Why are you people plucking your brows?

[Deleted]

Threading is where it's at.

[darkling_glory]

Word.

[watsonwedding2011]

The girl I work with tried to explain it to me. I still had to look it up. I donno I do nothing to my eyebrows.

[shorty20]

I have no idea what threading is. I've heard of it, but never bothered to look up what it is.

[sapphire bou]

I YouTubed it to see how it works. Do you do it yourself or have someone do it for you? How long do the hairs need to be for it to work effectively?

[Deleted]

Threading is where they use thread to remove the hair. It's cheaper, faster, less painful, no chemicals used...it's awesome.

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May 25, 2012 14:45:36 GMT -5 sapphire bou said:

I YouTubed it to see how it works. Do you do it yourself or have someone do it for you? How long do the hairs need to be for it to work effectively?

Oh, no. You need to have a pro do it. The hairs need to be about as long as they'd be for plucking/waxing.

[sapphire bou]

May 25, 2012 14:46:51 GMT -5 @otterama said:

May 25, 2012 14:45:36 GMT -5 sapphire bou said:

I YouTubed it to see how it works. Do you do it yourself or have someone do it for you? How long do the hairs need to be for it to work effectively?

Oh, no. You need to have a pro do it. The hairs need to be about as long as they'd be for plucking/waxing.

See, I'm really OCD about my brows and I pluck them when they're really short. Like barely poked through the skin short.

[duff]

I had my first threading appt last week...I'm a convert! I couldn't believe how fast and painless it was!

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May 25, 2012 14:50:22 GMT -5 duff said:

I had my first threading appt last week...I'm a convert! I couldn't believe how fast and painless it was!

I know! It's amazing how awesome it is.

[alabasterangel]

I would have to drive two hours for threading.

[charitylynne79]

it's less painful then getting them waxed?

[MissusTexas]

Because I'm hella cheap.

[alabasterangel]

May 25, 2012 16:29:51 GMT -5 MissusTexas said:

Because I'm hella cheap.

Also a very valid reason.

[treedimensional]

Quote otterama: "It's cheaper, faster, less painful, no chemicals used...it's awesome.
You need to have a pro do it. The hairs need to be about as long as they'd be for plucking/waxing."

The fact that I need to PAY someone to do it, and then DRIVE to the appointment, means it is NOT cheaper or faster. And tweezers are probably much easier to find than threading salons, especially if you live in a small town or a rural area. And whether it is less painful can be argued but not proven; either way the hair is still being pulled out (I don't find tweezing particularly painful). And tweezing doesn't involve chemicals either, so that was never a debate.
I tweeze every couple of days. I'm guessing it would cost me and arm and a leg to go to the salon three times a week, not even counting time lost.

[thumper55]

I'm too cheap for threading
I use tweezerman tweezers and a magnifying mirror

[Deleted]

I have an eye brow trimmer. I don't need threading.

[alabasterangel]

Yeah. So fuck you and your eyebrows and the tiny horses they rode in on.

And stuff.

[Deleted]

May 25, 2012 23:20:49 GMT -5 alabasterangel said:

Yeah. So fuck you and your eyebrows and the tiny horses they rode in on.

And stuff.

:::wiggles her perfectly groomed eyebrows at this thread:::

[alabasterangel]

Agony. Pure agony.

[moonlight]

I don't understand how threading is less painful than tweezing. Either way, you are pulling the hair out of the follicle. The hair is being removed in the exact same manner. The only difference is the manner in which the hair is grasped.

Waxing is different because the ingredients in the wax have the ability to irritate the skin, as does the application if done wrong.

[ILikeSloths]

I love how this post brought so many lurkers out, lol.


I feel the same way as Sapphire and Missus... I get the urge to pluck as soon as a very short hair comes in so I can't imagine waiting until they've grown out, and I'm cheap.