These are the questions people put to us through the form and at the consultation, grouped the way they are asked. The price comes first because it is asked most; the figure is given in writing at the free consultation, and the rest is answered here. Call 0207 043 8149 or use the form below.
Price
How much does Lumecca cost in the UK?
Lumecca is priced per session, per area and per course, confirmed in writing at your free consultation, with a price match on any comparable written quote. Consultations and follow-up reviews are free. The written plan names the areas, the number of sessions, who assesses you, who treats you and the review.
Does the consultation cost anything?
No. Consultations and follow-up reviews are free.
Is Lumecca worth it?
For sun spots, freckles, uneven tone and facial redness on fair to olive skin, in our clinical judgment yes: a course of about three sessions clears or fades most of them. One long IPL study measured an average vessel clearance of 77.8%, and another a large drop in the doctors' score of sun damage. Our patients review the clinic on review.clinic, where it holds 4.8 out of 5 from 53 reviews. It is not cleared for wrinkles or skin tightening.
Sessions and results
How many Lumecca sessions do I need?
Usually three, about four weeks apart, in our practice, with a review three months after the last; the manufacturer's range is one to five sessions every three to four weeks, and the trials used three to four. In our experience light sun damage can clear in one or two, redness and heavier pigment take the full course.
How long do the results last?
Cleared spots and vessels seldom come back; new sun exposure makes new ones. The Lumecca rosacea study held its result for at least three months, a long IPL study of rosacea vessels found 4 of 508 treated sites recurred within about three years, and some people choose a single top-up once a year or after a summer.
When will I see the result?
The spots go darker over a few days and flake away within one to two weeks; vessels fade over the following weeks. The clearest view is a month after each session, and the review with your photographs is three months after the course.
Does Lumecca hurt?
Each flash is a bright light with a snap like an elastic band and a brief heat, and the cooled sapphire window takes the edge off. Most people have it without numbing cream in our practice. No study has scored pain for Lumecca itself, and IPL studies split on whether it hurts more than a dye laser.
Is there any downtime?
Nothing that stops your day. The skin is pink and warm for a few hours, the spots are darker and lightly crusted for a few days, and makeup can go on the next day. Keep out of the sun and wear sunscreen for the course.
What are the side effects?
Pinkness and warmth for a few hours and darkened spots that flake off within one to two weeks are the treatment working. Blistering, a change in skin colour and, rarely, scarring are the reported risks of intense pulsed light. They rise with skin type, energy and a tan. That is why the energy is set to your skin, olive skin is patch-tested, and tanned skin is not treated.
What it treats
What does Lumecca treat?
Benign pigmented lesions: freckles, sun spots, age spots, uneven tone and melasma (patchy brown pigmentation). Benign vascular lesions: thread veins of the face, trunk and legs, rosacea and its redness, spider angiomas (a red dot with fine threads around it), and the red and brown mottling of a sun-damaged chest. These are the uses it is FDA-cleared for in the US. We treat the face, the forehead, the area around the eyes, the neck, the chest and décolletage, the hands, the arms, the shoulders and the back, the abdomen, the buttocks and the legs. The pigmentation page and the rosacea page explain.
Does Lumecca cure rosacea?
No treatment cures rosacea. Lumecca clears the vessels and the fixed redness that show, in the 2026 study by about 60% on the clinician's score after three sessions, and the result is kept with a top-up when the redness returns. The rosacea page explains.
Can Lumecca treat melasma?
Melasma is on the label, but it is not the first choice: it can return, and light can darken it. The doctor assesses melasma first and treats it conservatively, if at all, and says plainly when something else is the better plan.
Can Lumecca treat the neck, chest and hands?
Yes, and in our experience the chest is one of the areas people are happiest with: the mottled red and brown of years of sun. In our practice the energy is set lower there because the skin is thinner. The neck, chest and hands pages explain each, and the neck and chest page covers them together.
Does Lumecca tighten skin or treat lines?
No. Lumecca treats colour, not structure, and it is not cleared for wrinkles or skin tightening. For lines and texture we provide Morpheus8 and Genius RF microneedling, and the clinician plans the right one at the free consultation.
Who it suits
Is Lumecca safe for dark skin?
On fair to olive skin, types I to IV, yes, with the energy set for your skin: that is where the manufacturer places it, and it is the range the IPL reviews we cite covered. On the darkest skin types, V and VI, the risk of darkening is highest, we found no Lumecca study that treated them, and in our practice we advise a different treatment.
Who should not have Lumecca?
Anyone with a current tan, or in pregnancy or breastfeeding. Anyone with a history of skin cancer, a light-sensitive condition such as lupus or epilepsy, a medicine that makes the skin sensitive to light, or isotretinoin (Roaccutane) in the last six months. Anyone with an active skin condition in the area, raised overgrown scars (keloids) or a tattoo in the treatment field. The clinician goes through the full list with you, which also covers a weakened immune system, heart conditions, poorly controlled diabetes or thyroid disease, and reduced skin sensation. Anything that has changed, grown or bled needs a dermatologist's assessment before any light is used.
Can I have Lumecca in summer?
Yes, if you can keep out of the sun. In our practice we ask for four weeks without a tan before a session and four weeks of shade and sunscreen after. That is easier from autumn to spring, and the chest and the hands are the areas that need it most.
Is Lumecca FDA approved?
It is FDA-cleared in the US, which is a clearance, not an approval, the regulator's route for a device of this kind, for benign pigmented and vascular lesions. The InMode intense pulsed light applicator was first cleared in 2013, the Lumecca name was recorded in 2022, and the current Lumecca Peak handpiece in 2025.
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Lumecca and other treatments
Lumecca or a laser?
A laser is one wavelength aimed at one target; Lumecca is a band of light that treats pigment and vessels in the same session. For a single dark spot a pigment laser can be cleaner, and for a face with mixed sun damage and redness intense pulsed light is the broader tool. The clinician says which at the consultation.
Lumecca or BBL?
Both are intense pulsed light; Lumecca is InMode's applicator and the one we treat with. The clearances on these pages are Lumecca's, and the studies are Lumecca's where named and intense pulsed light in general otherwise, and the clinician will not compare a device the clinic does not run.
Booking and the clinic
Is the clinic doctor led?
The clinic is doctor led and CQC registered, and every session is run by a trained practitioner on an InMode Lumecca applicator, with the doctor seeing any spot that needs a medical opinion first.
Where is the clinic and how do I book?
Lumecca Clinic, 130 Harley Street, London W1G 7JU, a few minutes' walk from Regent's Park and Great Portland Street stations. Call 0207 043 8149 during opening hours (Monday to Friday 9am to 7pm, Saturday 9am to 6pm) or use the form on any page at any time and we call you back.
