I've just been violated by a woman with a piece of cotton and she's removed my identity!

[JoyceDivision]

Or rather, I had my eyebrows thraded today, discussed how I liked myshape and theyy just needed tidying and the stray hairs underneath removing.. I now have pencil thin teenager eyebrows that look totally daft on me and don't suit me!!!

Bloody stupid thing to do.. ah well, one of life's experiences I can now cross off my list..

You just need to kind a better threader. Threading has changed my life, well that's a bit dramatic but it has made huge difference and mine are not skinny at all, just well groomed.

i have seen this done. what do they do tho, does the tread pull out the hairs?

Never before or since have I experienced so much pain.

Threading gives such better results than waxing but hurts too much, have gone back to waxing now.

I just couldn't cope any longer. I would go there and be rigid in agony the entire time. I am a wimp, mind you.

Why don't you tweeze? Threading looks brutal.

Meg, threading gets all the teeny tiny hairs that are practically invisible until you are in that particular shaft of sunlight that makes you look like Tom Selleck at his Magnum PI finest...even when you thought you'd plucked the worst of them out

I feel for you. This happened to me before my wedding. I was so upset!

I recently tried benefit's waxing service for the first time and was initially happy with the results until I looked at photos of me taken afterwards and I just look weird.

Back to tweezers I think!

You know when you catch sight of yourself in blazing sunshine in the rear view mirror and think 'jesus fucking christ'.

Threading gets rids of all that. It isn't wiorth the pain, though.

Valpollicella your post makes me yearn for a like button.

That is all.

I too am finding the threading very effective but just way to painful!
Its also irritatingly itchy with all the wee fine hairs flying all over the place making my nose twitch. Not to mention the eye socket stretching which leaves me half blind afterwards! Too much trouble.
I'm also seriously debating going back to wax, can I just ask Getorf have you noticed any difference since you changed back?

No, no difference at all. Waxing is probably just as good, the reason I don't like it is because I am a bit sensitive to the wax and have very pink eyebrows for a day. I think threading does give a marginally better shape, and gets rid of all the hairs, waxing can leave the little ones behind (but am blonde so don't really care).

Ok, thanks,
Wax it is then!

Where are you all getting this painful threading done? I get mine done at the blink brow bars and don't find it at all painful. But then I don't find brazilians painful either [well 'ard me]

IME, threading is extremely painful the very first time and quite painful if you've left it a while. If it's done regularly, it doesn't hurt at all.

Threading can be pretty pain free if the right person does it. I went to an Asian beauty place in Glasgow and it was awesome, didn't hurt, looked amazing,cost a fiver, then another time I had it done in debenhams and it was so sore I was nearly crying. And they were too thin and bright red. And they charged me nearly 20 bucks

I loved my threaded. She was very disparaging of my blondeness, and insisted on massive henna'd bollywood brows. I looked like Robbie Rotten for a couple of days every time, but then they looked amazing!

Didn't hurt at all!

Seriously - why pay somebody to wax or thread such a tiny little area that you can do yourself in five minutes with tweezers?

A friend of mine gets hers waxed and IMO she's left with eyebrows that look like fuzzy felt stick ons (I don't tell her that, obviously).

I tried Blink, Shavata and a Asian salon down a side street (by far the best and cheapest but still painful).

The gorgon in Shavata coloured them in and I was left with Groucho Marx stick on brows and had to scamper through Bristol afterwards looking like a tool.

Agony. Like I say though, I am a wimp.

I experienced exactly the same thing OP, I actually went into have my haircut with a new hairdresser. She said she also did threading and was offering a special deal for both. So hair cut brows done, she turns me round to the mirror and the sight that greeted me was awful. She had cut my finge too short and removed my entire eye brows leaving only a one hair think strip. I payed and cried the whole way home to find a hat and pencil in my once lustrous eyebrows. Never again!

I use tweezers for the big, dark hairs and eyebrow shapers for the invisible-but-not-invisible hairs.
Eyebrow shapers = bits of sellotape-y stuff cut into eyebrow shapes. Superdrug sell them.

Getorf - I always go to blink in HN in Brizzle and see the slightly older lady. She's fab, it doesn't hurt and she spends ages discussing what I want etc.

I might try the HN bar (have only tried Shavata in House of Frase in Cabot). I iwll have to be brave and have a martini beforehand or something.

Nice bar upstairs in HN Then you could get your brazilian done at the strip bar too