Best IPL & Hair Removal Salons in Singapore (2026) — 7 Chains Compared, With Every Trial Price We Could Verify

Singapore's original total-concept waxing studio, open since 2002, and still the one with the most outlets by a wide margin: 14 across the island — Wheelock Place, Great World, ION Orchard, Mandarin Gallery, Paragon, Parkway Parade, Plaza Singapura, Raffles City, Westgate, Holland Village, VivoCity, Tampines One, Northpoint City and Pasir Ris Mall. It runs two hair-removal tracks. WAXING: underarms S$30 female / S$38 male; Brazilian Basic S$30 / S$38; Brazilian Extra S$51 / S$60; Brazilian All-Off S$84 / S$99. AFT LASER: this is Strip's IPL-family option, and the trial pricing is the most generous entry point in this roundup because it is itemised rather than bundled. Female trial rates: lip S$35, underarms S$40, inner thighs S$40, half arms S$80, half legs S$80, Brazilian Basic S$50, Brazilian Extra or All-Off S$70, full arms or full back S$149.99, full legs S$160. Male trials run higher — underarms S$50, Brazilian Basic S$70, chest and stomach S$165. For comparison, the standard non-trial AFT single-session rate for female underarms is S$80 and Brazilian All-Off is S$325, so the trial genuinely is around half price or better. THE FINE PRINT THAT MATTERS: Strip states trial rates apply only to people new to that specific treatment and that it reserves the right to check your history; treatments are valid for 3 months from purchase; trials cannot be combined with other promotions; and all purchases are final, non-refundable and non-transferable. ONGOING OFFERS: 15% off any 3 AFT single sessions, and an Off-Peak Pleasures menu for weekday daytime bookings that brings AFT underarms down to S$56 a session in a 3-session pack (S$168) and small-area waxing to about S$11 a session in a 10-session pack (S$110). BEST FOR: anyone who wants a physical outlet near home or work, and anyone who wants to try laser on one small area before committing to a package.

The Japanese chain that made cheap hair-removal trials a mass-market habit in Singapore, with 6 outlets: The Centrepoint, Plaza Singapura, Bugis+, Westgate, Tampines 1 and Velocity @ Novena Square. Musee does not use conventional IPL or laser — its method is S.S.C., short for Smooth Skin Control, which applies a proprietary gel that is then activated by filtered light. It is marketed as gentler and lower-heat than laser, and sessions are short; the flipside is that it is a women-only service, and the first appointment is a roughly 15-minute consultation, with the actual first treatment booked separately after that. THE CURRENT OFFER, verified on Musee's own online shop: the Mid-Year Saver S$50 Mix and Match six-part S.S.C. hair removal package, against a usual price of S$270 — you pick 6 parts from a menu of more than 20, including underarm, upper lip, chin, bikini line, upper triangle and lower triangle. New customers only. There are also three single-part starters at S$20 for 2 sessions each, against a usual price of S$150: upper lip, bikini line and underarm. Musee lists no end date on these, but campaign banners are dated and change, so treat the price as current-at-time-of-writing rather than permanent. WHAT TO WATCH: the well-known catch with this category of ultra-cheap trial is the upsell conversation at the end of the session — go in knowing what your maintenance budget actually is, and note that Musee's headline packages are sold through its online store, so you can buy at the listed price before you set foot in the salon. BEST FOR: women who want to cover several small areas at once for the price of one session elsewhere.

Formerly Lush Aesthetics, rebranded to MODE Aesthetics and MODE Medical Clinic, so if you are searching under the old name you are looking at the same group. Four outlets: The Centrepoint (176 Orchard Rd, #03-33), Bedok Mall (311 New Upper Changi Rd, #B2-37), HarbourFront Centre (1 Maritime Square, #02-65) and Jem Jurong East (50 Jurong Gateway Rd, #04-19). Its hair removal is SHR — Super Hair Removal — which fires low-fluence laser pulses at high repetition with contact cooling, rather than the single high-energy pulses of older IPL, and is generally the more comfortable option on Asian skin tones. THE NUMBERS, taken from MODE's own promo page: 12 sessions of underarms for S$88 + 9% GST nett; 12 sessions of any small or large area for S$128 + 9% GST nett; and 12 sessions of Brazilian, also S$128 + 9% GST nett. Small areas are defined as upper lip, lower chin, fingers and toes; large areas as lower legs (both), thighs (both), tummy, half back, chest, stomach, half arms (both) and facial hair. On the underarm package that works out to roughly S$8 a session, which is the lowest per-session figure in this comparison by a distance. TERMS: valid only for first-time customers aged 21 and above, one redemption per person, not valid for tourists, appointment required, and the 12 sessions must be used within 12 months of your first visit — that last one matters, because SHR courses are normally spaced several weeks apart and 12 sessions in 12 months is achievable but leaves little slack. BEST FOR: committed first-timers who want a full course rather than a taster, and who can realistically get to an outlet monthly for a year.

A four-outlet chain that structures its hair removal as year-long unlimited programs rather than session packs, which changes the maths entirely: you are not counting sessions, you are counting months. Outlets and hours, from its own locations page: Wheelock Place #05-08 (6235 4434), Dhoby Ghaut at 9 Penang Road #01-03/04 (6338 4434) and Raffles Place at 22 Malacca Street, RB Capital Building #09-00 (6220 4434) all run Mon-Fri 10am-8pm and Sat 10am-6pm, closed Sundays; Holland Village at 25A Lorong Mambong (6314 4434) runs half an hour later, Mon-Fri 10.30am-8.30pm and Sat 10.30am-6.30pm. Note the aggregator listicles still claim six branches including Orchard and Scotts Road — Only Aesthetics' own site lists four, so plan around four. THE PACKAGES, from its best-selling promotions page: IPL Underarms, 1 year unlimited, S$218, pitched as hair-free underarms in about five minutes a month, and it throws in a complimentary IPL navel or butt crack session. IPL Brazilian and Underarms, 1 year unlimited, S$759 — the Brazilian program alone is S$680 and the year of underarms is added free. There is also AUREOLED Underarms at S$152 for a single session, with a complimentary upper-lip session, if you want the newer diode-style treatment rather than IPL. All promotional rates are first-time-customer, one-time purchases, and treatment is 18+. PRACTICAL NOTE: shave the area one to two days before each appointment — turning up unshaved is the most common reason a session gets cut short. BEST FOR: people who want underarms handled and forgotten about for a year, at a price that beats buying sessions individually almost anywhere else.

A four-outlet SHR specialist and the most price-transparent operator in this roundup — every figure below is published on its own site inclusive of 9% GST, with no hidden add-ons, which is genuinely unusual in this category. Outlets, all MRT-linked: Somerset (3 minutes from Somerset MRT Exit B, 8963 1838), Tanjong Pagar on Telok Ayer Street (8499 8984), Kovan on Hougang Street 21 (8963 8060) and Upper Changi, which is literally inside Upper Changi MRT station (9239 5823). Hours are 11am-10pm on weekdays and 11am-8pm on weekends and public holidays — the late weekday close is the useful bit if you are booking after work. PER-SESSION PRICING: small areas such as underarms or upper lip are S$69 for a single session, falling to S$55 at the 12-session tier (S$660 for 12); large areas such as arms, legs or back are S$99 falling to S$79 (S$948 for 12); Brazilian and Boyzilian are S$189 falling to S$151 (S$1,812 for 12). Volume discounts step at 3 sessions (5% off), 6 sessions (10%) and 12 sessions (20%). UNLIMITED PLANS: SHR Deluxe Unlimited is S$223 a month and SHR Prestige Unlimited is S$271 a month. There is also an SHR Underarms Lifetime one-off at S$399, or S$699 bundled with skin whitening. THE PROMO: Afternoon Advantage takes 20% off 6-month and 12-month unlimited plans when you book Monday to Friday between 11am and 5pm, which drops Deluxe to S$178 and Prestige to S$217 a month. It excludes public holidays, 1-month plans, per-session pricing and personal-area treatments. BEST FOR: people who want to know the real total before they walk in, and shift workers or anyone who can genuinely book weekday afternoons — the 20% is the largest structural discount here that is not a one-time first-timer rate.

The outlier on this list, and deliberately so: Sugar(ed) does not do IPL, SHR or laser at all. It does body sugaring, an all-natural paste method that is applied at body temperature and removed in the direction of hair growth, unlike wax which is applied hot and pulled against the growth. In practice that means less risk of burns, no strips, and a paste that rinses off with water — which is why it tends to suit sensitive skin and very fine or very short hair better than wax does. Four outlets, all with the same hours (Mon-Fri 11am-8pm, Sat-Sun 10am-6pm): Bukit Timah at 733 Bukit Timah Road #02-02 in Second Avenue Junction; Katong at 79 East Coast Road #01-01, opposite Roxy Square; Downtown at 37B Circular Road; and Upper Thomson at 225A Upper Thomson Road. PRICES from its own service menu: Brazilian or Manzilian S$78 female / S$98 male on the standard rate, dropping to S$68 / S$88 on the maintenance rate once you are on a regular cycle; underarms S$30 / S$38; full legs S$108 female; full back S$55-75 female; eyebrows S$30; upper plus lower lip S$18 female; full face S$70-90 female. THE PERK: first-time Brazilian and Manzilian clients get a complimentary Hungarian mineral mud treatment included with the service — a soothing post-treatment step rather than a discount, but a real one. THE HONEST TRADE-OFF: sugaring is a permanent running cost, not a course with an end. Every 4-6 weeks, forever. If your goal is to stop paying eventually, one of the SHR or IPL options above is the better long game. BEST FOR: sensitive skin, people who react badly to hot wax, and anyone who simply prefers not to have lasers pointed at them.

One of Singapore's best-known waxing names, running since 2005, now down to two Singapore outlets — Heartland Mall Kovan and Centrepoint Premium — with the wider brand still operating in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Hours at both: Monday to Saturday 11.15am-9pm, Sunday 11.15am-7pm. Contact is by WhatsApp on 8065 0454. Its selling point is flat, published, outlet-independent pricing: the same treatment costs the same at every branch, which removes the usual guesswork about whether the Orchard branch is quietly dearer. WAXING PRICES from its own menu: underarms S$21 for a 15-minute slot — the cheapest single hair-removal service in this entire roundup; bikini S$36 female (15-20 min); Brazilian S$64 female (25 min); the Boyfriend's Brazilian S$74 male (40 min); full legs S$56 (30 min); full back S$56 (25 min). IPL AND SHR PRICES: women's Brazilian S$300, men's Brazilian S$360, women's full leg S$306, classic areas for women S$75-95, mini areas for women S$39. THE OFFER: 50% off your first treatment when you join the newsletter — applied to the first treatment, so it is worth pointing it at a larger service rather than burning it on the S$21 underarms. HOW IT COMPARES: on waxing it is the cheapest per-visit option here; on IPL it is priced per area rather than per session or per plan, so read those numbers as a course price and compare them against MODE's 12-session packages before deciding. BEST FOR: quick, cheap, no-package walk-in waxing, especially for anyone in the north-east who does not want to trek to Orchard.