ZOOM! teeth whitening

as seen on extreme makeover
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that is what i got today,
i have been self conscious about my teeth since... always.
even now after this i am wanting to go back for braces- you will understand in a moment when you see the pix.

before hand you want to brush/floss your teeth as well as you can. they do NOT clean your teeth before you get it unless you want to schedule and pay for that too.
and you also want to dress nicely. never go out without looking decent, you never know who you'll run in to.

i didn't run into anyone-
except a old lady in her 90s that liked my shoes.
B]

the proses is fairly simple, and not painful for me.
[though i have pain now. will explain later~]
they start by moisturizing your lips and putting a little sunscreen on your nose/around your mouth. followed by giving you true cotton mouth-
now i have never smoked weed, so i have never felt "cotton mouth" that way. but this cotton mouth wasn't so bad. it was a little dry but very easily bearable. i didn't mind it.
next they put liquid plastic on your gums, hiding any tissue that is not covered by the cotton.

they then harden it with a light to make it look like the above.
my mom was like "why do you want pix of this?" i was like "because it's important that i get laughed at >X"
i actually think i look pretty cool.
O w O

next they put a tooth conditioner on your teeth, followed by the whitening gel.
and then, finally, this has taken about an hour so far, you get the light.

it gets really hot but doesn't hurt. not for me at least. some people experience sensitivity during the proses.

for 15 i sat there with my arms in the air holding my iPod up so i could watch music videos,
then the light turns off and she takes off the whitening gel- reapplies the conditioner and gel- and the light is back on.
she repeats this one more time after the 15 minutes are up.
again another 15 minutes and i'm done~

i went up 7 shades, i am no longer a person with any shade of natural colored teeth.

before

after

[about me wanting braces, my front two teeth aren't perfectly straight anymore. i want it fixed]

i am very pleased.
you can see where my braces covered when i had them, but it should even out in the next few days.

another thing i am going to deal with for the next few days is- zingers.
a "zinger" is a jolt of pain that the cause is not really known. it just feels like a zap and then it is gone.
you don't know when it will come or why- it just does.

they said it should stop within the next couple of days.
or 4-6 hours.
it's not terrible.
but it does hurt.
:C

that's all- i will go bake my cake now and update later.
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