I made the device I couldn’t buy.
For years I paid for salon laser: the appointments, the rebooking, the flinch before every pulse. Then I bought the at-home devices, and they stung or they died early. I kept asking the same question. Why couldn’t this be comfortable, precise, and worth keeping?
Every option made me compromise.
Salon laser worked, but it cost a fortune and ran on someone else’s calendar. The home devices were cheaper and mine, but the good ones hurt and the comfortable ones did little. Nobody had built one without a trade-off.
So I stopped waiting for it.
I started with the cold, then built everything else around it.
Comfort came first.
I didn’t want a gadget I’d replace in a year. I wanted one object: cold enough to use at full strength without bracing, precise enough for my face, finished well enough to leave on the counter.
Every choice in the Pearl 01 comes from that list. The full build is on the engineering page.
Why Vienna.
I named the house after a city that took beauty seriously enough to make it by hand, in gold, over time.
I named the device Pearl. I’ll keep that meaning to myself.
— Marlene Hofer, Founder
