Pico Laser and Pigmentation: What's Really Happening Under Your Skin

Older pigmentation lasers work photothermally — they heat pigment until it breaks down, which also means heating the surrounding skin, with more redness and downtime as a result. Pico Laser is photomechanical: it delivers energy in pulses measured in picoseconds (a trillionth of a second), fast enough to physically shatter pigment clusters into fragments without generating much heat at all.

Once pigment is fragmented that small, your body's own lymphatic system clears it away gradually over the following weeks — which is why results build progressively across a course of sessions rather than appearing all at once.

Our Pico Laser with ProRestore treatment pairs this with a barrier-restoring serum immediately after, since even minimal heat exposure briefly stresses the skin barrier — the ProRestore step is what keeps the treatment from leaving skin dry or reactive afterward.

It's effective on pigmentation, chloasma (melasma), and acne scarring alike, and because the pulses are so short, it works on finer pores and firming at the same time — which is why it's often the treatment we recommend alongside a brightening course rather than instead of one.