We went and got threaded for the first time at a desi salon on Saturday. A very tidy muslim lady from Ahmedabad did it-his brows-12$, my upper lip and brows-17$. She said she’d been in the states about two years. When she mixed-up our names, it sent us into hysterics.

His came out terrific looking. He was very good at explaining how he wanted to stay with his current shape. (I didn’t.)

There was zero irritation and the brows didn’t hurt but the lip was a damned stinger. I’m not crazy about the thin-ness she gave my brows. She gave me a very thin, fifties era, high arched sex-kitten brow. Think Rita Moreno but much thinner.

I should have specified my style better and been more communicative but I have to say, it’s a clean finished look, which I like.

Oh, and there were zero comments on Pablo, or me. We did talk with the ladies there about the possibility of a female U.S. president.

They all liked Hilary.

See, I agree with my friend about $25 being worth the absolute lack of prying/judgment. That’s not to say that I’m anti-Auntie, but I do understand not wanting to put up with the tenacious interrogation one might experience, especially wrt one’s love life/career.

I also got emails from men, who said that they paid similarly at “non-brown” establishments because their eyebrows were their business and they liked the privacy. Oh, the tribulations of the metrosexual.

About $6 to the few places I’ve tried. I pay dearly though, in unnecessary chitchat (“are you married? do you have a boyfriend? what do you do for a living? you should come here more often…”) I got the full face treatment (and left with my pride intact!) in Chicago for $22. Highly satisfying, not to mention highly necessary.

Anna, so you’re saying have super-thin brows and eskimo boots? I’d swoon if there wasn’t a double standard against men swooning.

fukijama – what do you mean by this?

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have an after-funeral party to attend.

i hope the eugoogly was really really good. rani, i paid $18 in boston and thought it was expensive – but way worth it if you find the right person to get the shape right. a lot of the aunties doa pretty good job, but sometimes it’s lopsided, or the arch is funny etc. i was glad i paid it the one time because ever since then, i’ve maintained it (for the most part) on my own or with cheap threadings.

re spas etc – i like them for other things – manicures, pedicures, facials etc – where they take time and it makes sense (to me) to be in a relaxing atmosphere. but eye-brow grooming seems to straight-forward, all i want to do is get it done within 10 minutes.

Forgot to add– ITA with this. Who wants to date Bert? Not even Ernie, I wager.

Oh, my. Some clarifying is in order: I just wanted to put up another eyebrow post, since that image of Sienna Miller has haunted me ever since I first saw it AND there were TWO desi women quoted in the news article (go us!). I didn’t mean for it to only or mainly be about threading. I just look for and celebrate ANY excuse to post beauty-related blogginess on SM.

I don’t know what threading costs in DC, especially since my friend didn’t get that done to her uber-sensitive skin. She got some really neat cream-wax thing that apparently didn’t hurt or irritate her skin. I support her decision to go somewhere nice, just like I support anyone else’s decision to go somewhere ridiculously inexpensive. I’m all about the deal. Or pampering yourself. Or both. You know what I mean.

well i’m sure whoever is doing your brows is an “Auntie” as well to someone … maybe just not you … this post is mainly about threading … and that price for threading is a bit ludicrous

If people wish to get their hair removed in the grimiest part of Jackson Heights, good for them, but I enjoy going to this place I found in Allure’s directory.

stereotype, much?