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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. Reduce
the frequency by always following up with a hair inhibitor.
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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
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