Lash Extensions Pricing Calculator
A full set is the sale, but the fill cycle is the business — and if your fills are priced on guilt instead of math, every new client is a subscription that loses you money twice a month. This calculator prices sets, fills on any cycle, lifts, and removals from your real costs with your profit margin built in. Works for suite renters, bed renters, room renters, and home-studio artists. Every price comes with a full breakdown so you can see exactly where it comes from.
Your Business Setup
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Price a Service
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Instant Rate Card — Common Lash Services
Twelve common services priced with your business settings above. Change your rate or margin and the whole menu reprices instantly. Hours include the whole appointment footprint — consultation, mapping, the application itself, and resetting the bed before the next client — because that's what the booking actually takes out of your day. Adjust them to your market, your speed, and the styles you specialize in.
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Worked Examples: Three Real Lash Appointments
Using the default business settings above ($30/hr loaded artist rate, $14/hr overhead, 100% supply markup, 20% target margin, 3% card fee, 4% no-show reserve):
1. Classic full set — 2 artist hours, $12 in lashes and supplies
Labor $60 + overhead $28 + supplies charged at $24 (your $12 of trays, adhesive, pads, and tape with markup) = $112 base → flat rate $159, netting about $48 of true profit at a 30.1% margin after fees and reserve. The two hours are honest: consultation, mapping, isolating and placing one extension at a time for the better part of two hours, and resetting the bed. A full set is the most concentrated skilled work on your menu — and it's also your audition for the fill cycle that follows.
2. Volume fill, 2 weeks — 1.25 artist hours, $8 in supplies
Labor $37.50 + overhead $17.50 + supplies charged at $16 = $71 base → flat rate $99, netting about $29 at a 29.4% margin. This is the appointment that actually runs your business: a loyal client on a two-week cycle books roughly 24 fills a year — around $2,400 from one person at this price. Now run the same math at the $60 fill you were thinking of charging "to be nice," and you'll see why fill pricing, not set pricing, decides whether lashing pays your rent.
3. Bridal classic set, on location — 2 hours, $12 in supplies, $40 travel fee
Labor $60 + overhead $28 + supplies charged at $24 = $112 base + $40 travel passed through at cost = $152 → flat rate $209, netting about $54 at a 26.0% margin. The travel fee flows straight through without touching your margin, and the premium over your in-studio set price reflects reality: packing a mobile setup, working on a couch in poor light, and a hard deadline with zero room for a redo. Wedding lashes are in every photo of the day — price them like it.
What Does a Lash Artist's Overhead Actually Cost?
Overhead is every cost of running your lash room that isn't a specific client: the suite or bed rent itself (typically $150–$400 a week depending on market — $8,000–$20,000 a year before you place a single lash), the bed and its memory-foam topper, professional lighting, and the thing outsiders never guess: climate control, because lash adhesive only behaves in a narrow humidity and temperature band, so a hygrometer, a humidifier or dehumidifier, and sometimes a dedicated AC unit are working equipment. Add lash tray inventory across curls and lengths, adhesive that expires four to eight weeks after opening whether you use it or not, gel pads, tape, and cleansers that leave with every client, tweezers at $30–$100 apiece, certification and continuing training, license and liability insurance, booking software, laundry, and marketing. For a full-time artist, a typical year lands in the range of $11,000–$18,000 before anyone earns a wage.
The number that matters is overhead per lash hour. Sets run two to three hours and fills over an hour, so even a fully booked artist physically fits about five or six lash hours a day on the bed — after consultations, resets, supply orders, and no-shows, most full books produce roughly 900–1,000 genuinely billable lash hours a year. Divide annual overhead by those lash hours: roughly $13,300 ÷ 950 lash hours ≈ $14 per lash hour — the default this calculator starts with. Paying weekly rent makes this brutally concrete: at $260 a week, the first full set you do every week belongs to your landlord. Price so that's built in, not a surprise.
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Recommended Profit Margins for Lash Artists
These are working benchmarks, not laws. Fills run thinner margins but compound relentlessly — a two-week client is two dozen appointments a year; full sets, lifts, and weddings carry more because they're longer, riskier, and how new clients judge you. What matters is that the margin is a decision you made, visible in your price — not whatever was left after the suite rent cleared and the adhesive expired on the shelf.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much should I charge for a classic full set?
Build it from your numbers: loaded artist labor for the whole appointment — consultation, mapping, two-plus hours of application, and the reset between clients — plus suite-rent overhead per lash hour, plus lashes and supplies with markup, divided by one minus your target margin. With typical suite-renter numbers that lands a classic set in the $140–$180 range. The $99 special you see advertised is usually a new artist buying a portfolio or a volume shop rushing sets — it says nothing about what your bed costs to run for two focused hours.
How should I price fills?
By lash time on the bed, not by loyalty. A two-week fill is a defined service: a set amount of remaining coverage, a set amount of work. A three-week fill is more removal, more isolation, and more new lashes — it should cost more, and past a certain point it's a new set, not a fill. Publish your fill tiers by week (2-week, 3-week, new set beyond that), price each from your hourly numbers with this calculator, and hold the line. The fill cycle is the actual business of lashing — underprice it and every full set you sell buys you a money-losing subscription.
Should I fill another artist's work?
Only at the right price — which is not your fill price. A foreign fill means working over unknown adhesive, unknown isolation, and unknown lash health, and your name goes on the result. Most artists price a first appointment on another artist's work as a removal plus a new set, or as an extended fill at a premium after an in-person assessment. Whatever your policy, put it on your booking page so the conversation happens before the client is on your bed.
Why do I need a no-show reserve?
Because a lash no-show doesn't cost you an appointment — it costs you a tenth of your working day. Sets run two to three hours, so most artists physically fit four to six clients a day at most. One empty two-hour slot is income you can't make up by working faster. The reserve in this calculator sets aside a few percent of every price to absorb those holes, on top of whatever deposit and cancellation policy you enforce — and you should enforce one.
What's the difference between markup and margin?
Markup is added on top of cost; margin is the share of the final price that's profit. A 20% markup on $100 gives $120 — but only a 16.7% margin. To earn a true 20% margin you divide by 0.80, giving $125. Confusing the two is one of the most common reasons lash artists underprice.
Is this calculator really free?
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