What is Eyebrow Threading?
Threading is a hair removal technique, which originated in India and became popular in the Middle East and United States . Salons in Western nations had initially been offering services to the clients of Middle East for decades. Later the popularity if eyebrow threading grew with the growing interests among women from Europe and America towards this hair removal technique.
The hair removal technique is not confined to eyebrows because other facial and body hair can also be removed with threading. Threading Eyebrow is done with twisting of a piece of thread, usually cotton, into a double strand to pick up a line of hair and remove it. Threading creates a very clean and precise hairline.
Indian movie stars who are often distinguished by their crisp brow lines often prefer eyebrow threading. Eyebrow threading cannot only eliminate a unibrow, but can also raise the arch of the brow besides adding shape and definition to the brow. It is considered to be a long lasting hair removal technique as it removes hair by the follicle. Threading can be repeated once in three to four months.
Eyebrow threading is also not much expensive technique because it can be employed easily and quickly without needing costly chemical ingredients. Eyebrow threading can be a practicable and feasible alternative for the women pursuing a more natural beauty regimen, because it does not entail use of harmful products.
Even some aestheticians also prefer eyebrow threading to some other methods available, for eyebrow shaping. However, it is essential to find an aesthetician who has an experience with eyebrow threading. Lack of experience may make brows uneven and lead to hair breakage, ingrown hairs and even unnecessary pain.
Why is threading better than waxing, tweezing, and razors?
Waxing generally leads to burning, peeling or irritation on the skin especially that surrounding the eyes. In addition to this, wrinkles may develop around the eye area with repeated waxing.
On the other hand tweezing and razors may result in in-grown hairs and cutting the skin. Moreover the facial hair grows back thicker and faster after waxing, tweezing and razors.
Eyebrow threading can be a preferable option of hair removal for a number of reasons. The hair grows back thinner and slower after threading. Threading does not cause burning, peeling or irritation. It doesn’t result in in-grown hairs.
Unlike tweezing or eyebrow plucking , eyebrow threading can make it easy to design the brow shape by removing one clean hairline at once.
Does threading hurt?
Eyebrow threading may initially make feel sensation but soon one will become used to it.
It does not hurt like waxing. Many people who underwent eyebrow-threading say it doesn’t hurt at all. Any redness or irritation of the skin will not persist more than a few minutes after the eyebrow threading session.
How often do I have to do threading?
Although it varies from person to person, yet eyebrow threading can usually be done in every 2-3 weeks.
Tips for the Eyebrow Threading
Here are some simple tips to tame your brows:
Spray a little hair spray on your brows before brushing them with the use of your toothbrush. This will keep them in place.
In case you don’t have sufficient time for tweezing, you would better brush them upwards before snipping the longest hairs beyond the natural arch with the use of a pair of tiny scissors so as to get the desired contour.
You may look aggressive if your eyebrows slant upwards. Therefore youm must avoid taking off too much at the outer corners.
Use a cotton ball soaked in astringent to wipe the brow area for preparing your skin before tweezing your brows. The cooling effect causes bit numbness on your skin for sometime making you feel less pain.
Hold the tweezers at 45 degrees and then pluck the stray hairs, which are below the brow line towards the direction where hair grows.
In case you do not have dense brows, you must fill in the brow areas with light and quick strokes with the help of a freshly sharpened brow pencil.
You can get a natural and more defined look by brushing your brows with the use of a brow brush, dipped in brow powder in upward and outward strokes. This is one of the useful eyebrow threading tips.
Always use the correct shade for your brows. Blonde shades can be good for fair women whereas tawny or brown can be used by olive colored women. Gray shades can be a good choice for dark African-American women.
Add volume to your brows by applying eye shadow in short gentle strokes with the help of a stiff and slanted brush.
In case of over tweezing in certain brow area, it is advisable to fill the patch with the use of brow shadow. Brow shadow can be applied towards the direction where hair grows.
Your brows get more natural look through eye shadow in comparison with the look you get through eyebrow pencil!
If you are an olive or dark skinned woman, you must make sure that the brow shade is about two shades lighter than your hair color. For blondes or women with gray hair color, the brow shade should be two shades darker than the color of their hair.
