Melasma Treatment in Pasay: Prices and What Works | ICONIQUE
Melasma Treatment in Pasay: What Controls It, and What Sets It Off
The Bay Area is one of the sunniest, most exposed parts of Metro Manila, and it shows in what walks into this branch. People come to us after a year of the boulevard, or after a pregnancy, with patches across the cheekbones that no amount of whitening cream has moved.
Melasma is chronic. We lighten it and hold it with maintenance, and we say that at the consultation rather than selling a cure. It is symmetrical, it favours the cheekbones and upper lip, and it flares with pregnancy, hormones, sun and heat.
Two of those triggers wait for you outside the clinic door, which is why the plan has to cover your day and not only the hour you spend with us.
Managing melasma from the Bay Area
Count heat and reflected light as part of the plan
A route through the open Bay Area can expose the face before and after an appointment even when most of the day is indoors. Bring the sunscreen you actually carry, not only the one left at home, so the Pasay consultation can build reapplication into the treatment plan.
Do not book it as an ordinary brightening session
Melasma is recognised by its pattern and triggers, not by how dark it looks on one day. At MOA, ask for a plan that names heat, hormones, irritation and maintenance. If the proposal promises permanent clearance, it is describing another condition.
What a session is like
The consultation asks when it started and what your day involves in sun and heat. Those answers shape the plan more than the machine does.
Sixty minutes. Cleanse, cool, a series of deliberately light passes, then a calming serum and sunscreen before you leave. No downtime.
Sessions sit three to four weeks apart, and the change is gradual by design. Strong and fast is how melasma rebounds.
When this is the wrong treatment
Pregnancy and the months after
Melasma that arrives with pregnancy often settles once hormones do. Treating through it means fighting a trigger that is still running.
Anyone who will not use sunscreen daily
It decides the outcome more than the laser does, so we say it before you pay rather than after.
An event in three weeks
This is a months-long project. For a date that close, makeup is the honest answer.
What it costs in Pasay, 2026
Our list price is ₱14,950 for a sixty-minute session, with introductory rates running for most of the year.
Clinics around Metro Manila advertise melasma sessions from about ₱2,000. Compare the machine, the number of sessions, and whether sunscreen and hormones came up at all before the quote.
Five questions to ask any clinic, including us
Is this melasma or sun damage?
Sun spots are scattered and irregular. Melasma is symmetrical and appeared for a reason you can usually name. They are treated differently and confused constantly.
What happens if I darken after session two?
Ask before you book. The answer separates a clinic that has treated melasma from one that has only treated pigment.
What am I taking home?
Tinted sunscreen with iron oxide, reapplied through the day, and a topical that suits your skin. Without that, the course buys months and then gives them back.
What does success look like?
Lighter, more even and holding with maintenance. Not gone forever.
These are the list prices. We run promotions through most of the year, so call or message for today's rate and for course pricing. The consultation is free either way.
How far it is from where you are
Distances measured from the door, not estimated.
Inside the mall
Second floor, South Entertainment Wing. A melasma course runs over months, and an indoor clinic you already pass is the one you keep coming back to.
Bay Area, Aseana and Macapagal
A few minutes by car. Open sun and reflected light off the water are part of why this area needs the sunscreen conversation more than most.
Pasay proper and Roxas Boulevard
Ten to fifteen minutes depending on Macapagal.
Parañaque and Las Piñas
Twenty minutes or so. Parqal in Parañaque is the nearer ICONIQUE for parts of this area, though the melasma protocol runs here.
Where to find us in Pasay
2/Flr, South Entertainment Wing, Mall of Asia, Pasay City, Metro Manila.
Find ICONIQUE on the second floor of the South Entertainment Wing.
Open daily, 10:00 AM - 9:00 PM.
Call or message +63 917 623 9910. The consultation is free, and it is where we say whether this is the right treatment for your skin or whether it is not.
Our list price is ₱14,950 for a sixty-minute session, with introductory rates through most of the year. Around Metro Manila the advertised range starts near ₱2,000.
Can melasma be cured?
No. It is controlled. A course lightens it, maintenance holds it, and pregnancy or a heavy season of sun can bring it back.
Can a laser make it worse?
Yes. Heat provokes the same cells you are trying to calm, which is why the passes here are gentle and repeated rather than strong and few.
Why is mine worse in summer?
Sun and heat are both triggers, and visible light counts alongside ultraviolet. Tinted sunscreen with iron oxide covers more of that than a clear one.
Where exactly is the clinic?
Second floor, South Entertainment Wing, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City.
