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Introducing Threading Hair Removal 

If you are getting tired of shaving, waxing and tweezing to get rid of unwanted hairs around your face, the best solution for you may be the method of threading hair removal.  The threading hair removal is popularly known in Arabic as “khite” and “fatlah” in Egyptian.  Also, threading as a method to remove unwanted facial hairs is a popular choice in India.   

A Brief Background 

Threading hair removal is not as popular in western countries as compared to other parts of the world.  It is considered to be an ancient method of removing unwanted facial hairs with the use of thin, twisted, pure cotton threads that are being rolled over on the face area like your forehead for untidy hairlines, moustache, eyebrows, and upper lips while at the same time, it plucks the unwanted hairs.  And due to the popularity of threading hair removal nowadays, we could see spas and salons almost everywhere that offer the service. 

The practitioner or the one who is doing the threading hair removal holds one end of the thread by using his or her teeth and the other end by the use of the left hand.  The middle part of the cotton thread is to be looped through the middle and index fingers of the right hand.  Now, the loop serves as a trap for the unwanted hairs and pulls them off from the skin.  Most people prefer threading because of the natural straight lines it produce after the pulling as compared to tweezing.   

What Can You Get From It? 

Aside from the fact that threading hair removal is far much faster than tweezing, it is also significantly less painful.  Also when you compare it to waxing, the threading hair removal is also less painful but of course, a bit more time consuming.  It is considered to be an inexpensive way to shape your eyebrows.  Another benefit that you can get from threading is that, it has the advantage of plucking which could make the results last for more than two weeks for up to eight weeks.   

Probably the downside of threading hair removal is that since it has only been nowadays that it is becoming popular, it is so hard to look for an experienced aesthetician to perform the method.  It is also considered to be as painful as plucking or waxing and could also cause itching after the procedure.   

There are other side effects like folliculitis or a bacterial infection affecting the hair follicles, skin reddening or puffiness, and sometimes, it could cause a change in the color of skin pigment.