Redness & vessels
Vascular Laser
KTP 532nm for fixed facial vessels, rosacea erythema and the broken capillaries that no cream has ever reached.
- Price
- £395 a session
- Appointment
- 30 minutes
- Sessions
- Two or three, six weeks apart
- Downtime
- Two days of swelling; vessels darken before they clear
Single vessels under 2cm treated at £120 as a standalone visit.
A 532nm KTP laser is absorbed by oxyhaemoglobin, which is a precise way of saying it heats the blood inside a vessel until the vessel wall collapses and the body clears it. It does nothing for flushing, nothing for papules, and a great deal for the fine red lines beside your nose that you have been covering for a decade.
The distinction that decides whether this works
Press a glass slide against the redness. If it blanches completely and refills slowly, you have flushing — vasomotor, not structural — and laser will disappoint you. If a thread stays visible under pressure, it is a fixed vessel, and this is the treatment for it.
We do this test at the consultation, before anyone has paid for a laser session.
What the appointment is like
Eye shields on, cooling on, and a series of short pulses that feel like a hot elastic band. Thirty minutes covers a full face; a nose alone takes eight. There is no anaesthetic and none is needed.
The vessels go grey or darken to a fine purple line immediately. That is the treatment working, and it is also why nobody books this the day before a wedding. Swelling peaks at about eighteen hours and is gone by day three.
Sessions and cost
Most faces need two sessions; heavier telangiectasia needs three. £395 each, paid on the day. If a single vessel comes back — and one in six does within two years — we treat it as a standalone £120 visit rather than restarting a course.