Initial Use; Step 1: Check Whether The Beurer Velvet Skin Pro Is Suitable For You; Step 2: Skin Sensitivity Test - Beurer IPL 8500 Velvet Skin Pro Gebrauchsanweisung

4. Battery status indicator – This display provides information about the battery charge status:
• Red – Battery charging.
Note: If the light for energy level 1 illuminates in addition to this red light, the device is switched on.
• Green – The battery is completely charged and the device is connected to the external power sup-
ply.
• Red, flashing slowly – Low battery charge status (approximately 30 per cent).
• Red, flashing quickly – Very low battery charge status (approximately 10 per cent).
Note: The battery charge display only illuminates green or only flashes red if the device is switched
on.
5. Indicator lamp – This display on the rear of the device features several different status lights (see fol-
lowing table).
Display
Illuminated, green
Lit up, orange
Lit up, red
Flashing, orange
Illuminated, red

7. Initial use

STEP 1: Check whether the beurer Velvet Skin Pro is suitable for you

WARNING
Before using the beurer Velvet Skin Pro for the first time, check whether the device is suitable for you.
To check whether the beurer Velvet Skin Pro is suitable for you, read Chapter "4. Warnings and safety
notes" and determine which light intensities are best suited to your skin and your body hair and whether
this method is suitable for you to use at all (if not, this is marked by an 'x' in the chart) on the basis of
the "Hair and skin colour chart" on the back page of these instructions for use.

STEP 2: Skin sensitivity test

WARNING
Perform a skin sensitivity test before using the beurer Velvet Skin Pro.
The aim of the skin sensitivity test is to determine how your skin reacts to treatment using the beurer
Velvet Skin Pro. Furthermore, it helps you to set the optimum energy level for each treatment zone.
Perform a skin sensitivity test on every area of skin that you would like to treat 48 hours prior to the
complete treatment.
Note
In the case of facial treatment, the skin sensitivity test should be performed on an area without hair,
such as below the ear or on the side of the neck.
Mode
On.
Triggering (light
pulse) is blocked.
Triggering (light
pulse) is blocked.
Indication of end
of the operating
life.
End of the opera-
ting life reached.
Ready for light pulse. No lights light up when issuing a light
pulse or between light pulses.
The device does not issue a light pulse due to insufficient
skin contact.
The device does not emit a pulse due to an impermissible
skin tone (high Fitzpatrick value as per note on the back
page of the instructions for use).
Indicates the operating life of the flashing light will soon
end.
The device is permanently blocked, the flashing light has
reached its illumination limit, an internal fault has occurred
or the treatment window is not properly positioned on the
device.
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