• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Noodles

Recipes For Life

  • Home
  • About Noodles
  • Health & Beauty
  • Entertainment & Leisure
  • Love & Relationships
  • Spirituality & Values

What is hair threading?

March 10, 2011 by LadyCat 3 Comments

Centuries before these spas and high-end beauty salons offered laser hair removal services, women from ancient Egyptian and Indian civilizations were keeping their brow and facial hair in control with a simple method call threading.

Threading basically involves pulling out the entire hair follicle by trapping hair in a tiny lasso and then pulling it out in a twisting movement. This gesture actually takes out the entire hair follicle, so effects last for as long as 6 weeks.

Thinking of trying threading? Here are the pros and cons to help you decide if it’s the best hair removal procedure for you.

Benefits of hair threading

Hair threading is a very sanitary and hygienic procedure because 1) each thread is thrown away after it’s used, and 2) only the thread touches the skin, so there’s no danger of passing on bacteria or dirt that can cause breakouts, and 3) it does not use chemicals, medicines, or any ingredients that could irritate sensitive skin.

Threading is also particularly effective at maintaining eyebrows, since the results are more even and natural-looking than what you’d get by waxing or tweezing. And wow, is it fast—in one fast twist you can get rid of unwanted hair. The entire procedure may even take less than two minutes for both eyebrows.
The effects are known to last 6 weeks, but if you do threading regularly the hair follicle will eventually stop producing hair at all—so results are permanent.

Disadvantages of threading hair

You need to have this procedure done by someone who’s experienced and skilled, since improper threading can cause hair to break. And, it only works on facial hair. Our advice is to go to a reputable salon, where the people are really trained, and won’t be practicing their amateurish skills on your brows!

Threading also leaves very little room for error. If someone yanks out more eyebrow hair than you really want, then you’re stuck with that look for at least 6 weeks. Once again, go to an expert.

And, of course, threading will hurt, but most hair removal procedures do. It is also not something you’d do at home, so there’s some cost involved—compared to plucking, which only requires a tweezer, a pencil, and this simple guide to shaping your eyebrows.

Photo from beautyundercover.com

Filed Under: Health & Beauty, Skin Care & Your Body Tagged With: beauty tips, facial hair, hair removal, threading

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. jazzyJ says

    March 11, 2011 at 11:15 pm

    Great article!

Trackbacks

  1. » Tips for painless hair removal o5 Recipes for Life says:
    May 14, 2011 at 7:16 am

    […] pouring hot wax on our bodies and ripping it all off. The best time to have a wax (or even a threading) is in the middle of your menstrual […]

  2. » Ways to go Hairless (threading, waxing, shaving and plucking) o5 Recipes for Life says:
    May 30, 2013 at 1:17 am

    […] Threading is a hair-removing technique that is commonly practiced in Eastern countries such as Egypt, India, Persia and even China, but is now becoming increasingly popular in Western countries as well. In threading, a think cotton that is specifically designed for this purpose is doubled, then twisted, and then rolled over the areas of unwanted hair. Threading traps hair in a mini lasso and plucks it out at the follicle level. Threading can, unlike tweezing where hair is pulled out one by one, remove short lines of hair at a time. […]

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Categories

  • Books & Film
  • Business & Investment
  • Careers & Jobs
  • Debt & Retirement
  • Diet & Fitness
  • Entertainment & Leisure
  • Family & Friends
  • Family & Home
  • Featured
  • Featured Slider
  • Finances & Credit
  • Food & Drink
  • Games & Hobbies
  • Green Living & DIY
  • Health & Beauty
  • Holistic & Anti-Aging
  • House & Garden
  • Legal
  • Love & Relationships
  • Love & Sex
  • Marriage & Divorce
  • Parenting & Education
  • Pets & Crafts
  • Popular
  • Pregnancy & Baby
  • Questions & Answers
  • Shopping & Technology
  • Singles & Dating
  • Skin Care & Your Body
  • Spirituality & Values
  • Stress & Management
  • Style & Fashion
  • Travel & Sports
  • Wellness & Kids Health
  • Work & Money

Recent Posts

  • Leaps and Bounds Beyond the Corporate Ladder: The Truth About Job Hopping
  • 10 Ways to Spend Less on your Nights Out
  • 5 Powerful Reasons to Take Food Supplements
  • Sleep: The Often Overlooked Factor in Healthy Living
  • 4 Parenting Behaviors that Are Harmful for Your Children

Copyright © 2023