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

[katkitya]

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?

Seriously, I cringe when I think of how much it hurt

I started a thread on here about it at the time, I was that shocked at the pain.

And one eyebrow grew back within days.

Had them done once while I was in the Maldives.

It was too feckin painful for me to even consider having it done again.

I'll stick to my trusty tweezers (even though I'm crap at it)

Never done threading... it's the public nature of it I cannot stand. I was in debenhams the other week and the queue of women waiting to be done in full public view was shocking - do they have no shame? They'll be waxing fanjos in full view next!

(Viva.. were you in that queue - St Marks branch?)

I have been having mine treaded for a year now much nicer than them being waxed. I sit in the middle of a shopping centre having them done and it does not hurt and I have lovely eyebrows :)

The pain thing with threading is all in the threaders technique honest. .

Try again, it's a much better look than waxing or plucking.

ThePathanKhansWitch I had mine threaded at the same time as my mum and she barely flinched so I think it is more to do with my non existent pain threshold.

I love it and it gets rid of all the baby hairs on my brows
I do my brows and upper lip myself or bribe a colleague!

mumatron honest i've had mine done and cried, and at other times, not a thing, i do also think it depends where you are in your menstrual cycle (by all accounts, we are more "resistant to pain" at some points than others) so maybe that it?.

Yes I have heard that Pathans. I didn't cry at all, but the lady said people really cry sometimes.

I wax. I threaded twice but it was LOADS more painful and the redness wore off only about an hour earlier than with waxing. And it takes forever, so you have some woman puffing all over you with her armpits in your face for about 20 minutes. Or maybe it just takes that long with me because of my big hairy beard.

I had them waxed then partially threaded and had them completely threaded another time. It hurt and I was left with a cut under my eyebrow-i was actyally lucky the therapist left anything. She didn't ask what I wanted or anything. I was left with red and sore eyebrows. Should have heeded someone else who saw the therapist and said that she would leave it as when the therpaist had done her brows she too had a cut. Never again!

It is agony even with medicinal g and t and two co-codamol 30 mins before. However, on doit soufrir.. .

Not as bad as getting the old bikini line done though. Lord help us with our body hair.

I have my eyebrows threaded every three months and have done so for years.
I go to a salon but had an emergency visit to one of the open shopping centre bars once and know what you mean as they are quite enthusiastic, gave me a totally different unwanted shape and made them really thin. Think that perhaps those types of places don't really care about repeat custom so much as there is so much foot traffic past.
Decided to stop waxing after reading a paper suggesting regular waxing could contribute to droopy eyelids as the motion of waxing helps separate the skin from the muscle.....