When you first visit us at Light Fantastic you will be greeted by our professional and experienced staff, this visit will be for a free consultation which is important to assess if the treatment is going to be effective for individual skin/hair type. (White, grey and blonde hair has no or very little melanin so treatment is not very successful, there is now a dye available to combat this problem.) We would advise clients to leave the hair long enough for us to be able to assess the thickness and colour so they can then shave the area themselves at home before their first treatment. Once treatment has been decided and health has been assessed we will then do a skin test, at Light Fantastic we will never treat anyone with IPL until a skin test has been done. (There is a charge for the skin test but this is refundable on the first treatment).

We would advise the client to have a course of 3-6 treatments with 6-8 weeks intervals in between for the best results. The area to be treated is covered with a thick gel the applicator is pressed against the skin and in one flash the hair removal treatment in that area is complete, the applicator is then moved and the next area is treated, this is repeated until the whole area needing treatment has been covered. We would have informed the client at the consultation to avoid sun exposure, including sun beds, 30 days prior to treatment and 30 days after treatment, it would be best for the client to avoid sun exposure completely during treatment if possible. A good indication that the treatment has been successful can be by the appearance of a red ring around the follicle or the hair may become loose and be easily removed with tweezers. Hairs will start to shed/fall out 1-3 weeks after treatment as the epidermis is renewed. This can be aided by exfoliating the area.

As with hair removal there will be a consultation and skin test prior to any skin rejuvenation treatment. A full face treatment with Ellipse takes less than 20 minutes and the client should expect to have 1-3 treatments (depending on the amount of skin damage) before they obtain the desired results.

How Ellipse treatment works