Image 2000 Unisex Hair and Beauty Salon Threading

Called khite in Arabic and fatlah in Egyptian, it's a less common method in the West for removing hair at the root, used primarily on facial hair. Rows of stray hairs are taken out with twists of cotton thread.

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. There are also devices made that can hold the thread during the procedure.

Inexpensive, fast, neat, considered less painful than plucking for many. Good for eyebrows and facial hair. Like plucking, results can last up to two to four weeks.

You can thread every week
You get a clear result with sharp lines
Threading doesn’t scar or pinch the skin
Because the hair is removed directly from the root, you don’t get ingrown hairs
Threading can be done on all parts of the face