Pico Toning Laser

Older pigment lasers work by heating the pigment particle until it breaks. That works, but the surrounding tissue takes the heat too, which is why heat-based toning can leave melasma worse than it found it. Ultra-short pulses change the mechanism: the energy arrives faster than heat can spread, so the particle shatters mechanically and the skin around it is barely warmed.

In practice this means we can treat pigment on skin that would not tolerate a heat-based approach — mixed melasma, sensitive or reactive skin, and areas that have already been over-treated elsewhere. It also means fewer sessions for freckling and sun spots, which typically clear in three to five.

A session takes twenty minutes. The sensation is a rapid tapping, like being flicked with an elastic band, and most patients decline numbing after the first visit. Immediately afterwards the treated spots may darken slightly and the skin looks a little flushed; both settle within a day, and superficial pigment generally flakes away over the following week.

Tattoo work runs on a different schedule — longer intervals, more sessions, and an honest conversation about which inks respond and which do not. Green and light blue are stubborn, and a tattoo that has already been treated poorly elsewhere takes longer than a fresh one.

Sun protection between sessions is not optional; it is the difference between a course that holds and a course that has to start again. We give you a written routine and check in on it at every visit.