One laser, three depths, for face and neck

The Er:YAG laser delivers its energy in pulses, and the depth of each pulse can be tuned across a wide range. Pink uses that range as a clinical dial. Three of the four points on the dial can be booked directly. The fourth, a medium-depth peel, sits at the deepest end of the range and is offered by consultation only.

A laser skin resurfacing session is straightforward. The skin is cleansed, and the clinician passes the laser across the treatment area at the depth your modality calls for. Treatment time varies with the area and the depth, from minutes for a light SMOOTH Peel to longer for fractional or medium-depth treatments.

What recovery looks like depends on which point on the dial. A SMOOTH Peel is the lightest of the four, but it does have a recovery: the skin can feel warm and look flushed for a day or so before it settles. Micro Resurfacing is more substantial in what it lifts, but the recovery shows differently: less immediate redness, more dryness as the new surface comes through over a few days. Fractional has a real recovery: the first few days after a session ask the most of the skin as the grid heals, and the timing varies person to person. Medium-depth peels, taken by consultation, ask the most of all; the recovery is substantial and is set out in detail at the consultation, before any booking is made.

Pink recommends a post-laser facial about a week after each session, to support the skin as it settles. The facial is light, calming, and chosen to suit the modality and your skin.

Laser skin resurfacing builds its result gradually, by asking the skin to rebuild what the surface has lost. A course of sessions gives the fullest result, and Pink recommends one for any of the modalities; each session adds to the last, and the collagen response continues for weeks after the final treatment. A single session is still a real treatment, and a sound place to start if that is where you would like to begin. How many sessions you have is your choice, shaped with your clinician.

Laser skin resurfacing at Pink is one calibrated practice, not three separate treatments. Pink runs it on the Fotona SP Dynamis Pro, with the modes and handpieces for the full range: the SMOOTH mode and a patterned-spot handpiece for the lighter end, and a fractional handpiece that delivers the precise grid for Fractional treatments. The clinician chooses the depth and the modality for the skin in front of them; where the answer is a deeper peel than the configurator offers, the consultation sets that depth.

Pink's catchment is one of the most diverse parts of Melbourne, and the Fitzpatrick calibration is the daily standard across every treatment in the practice. For the lighter end (SMOOTH Peel especially), Fitzpatrick I to III is where the calibration most naturally sits. For darker or pigment-prone skin, where ablative depth has to be calibrated precisely, the clinical answer is often FracRevive: read and delivered by clinicians who treat melanin-rich skin routinely and know how it responds.

Pink's laser skin resurfacing is led by Porsha and Stephy, the senior clinicians who carry the clinic's anti-ageing treatments. Every plan begins by reading the skin, often with VISIA skin analysis, so the depth and modality are chosen on what the skin actually shows. You can meet the team on the clinicians page.