiasm and love for this machine. It looks like Tria did diddly-squat for my skin.Absolutely no change in discoloration, texture and fine lines. In fact I actually developed some new brown spots on my face. So at this point it is disappointing result. I will give the device another try though just for the researcher purposes. I was using it on my face and my chest. I was breaking out so badly that my chest looked like a pizza pie. I used their cleansing liquid to clean before the treatments. I also experienced extreme dryness on both my face and chest during the treatment. Skin on my face is getting back it's normal state and dryness is almost gone. My chest is still healing and all the pimples, slowly but surely disappearing. I will update you in two weeks since I am still in the period of recovery. Maybe the results are on their way? I had numerous treatments with Fraxel and pre fraxional lasers before. Lot's of blood and pain and much longer recovery period but I don't think I ever had that Wow effect with any laser I ever tried. Maybe with one exception. Twenty years ago I had a brown spot removed from my nose with CO2 laser. The old type that they no longer use (or very rarely). That was the only time that I saw the results. The spot disappeared and never came back. Maybe I should find a practitioner that uses that kind of laser and just burn my entire skin off? Good luck with the treatments and I hope all of you have better results.

free skin care · Sun Dec 16, 2012 9:04 am

brierrose wrote:

Tessera, I used it on my nose without any problems and I think everyone else here has also.

Thanks to you and Daler for your responses; I guess I'll give it a try. (After Christmas photos, though.)

free skin care · Sun Dec 16, 2012 12:27 pm

I am wondering if laser results are somewhat affected by the skin colour (ie Fitzpatrick scale type). It makes sense to me that a more darker pigmented skin might react differently to a light treatment. Unlike some of the lasers available to physicians we cannot adjust these home lasers for skin type.

I am also wondering if the daily treatment regimen may have been too extreme for your skin. As you know, I used ReAura, not Tria, but the side effects were nowhere so extreme as those you are enduring. I just hope this is a healing phase for you and after it all normalizes you will see some positive changes.

I did experience a more extreme reaction in those areas of my body with most damage. For instance my arms and hands felt very rough and sloughed a lot more than my face which was already veteran to many professional laser treatments.

I hear you about the CO2 laser - those were extremely effective and in my opinion the ugly days add up to about the same in the end. Instead of one or two days every treatment in a series of treatments, one had a week to 10 days down time and skin like a baby thereafter. My doc says he still has his! but they always recommend fractional these days.

Carmen, someone recommended a skin treatment which really cleared off the dead skin earlier in this thread - I think it was called "Cure".

Don't know if anyone is interested in my theory re darkness/lightness of skin and lasers but for the record I am a type 1 or 2 and had truly excellent results using home laser.

free skin care · Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:04 pm

Thanks heaps Rebecca Smile

free skin care · Mon Dec 17, 2012 1:14 pm

Carmen44 wrote:

Hi all. I was reading all your post re: Tria. I finished my treatment and now taking a four week break. I took picture before, during and after the treatment. Unfortunately I cannot share your enthusiasm and love for this machine. It looks like Tria did diddly-squat for my skin.Absolutely no change in discoloration, texture and fine lines. In fact I actually developed some new brown spots on my face. So at this point it is disappointing result. I will give the device another try though just for the researcher purposes. I was using it on my face and my chest. I was breaking out so badly that my chest looked like a pizza pie. I used their cleansing liquid to clean before the treatments. I also experienced extreme dryness on both my face and chest during the treatment. Skin on my face is getting back it's normal state and dryness is almost gone. My chest is still healing and all the pimples, slowly but surely disappearing. I will update you in two weeks since I am still in the period of recovery. Maybe the results are on their way? I had numerous treatments with Fraxel and pre fraxional lasers before. Lot's of blood and pain and much longer recovery period but I don't think I ever had that Wow effect with any laser I ever tried. Maybe with one exception. Twenty years ago I had a brown spot removed from my nose with CO2 laser. The old type that they no longer use (or very rarely). That was the only time that I saw the results. The spot disappeared and never came back. Maybe I should find a practitioner that uses that kind of laser and just burn my entire skin off? Good luck with the treatments and I hope all of you have better results.

I wonder if the brown spots are sun damage coming to the surface by the Tria? I believe I've heard that can happen with LED light-that sun damage comes to the surface first, and then disappears. I know this isn't LED, but something like that could be happening here. Hopefully, that is what is happening with you.

Mon Dec 17, 2012 3:28 pm

Well, who knows. I suffer from melasma and my face is always, always covered with sunblock and foundation. I wear hat everywhere I go.So I don't think so. I've been really protecting my face from the sun cause the spots get darker when exposed to sun. Maybe just the heat from the laser creates those brown spots. Actually I wouldn't call them spots.They look more like lines. If you run your finger nails down your cheeks you would see the lines.They are brown in colour. I hope they will disappear. It's not a big deal;my face is full of different spots and blotches anyway so I cover it with BB cream and other stuff all the time. But when I remove my make up those lines show. Annoying in a way. Well,let's hope that the next time around I will see some improvement. It's funny at first I thought that my skin was getting lighter. But now I know what it was. My skin was dry and appeared to be lighter. Also because of the dryness BB cream once applied stayed there because it was not sliding off the skin. It would kind of just bond to it. So I thought, wow it looks like I don't need that much make up and I don't need to reapply as often as I had to before. What can I say? It sucks. Crying or Very sad

Mon Dec 17, 2012 7:07 pm

Sorry to hear about your results Carmen44. I am in week two of my four week rest period and I wouldn't say that my results are earth shattering. I do notice some improvements (reduction in lines around the eyes, my marionette lines are not as deep and a few other lines are not as deep...I'm happy I did the before and after pictures as the changes are too subtle to notice without the pictures.

I also have the brown spots that I didn't have before...lines like you describe and shadows along the sides of my face from my temples down past my nose. My understanding is that they are sun damage (from many years ago as I am also very fussy about my sunscreen). Apparently in subsequent treatments we will see a reduction in those dark areas as the laser blasts away at them. (I called Tria on this as it was getting me worried).

My results may be slower because I had a really hard time getting to level three as the pain was too much. I used level 2 for the first six weeks and then I moved to level 3 for the last two weeks. My skin really did adjust so when I start back up for my next 8 week round, I'll go to level three after the first week.

I am hoping for some more changes this next round and one of the reps from Tria was telling me that some women do notice the differences more in the second round of treatment.

I've invested this much time in it so I figure I'll keep going and hope for the best.

Good luck to you also.

free skin care · Tue Dec 18, 2012 3:49 am

RyanA wrote:

Carmen44 wrote:

Hi all. I was reading all your post re: Tria. I finished my treatment and now taking a four week break. I took picture before, during and after the treatment. Unfortunately I cannot share your enthusiasm and love for this machine. It looks like Tria did diddly-squat for my skin.Absolutely no change in discoloration, texture and fine lines. In fact I actually developed some new brown spots on my face. So at this point it is disappointing result. I will give the device another try though just for the researcher purposes. I was using it on my face and my chest. I was breaking out so badly that my chest looked like a pizza pie. I used their cleansing liquid to clean before the treatments. I also experienced extreme dryness on both my face and chest during the treatment. Skin on my face is getting back it's normal state and dryness is almost gone. My chest is still healing and all the pimples, slowly but surely disappearing. I will update you in two weeks since I am still in the period of recovery. Maybe the results are on their way? I had numerous treatments with Fraxel and pre fraxional lasers before. Lot's of blood and pain and much longer recovery period but I don't think I ever had that Wow effect with any laser I ever tried. Maybe with one exception. Twenty years ago I had a brown spot removed from my nose with CO2 laser. The old type that they no longer use (or very rarely). That was the only time that I saw the results. The spot disappeared and never came back. Maybe I should find a practitioner that uses that kind of laser and just burn my entire skin off? Good luck with the treatments and I hope all of you have better results.

I wonder if the brown spots are sun damage coming to the surface by the Tria? I believe I've heard that can happen with LED light-that sun damage comes to the surface first, and then disappears. I know this isn't LED, but something like that could be happening here. Hopefully, that is what is happening with you.

I have definitely experienced new dark spots and weird brown marks from Tria. But they always shed within a week or so. When I look at these marks using a strong magnifying mirror, I can see that the pigment is shattered up into tiny dots. I actually get excited when I see these spots as I know more good stuff is taking place!!

I have used Tria on level 3 since the get go (tho I do take days off)...so I think my results have been fast tracked.

free skin care · Tue Dec 18, 2012 6:14 am

Using the ReAura, I have seen wrinkles that I dont actually have.. the type of which I see on people older than me. I was quite pleased to see this, I took it as being upcoming issues being worked through, a preventive measure. Expression areas of stress being 'ironed'.. if that makes sense.

I think it is all good, just a little bit arduous to endure for weeks on end.. but worth it for the longer term benefit.

free skin care · Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:29 am

I tried it for the first time last night and found it difficult to keep the purple light on, finding the gliding difficult. Also, it says not to use on any other part of the body, would love to try it on my hands, has anyone else done this?

free skin care · Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:37 am

Zelda wrote:

I tried it for the first time last night and found it difficult to keep the purple light on, finding the gliding difficult. Also, it says not to use on any other part of the body, would love to try it on my hands, has anyone else done this?

Gliding: don't use much pressure, sweep it around the cheeks from the nose, you might want to use both hands to keep the device upright and stable.

If it starts to stick, you are pressing too hard.

Tria is not licencsed to promote its use anywhere else but why not do a small test patch on your hands to be safe.

PQ

free skin care · Fri Dec 21, 2012 4:38 pm

So what are u guys doing in the "off" tria time? Im just finishing up my 8 wks. I have a baby Q and ultrasound. I saw where PQ thought led was ok during tria but i didnt use it then.

free skin care · Sat Dec 22, 2012 2:05 am

What would be the best way to use on your neck?

free skin care · Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:07 pm

Zelda wrote:

What would be the best way to use on your neck?

Slide from under the chin, holding the device horizontally, down to the base of the neck.

PQ

free skin care · Mon Dec 24, 2012 2:57 am

Thanks PQ is there any part of the neck you should not use on, someone on some forum mentioned the thyroid gland?

free skin care · Mon Dec 24, 2012 3:09 am

Zelda wrote:

Thanks PQ is there any part of the neck you should not use on, someone on some forum mentioned the thyroid gland?

I would never use:

microcurrent/light/laser/heat/vacuum pressure over the thyroid area.

PQ

free skin care · Mon Dec 24, 2012 2:15 pm

After reading all the good results people are getting with the Tria, I would really like to buy one of them but so far cannot find one in the U.S. I might try that "buy it for you" site if they are not released here soon. I have to wait anyway since I just ordered the Skindream on a monthly rental/trial. I try it for a month and if I don't like it I send it back but lose the rental fee. Some people seemed to like the Skindream and others said it didn't do anything. Whereas with the Tria most people seem to really like the thing. I'm surprised you can use it for five years. I get laser treatments like that at the doctors and their machines are good for only so many flashes and then they have to put a new flash unit on the laser. If the Tria does the same thing it would be a bargain. Keep up with the posting of results, it's very exciting.

Merry Christmas to everyone on EDS!

free skin care · Tue Dec 25, 2012 3:21 am

I am finding the purple light a bit hit and miss, sometimes although I am holding it against the skin the same way it does not come on and then it will and stay on o.k. I am a bit disappointed its so temperamental, anyone have any ideas?

free skin care · Tue Dec 25, 2012 3:05 pm

I am really surprised, truly, I have found this the easiest device to use, and I haven't had any trouble keeping the light on, I am wondering if the device is faulty?

PQ

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