For olive, brown and deep skin, tones III to VI.Dark spots have three causes. Serums treat one. EVENA treats all three, in two minutes a day.
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Visible by week 4. Most of the fading is done by week 16.
The signal from underneath is blocked and daylight stops re-darkening them.
Nothing bleaches the skin around the spot. Nothing strips the barrier.
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Two bottles of the serum everyone recommends, and nothing changed. It isn't you. On olive, brown and deep skin, three things keep a dark spot alive. Treat one and the other two bring it back.
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Inside the spot, the pigment cells make too much. This is the only cause most serums treat, usually at half the trial dose.
Hormones and small blood vessels in the deeper skin tell those cells to keep going. Serums don't reach it, so the spot re-forms from below.
Visible light, not just UV, re-darkens the spot on olive, brown and deep skin.7 Clear sunscreen only blocks UV.
South Asian, Latina, Middle Eastern and North African, Southeast and East Asian, Black, mixed and Mediterranean skin. What the studies show about your tone.
A mark from ordinary daylight can last three months. No sunburn needed.11
Your shade · 01 Medium
Up to 1 in 3 women have melasma in some brown-skin populations, the highest rates measured anywhere.9
Your shade · 02 Medium-deep
Hydroquinone can permanently stain deep skin blue-black with long use.14 EVENA uses none.
Your shade · 03 Deep or 04 Rich
Fair skin with melasma? It still works. The actives don't care about tone; the sunscreen shades simply start at olive.
Each product treats one cause, at the dose used in its clinical trial. Hover a product to see its texture.
Treats cause 01. Lowers pigment production: hydroquinone’s effect without its bleaching or rebound. Apply to clean skin, leave 15 minutes, rinse off. Nothing strong stays on overnight.
Treats cause 02. Tranexamic acid blocks the signal from underneath, azelaic acid calms the inflammation that leaves marks, niacinamide stops pigment spreading and rebuilds the barrier. Four drops on the spots and around them.
Treats cause 03. Iron oxides are the only sunscreen ingredient that blocks visible light, the daylight that re-darkens spots. Four shades from olive to deep, no white cast.
No hydroquinone, retinoid, acid peel or fragrance.
The night cream is on for 15 minutes, then washed off.
5% niacinamide strengthens the barrier while the actives work. Reactive skin: every other night for two weeks.
Every number on this page comes from a peer-reviewed trial of the ingredient at the dose EVENA uses, listed in the trial register below with journal, size and duration.
Hydroquinone results without hydroquinone: 12 weeks of tranexamic acid 5%, head to head.
Banihashemi 20154Extra fading with a tinted mineral sunscreen instead of a clear one.
Castanedo-Cazares 20141No risk of the permanent staining hydroquinone can leave on deep skin.
Levin & Maibach 200114How much melasma faded in 8 weeks1 RCT · double-blind · n=68 · 8 wk
Castanedo-Cazares et al. 2014 · 68 women with melasma, skin tones III to V
Visible light left lasting marks on skin types IV to VI, none on type II.
Mahmoud et al. 20107Blocking visible light cut melasma relapses in the months after.
Boukari et al. 20158| Ingredient | Study | Design | n | Duration | Result |
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| Cysteamine 5% | Mansouri 20152 | RCT · double-blind · placebo | 50 | 16 wk | Melasma score roughly halved vs placebo, no bleaching of surrounding skin |
| Cysteamine 5% | Farshi 20183 | RCT · placebo | 40 | 16 wk | Significant fading vs placebo, measured by colorimeter |
| Tranexamic acid 5% | Banihashemi 20154 | RCT · vs hydroquinone 4% | 60 | 12 wk | 46% vs 45% fading, equal to hydroquinone with fewer side effects |
| Niacinamide 4% | Navarrete-Solís 20115 | RCT · split-face · vs hydroquinone | 27 | 8 wk | Comparable to hydroquinone, markedly fewer side effects |
| Azelaic acid 20% | Baliña & Graupe 19916 | RCT · vs hydroquinone 4% | 329 | 24 wk | Matched hydroquinone 4% over 24 weeks |
| Tinted SPF (iron oxides) | Castanedo-Cazares 20141 | RCT · double-blind · tinted vs clear | 68 | 8 wk | Tinted SPF 78% fading vs clear SPF 62%, same treatment |
| Visible light | Mahmoud 20107 | Controlled exposure study | 20 | 2 wk | Lasting pigment on skin types IV to VI, none on type II |
| Visible-light SPF | Boukari 20158 | Prospective randomised | 40 | 6 mo | Fewer melasma relapses with visible-light protection |
| Compared with | EVENA | "Dark spot" serums | Prescription hydroquinone | Laser / IPL |
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| Treats all three causes | Yes | One, sometimes two | One | Removes pigment, leaves the causes |
| Blocks visible light, not just UV | Yes | – | – | – |
| Safe to keep using on brown and deep skin | Yes | Usually | 3 to 5 months maximumrisk of permanent staining | Often makes it darkeron deeper skin |
| Stays gone | While you keep the routine | Rarely | Comes back when you stop | Often comes back |
| What it costs | $69 / montheverything, delivered | $60 to 150 / monthacross 2 to 4 products | $60 to 150 + doctor visits | $1,500 to 4,000+per course |
What twelve weeks look like on olive, brown and deep skin.
The sunscreen blocks visible light from day one.
Edges fade first, then the centre.
Spots close to your surrounding skin tone.
Most of the fading is done.
Same box; the night cream drops to three nights a week.
Six randomised trials of the exact actives at the exact doses, run on olive, brown and deep skin, published in the journals below. The full register with authors, sizes and durations is at the bottom of the page.
One box a month: the night cream, the morning serum, the sunscreen in your shade and the week-by-week card. $34.50 for the first month, then $69. Cancel anytime.
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No. Melasma, sun spots and the marks acne leaves behind all come from the same three causes, in different proportions. Patches on the cheeks, upper lip, around the mouth or forehead that get worse with sun, heat or hormones are melasma and take the full 16 weeks. Sun spots and acne marks usually fade faster.
Olive, brown and deep skin, tones III to VI. That means South Asian, Latina, Middle Eastern and North African, Southeast and East Asian, Black, mixed and Mediterranean skin. If you're fair-skinned with melasma it will still work; the sunscreen shades simply start at olive.
It was designed for it. No hydroquinone, no retinoid, no peel: the ingredients most likely to make dark spots worse on deeper skin are left out. The night cream is on for 15 minutes, then rinsed off. The sunscreen is tinted to four shades from olive to deep, so it disappears instead of turning grey.
Because one bottle can't do three opposite jobs. The night cream has to go on and be rinsed off. The sunscreen has to stay on all day and be tinted. The serum sits in between. Put them in one bottle and each job gets done badly, which is what you've been buying. So it is three products, but one two-minute routine, and it arrives as one box.
No acids that peel, no retinoid, no hydroquinone, no fragrance. The night cream is rinsed off after 15 minutes. The serum contains 5% niacinamide precisely to strengthen your barrier while the other actives work. If your skin is reactive, use the night cream every other night for the first two weeks; the card shows you how.
Gently stretch the skin under your eye. If the darkness stays, it is pigment, and the serum and the sunscreen can be used there. If it fades, it is shadow or blood vessels. No cream fixes that, and we would rather tell you than sell to you.
Use the morning serum and the sunscreen: tranexamic acid, azelaic acid, niacinamide and a mineral sunscreen are all routinely used in pregnancy. Skip the night cream until after breastfeeding, and check with your doctor as you would with any skincare.
What arrives never changes: the same three products, at the same price, on the same day. After week 16 you use the night cream three nights a week instead of every night. That is the only difference. Pause, skip or cancel from your account in two clicks; there is no minimum. Most people stay because stopping is how the spots come back.
No. Nothing in it bleaches skin. The actives bring over-active pigment cells back down to normal. Your colour stays your colour; it just stops being interrupted by spots.