Redness, visible vessels, and uneven pigment.
The Candela Nordlys®, a hybrid platform: intense pulsed light for pigment and superficial vessels, a 1064 nm Nd:YAG for the deeper and larger ones, and a non-ablative fractional laser for collagen, scars, and texture. Used alone, or layered with PicoWay across a multi-session course.
The skin will be red and slightly warm for 24–48 hours. Small darker spots may appear over treated pigmentation; they shed within 5–10 days. Fractional patterns may be visible under close inspection for 2–3 days.
Pigmented spots will look darker, almost coffee-coloured, for 5 to 10 days, then flake off. That darkening is the spot lifting out; it is expected. Vascular work on capillaries or redness sometimes leaves a small bruise that fades inside a week.
No, not the same day. The skin will feel warm and red for the first evening; leave it alone overnight, and from 24 hours light mineral make-up is fine.
Eventually, yes. Rosacea is a chronic vascular tendency, not a stain you wipe off, and it has triggers: sun and UV exposure, spicy food, hot drinks, alcohol, stress. Two to four sessions usually clear most of the visible redness; a maintenance session, typically every 12 to 18 months, keeps it quiet, and avoiding your triggers stretches the interval. There is no permanent cure.
Yes. Nordlys covers Fitzpatrick I to VI — what changes with darker skin is which applicator I use, not whether I treat you. Pulsed light does most of the work on lighter types; higher up the scale the Nd:YAG and the fractional laser carry it, at settings chosen for your skin and after a test area. I will still tell you straight when another device is the better answer for what you came in with.
Rosacea, capillaries, inflammatory acne, sun damage: 2 to 4. Combined photorejuvenation: a protocol of 3, spaced 4 weeks apart. You'll see the first change after the first session, but the durable result builds across the series.
Usually, yes. On acne-prone or congested skin, a treatment that speeds up renewal can push existing microcomedones to the surface: a short-lived crop of small pimples, sometimes called purging. It settles on its own within days. If it is painful, spreading, or still there after two weeks, send a message.