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Threading hair removal is an ancient method still used in many countries in the Middle East as well as India and Pakistan.

It is used to give clean lines and good shape to the eyebrows and also remove hair from the upper lip and other facial areas.

Threading hair removal uses 100% cotton thread which is twisted and rolled along the surface of the skin entwining the hair in the thread which is then lifted out from the follicle.

How long before hair returns using threading hair removal? About the same as with tweezing, anywhere between 3 and 8 weeks.

How does threading hair removal affect the skin? The effects are less than with other hair removal methods such as tweezing, waxing or sugaring. The skin may get a little red and sore but only a slight pinch is felt as a relatively large area is covered each time.

Unlike waxing or the use of depilatories, irritation and skin rashes are avoided with threading hair removal as the top layer of dead skin is not stripped off in the process.

Where can cosmeticians skilled in threading hair removal be found? Check your local Yellow Pages and look for beauty parlors in areas settled by people from the Indian subcontinent or Middle East as this method is still commonly used in these countries.

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The article below from the Chicago Tribune gives interesting additional information regarding threading hair removal.

Ancient technique raising-- and shaping--area eyebrows
By Quynh-Giang Tran
Tribune staff reporter
Published September 9, 2001

"Nestled on Devon Avenue among sari shops, Russian bookstores and dollar discounters is a popular salon where crowds line up to have stray hairs yanked from their eyebrows with twists of cotton thread.

The procedure-- quick and neat, if not painless--is threading, a millenniums-old tradition in Asia. At $5 per treatment, it is catching on in Chicago with everyone from college students to grandmothers.

"It hurts every time and I was scared [at first] but it's addicting," said Mark Janz, a 19 -year-old student at Elmhurst College who drives from Des Plaines with his girlfriend. "Now my guy friends tell me I have nice eyebrows."

Natasha Style and Cut is run by Bharati Nakum, 40, and her husband, Sudhir, 53. They opened the salon six years ago, naming it after their daughter, and offer eyebrow threading almost exclusively.

Bharati Nakum, a licensed cosmetologist, works seven days a week with two or three assistants, focusing on the individual, determining the best eyebrow shape for each face.

Sudhir Nakum, who handles the finances, estimates the salon averages more than 100 customers a day, many of whom come for threading every two to four weeks. During the lunch hour and on Saturdays, it's standing-room only.

"Women do not look good with a unibrow," said Nickie Anatolitis, 26, a portfolio management assistant who has been coming in twice a month from Mt. Prospect for the past five years.

"It changes my whole appearance," said Gina Heidkamp, 40, a corporate administrative assistant at Kraft Foods. "If my eyebrows aren't done, I don't feel right."

With Indian pop music pulsing in the background, the wait typically is no more than 10 minutes.

The practitioner holds one end of the cotton thread in his or her teeth and the other in the left hand. The middle is looped through the index and middle fingers of the right hand. The practitioner then uses the loop to trap a series of unwanted hairs and pull them from the skin. In just a few minutes, it's over.

The advantage over plucking with tweezers, according to Sudhir Nakum, is that plucking pulls out one hair at a time, creating bumps in the skin, while threading pulls out rows of hair, which he says keeps the skin smooth.

The technique is precise but can be painful and itchy afterward, especially for first-timers.

Side effects can include folliculitis, a bacterial infection in the hair follicles, skin reddening or puffiness, and changes in skin pigment, said Dr. Richard F. Wagner, a Texas dermatologist who has written about the procedure in the International Journal of Dermatology.

"But I've not seen any severe reactions," he said.

Tony Sanders of the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation said a cosmetologist or aesthetician's license is required to do hair removal, except for laser treatments, which are performed by doctors or electrologists."

Chicago Tribune Internet Edition
Threading Hair Removal Article
9/10/2001
http://www.Chicagotribune.com/news/threading-hair-removal