IPL is the cheapest of the light based facial treatments and the one most consistently sold as a course of three, which makes it unusually easy to price honestly: several clinics publish both the session figure and the package, so the arithmetic is on the page rather than in the consultation. What varies is the area the figure covers and the device behind the name.
What clinics publish per session
Bluepoint in Las Vegas publishes Photo-Facial IPL at $160 for a full face or both hands, $175 for neck and decolletage and $225 for both forearms and hands. Skinography in Los Angeles publishes IPL Lumecca at $150 for a full face, $125 for a partial face, $125 for the neck, $200 for face and neck, $150 for decolletage and $300 for face, neck and decolletage. Chicago Aesthetic Surgery publishes IPL starting at $400 per session. La Jolla Cosmetic publishes BBL photorejuvenation at $255 to $1,250. The clustering is tight at the bottom, between $125 and $200 for a full face at two of the clinics, and then jumps. That jump is device and market: BBL and the higher end platforms are priced above basic IPL, and a clinic publishing $400 as a starting figure is not overcharging for the same thing.
The package, which is where this treatment is actually bought
Skinography publishes its package prices alongside every area: $400 for three full face sessions against $150 for one, $325 for three partial face against $125, $525 for three face and neck against $200, and $775 for three face, neck and decolletage against $300. That is roughly a sixth off across the board and it is the clearest published package structure on this site. So the honest price of an IPL photofacial is the package price, because a single session of IPL is rarely the plan. At these clinics a three session course of a full face is $400 to $480, and a face, neck and decolletage course is $775 to $900.
Area, and what photorejuvenation includes
Photorejuvenation and IPL photofacial are the same family of treatment under different names, and clinics use both words. What actually changes the price is the area: face, face and neck, and face, neck and decolletage are three prices on every menu that breaks them out, and the third is roughly double the first. Ask which area a quote covers before comparing it with anything. And take the clinical side to the clinic: what IPL will and will not address on your skin, and whether it is appropriate at all, is a consultation question that a price record cannot answer.
How to price an IPL course
Ask what the figure is per and what a course contains. These treatments are sold as courses, so the session figure is a fraction of the plan. Ask which device the clinic uses. Device names are the difference between two figures that look like the same treatment on a menu. Ask what the package price is. Where clinics publish both, a pre-paid course of three saves roughly a sixth. Ask what areas the price covers. Face, face and neck, and face, neck and chest are three prices on most menus.
Questions people ask about ipl photofacial treatment
How much is an IPL photofacial?
Skinography publishes $150 for a full face and Bluepoint $160 for a full face or both hands. Chicago Aesthetic Surgery publishes a $400 per session starting figure and La Jolla publishes BBL at $255 to $1,250.
What does a photorejuvenation course cost?
Skinography publishes $400 for three full face sessions against $150 for one, and $775 for three face, neck and decolletage sessions against $300 for one. About a sixth off.
Is photorejuvenation the same as IPL?
Clinics use both words for the same family of light based treatment. What changes the price is the area treated and the specific platform, not which of the two words the menu uses.
Why is one clinic more than twice another?
Device and market. Basic IPL and the higher end platforms such as BBL are different equipment at different prices, and a clinic publishing a higher starting figure may be pricing the latter.