It just happened to me too ,two weeks ago.  I am so depressed about that.  Most of my face is okay except my cheen.  There are bunch of brown spot where I had a perfect skin before.  I had a brown spot on my cheeks and that is why I tried the laser procedure and it did not help at all.  It hurted so much during procedure and I should known that they were burning my face.  The next day, I woke up with hundreds of dark brown scabs on my face and I was just in shock.  The lady told me before the procedure, my face will be just little bit red for a few hours, not anything with scabs.It took almost one week for the scabs on my face went away. 

Anyway,The person who did my face gave me the fading cream for me to put it on my face and she is very sure that it will all go away.  I am going to start to use the cream starting today and I hope it really works.  I know how you feel....