you can just smell your skin burning..

Just early this month - August- I had few facial warts removed. To even out my skin tone. As far back in college, I can already remember having those facial warts.

They were barely visible but if i wanted to be in a cover of a magazine, they will all have to go, and I can't purely rely on Photoshop to do that job. I still want my face to be smooth, just the way it was in high school.

If it were not for those cosmetics they've been putting on my face using a sponge used on everybody else's face, I would have never gotten those to begin with.

I wanted my dermatologist Dra. Bernad (CRB Derm Clinic, SM City Cebu NorthWing) to do the job, but she just charges too much for the procedure. Why would I possibly pay that much when I can have the same procedure done at half the cost?..

So as they were, I went to Forever Flawless (SM City Cebu NorthWing), and had them do the cautery procedure instead. I was with a friend and officemate John Mark Bibar a.k.a "Barbi".

The Cautery Procedure takes about an hour and a half in my case. The warts that I had removed were not really big, they were really tiny as a matter of fact- barely visible from afar. Yet they need to be removed. There were a lot of them on my face.

They had me lie down on that contoured-caushioned bedlike platform, however and whatever theyre called. They had to put anaesthetic cream on my face, to numb the skin, because it would definitely hurt a lot without them. After putting the cream and setting the cream on my face, they had it covered with plastic wrap- those that we'd use in the kitchen to cover left-overs- for an hour.

After an hour on that bed, you can surely feel your face all numbed, or should I say, I couldnt feel my face anymore..hehe Anyways. During the actual burning of the warts, you can just smell your skin burning right in front of your face. I swear, I can still even remember the smell. And there were areas on my face that the anaesthetic did not have an effect on, those area really hurt like hell. It's the burning sensation would get with little tickling and stinging feel to it. And it sounds funny too. Like those noise you hear when welding metal, thats the same noise- the tiny version of that noise .

After the procedure you're not supposed to wet your face for at least 24 hours. You are not to rub the scabs, you'll need to let them fall off in 4 to 5 days. You are not to go out when the sun is at its hottest and if you do you'll need to put on some sunblock every 2 hour. And of course you'll need to put on the Post-Cautery cream they had you purhcase from them. Neat ehh?..!.

Of course there's nothing else I can do but to comply, otherwise they'll leave nasty dark scars that may take months to get rid off. Thats not even an option. 100% compliance kaayu..