“That is expensive.” It is the most common reaction to a laser hair removal price, and it makes sense: you are comparing a single amount to spending that is invisible because it is spread out. Let us do the sum honestly, over ten years, in money and in time.
What the razor really costs
A razor feels free because you buy it in small doses. In practice, for someone shaving legs and underarms twice a week, you have to count the replacement blades — by far the main item — plus gel or foam, and the moisturiser that shaving makes necessary.
Depending on the brand and frequency, that commonly comes to a few dozen to well over a hundred euros a year. Over ten years you easily reach the order of a thousand euros, spent without ever noticing.
Add what never appears on any bill: ingrown hairs, redness, nicks, and stubble that itches after two days.
Waxing, at home or in a salon
At home, strips or pots cost less, but the result is rarely complete and you have to start again often.
In a salon it is another budget entirely. Full legs and bikini commonly runs to several dozen euros, and you have to go back every three to four weeks to keep the result. Do the multiplication: twelve to fifteen appointments a year, for ten years. You go well beyond the cost of a full laser protocol, and you have acquired nothing lasting — the day you stop, it all comes back.
What the laser costs
With us a protocol is counted in sessions, not in subscriptions. A few examples from our price list:
- Underarms: €45 per session.
- Classic bikini: €56 · full: €95.
- Half legs: €145 · full legs, feet included: €278.
- Men’s back: €150 · chest: €110.
Count on 6 to 8 sessions on the body, then nothing at all for years on most areas. It is an investment with an end date: it has a beginning and a finish, unlike the razor and the wax.
The item everyone forgets: time
Take someone who shaves for ten minutes, twice a week. That is roughly a little over seventeen hours a year spent in the shower doing something you did not choose. Over ten years, that approaches seven full days.
A laser protocol, by contrast, is six to eight appointments spread over a year, from a few minutes to under an hour each depending on the area. Then you stop thinking about it.
That calculation appears on no quotation, and yet it is the one our clients mention most when we ask them, a year on, what has changed.
Three things to know before comparing
The laser is not a subscription. You pay for sessions, not a monthly commitment. You can stop, resume, add an area.
Some areas need maintenance. The face and beard are hormone-dependent: after the initial protocol, expect an occasional session. On legs or underarms, that is much rarer.
The result depends on your hair. On white or very light hair the laser does not work, and the sum above does not apply — we say so at the assessment rather than afterwards. That is the subject of our article on blonde and red hair.
The right way to decide
Do not compare a laser price to a pack of blades: compare it to what you are going to spend anyway over the next ten years, plus the time you will put in.
At the first appointment, which is free, we give you a number of sessions and a total for your particular case. You leave with a figure, not a range — and you can do the sum at home, in your own time.
Book an appointment in Uccle, Etterbeek or Watermael-Boitsfort.
