Hair removal is one of the few beauty categories in Singapore where the advertised price and the price you actually pay differ by a factor of five. The trial rate is real, but it applies once, to one body part, to first-timers only, and the maintenance price afterwards is what decides whether the whole thing was worth it. So we did the boring part: we read the price lists on all seven chains' own websites, re-checked every one on 7 September 2026, pulled Strip's and Musee's live product catalogues straight off their stores, and cross-checked every outlet against each brand's own store locator. Nothing moved on price this time: every figure below re-verified unchanged, including Wellaholic's flat S$55 small-area session, its Lifetime Maintain Mode that drops you to S$49 a session for good after 12 sessions on one area, and its S$399 one-off lifetime unlimited underarms, still the cheapest way in Singapore to stop paying for underarm hair removal altogether. Three things around the prices did move. Only Aesthetics' Wheelock Place branch page, which returned a 404 in August, loads again, and the branch is listed with hours and a phone number, though the separate outlets finder still leaves it out. Strip's "up to 30% off" turns out to be a badge on individual AFT product cards rather than a site-wide sale, and the multi-session discount behind it is still a flat 15 percent. And MODE has added LUCENT BEAM, a second hair-removal line it publishes no price for, which makes two of the seven now running an uncostable option alongside the one you can actually price. On price: MODE Aesthetics still sells the cheapest full course at S$88 plus 9 percent GST for 12 underarm sessions, about S$8 a visit. Strip still has the cheapest honest single try at S$35 for an AFT lip trial. Musee still runs the loudest discount at S$50 for six body parts, though we can now tell you the voucher expires in 30 days. And the cheapest hair-removal service of any kind here is not a wax at all: Sugar(ed) sugars hands, feet or nostrils for S$10. Here is every price, every outlet, and the fine print that decides which one is actually cheap for you.
Hair removal is one of the few Singapore beauty categories where the number on the poster and the number you end up paying differ by a factor of five.
> Quick view: cheapest full course is MODE Aesthetics, 12 underarm SHR sessions at S$88 + 9% GST, about S$8 a visit. Cheapest single try is Strip's S$35 AFT lip trial. Cheapest way to stop paying altogether is Wellaholic's S$399 one-off lifetime unlimited underarms. The catch that costs people money: Musee's S$50 six-part voucher expires 30 days after purchase.
What changed since our last check
We re-read all seven price lists again on 7 September 2026. Every price in this guide re-verified unchanged, which is the headline in itself: nobody moved a number in ten days. Three things around the prices did move.
- Only Aesthetics' Wheelock Place branch is back. On 28 August its branch page returned a 404 and we told you to call before travelling. That page now loads, and the locations page carries the full entry: Wheelock Place #05-08, 6235 4434, Monday to Saturday 10am to 8pm, closed Sundays. The one thing still out of step is the separate outlets finder, which continues to return only Holland Village, Dhoby Ghaut and Raffles Place. Treat Wheelock as open, and ring ahead only if you are making a special trip.
- Strip's "up to 30% off" is a product badge, not a site-wide sale. We flagged it last time as a banner whose discount the catalogue did not show. Read properly, it is an AUTO-APPLIED badge sitting on individual AFT cards: 30% on Lip, 28% on both Brazilian tiers, 27% on Half Legs, 26% on Underarms and Half Arms. The prices behind those badges are unchanged, and the multi-session maths is still a flat 15% at both the 3- and 6-session tiers. Nothing extra is waiting for you at the till.
- Two of the seven now run a second, unpriced hair-removal line. Musee's MUSEE LASER (755nm and 1064nm, cryogen-cooled) has been joined by MODE's LUCENT BEAM, a Korean single-wavelength LED device MODE says is exclusive to it. Neither brand publishes a price for its second line anywhere, so both are quotable only after you make contact. The costed treatment at each is still the one in this guide.
Strip's withdrawal of its separate discounted waxing trials still stands. Its trial menu is AFT laser only, and waxing is bought at standard rates from S$17 for a small area, or S$11 a visit in a 10-session off-peak pack.
The three methods, in one paragraph
IPL (intense pulsed light) fires broad-spectrum light in single high-energy pulses. SHR (super hair removal) is the newer diode-laser approach: many low-energy pulses in quick succession with contact cooling, generally more comfortable and better suited to Asian skin tones. S.S.C., which is Musee's main method, is a gel-plus-filtered-light process rather than a laser at all. And then there is waxing and sugaring, which remove hair rather than target the follicle: cheaper each time, but they never stop costing.
The practical consequence is that light-based treatments need roughly 6 to 12 sessions spaced several weeks apart before hair thins meaningfully. That is why a trial price tells you almost nothing. Judge a salon on its 12-session price, or on what it charges to keep the area maintained for good.
Salon or doctor's clinic, and does it legally have to be a doctor?
This is the part the category is vaguest about, so, plainly: IPL is not on MOH's list of aesthetic procedures restricted to medical and dental practitioners, which is why a beauty salon can legally offer it, with the stated caveat that IPL should be used only for hair removal and skin rejuvenation and nothing else, because of the burn risk when it is used inappropriately. Higher-energy medical lasers sit on the other side of that line and are doctor territory. The Singapore Medical Council's Guidelines on Aesthetic Practices for Doctors were last updated on 26 February 2026.
The practical translation is worth having before you compare quotes. "SHR", "AFT" and "Super Laser" are the names salons give to lower-fluence, high-repetition light devices, and that lower energy is a large part of why a salon course runs 6 to 12 sessions rather than a handful. One caveat we did not have to make last time: Musee now also runs a dual-wavelength 755nm and 1064nm laser line alongside its S.S.C. service, with cryogen cooling, which its own page says reaches the target result in about six sessions. That is a genuine medical-grade wavelength pair being operated on the salon side of the line. Musee publishes no price at all for it, which makes it the only hair-removal service in this guide you cannot cost before you make contact. Of the seven here, MODE is the only one operating a medical arm, MODE Medical Clinic, alongside the salon side.
- A salon is fine for: ordinary underarm, leg, bikini or Brazilian maintenance on dark hair and fair-to-medium skin. That is most people, and the price gap versus a clinic is enormous.
- See a doctor instead for: very coarse or dense growth that has not shifted after a full salon course; recurring ingrown hairs and folliculitis, or pseudofolliculitis barbae on the beard and neck; hirsutism that may be hormonal, since PCOS and thyroid causes need treating rather than lasering; darker skin tones, where burns and post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation are a real risk at higher energies; and anything sitting over moles or tattoos.
Either way, the honest word for the result is reduction, not removal. See the FAQs below.
Who is actually cheapest, by what you want
- Cheapest way to test laser once: Strip's AFT trials, S$35 for a lip, S$40 for underarms or inner thighs, S$50 for a basic Brazilian (female rates).
- Cheapest full course: MODE Aesthetics, 12 SHR underarm sessions for S$88 + 9% GST, about S$8 a session.
- Cheapest way to stop paying for underarms for good: Wellaholic, S$399 once for lifetime unlimited underarms. Only Aesthetics' S$218 is cheaper for one year, but you buy it again every year; Wellaholic's version breaks even inside two.
- Cheapest underarm wax: Pink Parlour, S$21, flat at both outlets.
- Cheapest single service of any kind: Sugar(ed), S$10 for hands, feet, nostrils or nipples. Pink Parlour's S$16 fingers-or-toes wax is second, and Strip's S$17 small-area wax third.
- Best if you want the real total before you walk in: Wellaholic, the only chain here publishing every plan price inclusive of GST.
The days and hours nobody puts in a comparison table
Sunday is where this quietly goes wrong. Only Aesthetics is closed every Sunday at all its outlets, so a S$218 unlimited-underarms year is a Monday-to-Saturday product. Everyone else opens seven days: Strip 10am to 9pm daily, Musee 10.30am to 9pm Monday to Saturday and until 8pm on Sunday, Pink Parlour 11.15am to 9pm and until 7pm on Sunday, Sugar(ed) 11am to 8pm on weekdays and 10am to 6pm at weekends, MODE 11am to 8pm Monday to Saturday and 10am to 7pm on Sunday.
Hair removal near me, chain by region
Twenty-seven to twenty-eight outlets between the seven, depending on whether Only Aesthetics' Wheelock branch is still trading, and they cluster hard around Orchard and the CBD before thinning out fast to the east and north.
- Orchard and Somerset: Strip at Wheelock Place, ION Orchard, Mandarin Gallery, Paragon and Plaza Singapura; Musee at The Centrepoint and Plaza Singapura; MODE at Tong Building, 302 Orchard Road; Only Aesthetics at Dhoby Ghaut, and at Wheelock Place subject to the caveat above; Wellaholic at Somerset; Pink Parlour at Centrepoint Premium. This is the densest cluster on the island by a distance, with six of the seven chains within a few MRT stops.
- CBD, Raffles Place and Tanjong Pagar: Strip at Raffles City; Only Aesthetics at 22 Malacca Street; Wellaholic on Telok Ayer Street; Sugar(ed) at 37B Circular Road.
- Bugis and City Hall: Musee at Bugis+, 201 Victoria Street #03-12. This is the only chain here with a Bugis address, and it is the nearest option to Kallang, Lavender and Rochor.
- East, meaning Bedok, Tampines, Pasir Ris and Katong: the best-served region after Orchard. Strip at Tampines One, Parkway Parade and Pasir Ris Mall; Musee at Tampines 1; MODE at Bedok Mall; Wellaholic inside Upper Changi MRT station; Sugar(ed) at 79 East Coast Road in Katong. If you are searching from Geylang Serai, Eunos or Joo Chiat, Parkway Parade and the Katong Sugar(ed) are nearest, with Paya Lebar three stops from Bedok Mall.
- North-east, meaning Kovan, Hougang and Serangoon: Pink Parlour at Heartland Mall Kovan and Wellaholic on Hougang Street 21, both a short walk from Kovan MRT. Pink Parlour's S$21 underarm wax is the cheapest walk-in anywhere in this region.
- West and Jurong: Strip at Westgate; Musee at Westgate; MODE at Jem. All three sit within the same Jurong East mall cluster, which makes it the easiest place outside Orchard to price-compare in one afternoon.
- North: thinnest coverage on the island. Strip at Northpoint City in Yishun is effectively the only option, and everyone else expects you to travel.
- Central and west-central, meaning Bukit Timah, Holland Village and Novena: Strip at Holland Village and Great World; Only Aesthetics at 25A Lorong Mambong in Holland Village; Sugar(ed) at 733 Bukit Timah Road and 225A Upper Thomson Road; Musee at Velocity @ Novena Square.
- South, meaning HarbourFront and VivoCity: Strip at VivoCity. HarbourFront Centre itself closed permanently on 27 July 2026 ahead of redevelopment, so any listing that still sends you there is out of date.
Five things worth knowing before you book
- Shave one to two days before a light-based session. Turning up unshaved is the most common reason an appointment gets cut short.
- Trial rates are audited. Strip states outright that it reserves the right to check your treatment history and reject ineligible customers, and its trial sessions expire three months from purchase.
- Check the expiry on session packs and vouchers. MODE's 12-session packages must be used within 12 months of your first visit. Musee's S$50 Mix and Match e-voucher expires 30 days after purchase, which is the tightest deadline anywhere in this guide, and its S$20 two-session vouchers run 60 days.
- At Strip, never pre-buy six sessions. Its multi-session discount is a flat 15% whether you buy three or six: female AFT underarms are S$80 single, S$204 for three and S$408 for six, and the same doubling holds on Brazilians and full legs. Buy three, then buy three again.
- Ask what the maintenance rate is, not just the course price. Wellaholic is the only chain here that publishes one, and after 12 sessions on an area it is S$49 to S$99 a visit for life.
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*All prices, outlets and promotions were read off each brand's own website and last re-verified on 7 September 2026. Promotions change without notice, so confirm on the salon's own page before you pay.*