Question:
CoolGlide Excel's high-power, long-pulse Nd:YAG technology provides practitioners with the ability to treat a full range of vascular lesions and perform permanent hair reduction on all skin types and tanned patients. The adjustable spot size feature allows the practitioner to instantly switch to a 3, 5, 7 or 10 mm spot size with a simple twist of the handpiece dial while the ClearView handpiece provides excellent visibility of the treatment area. Now treat a full range of vascular lesions from fine telangiectasia to spider veins to large, deep, reticular leg veins. Its high peak power also allows the CoolGlide® Excel to treat both fine and coarse hair. The tech also said it will go deeper then IPL. I have a good month to research this as I have just had a Starlux, but one can never learn too much lol.

Answer: It goes deeper as all yags will, which is what you want for the spider veins. Trouble is I don't know that it will do much for diffuse redness. That's why I like the Genesis because it has two settings: a yag for the spider veins and another setting for general background redness. My understanding is that Excel doesn't do this and is therefore a limited machine for rosacea treatment. If they've said it 'goes deeper than IPL' that's a bit deceptive because while true of a yag you can't treat the whole face diffuse redness with it the way you can with IPL or Genesis in paint mode. So, if you only have the spider veins with no diffuse redness then this machine might be fine for you. Unless I've got my wires crossed -- I'm working off my shonky memory here but I'm pretty sure this machine is not considered one of the forerunners in rosacea treatment but more of a specific hair removal, pigmentation, and visible vein machine.