When to start threading eyebrows
Threading at Home for Lip and Eyebrows with Ami Desai | Skincare with Susan Yara
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hey guys I have my friend and fellow
youtuber Amy Desai here you know she's
gonna do she's gonna show me how to
thread my own face my own hair you guys
because she knows how to do it and I'm
so excited about this I'm so excited to
show you I didn't even realize how
popular this was because I've been doing
it for years on my own but it's one of
the most watched videos for my channel
and so I'm really I'm excited to let's
get started just to kind of get started
before somebody decides like oh I can
watch this video and do it with them
right now let's tell them what products
they're gonna need for love it okay so
first of all you want to work with a
bare face so I would just recommend
don't do it with all this making so I
would recommend wherever you're doing it
on your eyebrows or your upper lip which
are the two most common areas to do it
at home is to just wipe that off with
the makeup remover makeup wife and then
you want to prep your skin so you can do
that with ice cubes that's gonna help
numb the area or I actually found this
hack a while ago after having my
firstborn and it works really well it's
baby origel and just like it kind of
helps with sensitivity of your teeth it
really does numb the area that you're
about to kind of thread then after that
what I like to do and this is personal
preference but for me I really am
particular about the shape of my brows
so I always like to keep three things on
hand one is a spoolie and this is just
so I have everything brushed up so if I
am threading underneath I know exactly
what hairs to pick I just noticed I mean
I love that you can do your own brows
reading I yeah I know I went to a
threading place once when I was in
eighth grade enough those like girl I
can do this I love it you save money and
time you can do it in the comfort of
your own home and then I like little
scissors because if you do like to trim
at the top if you got bushy brows like
me then you're gonna need these and then
just some tweezers for those really
really hard to get areas tweezers are
gonna be your best friend so that way
you don't need a perfect way exactly and
then obviously the most important thing
is a thread itself so you can use thread
of any kind like even what you use for
like a sewing exactly so you can take
good old thread
your sewing kit your grandma's sewing
kit and you're good to go I went to
India and I actually cuz we go there
with my family a lot I found this this
is vanity threading thread very cool
name and what I liked about it is that
it just has it says it's with
antibacterial treatment so it's coated
with like a little bit of like thinking
like a waxy substance you can't really
feel it but when you put it on your skin
and you're doing it you can tell the
difference like it just feels like it's
a little bit softer cuz for me
especially if you have sensitive skin
I've noticed that sometimes when other
people are threading me in the past it's
why I don't like doing it either it's
like I would always end up with little
Nick's and then I'm like I just have
little scabs everywhere so I didn't like
it so this is a lot more gentler I'm
pretty sure you can get this off Amazon
now probably yeah exactly so you can get
off Amazon and I think it's like 10
bucks for the box but nice and is a lot
oh yeah it kind of like I think I got
this over five years ago and I still
have you know four left I'm pretty sure
Candace about two so this is great so
this thread but again any thread really
works and then once you're done with the
threading I like to just make sure that
everything is nice and clean so to help
if you do have any cuts or anything like
that aloe vera is great it's soothing
it's gonna take care of any redness that
you have or inflammation so I love aloe
vera gel but you can also use like a
little spritz all around your face
depending where you're doing it some
people like to go all up in it and
thread their entire face so this is a
really good one with some aloe in it and
that's about it I like it all right
we're ready okay ready got my hair on my
face oh you okay so first let's just
take a white got a handy one
and just take off the makeup around your
upper lip mouth exactly
so now that we're clear of makeup we're
just gonna put some or gel on this is
optional I just have a lot of questions
about that I'll get on it yes I am NOT
sensitive whatever I'm not really
sensitive either but I'm just gonna show
you guys to give you a sense of what it
looks like and feels but it's just like
ain't meant so what the kind of comes
out like a little pinky aunt montañas
gonna put that just layer it in the
areas that you need it literally just
feels like a little lotion little bit
thicker than that here we have the
thread I'm gonna have you work with me
okay
Suzanne when you get your very own I get
my own thread red this is what you're
gonna want to do I like to just measure
out I would say about do about a foot
and a half so a foot and a half long and
the reason being is that you want to be
able to tie it in a loop and then you're
just gonna tear that off oh oh okay now
usually when you watch people threading
the person is holding it in their mouth
and they're threading it right but we're
doing it on herself so obviously not
gonna do that so what we are going to do
is you're going to take the thread and
just make a little knot at the top okay
so you just want to go as close to the
end as possible make a little loop deloo
and not that almost just as like when
you're gonna do a so thread write his
own thread so you see that the reason
you're doing this this is your base this
is your anchor right here what I'm gonna
do with this arm right now is this hand
I'm going to turn and turn and turn I'd
say about three or four times and the
reason being is see this part that I'm
doing right here these are the scissors
this is what's going to extract the hair
so what you want to do is just like you
would if you're getting threaded usually
the woman or whoever is doing it will
make you hold your skin really taut on
your brows or on your lip going like
that right yep so you want to make sure
this is laid flat and then oh you do it
so fast oh my god
and then I would go down I could go like
even up to the nostrils can you just see
like it just feels soft and it looks
soft and it just it's hairless now so
nice so now you go in with the lip but
again keep it like I feel like you're
you're awkwardly holding this like try
and keep your hands flat and you you
move your face to work with it like use
your see it see how tight but see you're
doing it you're getting it you're
absolutely getting it I think you're
you're you're into your little mouth
stuff you're a little you're a little
timid with going on to your face yeah so
just go okay so why don't you try above
your brow see if that might be something
so I'm gonna show you yeah it's scary
when it's at your lip cuz it's a small
surface so I'm gonna just show you guys
like right now you watch it work and
this is about like a lot of people like
to do too is I like to just push down
like see you how a little sparse hair is
up there I like to push that down and
then watch I'm going to clean this up
you can even see like the hair yeah area
up cuz I just want to be really nice and
like clean and so again this is why I'm
wearing a headband cuz I just don't want
to get my other hair caught in it I just
think I need to practice yeah you just
need like I need to practice in private
yes I can make mess up exactly the
reason I have the tweezers like I showed
you earlier is because when you are
threading on yourself it's a lot harder
to be like okay hold your skin taut and
do it you can't do it so I tend to
tweeze the small areas just right here
but to give you an example I'm going to
just kind of pick up some hairs that are
straggling right here I'm gonna raise my
eyebrows and you'll see
that's so cool yeah so it just picks it
up do you guys do you guys feel like you
picked it up I feel like when I made
this video I was really surprised at how
much response I got to it cuz people
were like oh my gosh you can do this at
home and I have to spend ten bucks I
mean I think that's the thing right is
just realizing you can do it to yourself
yes and so I will say that the most
feedback I've gotten is that people have
tried it and they'd be like oh my gosh
once I got the hand movements down I was
golden and I was able to do it I
literally started this and when I was 13
and that's why I'm able to go as quickly
as I can but I mean now you're only 19 I
exactly think in like five years um six
years but I think the biggest thing is
that you just practice practice practice
practice and literally within six months
I was just doing it and I was like you
had a girl hey girl I don't got to hurry
up your lip haha well thank you so much
Emmy for showing me how to thread my own
upper lip and hopefully all you know
make it up here at the brows I'll be
practicing okay looks good
so I mean I have no doubt that you're
gonna get this down see you guys um II
also did my makeup using all drugstore
products and it's really pretty easy
it's for the woman on the go or a busy
mom and she did it over on her YouTube
channel so head there I'm putting a link
below there's a link right here
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link below as well and until next time
see you soon bye happy threading
