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I tested the famous LED mask Nooance Elite X600 from the French brand before it reached the United States, and I ran it for 12 weeks at 10 minute sessions 3 times a week. It is the densest LED mask I have put on my face (600 LED !), with a unique molded shell.
So here are my results with a clear Before & After, and my full review of the model 12 weeks later.
92/100
Emilie Approved since August 2026Buy it if
- You want the most complete coverage available at home, including the jawline, under the chin, the sides of the nose and the upper lip that flat LED masks leave dark.
- You want light that actually reaches your skin, because a moulded shell in contact with the face loses nothing to an air gap.
- You want a clinical study that names its laboratory, its dermatologist, its protocol number and every instrument it used.
- 10 minutes 3 times a week is the routine you will actually keep.
Skip it if
- You are shopping for blue light to work on breakouts, because this LED mask carries red and near-infrared only.
What I tested: the Nooance Elite X600 LED mask
Nooance sent me this LED mask before its US launch, so I did not pay for it, and I set up a partnership with them. If you use the code TESTEMILIE15 you get 15% off and I earn a commission. It never changes a score or a verdict.
The device is the Elite X600, with an irradiance (light power) of 50mW/cm² which puts an LED mask routine at 3 sessions a week, and that is exactly what Nooance recommends.
I took photographs on Sunday mornings, same camera, same lamp, same distance, no makeup, to compare my own Before & After. I kept my usual routine underneath: cleanser, a hydrating serum, nothing new introduced during the 12 weeks.
Results: 4.5/5
My results and Before & After
To judge the results of the Nooance LED mask with your own eyes, here are my own pictures after 12 weeks, in the same room with the same camera and the same lighting.
What changed on my face is tone and texture. My complexion is more even across the cheeks, the redness I usually carry around the nose settled, and the pores along the nose and inner cheek are visibly tighter in the same light.
It is not a huge transformation, to be fair, but I can see the improvement in the mirror and I can point at it in the photos.
Nooance trial and Before & After
What my own face cannot tell you is what this LED mask does to wrinkles, because I do not have any to work on yet. That claim rests on Nooance’s clinical study rather than on me, and the study is particularly thorough on this point, which I really appreciate.
Over 90 days on 21 women aged 35 to 65, at the same three 10 minutes sessions a week I ran, the instruments recorded :
- crow’s feet down 8%,
- nasolabial fold depth down 13%,
- skin elasticity up 23%
- and dermal density up 42%.
I trust my own photos, but what convinced me is the before and after backed by instrumental measurement, from an independent laboratory and a named dermatologist. It is the most serious study I have read on any LED mask I have tested.
Irradiance: 4.5/5
Nooance publishes an irradiance of 50 mW/cm², measured in direct contact with the skin. That condition matters, because an irradiance quoted without a distance isn’t reliable: light weakens as soon as it leaves the LED. So 50 mW/cm² at skin contact is a great performance, and most brands never measure it at all.
50 mW/cm² sits at the top of the band light therapy research generally works in, and higher wouldn’t be better here. A 10 minute session at 50 mW/cm² delivers about 30 J/cm², so roughly 90 J/cm² a week, which is inside the range the literature associates with a biological response.
By the way, a published figure measured at the skin only means something if the LED mask actually sits at the skin, and the Elite X600 LED mask does, along the jaw and under the chin as well as across the cheeks. Each LED sits close to the skin and is angled to fire perpendicular to it, instead of firing straight out of a flat plane, crossing an air gap and scattering on the way.
Coverage: 5/5
This is the best coverage I’ve seen at home. The shell is molded in 3 layers of medical silicone and it follows the face instead of bridging across it, so the sides of the nose, the upper lip, the jawline, the area under the chin and the orbital contour all get light.
Those are exactly the zones a flat panel or a rigid mask leaves in shadow, and once you’ve seen a lit LED mask from underneath you can’t unsee the difference.
The number of light points matters, because 300 of them sit close enough together that their beams overlap instead of leaving gaps on the skin, and they cover more surface at the same time.
Nooance Elite X600: 600 LEDs or 300?
There are 300 light points, and each one is dual core LED, carrying a 633 nm red die and an 830 nm near-infrared LED inside the same package, so 600 LED is true and 300 light points is also true.
I run this recount on every LED mask, because the two figures aren’t interchangeable and too many brands play with that number: they use LEDs with 5 or 6 colors and end up with fewer than 100 light points…
When I counted the diodes on the CurrentBody Series 2 (my review here), its advertised 236 LEDs turned out to sit on 110 light outputs.
Proof: 5/5
What the brand publishes
- Published: Wavelengths in nm, 633 and 830, stated to ±2 nm
- Published: Session dose calculable in J/cm², with the measurement condition stated
- Published: FDA clearance number
- Published: Clinical study run on this exact model
- Published: Study documented: 21 volunteers, 90 days, laboratory and dermatologist named
- Published: Photobiological safety: IEC 62471 exempt risk group printed in the manual, testing listed in the FDA summary
- Published: Two year warranty and documented after-sales contact
Proof: 5/5
A study run on the exact Nooance LED mask is a very good thing, because many brands do not submit their models to independent studies.
GREDECO is named, so is the dermatologist directing it, the protocol carries a number, every instrument is listed down to the model of cutometer, and the statistical method is published: Student and Wilcoxon on paired data, normality checked by Shapiro-Wilk… Alongside the instrumental readings there are macrophotographs at day 0, day 30 and day 90.
Nooance has an FDA-cleared device, under file K260150. The clearance covers an over-the-counter wearable device intended to emit red and near-infrared energy for the appearance of full-face wrinkles, and it applies to Nooance’s LED mask range, the Elite X600 included.
The applicant on that record is Nooance itself. Many other LED masks I’ve looked up were cleared under the name of the Chinese factory that assembles them, with the brand appearing nowhere in the file, so that’s a good point for Nooance.
Does Selena Gomez actually use the Nooance Elite X600?
On June 10, 2026 Selena Gomez posted a story on Instagram wearing the Elite X600, with no partnership tag and no brand mention, months before Nooance had any US presence at all. Nothing special to add, I just found it pretty interesting when I found out.
Comfort: 4.5/5
30 minutes a week is the lightest routine of any LED mask I’ve tested, and those minutes are easier to sit through than with a heavier LED mask (especially those with rigid shell). The silicone is soft, and it holds on the straps without pressing on the bridge of the nose, which is where most LED masks are uncomfortable.
Do I need the eye shields on the Nooance LED mask?
Not strictly, because there’s no blue light in this LED mask, only red and near-infrared, so there’s no risk here that would justify protective eyewear, and Nooance doesn’t make it mandatory. But I still wear the shields most of the time, because at full power in the evening the brightness leaves me with a dull eye fatigue. They’re in the box and cost nothing to use.
How slow is the charge?
The remote is the battery, and the manual asks for a full 4 hour charge before first use, and my own experience matched that closely enough. Personally I plug it in overnight every 2 weeks, so the battery never runs all the way down (which would shortens its lifespan).
Value: 4/5
The Elite X600 lists at $749.00, so it is clearly real money, but what it buys is a genuinely different object rather than a better-marketed version of the alternatives. This model has the studies, the highest LED density I have counted, an irradiance published with its measurement condition, and a shell that actually matches the face.
With my code TESTEMILIE15 you get 15% off in Nooance’s shop, which brings the Elite X600 to about $637. It works on every order with no expiration date, and I keep its conditions up to date on my Nooance discount code page.
A flat LED mask, rigid or flexible, spans across the face. It touches the forehead and the cheekbones and bridges over everything between, so the light that leaves each diode crosses an air gap before it lands, arriving weaker and more scattered, with big gaps. Here the shell follows the face with 300 light outputs.
Add a 2 year warranty, a documentation trail that runs from a named laboratory to a verifiable FDA record, and a build that has not loosened after 3 months of folding, and the price stops looking like a premium for the badge.
What holds Value at 4 rather than 5 is the price itself: at $749 this is the top of the market, and an LED mask up there has to be worth several hundred dollars more than a competent one to score full marks.
Safety & support: 4.5/5
2 years of warranty is a year more than most LED mask brands offer, the legal manufacturer is named with a postal address rather than a support form, and customer service commits to answering within 48 business hours.
The manual carries a full contraindication list instead of a single line of legal cover, eye protection ships in the box, and the 90 day study reports zero adverse events with dermatological supervision throughout.
The eye safety paperwork is complete too. The manual classifies the LED mask as exempt group under IEC 62471:2006, the standard for how safe a light source is to look at, and the FDA summary of K260150 lists that test among the ones run on this model. Exempt is the lowest risk group the standard has, which matches a red and near-infrared device with no blue light and shields in the box.
Would the Nooance Elite X600 pass in Europe?
It is already sold there, which is what makes the comparison interesting. The manual inside the box, the same document in 5 languages for the same hardware, describes the device as a cosmetic, non-medical appliance for home use. The American product page opens with FDA-cleared.
Europe has no equivalent file for a cosmetic light appliance, so the identical LED mask arrives under a CE mark and a manual that declines the medical label. The American buyer gets the more informative of the two documents.
Who shouldn’t buy the Nooance Elite X600
Skip this one if you recognize yourself
- You are shopping for an LED mask to work on breakouts. There is no blue light here, only 633 nm and 830 nm, and the clearance covers the appearance of wrinkles. Buying this one for acne means paying $749 for wavelengths chosen for something else.
- You take medication that causes light sensitivity, or you have a suspicious or precancerous lesion. Nooance’s own manual says to consult a doctor before using the device in both cases, and not to use it at all with an active cancer or cancerous lesion. Those are their instructions, not my advice.
- You know you will not hold 3 sessions a week for 3 months. Every result on this page, mine and the study’s, comes from ninety days of consistency. No LED mask at any price returns anything to an occasional user, whatever it cost you.
Am I still using the Nooance Elite X600?
Updated August 2026. Yes, 3 evenings a week. It stayed on the shelf by my mirror when the test ended instead of going back into its bag, and it is currently the LED mask I reach for over everything else in the drawer.
What I still want to know about Nooance LED mask
Whether the 90 day figures hold at 6 months, since every study on LED masks stops exactly where the interesting question starts. But I will update you after 1 year of using the Nooance LED Mask on my Youtube channel, so make sure to subscribe!
Nooance Elite X600 LED mask: your questions
Is the Nooance Elite X600 FDA cleared?
Yes. The file is K260150, and the applicant is Nooance itself rather than a factory, which is rare. It clears an over-the-counter wearable device intended to emit red and near-infrared energy for the appearance of full-face wrinkles. Cleared means the FDA accepted a substantial equivalence argument against an existing device, and it is not the same thing as FDA approved.
Does the Nooance Elite X600 really have 600 LEDs?
It has 600 diodes across 300 physical emitters, because each emitter is dual core and carries a 633 nm red die and an 830 nm near-infrared die in the same package. Both figures are true, and Nooance publishes the dual-core design in its own FAQ, which most brands counting diodes do not.
Is 50 mW/cm² powerful enough?
Yes, and more would not help. 10 minutes at 50 mW/cm² delivers about 30 J/cm² per session, which sits inside the range the research associates with a response rather than past it. Nooance also publishes the condition the figure was measured under, a device in direct contact with the skin, which is the half of the number most brands leave out.
Do I need to wear the eye shields?
Not strictly, since there is no blue light in this LED mask and Nooance does not make them mandatory. I wear them anyway, because at full power the brightness leaves me with a dull eye fatigue that lasts into the evening.
How long before I saw anything on my skin?
I could photograph the difference at the end of the 12 weeks, on tone and on the pores along my nose. Nooance’s study reports its first instrumental changes at day 30 and its full results at day 90, on 3 sessions a week.
Test log
- Exact model
- Nooance Elite X600, US version. Instruction manual version A3, dated 2026/04/14
- How I got it
- Sent by Nooance ahead of the US launch, not paid for. Partnership and discount code TESTEMILIE15 set up after the test was finished
- Test window
- 12 weeks, 3 sessions a week
- Sessions
- 36 sessions of 10 minutes, 6 hours total under the LED mask, at the frequency the manual recommends
- Eye protection
- Shields worn for most sessions, by choice rather than by instruction
- Photo protocol
- Same camera, same lamp at the same height, same distance, Sunday mornings, no makeup, no filter
- Study consulted
- GREDECO, protocol D125.9.25, 90 days, 21 volunteers aged 35 to 65, 3 sessions of 10 minutes a week, published by Nooance
- Price checked
- $749.00 list
About Emilie
I have tested LED masks since 2023. I buy the devices, use them for weeks, and read the spec sheets nobody reads, because this market runs on numbers most brands never publish. Not a dermatologist, and I say so whenever a question needs one.
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