How to Start a Home-Based Lash or Brow Business in Singapore: 2026 Guide

Starting a lash or brow business from home can be one of the lowest-cost ways to move from training into paid work.

You do not need a shopfront on day one.

You do not need to sign a commercial lease before you know whether you can fill your appointment book.

But “home-based” does not mean “no rules”.

In Singapore, the first thing to understand is the difference between the Home-Based Business Scheme and the Home Office Scheme.

They sound similar. They are not the same.

This guide explains the practical starting route for someone offering lash, brow or other small-scale beauty services from home, what it may cost, what to prepare before your first client and when using an external treatment room may make more sense.

Can you run a beauty business from home in Singapore?

Under URA's current Home-Based Business Scheme, residents may carry out certain small-scale businesses from their homes without requiring URA approval, provided the scheme's conditions are met.

URA specifically lists examples including:

• hairdressing
• facial and beauty services
• manicure and pedicure

Massage is excluded.

That makes the Home-Based Business Scheme the relevant starting point for many small-scale lash and non-massage brow services.

The important word is small-scale.

Your home must remain primarily a residence.

Official information:
View official information — ura.gov.sg ↗

Home-Based Business Scheme vs Home Office Scheme

This distinction is worth getting right.

Home-Based Business Scheme

Designed for certain small businesses carried out from home.

Small-scale beauty services are among URA's published examples.

If you meet the conditions, separate URA approval is generally not required.

Home Office Scheme

This is mainly for the administrative functions of a business.

URA's current Home Office Scheme specifically lists beauty and hairdressing services among examples of non-permitted businesses under that scheme.

So if someone tells you:

“You need to register your lash room under the Home Office Scheme,”

do not assume that is correct.

For a small client-facing beauty setup, read the Home-Based Business Scheme conditions instead.

Official Home Office information:
https://www.ura.gov.sg/guidelines/property-and-business-owners/business-owners/home-business/home-office-scheme/

The main Home-Based Business conditions

URA's 2026 guidance includes several important conditions.

1. The business must be run by someone who lives there

The operator should be the owner, registered occupant or tenant.

If you are a tenant, you need the property owner's consent.

Non-resident employees are not permitted to work from the residential premises under the Home-Based Business Scheme.

2. No business signage outside the home

Do not turn the front of your HDB flat, condo or landed home into a salon storefront with large signs, posters or advertising boards.

3. No heavy non-domestic equipment

Your setup should remain consistent with small-scale home use.

4. No large-scale storage or frequent loading

A home-based lash business should look like a small service business, not a warehouse or distribution centre.

5. Do not create nuisance or excessive traffic

Your neighbours still live there.

Appointment scheduling matters.

Six clients arriving and waiting in the corridor at the same time is very different from one confirmed client coming for a lash appointment.

6. Other authorities' rules still apply

URA's scheme does not cancel requirements from other authorities.

This matters especially when you move from surface beauty treatments into procedures that may involve more specialised hygiene, equipment or skin penetration.

What about eyebrow embroidery and PMU at home?

This deserves a more cautious answer.

URA's Home-Based Business page lists “facial & beauty” services generally, but it does not specifically spell out every semi-permanent makeup procedure.

Eyebrow embroidery and other PMU procedures involve a different level of treatment from lash extensions, lash lift or brow lamination.

So do not assume that a general “beauty services” example automatically settles every requirement for PMU.

If your business plan includes skin-penetrating services such as brow embroidery, lip blushing or eyeliner embroidery, check the current requirements with the relevant authorities before building your home-business plan around them.

That is a better approach than finding out after you have already bought equipment.

Do you need to register a business with ACRA?

If you are genuinely starting a business rather than casually helping a friend, you should understand the ACRA registration side as well.

For a sole proprietorship, ACRA's current 2026 fees are:

• S$15 to apply for a business name
• S$100 for one-year business registration

That makes the basic one-year setup fee S$115.

ACRA also publishes a three-year registration option at S$175 in total, subject to the relevant conditions.

Official source:
View official information — acra.gov.sg ↗

Registration is only one piece of the business.

You will still need to think about tax, records, Medisave obligations where applicable, payments, client records and your actual operating setup.

What do you actually need to start a home-based lash business?

Do not begin by buying everything you have seen in a salon.

Start with what you need to perform the service cleanly and consistently.

A basic lash setup may include:

• treatment bed
• adjustable working stool
• lash pillow
• trolley
• strong task lighting
• tweezers
• adhesive
• lash trays
• eye pads and tape
• cleansing products
• disposable applicators
• sanitation and disinfection supplies
• waste bin
• clean storage
• phone or camera for client photos
• payment method
• booking system or calendar

Your training provider's kit may already cover part of this.

That is why the cheapest-looking course is not always the cheapest route to opening.

Ask exactly what you receive.

What does a treatment bed cost?

Current Singapore online marketplace listings show basic portable treatment/massage beds commonly around the low hundreds of dollars, with many examples in roughly the S$115–S$280 range.

You can spend much more on electric salon beds, but a new home-based lash artist does not automatically need one.

The more important question is:

Does the bed keep the client comfortable while allowing you to work at the correct height and posture?

Do not buy a huge commercial electric bed because it looks professional if it takes over your bedroom.

The hidden home-business cost: space

The financial cost of working from home can be low.

The practical cost may not be.

Ask yourself:

• Where will the bed stay?
• Do I have to fold and store it after every appointment?
• Where do clean supplies go?
• Where do used items go?
• Can I control lighting?
• Is the room quiet?
• Can the client use a bathroom without walking through private family areas?
• Are children or pets likely to enter during appointments?
• Am I comfortable having strangers know my residential address?

None of those questions appears on a course-fee page.

They matter once clients start booking.

Home, mobile or treatment room?

There are three common early-stage setups.

Option 1: Work from home

Advantages

• lowest overhead
• no commute to a studio
• easier to start small
• equipment stays in one place

Trade-offs

• clients know your home address
• household privacy
• limited space
• neighbours
• setup/storage
• your home may never feel “off work”

Option 2: Travel to the client

This may work for some services, but lash work can become awkward when you have to carry:

• lighting
• adhesive
• tweezers
• lashes
• cleaning products
• disposables
• pillow
• working stool or improvise with their furniture

You also lose control over room temperature, humidity, lighting and ergonomics.

That matters for lash adhesive and for your own body.

Option 3: Rent a treatment room only when you need one

This sits between home-based work and signing your own lease.

You only pay for space when you actually have a reason to use it.

That can make sense when:

• you do not want clients in your home
• your home has no spare room
• your family needs the space
• you have only a few clients
• you want a professional environment before committing to rent

This is the gap Jealash designed its Lash Pods around.

How Jealash graduates can use Lash Pods

After successful completion of eligible Jealash courses, graduates currently receive:

One completed eligible course

Up to 5 complimentary 3-hour Lash Pod sessions within 30 days

Two or more eligible courses

Up to 10 complimentary 3-hour sessions within 60 days

The rooms include:

• treatment bed
• trolley
• lighting
• steriliser
• keyless entry

Graduates bring their own clients.

Jealash takes zero commission on what the graduate charges.

A refundable booking deposit applies to each booking, including complimentary sessions, and standard room rates apply after the graduate entitlement is used or expires.

This does not mean everyone should abandon a home-based model.

If you have a suitable home treatment room, home may be the better financial choice.

The point of the Pods is to give graduates another option before they are ready for a commercial lease.

See how Jealash Lash Pods work

How much should you spend before your first paying client?

Keep the first setup deliberately lean.

A common mistake is spending like an established salon before you have established demand.

Your early money is usually better spent on:

1. proper training
2. enough practice
3. safe working equipment
4. consumables
5. a small portfolio
6. simple booking/payment systems

rather than:

• custom neon signage
• expensive renovations
• designer furniture
• a five-figure lease
• hundreds of lash trays before you know what you use
• a complicated website before you have any work to show

Your business should earn the right to become more expensive.

How do you get your first portfolio?

Do not wait for a paying client to create your first content.

Start with models.

Use friends or family who understand that you are practising.

Take consistent photographs:

• same angle
• similar lighting
• clean background
• before
• after
• close-up
• eyes open where appropriate
• eyes closed where the technique needs to be visible

Do not over-filter the results.

A client wants to know what your actual work looks like.

The full first-client strategy belongs in our separate guide:

How to Get Your First Lash or Brow Clients After Beauty School in Singapore

How should a beginner price services?

Avoid two extremes.

Extreme 1: copying an established salon's price immediately

A salon with years of reviews, faster appointment times and a known brand is selling a different level of confidence.

Extreme 2: charging almost nothing forever

Introductory pricing can help you build a portfolio, but permanent underpricing makes it difficult to cover consumables and eventually grow.

As a reference only, Jealash's current salon menu lists:

• Classic lash sets from S$68
• Volume sets from S$118
• Lash Lift at S$65
• Brow Lamination at S$80
• Brow Embroidery at S$320

These are Jealash service prices, not guaranteed Singapore market rates.

Use them only as one real-world reference.

Your own price depends on:

• skill
• speed
• demand
• product cost
• location
• experience
• service scope

Should you create a Google Business Profile?

If your business meets Google's eligibility rules and involves genuine in-person customer contact, a Google Business Profile can eventually help people find you.

But do not invent a storefront that does not exist.

Google distinguishes between storefront, hybrid and service-area businesses and has specific rules around when an address should be displayed.

If customers do not visit your business address, Google says the address should not be displayed as though it were a storefront.

Read Google's current eligibility rules before setting it up.

Official guidance:
https://support.google.com/business/answer/13763036

A simple home-based beauty business checklist

Before taking your first paying client, check that you have:

• completed appropriate training
• practised the service
• read the URA Home-Based Business conditions
• obtained landlord/owner consent if required
• considered ACRA registration
• a clean treatment area
• appropriate lighting
• organised tools and consumables
• consultation process
• client records
• aftercare instructions
• payment method
• booking system
• clear cancellation policy
• portfolio photos
• plan for where you will work if home becomes unsuitable

Do you need your own salon to start?

No.

That is probably the most important point in this guide.

There are several stages between:

“I just completed my course.”

and

“I am ready to sign a commercial lease.”

For some people, home is perfect.

For others, it is not.

The smarter decision is usually to keep fixed costs low until your actual bookings justify increasing them.

Where Jealash fits into this

Jealash trains complete beginners in:

• Eyelash Extensions
• Lash Lift
• Brow Lamination
• Brow Embroidery
• Brow, Lip & Eyeliner PMU

Current beginner courses are capped at a maximum of six students.

The four-day Signature Lash Masterclass is currently S$1,688 promotional through 31 October 2026, and the Brow Embroidery course is S$2,750 promotional through 31 October 2026.

The current GST-on-us promotion applies to the first 20 students or until 31 October 2026, whichever comes first.

The more unusual part is what happens afterwards: eligible graduates receive the Lash Pod entitlement described above.

Compare Jealash beauty courses
See the Lash Pods
Read Jealash reviews

How this guide was prepared

Singapore regulatory information was checked against URA and ACRA sources current in 2026.

This guide is general information, not legal or tax advice.

Rules can depend on the service, property and how the business operates. If your setup goes beyond small-scale lash, brow or beauty work—or involves semi-permanent procedures—check directly with the relevant authority.

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