Never ever do this!

Like Blondiescot I have my eyebrows threaded and it doesn’t hurt. My youngest DD does them and she is a beauty therapist. I think whether it hurts or not is down to whoever does it, and my DD is an expert.

I wish someone would invent a way of diverting facial hair onto my head!

Me too inishowen. If I didn't keep check on my chin I'd end up looking like Desperate Dan.

PECS - what's the link with Beconase nasal spray??????

I had my eyebrows done once, but the Indian girl who did it breathed garlic over me till I was nearly asphyxiated! Put me off trying it again.

How do they thread someone's face?

My beautician is very good at threading and I have no problems with threading round my mouth and chin but I cant stand having my eyebrows threaded. After the first time I went back to waxing under my eye brows. Much less painful and all over in seconds.

I love the description 'self-inflicted ruination' as it describes my brows perfectly! I try to paint mine on with Tattoo Brow which has been advertised on the telly.
It's a bit tricky trying to get them to match but is an improvement.

PECS, it must be an individual thing as I have used Beonase daily (on prescription) and other coticosteroids too and still have eyebrows (and unfortunately the other fluff, too).

I wonder why it affected you in this way. I'll go and check the information leaflet and try to find out!

KatyK, threading is done by the practitioner holding a piece of strong thread in which a loop is made. Somehow (haven't had it done and most probably won't!) the loop is placed on an eyebrow hair and the thread is quickly pulled tight, thus removing the hair.

It is very common in India.

Thank you Candelle I knew they did it with eyebrows, but wasn't aware they could do it elsewhere!

I have brows done a couple of times a year - quick, cheap and never painful at all. A YouTube showing the how www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNqHW9IUTLo

I have eyebrows, upper lip and chin waxed every 6 weeks. It stings a bit at the time, but my miracle worker (beautician) puts aloe vera on all treated places and there is no pain at all.

I've had mine threaded a few times as plucking always sets me off on a mammoth sneezing session.
However, since buying an epilator I now do my facial peach fuzz and tidy my brows myself. Fine blonde hairs so easily dealt with and the effect lasts ages.

I have a tweezerman gadget called smooth finish, which consists of a metal coil bent into a U shape and handles which you twist while moving it down your cheeks etc. It traps fine hairs in the coil. It is the same principle as threading, but probably less efficient and just as painful!

I have my eyebrows and face waxed about every 5 weeks have done for years. I just tell her to wax anything that shouldn't be there. I am also going to have my brows coloured at the end of the month so I was happy to read Rosina's post that she had undertaken it and was happy with the colouring. I did have m brows threaded just once and never again.

I have stray eyebrow hairs plucked once a month (prefer this to threading) and my eyebrows shaped and tinted, and when that wears off I pencil them very lightly. I really do think that shapely brows with a bit of colour make a huge difference to an elderly face!

No one has mentioned sugaring which, I like better than using hot wax. It is less painful than waxing as the sugar paste is not hot so an area can be gone over more than once, if necessary. It is an ancient Arabic practice. The skin is left very soft as it exfoliates at the same time and regrowth weakens over time.

I've never tried threading. I did have my eyebrows waxed once and I couldn't bear it so I just pluck any stray hairs myself. I wax my own body hair and have done so for years and don't find underarm or legs painful any longer but bikini line never gets any better!

When I went back to my GP & mentioned my depleted eyebrows it was he that suggested the spray could have caused the loss! I had thick dark eyebrows..in fact as,a teen I despaired at my monobrow across my forehead. I have about 20 eyebrow hairs now! I use a pencil..not sure about tatooing them on..I just have a long fringe

I stick to having an eyebrow wax and trim about every two months, and if necessary I wax my upper lip myself very occasionally. After reading your account Cambia I don’t think I’ll bother with threading.

I once had my eyebrows threaded. I was visiting my sister and could be pretty sure no one who knew me would see me sitting in Debenhams having it done.

My problem is that the hairs grew back coarser and since then my eyebrows are rather ‘unruly’ and I need to trim them. I always had quite nice eyebrows up until then and only ever needed to pluck a few stray hairs from underneath to keep them tidy.

Ooh - I have alopecia universalis and wish I had this problem.

I don't need to ('do this')
The hairs on my arms and eyebrows are fair so you can hardly see them but my eyelashes are dark. Weird.

Can someone please explain to me why threading is better, more effective, longer lasting or whatever, than tweezing? If the thread is pulling the hair out by the root, then isn't that exactly the same as tweezing it out? Or waxing for that matter. Surely they all do the same thing?

Mabon1
They might look fine to you, but what about people that are looking at them.