Hair Removal Laser Clinic Discounts Pros & Cons

Who doesn’t love to get discounts and deals? Getting a discount offers at the laser clinic or med-spa might be a sign of warning. Here in this review we will try and map the kinds of discount offers and coupons laser hair removal clinic offers, and try to understand when these offers are legit promotional offers and when they are a warning sign worth noticing.

Discounts, Coupons And Promotional Offers

Like any business, medical spa clinics and skin care centers are focused on the business bottom line, which is the profit line. They exist to make profits. For them to succeed they need customers, and new customers buying their services and using their experienced staff in order to continue to make a sustainable income.

Like any business they will promote special offers which may include discounts and ‘free’ stuff, or coupons to encourage potential customers to make the first call or react to the media campaign (which costs a fortune). If you see a laser hair removal clinic advertisement, and see they offer a promotional offer, it is made to convince you to make the call, the offer might later become not relevant for you.

Is The Hair Center Selling Only Discounts

One ‘warning sign’ in advertising, is when the business stops selling their business or service, and sells only discounts offers. It is twice as true when it comes to cosmetic centers and hair clinics. They need to advertise their expertise, happy customers, well trained laser technicians, advanced machines and not 50% discount on the second leg!

Laser hair removal clinics are using expensive machines which in some cases cost $250,000 these machines know how to treat and removal hair from different types of skin tones, hair colors and hair complexions. The training for a laser hair removal is a long course usually for people who have other diplomas connected to skin or hair treatments.

Buying these machines, using the highest trained staff, keeping them well informed and getting the best medical advisers, all cost money. If the laser hair removal clinic sells it’s treatments for ‘free’ then they are probably cutting it from somewhere else… The laser hair removal technician may be a beginner, the doctor may be just out of medical school, or the laser machine maintenance is out of date or not regularly checked.

What Discounts & Coupons Are They Offering

The only 100% permanent hair removal process is the electrolysis method, where each hair root is treated individually and with a slight electric current it is destroyed. A laser hair removal process is never 100% permanent. Though any hair removal clinic knows that, it is a fact they do not over emphasis when it comes to advertisement.

Once you understand the hair removal cycle, you can understand which discounts are ‘safe’ discounts.

Understanding Laser Hair Removal Cycles

The hair life-cycle has 3 main stages – It grows, stays for a some time, and then ‘dies’ and falls, and a new hair will start growing. laser hair removal is effective ONLY when the human hair is at it’s growth stage. So at any given moment only 20% of the hairs on the body are at the growth stage, 50% are at the ‘mature’ stage, and 30% are ‘dead’ hairs waiting to be renewed by new hair growth.

When you do a laser treatment on any skin surface, you are actually treating only 20% of the hairs (those at the growth stage). Then another session needs to be done within a few weeks keep destroying the roots of the hairs in the growth stage.

‘Safe’ Hair Removal Discounts

Laser hair removal process may take a few month to complete, the schedule of the sessions is planned to keep treating the skin over and over, to cover all the body hair when growing. This is where the ‘safe’ discounts are offered.

A laser clinic knows that the laser is not a permanent hair removal way, and hairs might be untreated and grow even after 6-8 sessions. One fair promotional offer is to allow the customer a substantial discount for treatments ‘after’ the sessions are over. These even might be free if hair is not removed dramatically and keeps growing.

Safe Hair Removal Offers

Offers where the hair removal clinic offers to treat a different part for a reduced price or free. These offers are ‘safe’ offers since they add value and are not cheap discounts. You will probably pay the premium price for the treatment, but still get added value by getting hair removed from a body location you may have not thought of, or had the money to pay for. Offers like ‘Get 50% on bikini laser hair removal when ordering back or legs laser treatments’ are safe kind promotional offers.

Another ‘safe’ promotional offer is when the skin or hair clinic, offers a different kind of treatment as a bonus. They might offer a skin microdermabrasion discount, or a lips Botox treatment for a discount. While ordering a microdermabrasion treatment might be costly for the customer, for the skin clinic it has (nearly) no cost at all. So they can add it as a bonus which will otherwise cost the customer hundreds of dollars when ordering any laser hair removal package.

Unsafe Hair Removal Discounts

When discounts are worth another inspection? If the laser clinic offers dramatic discounts on the first treatments, when those are supposed to be the 6-8 sessions which will remove most of the hair. Or when they offer 50% discount in different versions like ‘Treat one leg, get the other leg for FREE’. 

In these cases they might wish to ‘check’ a new machine, or get practice customers for their new laser technicians.

If they offer a very low cost offer, it should light a red warning light for you when you make an appointment. Ask about the specific machine they are planning to use, who will be doing the sessions? how long have they been treating people? are they experienced with this type of laser machine? is there a doctor at the clinic? who will be supervising the treatments? Are they offering a free patch test?

When You Pay For Cheap Service 

Laser hair removal clinics should be competing with each other, and not with the ‘home hair removal systems’. When laser hair removal clinic offer discounts which are ‘too good to be true’, they are probably exactly that.. Too good to be true. The cheap service might hide lack of customers, or unpracticed staff or technology they can not sell for a higher price. If you want a cheap treatment, buy a home removal product. If you want to get service and experienced treatments, expect to pay much more, and get much much more.