Hi, I'm Natasha. I'm a Licensed Esthetician and the owner of The Wax Poetic in beautiful Savannah, Georgia. I'm here today to show you how to do threading hair removal. To do threading you need three things, one of which is just a regular cotton poly-blend of thread. It can be thicker or thinner, whatever makes you more comfortable, then just an ordinary pair of scissors. It doesn't have to be manicure scissors. It could be larger scissors if you wanted and last but not least, a hairy leg. You want to measure your thread out by taking a bit in your fingertips and rolling it down just about to your elbow, hold that, cut the thread. Now you have one long piece of thread. You're going to double that up and just make an ordinary simple knot between the two. Some people have better knotting skills if you're a seamstress, that's okay, not my skill. This one works for me. Just a simple knot, make sure it's nice and tight, then you just want it to end up looking kind of like a circle. Then what you do is you make a long oval. I like to hold it with my two fingers on either side and you're just going to twist about five times. I'm going to show you that once again just so we get it right, just hold one side, go one, two, three, four, five. So now you have a nice little, I don't know, epicenter, it looks kind of like an eight for your thread. Now, I'm going to take my own leg, just because that's a good place to practice so you don't hurt anybody except yourself and it's not that bad really. You, just like tweezing you want to take the hair out and you're using the apex of the triangle to do so so you're opening your thumb and pointer finger to get this side moving and you're actually going to take out the row of hair right through here. So, I'm going to work on my own leg. I see that it's nice and hairy, I grew it out just for you guys and you want to get the thread kind of flush against the skin, just zip it up. Let me show you that again. So threading hair removal which is an old Indian technique, some people always ask me is it better than waxing, worse than waxing, does it last as long as waxing, it's all the same, it takes the hair out from the root. It's not cutting the hair. You can get really fine hairs with threading which is why people like to do it and you also don't get that, you don't have to worry about the heat of wax or the pulling on the skin. The only thing you want to know as you are practicing is that it's very similar to learning a stringed instrument say like a guitar. You should only be practicing I'd say like five or ten minutes a day because you want to build up calluses on the insides of your thumbs especially because you will see that the skin, you might get a little paper cut from the thread. Some people will use a fabric bandage. I don't really recommend it because you don't get a very good slide and grip of the string, but if that's what it takes for you to practice, I would say once you're able to get all the hairs off your leg, then you should be ready to try doing your own brows, lip, chin or cheek. Once again, I'm Natasha, and this was how to do hair removal with threading.
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