A fractional laser for skin that has changed in texture and tone

FracRevive treats the skin in a fine grid of microscopic points across the treatment area. At each point a Q-Switched laser pulse, extremely short and precise, forms a microscopic zone of treatment within the epidermis and the dermis. The skin between the points is left untouched.

Those zones set off a remodelling response. The skin reads them as something to repair, and over the weeks that follow it rebuilds: it lays down fresh collagen and reorganises the skin around each point, while the untouched skin in between carries the recovery. Across a course of sessions, texture refines and tone evens, because the skin has remodelled its own structure.

It is also why FracRevive is well suited to melanin-rich skin, and to skin that marks or pigments easily. The Q-Switched approach is non-ablative, and the wavelength it works with is one long established in treating pigment. For darker skin tones, and for skin prone to pigment settling or to marks after a treatment, that makes FracRevive a considered, calibrated choice, and often the one Pink reaches for.

A FracRevive session is straightforward. The skin is cleansed, and the clinician passes the fractional laser across the treatment area, setting out the grid of microscopic points.

FracRevive has a real recovery. The first day or two after a session ask the most of the skin, while it is reactive and beginning to heal. What stands out about FracRevive, though, is how quickly that passes: the recovery tends to move fast, and for some people the skin has settled within about forty-eight hours. Pink recommends a post-laser facial about a week after each session, to support the skin as it settles. The timing of the recovery is individual, and the first session is the one that tells the story, showing the clinician how your skin responds.

How well the skin comes through a session is not fixed. Skin that is in good condition going in, supported by home care and by any preparation a clinician advises, tends to be more resilient and to recover more easily. It is part of why FracRevive begins with a consultation: the clinician reads the skin and, where it helps, prepares it, so it is ready both for the treatment and for the recovery.

FracRevive gives its best result as a course. Because it prompts the skin to remodel and rebuild its own collagen, the result is gradual: each session builds on the last, and the skin keeps remodelling for a while after the final one. A series is what Pink recommends for the fullest, most lasting result. A single session is still a real treatment, and a sound place to begin if that is where you would like to start. How many sessions you have is your choice, shaped with your clinician.

FracRevive at Pink is not a fixed setting applied the same way to every face. Pink runs it on the Fotona StarWalker MaQX, and the clinician calibrates the treatment to the skin in front of them: how it has changed, how it is likely to respond, and how far to take each session. Where a concern calls for it, FracRevive is combined with other Fotona lasers in the same plan, among them a fractional erbium laser.

Pink's catchment is one of the most diverse parts of Melbourne, and Pink calibrates FracRevive for every Fitzpatrick type to a single standard. For deeper and pigment-prone skin, where laser settings have to be read precisely, that calibration is done by clinicians who treat melanin-rich skin routinely and know how it responds.

FracRevive is delivered by Pink's senior clinicians, Porsha and Stephy, who lead the clinic's anti-ageing treatments. Every plan begins by reading the skin, often with VISIA skin analysis, so it is built on what the skin actually shows. You can meet the team on the clinicians page.