Pamper Me Pretty - Hair Threading

Threading is a popular technique used to remove hair from the face as well as other parts of the body, all parts of the body in fact. It is a method of tweezing hairs in many Arabic, Chinese, Indian, and Persian countries by using thread. This allows for quick hair removal compared to tweezing, but a cheaper method than waxing. 

Everyone has hairs on their face, but it is a matter of it being dark or light. Most women of the Asian cultures engage in threading in order to achieve a more lighter complexion in the skin. The most popular threading areas are the eyebrows and lip. Many others thread the entire face which includes the forehead, chin, cheeks, eye area, nose, ears, and so on. You can also thread the other parts of your body, which include the arms, legs, back. 

The process may sound a little painful to pluck off hairs with the use of thread, but it is just like waxing. It is a painful, tedious process (well a little more tedious than waxing the first time), but it is something that must be done and gets easier over time. You grow used to the feeling of the hairs being pulled. There is a certain technique to each part of the face that you are threading. You may need to pull at some areas to ensure a cleaner thread, but the person threading your skin will show you what to do. 

It is a more natural method and recommended for those who are allergic to different waxing products. In addition, the redness from threading is usually a lot less than that of waxing because of the burning wax that is applied to your skin. Some salons may thread immediately without the application of a baby powder, but others may use a baby powder in order to see where they have threaded already. 

The hairs on your face is then threaded line by line. The most painful areas are the lips and around the eyes because it is extremely sensitive and where the skin tugs at the most. It is important to stay relaxed and try not to flinch during the process because you do not want the specialist to pull of a chunk of hair that is not meant to be pulled off. 

Like plucking and waxing, hair stays off for the same amount of time so this varies from person to person. Each spa and salon has their own way of practice which may be sitting in a chair or laying on a bed, but is something to experience at least once in your life. Eyebrows would be my personal suggestion for someone who's doing it for the first time. Only because you probably have a habit of plucking or waxing your eyebrows already anyway so the pain is more endurable. Another area that is the least painful is the forehead, but if you don't plan on keeping that up, there is no need to thread the forehead area.