Lumea IPL All series

How to get started with your new Lumea IPL

Step 3: Perform a treatment

By Philips

28/07/2026

1-5 min. read

Using Lumea IPL 9900 in face

Test your skin’s reaction before treating a new body area or after exposing your skin to sunlight unprotected

Step 1: Follow the steps in section ‘Prepare for treatment

Step 2: Check your Lumea for damage and dirt.

Step 3: Attach the right attachment.

Click on the attachment for the area you want to treat.

Step 4: Make yourself comfortable before you start the treatment.

It is recommended to use Lumea out of direct sunlight. The sunlight can influence the SmartSkin sensor.

Step 5: Plug in. Press the power button.

The 5 light intensity indicators above the power button will light up continuously from left to right and back, until you place Lumea on your skin.

Step 6: Select setting

Press the power button to toggle through the settings and select your highest comfortable setting that did not result in any skin reactions.

Step 7: Begin treatment.

Place Lumea on your skin. The ready-to-flash light will light up white.

Step 8: Flash. Then move.

DO NOT continue the treatment if you experience pain. Reduce the light intensity setting or stop using Lumea.

DO NOT flash the same spot multiple times during a treatment. The surface of the attachment should overlap the previous spot to make sure you flash the complete skin area, but treating the same area multiple times does not increase performance.

Press the flash button. Move to an adjacent spot and flash again.

Step 9: Treat another body area

DO NOT start or resume using Lumea within 4 weeks after exposing your skin to sunlight unprotected (natural sun or tanning bed) or within 2 weeks after artificial tanning (creams, sprays or pills).

Do a skin test before starting/ resuming your treatment, see section ‘Test your skin’.

Step 10: Finished. Turn off and unplug

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