Every device we own is chosen because it is safe on Fitzpatrick IV to VI — the skin types almost every laser in this city was never designed for. Take the two-minute assessment and you will see the protocol we would actually put you on, what it costs, and what it will not fix.
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Melanin absorbs light. That is the whole problem. Devices calibrated for pale European skin read your pigment as the target and deliver the energy into it — which is how a hair-removal session ends in a burn, and how a pigmentation treatment leaves you darker than it found you. The condition even has a name we say too often in this country: post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation.
So we ask your Fitzpatrick type before we ask your budget, and we bought our equipment in that order too.
Rarely burns, tans easily. Tolerates more, but still pigments after inflammation — we drop fluence and lengthen intervals.
The most common type through our doors. Responds beautifully to the right wavelength and punishes the wrong one for months.
Never a candidate for IPL or alexandrite in our rooms. Nd:YAG only, low fluence, and a test patch before every first session.
The long wavelength travels past the melanin in your epidermis and does its work deeper down. It is the only laser platform with a genuine safety record across types V and VI, and it is what we use for hair reduction, pigment toning and vascular work alike.
Energy is delivered by insulated needles below the surface, so the pigment-bearing layer is never heated. That makes it the one resurfacing option we are comfortable offering on deep skin for scarring and texture.
Broad-spectrum light and 755 nm are excellent tools on pale skin and a genuine hazard on ours. Several clinics in Abuja run them on everybody because one machine is cheaper than two. We would rather send you elsewhere than own one.
We treat pigment disorders. We do not lighten healthy skin, and a large share of our clinical work is repairing the thinning, telangiectasia and steroid dependence left by creams bought in the open market.
Nothing here works in a single visit, so nothing here is sold as one. Prices below are complete course prices — every session, every review, and the prescription-grade homecare that does half the work between visits. If you finish a course and the agreed endpoint has not moved, the next course is on us.
Low-fluence Nd:YAG toning every three weeks, layered with prescription azelaic acid and oral tranexamic acid where indicated. Strict daily SPF is not optional — it is the treatment.
Mandelic and salicylic peels with blue-light LED, stepped up in strength as tolerance builds. We treat the acne first and the marks second — the reverse order is why most people's marks keep coming back.
Insulated RF microneedling at depths mapped to your scar type — rolling, boxcar and ice-pick all want different settings, and treating them identically is why results disappoint.
Microfocused ultrasound to the SMAS layer, with RF to the surface at week six. Collagen remodels slowly; the honest photograph is taken at day 90, not day 7.
Supervised steroid withdrawal, barrier rebuilding and absolutely no energy device for the first twelve weeks. It is the least glamorous thing we do and the one we are most often thanked for.
Nd:YAG 1064 nm only, with a test patch two weeks before session one. Slower than the alexandrite everyone advertises, and the reason our patients still have even skin tone afterwards.
A clinic that says yes to everything is telling you something. Roughly one consultation in six ends with us declining to treat — and we would rather you read that here than discover it after paying.
We will treat melasma, PIH and pigment disorders. We will not make even, healthy skin lighter, at any price, and asking will end the consultation politely.
Hydroquinone and unlabelled steroid creams thin the skin and change how it absorbs energy. We wait, and we check, before any device touches you.
Peels and most of our device work are also paused. We will keep your file open and pick it up when you are ready.
Each of these changes how skin heals. Keloid-prone patients get a very different plan from us, or none at all — that conversation happens at consult, not mid-course.
Suspicious lesions, severe eczema and autoimmune presentations belong with a hospital dermatology service. Dr. Bello will write the referral herself.
Collagen does not read calendars. If your date does not fit the biology we will tell you so, and we will not take the money.
Appointments are spaced so you do not meet the patient before you. Every laser session is run with a trained safety officer in the room, eyewear on both sides of the handpiece, and settings recorded on your file so session six is a deliberate step up from session one rather than a guess.
The person who assesses you at consult is the person holding the handpiece at session one, and they are still here at session six. In aesthetics that is rarer than it should be.
FMCP, with a laser surgery fellowship focused on skin of colour. Sets every device parameter used in these rooms and reviews every file before a course closes. Sees consults Tuesday and Thursday.
Injectables and the Lift Protocol. Trained in Lagos and Seoul; known in the clinic for talking more people out of filler than into it, which is exactly why he was hired.
Runs the Clearance and Barrier Repair programmes. Eleven years on Nigerian skin and a very low tolerance for a routine with nine steps in it.
Present for every device session without exception. Keeps the parameter log, runs the test patches, and has the authority to stop a treatment that anyone else has cleared.
A consult runs forty minutes. You get imaging, a Fitzpatrick assessment, a written protocol with a real price, and an honest answer about what will not work. ₦55,000, taken off your first course if you start within sixty days — and no pressure to start one at all.
