Review: Obagi Sunshield Matte Broadspectrum SPF 50 and Cosmelan 2 part I

As mentioned before, let me take you though the journey of getting rid of dark spots on my face. I must admit that before I was granted with these weird spots on my face I was not caring too much about my face. I always had perfect skin. I did make up only on my eyes and even on photos I was looking nice. The thing is I loved my face tanned. So face was always 1st thing that was getting a tan on. And it was just perfect failure and something wrong had to happen. So, when I turned 30 and went for the vacation to Crete, I came back with the map of the wold on my forehead.

At first I decided to simply not care. So I was getting tan on my face still, didn't care about SPF 50 sunscreens etc.

But then 2 things happened: I got engaged. My best friend got egaged. But getting things in the actual order, I was braid's made and I got this great pleasure of having all the preparation with the braid, and a part of it was make up done by professional make up artist. And at that time it ocurred that dark spots are not coverable... As I mentioned, I was getting married, so they simply HAD to disappear, I started looking, going through doctors. I have learned that my spots are very deep and that there is one way I can get rid of them, which is named Cosmelan. I also learned it is quite an expensivething to do. But I was quite desperate.

The way this works is: at doctor's you're getting Cosmelan 1, which is a mask that has to stay on your face 7-8 hours. Then you rinse it off with the water. Wait for one more day and the next day you start using Cosmelan 2. You put it on 2 times a day. I did Cosmelan twice (I will explain in a moment why), but the first time, I fist got very red on the face. As it was May, my friend at work approached me and asked: "You tried to get some sun during the weekend?" Haha. NO. Truth was sadder. I was getting Cosmelan. Then I started to decorticate. Though it was a little different from what you face with the standard acids. It was going on and on and on. I had visits at my doctor's, first once a week, then every 2 weeks, then once a month. I stopped more less two weeks before the wedding to calm the skin on my face and have it ready for THE day. I succeeded. I got rid of my spots. It was sooo great. My skin was clean again, it felt so great. We went for the honeymoon. I was instructed to apply Cosmelan every night if I was putting myself for the sun. So I did and it was still great. And it continued to be great... until we went for vacation to Cuba last year. Even though I was applying SPF 50 and never separating from any cap/hat and glasses. But I lost my fight... I came back with spots. Then I tried to make friends with them. I told myself (or I was trying to explain) that they are part of me, that I can always put some make up on. But to be honest, until they were disappearing under by Kiehl's BB cream, it was ok. Since they stopped to get covered by BB, I started to hate them again... So I decided to get rid of them. Or try again...

More to come!!!