Oh please tell me it's safe to color my hair...

[nancyann]

K - You've piqued my curiosity - what's 'threading' of the eyebrows ?     Nancy

[NL]

Hi K,

I met a woman at work who had this done. I didn't completely get it, but it sounds like they wrap thread around the hairs and pull - is that right?

Wait until Brian hears about this one! 


Another curious Nancy (L)

[Kaybo]

It is very intriguing!!  They take a long piece of thread (just like you were going to sew something) and then make a triangle around both thumbs & in their mouth - the bottom has 2 strings.  I have never known for sure if it pulls the hair out or if it cuts it SUPER close - I think it is pulled out.  I can't really ask about the whole process (you know I would) because they don't really communicate in English.  Boy, I know they are always talking about me though b/c their tongues start wagging when I go in with my "funny face"!!  LOL!!!   

K

[lori67]

Yeah, they're probably saying "Here comes that glutton for punishment wanting us to rip out her eyebrows with string again!".   

Lori

[Tamara]

I'm sorry.....WHY would you want to have your eyebrows threaded???  That sounds really painful, at least on your non-AN side, Kaybo!  BTW, while I don't do much by the way of eyebrows (as long as I actually have two of them, it works for me), I DID color my hair today.  Finally got rid of the grey temples on my AN side that I didn't color before surgery, because my dr said it would be shaved.  It wasn't and it looked kind of silly. That's one more thing crossed off the list!

Tammy

[leapyrtwins]

Yeah, they're probably saying "Here comes that glutton for punishment wanting us to rip out her eyebrows with string again!".   

Thanks for this superb translation, Lori    I'll bet K feels much better about going to the threading place now    Better her than me 

Jan

[Kaybo]

Actually, it is not that bad - just that second when I can feel it again.  Of course, I say that, but when I took my friend (she & her new hubby were living in Houston at the time) I thought that she was going to jump out of the chair & run screaming out of the salon - I don't think she went back!!  I did get a PM from "konnie" and she had some very good points to ponder about the downside of threading (mainly sanitary issues - YEAK!).  I haven't been able to get there the last coouple of years...I'll really think aboout it now.  I have been getting my brows waxed (which is not supposed to be good for your tender, eyelid skin) - if I had to pay that much money to get my eyebrows symmetrical, I want people to see them & think they look good!!!     VAIN, I know...{sigh}

K

[MAlegant]

What's wrong with tweezing and/or waxing?  Does threading them do a better job?

[ppearl214]

*puts on cosmetologist cap again*

I know of those that do threading to help "raise" their low hairlines (ex: from a "2 finger" hairline to "3 finger" hairline... widens the hairline from the face)... but to thread the eyebrows, in all honesty, to me, does not make sense, esp. since it's in a sensitive area and too close to the eye (again, hygiene comes into place and don't want you all to get an eye infection).  Personally, I'd stick with tweezing/waxing for eyebrows... but if you want to raise your hairline, then you could try threading. Threading is a definate "owwy".

Just my 2 cents
Phyl

[Kaybo]

Phyl~
I didn't know it had anything to do with hairline - I just did it for my eyebrows!!  I doubt I will do it again!

Marci~
Hot wax on the sensitive skin is not supposed to be the best!

K

[NL]

This is all really interesting - but I think I'm just going to be old-fashioned and stick to the tweezers. It's only painful when I can't find the magnified mirror and end up plucking my skin!

Nancy

[Kaybo]

OUCH!!!!   

K

[leapyrtwins]

The next time I get accused of majorly hijacking a thread, I want all you guys to remember this topic.

You have gone from coloring hair to threading, waxing, and tweezing eyebrows!

Don't get me wrong, I think it's great - proves you all can hijack with the best of them 

Jan

[yardtick]

Jan,

Its all beauty related.....therefore it isn't a hijacking   Think about it?

Beside I love to hear a man moan in pain.  I really think we got to Brian.  Too funny!!!

[MAlegant]

We could always rename the thread: pre and post op grooming issues...what do you think?
M