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How many sessions of laser hair removal do you need? The count question, answered in Cheongdam, Gangnam, Seoul

More than one, and Dear Clinic does not print a fixed course. Every zone carries two listed figures instead — one visit, and a block of five — because the number your own hair needs is a reading, taken at diagnosis and revised as the zone answers.

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The Short Answer

Why a hair removal count is set zone by zone

There is no universal number. Laser hair removal appears twice on the Dear Clinic list for every zone — once as a single visit and once as a block of five — and that pairing is deliberate. How many passes a field needs turns on your growth cycle, on the field itself, and on how much pigment your hair actually carries.

The block of five exists because five is a realistic span over which a zone changes visibly, and because it lets a figure be quoted against something concrete. It is a listed unit of sale. Nothing in it obliges you to a sixth visit, and nothing stops you buying a single pass first and deciding afterwards.

Printing a single number for everybody would be easier to read and less true. A dense underarm on someone with dark, coarse hair behaves nothing like a fine, pale upper lip, and the same person can carry both. What your director can give you at the consultation is an estimate for each zone you have named, with the reasoning attached, and a review point at which that estimate gets corrected.

The mechanism, the two wavelengths and the full grid of listed zones are set out on the laser hair removal page; this page answers the counting question specifically. Treatments below the neck that have nothing to do with hair sit under body and wellness.

What Moves The Number

Four things that decide your hair removal session count

All four are read before a figure is quoted, and three of them are visible on the scan.

01

Your growth cycle on the day

Only follicles in their active growing phase hold enough pigment to take the pulse. The rest are dormant and unreachable at that moment, so they surface later as apparent regrowth. This single fact is the reason a zone cannot be finished in one sitting.

02

Which field you have named

Seventeen zones are listed for women and nineteen for men, and they behave differently. A coarse, dense field shows movement early. A sparse or fine field can take the same number of passes and show far less for them.

03

Hair colour against skin tone

The beam is aimed at pigment inside the shaft. Dark, thick hair is the target the platform was built for. White, grey and very pale blond hair gives it almost nothing to absorb, and no amount of repetition converts that into a result.

04

Whether the growth is hormonally driven

On a chin, an upper lip or a chest, the follicle population can be re-stimulated while a plan is still running. Those fields are quoted with a review built into them, so a later top-up reads as expected behaviour.

The Interval

Why hair removal visits are spaced instead of stacked

The gap between visits is doing work. Its whole purpose is to let a fresh wave of follicles move into the growing phase, so that the next pass has targets available to it. Booking five appointments inside a fortnight would deliver five passes to roughly the same small population of follicles, and four of them would be spent on skin.

How long that wave takes differs between people, and it differs between two fields on the same body. Your director sets each interval against the zone in front of him and against what the previous pass actually achieved, which is why the dates are agreed one at a time. General calendars circulate online; the one that matters is the one written against your own regrowth.

For anyone flying in, that is the planning constraint worth knowing early. A block of five cannot be compressed into a single stay. Most visiting patients take one or two zones on a first trip, see how those fields answer, and continue on a later visit. Appointments run every day of the year, including the weekend you happen to be here, so fitting the visits themselves is rarely the hard part.

Listed Rates

What one visit and a block of five are listed at

Both units are printed for every zone, so the arithmetic of a plan is visible before you commit to it. An underarm is ₩30,000 (≈ $20) for a single visit on the women’s grid and ₩75,000 (≈ $55) as a block of five; the men’s underarm is ₩50,000 (≈ $35) and ₩125,000 (≈ $90). Residents and visiting patients are quoted the same figure.
Listed zoneOne visitBlock of five
Underarm, women₩30,000 (≈ $20)₩75,000 (≈ $55)
Calf with knee, women₩140,000 (≈ $100)₩350,000 (≈ $250)
Underarm, men₩50,000 (≈ $35)₩125,000 (≈ $90)

Three lines are shown here because they are the ones people count with: the cheapest way to test a response, a large limb field, and the men’s equivalent of the first. Rates are current for September 2026, charged in KRW with a USD figure printed for orientation only. Every remaining zone on both grids appears on the price list.

Where Counting Stops

When more hair removal visits stop buying you anything

Some zones are limited by physics before they are limited by budget. Where the hair is white, grey or very fine and pale, there is little for the beam to absorb, and we do not recommend buying a block against it. Saying that at the consultation is cheaper for you than discovering it at visit four, and the alternative conversation happens in the same room.

Freshly tanned skin is the other common reason a date moves. Pigment sitting at the surface changes the safe setting and raises the odds of a burn, a blister or patchy lightening, so that session is postponed or a test patch is taken first. Broken or infected skin is left alone until it has settled, and tattooed areas are worked around.

Even where every reading is favourable, what the published work supports is long-term reduction: a lasting fall in how much hair grows in a treated field, how thick it is and how visible it looks. Transient redness, small bumps around the follicles and temporary pigment change are the named risks, and response varies between individuals. Tell your director about photosensitising medication, recent isotretinoin or a pregnancy, since any of those can change what is offered on the day.

Dear, Knowhow

How a hair removal count is arrived at here

01 — THE FULL ARSENAL

Testing one underarm before committing a leg

The cheapest line on the grid is a single underarm visit, and it is a perfectly sensible first purchase.

02 — DIAGNOSIS FIRST

EVE Muse reads tone before any number is quoted

Three-dimensional imaging under five light sources with AI analysis records the skin you arrive with, recent sun included. That reading fixes the wavelength and the starting fluence, and it is also where the estimate of how many passes your zone will need comes from. Nothing is counted before it is taken.

03 — DIRECTOR-PERFORMED

The estimate is revised by the hand holding the handpiece

Sessions are director-performed, so the person who set your fluence sees the same field again at the next visit. Regrowth density is compared against what was there before, and the projected count moves up or down on that evidence instead of on the original guess.

In the clinic

Where a regrowth pattern is compared between visits

Candela GentleMax Pro console viewed from the front with the arm stowed
The console settings from your last visit are the baseline for the next one.
Private curtained treatment bays at Dear Clinic Cheongdam, each numbered and separately lit
Numbered bays where a returning field is shaved, checked and passed again.
Between visits

What you do between passes changes how many you need

Shave each booked field the day before, so the shaft below the surface stays intact and nothing above it can scorch
Leave waxing, plucking, threading and epilators alone between visits, because they pull out the target the next pass is aimed at
Depilatory creams belong in the same category and are worth stopping for the duration of a plan
Keep sunscreen on any treated field that sees daylight; a new tan moves the safe setting and can move your date
Come back on the interval you were given, since a long gap lets a whole wave of growth pass unreached

Patients who wax once in the middle of a plan usually arrive at the next visit with a field that reads thinner than it is, and the pass that follows does less than it should have. It is the single most common reason a count runs longer than the estimate given at diagnosis.

EVE Muse AI analysis screen showing multi-angle facial capture
The scan that sets the starting fluence is repeated when a facial field is reviewed.
2
Wavelengths chosen by skin tone
5
Passes in the listed block
36
Zones listed across both grids
0
Fixed course counts printed
Medical Team

Five doctors, one standard

Director-performed treatment is a Dear promise — your procedure is planned and performed by the doctors below.

Dr. Jemin Kim — Medical Director and Founder, Dear Clinic
Dr. Jemin Kim
Yonsei University College of Medicine
Medical Director · Founder
Dr. Sanghyun Lee — Director, Dear Clinic
Dr. Sanghyun Lee
Seoul National University College of Medicine
Director
Board-certified · Family Medicine
Dr. Seonhaeng Lee — Director of Aesthetic Medicine, Dear Clinic
Dr. Seonhaeng Lee
Chosun University College of Medicine · Residency, Samsung Medical Center
Director, Aesthetic Medicine
Dr. Daeun Jung — Director, Dear Clinic
Dr. Daeun Jung
Ajou University College of Medicine
Director
Board-certified · Family Medicine
Dr. Woojae Jung — Director of Aesthetic Medicine, Dear Clinic
Dr. Woojae Jung
Seoul National University — B.S. in Medicine
Director, Aesthetic Medicine
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FAQ

Counting hair removal sessions, question by question

How many sessions of laser hair removal do you need?
More than one, and the figure is personal. Dear Clinic lists every zone as a single visit and as a block of five instead of publishing a course, because the count depends on your growth cycle, the field named and the pigment in your hair. Your director estimates it at diagnosis and corrects it as the zone responds.
Why does Dear Clinic list a block of five instead of a full course?
Because five passes is a realistic span over which a field visibly changes, and because a unit of sale has to be something concrete. Quoting a course would mean guessing your cycle before anyone has read it. The block lets you see the arithmetic in advance and stop or continue on your own reading.
Will a block of five finish my underarms?
It will usually change them substantially. Whether it finishes them depends on how dense and how dark the hair was at the start, and underarm growth is among the more responsive fields on the grid. Your director compares regrowth against the previous visit and tells you plainly whether further passes are worth buying.
How far apart should the visits be?
Far enough for a new wave of follicles to enter the growing phase, which is the only state in which they can be reached. That gap differs between people and between two fields on the same body, so each date is set at the visit before it against what the last pass actually achieved.
Do I have to buy all five visits before I start?
No. A single visit is a listed line in its own right, and buying one underarm pass at ₩30,000 (≈ $20) is the cheapest way to find out how your own hair answers. Patients who then want the block take it afterwards. Nothing about a first pass commits you to a second.
Does a facial zone take more visits than a leg?
Often, and hormonally driven growth on a chin or an upper lip is the usual reason. Those follicle populations can be re-stimulated while a plan is still running, so a facial field is quoted with review built in and occasional top-ups treated as expected rather than as a failed plan.
My hair is fine and pale. Will more visits eventually work?
Repetition does not solve a pigment problem. The beam has to be absorbed by melanin inside the shaft, and white, grey or very pale blond hair carries too little of it. We say so at the consultation and do not recommend a block against that field, because the passes would be bought for a yield nobody can see.
Does a deeper skin tone change how many visits I need?
It changes the wavelength more than the count. The 1064 nm Nd:YAG is absorbed far less by pigment sitting in the skin itself, so it reaches the follicle on deeper phototypes with the surface protected by the cooling burst. Your tone is read on the scan and a test area is used before a full pass.
Can I complete a block of five during one trip to Seoul?
No, and squeezing the dates together would waste most of them. The interval exists to catch new growth, so five passes inside a fortnight would reach the same small population five times. Most visiting patients take one or two zones per trip and continue later; a calf with knee is ₩140,000 (≈ $100) a visit if you want to start with one field.
What happens if I miss an interval or stop halfway?
Nothing is lost that was already achieved. Follicles treated effectively stay treated; the ones that were dormant simply carry on cycling until you return. A long gap means a whole wave grows and sheds unreached, so the plan takes longer overall, and the estimate is rewritten from the field as it looks on the day you come back.
How is my own count estimated before I pay anything?
On the scan and on examination. EVE Muse records skin tone and recent sun under five light sources, your director reads hair colour, thickness and density in each named field, and the two together set the wavelength, the starting fluence and a realistic number of passes per zone. The figures for those zones are confirmed with you first.
Will I still need visits once the plan is finished?
Occasional maintenance is normal and is written into the plan in advance. What the published trials support is long-term reduction in density, thickness and visibility, which is a narrower claim than an end to growth. Maintenance passes are bought as single visits at the listed rate whenever a field starts to read heavier again.
Consultation

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Scientific Evidence

Peer-reviewed reading behind repeat-pass hair reduction

The references below are the controlled work on the two wavelengths used here. They include a randomised comparison against intense pulsed light in dark skin, an intra-individual trial pitting multipass low-fluence alexandrite against high-fluence Nd:YAG in the axilla, a long-pulsed 1064 nm series across all skin types, a safety and efficacy report on a 30 mm spot handpiece, and a systematic review of what long-term reduction means as an endpoint.

Each entry resolves to an indexed journal through its DOI. They describe the mechanism and the endpoint that the wording on this page is limited to; how many passes your own fields need is a reading taken at your diagnosis and revised at each visit.

  1. Krasniqi A et al. Efficacy of lasers and light sources in long-term hair reduction: a systematic review. Journal of Cosmetic and Laser Therapy. 2022. doi:10.1080/14764172.2022.2075899
  2. Moftah N et al. Multipass low fluence, high-frequency 755-nm alexandrite laser versus high fluence, low-frequency 1064-nm long-pulsed Nd: YAG laser in axillary hair reduction of dark skin phototypes: an intra-individual randomized comparative study. Journal of Dermatological Treatment. 2022. doi:10.1080/09546634.2021.1914311
  3. Ismail SA. Long-pulsed Nd:YAG laser vs. intense pulsed light for hair removal in dark skin: a randomized controlled trial. British Journal of Dermatology. 2012. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2133.2011.10695.x
  4. Tanzi EL et al. Long-Pulsed 1064-nm Nd:YAG Laser-Assisted Hair Removal in All Skin Types. Dermatologic Surgery. 2004. doi:10.1111/j.1524-4725.2004.30007.x
  5. Piccolo D et al. Removal of Unwanted Hair: Efficacy and Safety of 755-nm Alexandrite Laser Equipped with a 30 mm Spot Handpiece. Photobiomodulation, Photomedicine, and Laser Surgery. 2023. doi:10.1089/photob.2023.0067

References are provided for information — outcomes vary by individual and are assessed at your diagnosis.

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