I have a bit of a problem with a graze I had on my face. Let me explain what happened first. I was at a party and the theme was 'tribal', later on in the night the host was going round putting face paint on people, except it wasn't face paint, it was henna! At the time I didn't know this so when it was time to leave I was in the bathroom trying to clean it off and of course it wouldn't come off! I was pretty drunk by this point and thought it would be a good ideo to grab a brush and scrub as hard as I could. This resulted in me cutting and grazing both cheeks quite badly the next day I looked awful as if I'd come of a motorbike and landed on my face. Luckily I put vaseline on it everyday and within a week it had scabbed over and healed. However once the scabs had come off there were red blotches on each of my cheeks, at first I thought they would fade but has now been 6 weeks and they seem to look the same. I have been putting vitamin E cream on almost everyday and I'm getting worried that it will never go

Any advice?

It seems that Henna stain can last a month. I hope that you breaking the skin hasn't permanently '' tattooed '' the skin.

I have a mark on my hand that has been there for 20 yrs that is now a tattoo, from a colour used at work that got into broken skin.

The henna ink was black and these blotches are ready so I'm hoping its just some kind of tissue damage that will heal, would like to speed it up a bit though!

Can anyone recommend a skin doctor?

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Don't know a skin doctor, but try to get hold of some Tea Tree cream for acne. It's the Australian variety made by Thursday Plantation. There is American tea tree stuff around , but not so good. But once it heals it may take time before your skin regenerates with clear tissue. Try Fascino, or Body Shop.

Get Active U M F Manuka honey +15 or stronger from New Zealand

Go to the hospital and see a dermatologist before this becomes permanent. Henna isn't black so maybe you've gotten something else in there or scarred the subcutaneous tissue. What I can tell you, as a doctor, is that none of the advice you'll get on this board will help EXCEPT go see a derm specialist.

ok thanks, where is there a good derm doctor?

Dr Nussra at Bumrungrad has gotten positive reviews from some members

I'd like to recommend Associate Prof Pravit Assawanonda at Bumrungrad. He's great.

Igor and with the greatest respect , the manuka UMF grade honey mentioned by the earlier poster has been subject to separate studies at the Universities of Dresden, Bristol , Waikato and others . It is highly regarded as a healing agent for skin repair. You may not have been aware that the plastic surgeons operating on burnt pilots as far back as World War 2 used honey as a skin restorer. Nowadays the appropriately prepared honey based solution is expensive and hard to procure, being its only drawback.