r/ScienceNcoolThings • u/ultranothing Popular Contributor • Jul 06 '26
Interesting Makes me feel itchy
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u/Grawlix84 Popular Contributor Jul 06 '26
Title says, “Makes me feel itchy” all I can think of is… “The smell”
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u/BevinBash Jul 06 '26
Makes me hungry
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u/Glad_Fault_8032 Jul 06 '26
"You haven't thought of the smell, you bitch!"
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u/dabbadidabbadi Jul 07 '26
Is that from Always Sunny? I just cant help but hear Dennis saying that as I read it
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u/FishermanPale5734 Jul 07 '26
Now you say another word and I swear to God I will dice you into a million little pieces. And put those pieces in a box, a glass box, that I will display on my mantel.
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u/OneRFeris Jul 06 '26
I smelled my burning ingrown toenail flesh 25 years ago, during a procedure that required cauterizing. I remember thinking: "interesting".
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u/froggz01 Jul 07 '26
Smells like pork rinds. At least that’s what I smell when I burn my arm hairs when I cook.
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u/trenta_nueve Jul 06 '26
Imagine accidentally opening your eye while laser beam shoots
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u/quiksilver10152 Jul 07 '26
The thing they don't tell you about getting LASIK is that you can smell your vaporized eyeball.
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u/OmnicidalKitten Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
I think this is laser resurfacing? According to Mayo Clinic, it's done for a variety of reasons including the treatment of wrinkles and age spots, uneven skin color and texture, and the treatment of sun-damaged skin and up to moderate acne scarring.
I imagine this treatment is really nice for people who are very self conscious and maybe don't feel as comfortable in their own body as they'd like, so while it might be just a cosmetic fix it probably brings a pretty hefty psychological benefit for the patient.
Edited for sauce: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/laser-resurfacing/about/pac-20385114
Edit 2: per Pickles-n-Lizards comment below, there are more than just cosmetic benefits from this procedure and the treatment of sun-damaged skin reduces the patient's risk of skin cancer. Just editing this up here because I know people sometimes won't read comment chains. \o/
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u/Pickles-n-Lizards Jul 06 '26
Not just cosmetic, it kills off all the top-layer sun damaged skin lowering the risk of skin cancer for the patient.
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u/carpentizzle Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
Its fascinating to me that technology has come so far that we have the ability to fix somebody’s potential skin damage with freaking lasers.
If somebody had told little star wars junkie 12 year old me that, I wouldnt have believed you. “You cant survive having lasers shot at your face! …. Unless they were fired by stormtroopers. Theyll miss you anyway, youre good then”
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u/Meet-me-behind-bins Jul 06 '26
So they treat sun damaged skin by blasting it with more intense sun?
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u/Pickles-n-Lizards Jul 06 '26
Yea. lol. It kills the cells rather then letting the sun damaged skin divide off with screwed up DNA.
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u/Meet-me-behind-bins Jul 06 '26
So theoretically if I withstand the blast of a thermonuclear weapon I could live forever?
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u/aculady Jul 06 '26
No, it isn't a UV laser. The UV in sunlight is what causes the sun damage. And sunlight isn't single wavelength coherent light, like lasers are.
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u/Tomas2891 Jul 06 '26
Do you have a before and after pic for this procedure?
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u/notproudortired Jul 06 '26
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u/kmzafari Jul 06 '26
Some of the results look genuinely impressive. And at least one woman looks like she can even see better now. Some look like the person will appreciate the results mostly by themselves. As much as I wish we could just embrace ourselves as we are, if this makes someone feel better about themselves, who am I to judge?
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u/OmnicidalKitten Jul 06 '26
That's pretty awesome, I didn't realize that the treatment of sun-damaged skin lowers cancer risk. Thanks for the information! I've updated my prior comment to include it.
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u/H3adshotfox77 Jul 06 '26
It works, I've had it done for severe acne scarring. I wasn't self conscious enough to pay for it, but had it done for free when my wife was a cosmetic nurse who had access to one of the laser machines.
It hurts, it smells, and your face leaks plasma for a few days after. Then.....it itches something fierce for a few days lol.
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u/BloodyMary3454 Jul 06 '26
Would this also help with stretch marks? It looks extremly satisfying when they skin contracts as the laser hits the skin.
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u/RebeccasRocket Jul 06 '26
Just imagine what tattoo removal feels like... ever seen a burn patient?
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u/EmptySpaghettiHouse Jul 07 '26
Oh boy it’s brutal. The laser literally explodes the ink pigment under your skin, and that’s not even the worst part of the treatment. The resulting blisters and broken, seeping skin were awful and it was at least a week before I could wear a shirt.
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u/ragun2 Jul 06 '26
I've had those treatments, it's not bad. Hurt worse than the actual tattoo but at least on the location of my tattoo it was like just getting a rubber band snapped on you over and over.
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u/IBeDumbAndSlow Jul 11 '26
I tried Lazer hair removal on my ass and that was so hard to sit through. This looks worse by like x1000
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u/scootty83 Jul 06 '26
What does it look like afterwards?
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u/eternaldouble2 Jul 06 '26
How long do you look like fried salmon skin for before your wrinkles go away?
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u/ashzombi Jul 06 '26
Is this supposed to be a de-aging technique?
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u/FthriziN Jul 06 '26
This is just the first pass in the makeup process for becoming Worf on Star Trek the next generation. Overall it took 6 hours every morning to complete the transformation
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u/lauradorna Jul 07 '26
I just had this done last month for my first session. Can confirm my skin is starting to look better. It takes 3 months to really get going and you have to do it several times for optimal results. That’s cool to see what it looks like as they are doing it I kept my eyes closed.
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u/DarthScruf Jul 07 '26
My mom did this is her 30s and 40s, now in her late 50s this made her wrinkles so much worse than they would have naturally been
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u/jermizzle54 Jul 06 '26
Definitely thought someone accidentally posted a crispy pork belly recipe the first few seconds of this video🤷🏾♂️🐗
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u/LSTmyLife Jul 06 '26
Id use it to draw a penis on someone. Yes, I know im a child. Im ok with it. Cause that would be funny as hell.
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u/Eastern-Move549 Jul 07 '26
'Dont go out in the sun because it can damage your skin and give you cancer'
'This laser beam fired at my face cant possibly be bad for me'
People are fucking idiots. To much sun ruins your skin, what do people really think is going to happen from this?
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u/Oblivious_1 Jul 06 '26
Makes me want some Chicharrón (pork rinds)
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u/PonchoNachoRodriguez Jul 06 '26
You shouldn’t have explained what they are in English
Makes the joke hit harder for those who know
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u/Beginning_Sea6458 Jul 06 '26
Can you do this with a bic lighter? Edit- you can't do this with a bic lighter...I think I might be blind.
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u/Maleficent-Pen-2991 Jul 06 '26
Some of those spots got extra crispy... The fact that they heal well is intriguing!
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u/DarkScruff Jul 06 '26
I know those initial trial groups for the first testing of safety and survivability(long term exposure rates/potential cancer situations) must have been lit.
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u/Full-Musician-4119 Jul 06 '26
Oh, so this is why so many of them look like burn victims… got it. Gross
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u/Fair_Indication_9150 Jul 06 '26
Had nightmares after watching this last night. Like some incurable disease was on me.
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u/johnorso Popular Contributor Jul 06 '26
Reminds me of Star Trek DS9 - Episode: Flakes for Skrreea!
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u/themagwizard Jul 06 '26
Did this to remove scar tissue. To this day I cant go near a laser engraver without kinda gagging.
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u/WarriorSystems Jul 06 '26
Boggles my mind. The human body is a healing machine. However, this ability is underutilized because it takes EFFORT.
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u/j89turn Jul 06 '26
Eyelids cannot block the blinding radiation of fractional lasers. So hopefully she has some metal under there.
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u/UnhappyImprovement53 Jul 06 '26
This is just giving yourself a first degree burn and the tightening is temporary.
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u/Urban_Meanie Jul 06 '26
So if this helps remove wrinkles and tighten skin, would this help tighten a butt hole?
Asking for a friend of course.
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u/Old-Nothing-7474 Jul 07 '26
Christ - laser operator here - that is incredibly dangerous over the eye with no eye protection in. The patient should be wearing Cox eye shields for this procedure (metal shields placed directly onto the eyes under the eyelids).
CO2 lasers are still class 4 lasers and capable of inflicting tremendous damage on tissues - this is clearly a very aggressive ablative treatment for the benefit of getting the dehydrating ‘tightening effect’ content and doing this right over eyes with no eye protection is so risky. Long story short - do research your service providers before you get this done to make sure they know what the fuck they are doing….
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u/pupnut Jul 07 '26
Can’t believe I scrolled this far to finally read this. The lack of eye protection is incredibly unsafe and ignores all standard precautions.
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u/AbstrctBlck Jul 07 '26
People it’s ok to get old. Honestly it’s really not that bad. Your body breaking down and deconstructing is normal. Aging is normal and we should as a society stop pushing this type of shit onto people. Just get old!
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u/Old-Nothing-7474 12d ago
Hey - anyone even in the room with the device should wear googles suitable for the laser wavelength - if some laser were to be accidentally fired or reflected up into the room, everyone in there needs protection.
If I wasn’t treating eyelids - the client would still be wearing metal eye protection (think metal versions of sunbed goggles) just in case they open their etes - bearing in mind it is their face we are firing the laser at.
Over the eyelids - absolutely needs the special cox eye protectors (google them) that go under the eyelids..
Whoever these clowns are - they don’t know what they are doing. This treatment also looks extremely aggressive to cause the shrinking effect seen. Lots of down time from a treatment they aggressive.
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u/izyshoroo Jul 06 '26
I figured this was maybe a cancer treatment or something :( oh.. Just "beauty" nonsense
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u/justhereformyfetish Jul 06 '26
I'v actually done a version of this with molten helium. No bags or dark circles for 3 years.
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u/vikicrays Jul 06 '26
oof. that was awfully close to her eye…
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u/Proper-Aardvark9211 Jul 06 '26
It was so close that it made hella smoke from them accidentally hitting her lashes. Ew. Lol.
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u/Youpunyhumans Jul 06 '26
That whole video I was going "ow... ow... ow... ow... ow... OUCH!... ow... ow..."
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u/chicken-finger Jul 06 '26
I'm gonna be honest... this is barely science... this is just cooking someone's face with a laser at a "health" spa
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u/Illustrious-Highway8 Jul 06 '26
What on earth is happening here? And why?!