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Original poster

How did threading get so popular? Are we all having it done?

38 replies

katkitya · 30/12/2011 16:04

I can't even get into tescos for the queue of women waiting for a three pound thread. I'm at a posh place now and the treatment beds and all I demand. It's agony, isn't it? What did we do before?

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VivaLeBeaver · 30/12/2011 16:11

Waxing.

Threading is more painful but lasts longer and a better shape. I have topay £10 in debenhams and sit in full view with tears and snot streaming down my face.

VivaLeBeaver · 30/12/2011 16:11

And not having to make an appt is a big bonus for me.

Sparklingbrook · 30/12/2011 16:13

I sat in Superdrug's window in Liverpool One and had mine done. Blush £5!

ThePathanKhansWitch · 30/12/2011 16:23

Are there no Asian beauty salons round your way? Usually they are women only, and the therapists are very into their trade. My one does Indian head massage and other 'alternative' treatments.

I much prefer threading, doesn't leave you with that "childs red smooth bottom" look IYKWIM.

Sparklingbrook · 30/12/2011 16:45

There's a teeth whitening booth opened up in our local town. I don't fancy that at all.

Original poster
katkitya · 30/12/2011 17:42

I wished they'd open a lipo one in the back of John lewis

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Sparklingbrook · 30/12/2011 17:45

Grin katkitya. While you wait Lipo Grin

Tortington · 30/12/2011 17:51

i pluck

i have threaded and it was aweful - and no it didn't mean that i didn't have to pluck less frequently and i was actually left with skin burns on one occasion

so i pluck - plucking is fine

threading hurts and has a faint chance of scarring ime - so fuck that

WhatsWrongWithYule · 30/12/2011 17:58

I'd never let anyone else near my eyebrows - no therapist could possibly make a better job of them than me and I'd probably punch anyone who took even one hair too many in a crucial place.
I've been plucking them myself since I was 13 and no one could possibly do them better than I can. In fact, it's been such a long time that they hardly even need plucking any more. >
(Nearly said lush, virhin growth but that seemed wrong somehow Grin).

WhatsWrongWithYule · 30/12/2011 17:59

Er virgin not virhin.

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katkitya · 30/12/2011 19:15

I couldnt do my own, Im too cockeyed.

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BendyBob · 30/12/2011 19:32

I decamped to threading after years of being waxed.

It was great for a whileI loved it. But I've gone back to waxing again because the threading lady was too enthusiatic and my poor eyebrows got so thin. I couldn't seem to explain that's not what I wanted.

So I stopped the threading and grew them in again.

WhatsWrongWithYule · 30/12/2011 20:27

Exactly, BendyBob - no one knows how to do them as well as you.
I bet you lot all can't dry your own hair either Grin.

Bunch · 30/12/2011 20:29

I pluck but often thought about trying threading. How often do you have to get them done?

Fluffycloudland77 · 30/12/2011 20:31

I'm a recent convert, I can't pluck them right so I gave up years ago.

I do a fab mani and pedi though, I don't like paying fir that.

humblehippo · 30/12/2011 20:32

I don't find threading painful at all - quite a nice sensation in fact! Did not know it was available in Tescos though Shock I go to the eyebrow bar in House of Fraser.

Tigerbomb · 30/12/2011 20:36

One of my local beauty shops does threading for £4.00. I have been using her for about 6 years now and my eyebrows are brilliant. I usually have them done every 4 weeks otherwise I have a serious monobrow.

I tried waxing once and hated it and I am crap with a pair of tweezers.

On the plus side my DD has learnt how to thread and she is better than the beauty shop woman. She is going to save me a fortune.

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katkitya · 30/12/2011 20:45

Its outside my tescos doorway, Ive never seen such a line up.

My beautician tells me they are crap the bars that are poppin up in the middle of the shopping centres. Im not convinced, the Indian women have grew up doing it. All the youngsters at my work thread each other. I guess its trends you have to be carefull about. Whats fashion for one wont be for another. I get mine done every 8 weeks infact, I went today and she refused to do them as she said they were fine. She also wouldnt dye my eyelashes either as they looked dark enough she clearly had bigger paying customers trying to get appointments she did dye my eyebrows and that makes a huge difference to me. I really find as Im getting older they are neither here nor there. It will be down below, next.

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Sparklingbrook · 30/12/2011 20:47

I am not going to get my 'down below' threaded in Superdrug's window. Shock

Meglet · 30/12/2011 21:01

I'll stick with my tweezermans while I supervise bath time thanks. Tweezing each hair at a time seems more precise.

You couldn't pay me to be threaded in public Shock.

marriednotdead · 30/12/2011 21:03

Sparkingbrook Grin

Sparklingbrook · 30/12/2011 21:05

The lady before me had her eyebrows, top lip and beard chin done-all in the window.

wildfig · 30/12/2011 21:43

£2 for fabulous brows on Tooting High Road, which is actually less than the bus fare there and back.

mumatron · 30/12/2011 21:47

Never. Again.

tried it once and it felt like each individual strand of hair was being ripped out of my eyebrow.

will stick to waxing.

Sparklingbrook · 30/12/2011 21:48

That's what it was mumatron. Grin