Threading – trading is a procedure that has been known to the world for a long time, but it has been relatively recently used in beauty salons. It’s all about the seeming simplicity and even primitiveness of this method of depilation. Indeed, trading is quite possible to learn and do at home.
All the non-hardware hair removal techniques that exist today came to us from antiquity. In Ancient Egypt, smooth legs were considered a sign of a woman’s beauty, in Persia, reclining with a man was completely possible only with the complete absence of hair on a woman’s body, and in China and Japan, each woman spent three hours a week for hair removal, spending them in “workshops” …
Hair removal threads were invented, according to various sources, in India or China. As a rule, this is a cotton thread, woven in a special way. Its peculiarity is the presence of small loops along the entire length of the fiber, it is the loops, capturing, remove hairs, even the smallest and thinnest. The thread can remove tendrils and even get rid of hair in the armpits. In some books, threads from plant stems are described, these also had disinfecting properties, and therefore were expensive and were available only to wealthy ladies.
Today, the choice of aseptic products is large, therefore, both at home and in the salon, ordinary cotton fiber is used.
As with any other type of depilation, wash your skin thoroughly and treat it with lotion to remove the protective layer of fat. Warm up the skin, for this apply a hot compress, you can even dry it. Your task is to ensure that the pores open. This will also reduce the painful effect of the procedure.
Take the shortest thread if this is your first time and tie the ends together. The resulting ring – it should be pretty loose – put it on your fingers, leave the big one free.
From the palm of your hand on the thread, roll the figure eight and insert your thumb and forefinger into its loops. Try to manage the resulting weave. If done correctly, the figure eight should stretch easily when you spread your fingers, and loosen up, sagging when you bring them together. Twist the threads in the palm of your hand 10 times, you get a lot of overturned eights across the palm – they will remove the hairs.
Practice on your leg. Place your hand firmly on the skin, but do not press. Slowly move your hand and spread your thumb and forefinger. The rings of eights will move left and right and grab the hairs, pulling them out.
Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right away. Alternatively, you can, without tying the ends of the thread, make and roll up eights in its middle, take one tip in your hand for ease of manipulation, and the other in your mouth. This way, you can control the movement of the eights on the thread and see if the hairs are caught.
After the procedure, be sure to soothe the skin, you can make a cool compress, or you can apply a special ointment on the reddened areas.
Even home hair removal with a thread allows you to remove most of the fine hairs without a trace, even on the face. They will grow back no earlier than in 2 weeks, while each time they will be thinner.
Threading is non-traumatic, you will not damage your skin. This is very important if the skin is thin or if the capillary network is close, as in the area above the upper lip.
For allergy sufferers, the thread is a panacea. After all, the intolerance of wax or depilatory preparations leaves it possible to use only a razor, after which irritation appears.
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