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Friday, May 30, 2014

Cool alternative to Waxing facial hair

Like many other women I know I've got extra facial hair that is dark.  I've been waxing or tweezing for YEARS!  And I do mean years, I've been waxing my eyebrows since I was 11, that's 22 years of waxing people!  My lip and chin followed not long after.

Years before I had my son, who is 3 now, I had laser hair removal on my lip and chin.  Got one of those buy one area get one area deal.  It worked great, until I got pregnant.  Then the hormones went all whacky and the dark hair started growing back.

Not so fun let me tell you.

Anyway, there's a salon down the road from my apartment that I've had some other services done and I decided to get my eyebrows done there.  I used to get them done at my nail salon or at my hair stylist.  I could still get them done at my nail salon but I'm currently in the market for another hair stylist again, it's a long story for another blog post.

They are Indian so they thread eyebrows.  I never had it done before.  It was awesome.  SO much faster than waxing.  Added bonus is that my skin isn't red or inflamed afterwords, not red at all in fact, and you don't have all that gross wax residue left over from waxing.  Another thing is that you don't have to worry about potentially getting burned by the wax being to hot.

I wanted to see if I could find instructions in the Internet to see if I could do my lip and chin at home.  I'm more than happy to pay the $6 every few weeks to have my eyebrows done as, quite frankly, I'm not that coordinated when it comes to making sure my eyebrows are even.

There is TONS of info out there.  HERE are my favorite instructions I've found.

Now a few notes about getting started.

It says to use 2' of thread.  I think that, at least for me, that's to much.  Around 18" or so seems to work best for me.

It does take a bit of practice to be able to yank out the hair.  Once you do get the hang of it it's certainly faster than tweezing and, in my opinion anyway, faster and easier than waxing.

As for the thread I seem to like just a standard all purpose thread.  I've got some upholstery thread that works decently as well.  The article says that the type doesn't matter so just play around with different types and just pick one that works best for you.

I didn't practice on my leg like they say to in the article as I had just shaved the other day so I didn't have enough hair there to try it out.  I did just fine with the mirror on my face once I got the hang of the motion required to pull the hair out.

The big bonus of threading is that you don't have to wait for hair to be a certain length like you do with waxing.  You can do it every other day if you feel like it so you never have hair on your eyebrows, lip or chin.

Sure you'll still need tweezers just like with waxing but that part is no worse than before.

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