Laser or waxing?

What actually differs

Waxing lifts the hair out at the root. The result is immediate and it is complete on the day, and the hair returns, so the appointment repeats for as long as you want the skin to stay clear.

Laser is sold by the session rather than by the course because hair does not all grow at once — at any given moment only part of it is in the phase that responds, which is why a session is one step rather than the whole job.

That is the honest difference, and it is the one the price table cannot show you. How many sessions any particular area or person needs is a question for the salon, not for a website: it depends on the hair and the skin in front of the therapist, and no page that has not seen either should put a number on it.

What the numbers show

Read the table across rather than down. On the smaller areas the two are within a few euros of each other, and on the bikini line laser is the cheaper appointment outright. On the larger areas — half legs, full legs, a man’s chest or back — waxing is the cheaper single visit.

So if you are comparing on the price of one appointment, there is no general answer: it depends entirely on the area. If you are comparing on what you will spend over a year, that is a different sum, and it turns on how often you currently book waxing — which only you know.

How long you are in the chair

The table gives the appointment length for both, and it is worth reading. Laser appointments are consistently the shorter of the two on every area the salon lists both for, which for a lunch-hour appointment can matter more than the price does.