I was looking through the pictures of this guys straight shave and noticed they used thread to 'clean up'
BBC - Derby - In Pictures - Shane's close shave...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/content/i...15_470x353.jpg
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I was looking through the pictures of this guys straight shave and noticed they used thread to 'clean up'
BBC - Derby - In Pictures - Shane's close shave...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/content/i...15_470x353.jpg
Interesting, I've never seen this before. When I was in Tunisia I learned hair removal was done with a sugar, water mix there. They'd make kind of a taffy out of it, smear it over the area, and rip it off. :) Kind of like waxing is done here in the U.S. Mostly I think the Tunisian woman used the "taffy" technique. All of this is pretty much just a fancy alternative way of using two clam shells as tweezers. :)
I've seen it done on eyebrows. There's also a funny video of Rachel Ray using that technique to remove the silk from corn.
Not sure if I'd be up for using that on my face, though. :)
I've seen a video of a straight razor shave at a Turkish barber. He used dental floss in the same way. I think I would leave the odd hair there. I imagine this technique would be very painfull. After all, the reason we shave is because plucking would be too painfull.
Females do that stuff. i hope i don't offend anyone. I have seen them doing it and it is really painful . GL with that stuff lol
None taken, I'm considering it for the 'stray' hair or two. Not too worried about the pain factorQuote:
Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl
I don't get it. I've heard of threading and seen it done. What I don't understand, is why you would thread after shaving, it seems to me threading after a shave defeats the point of shaving. If you were going to thread, why wouldn't you just thread instead of shave?
It's to catch the hairs on the upper faceQuote:
Originally Posted by natepaint
I use my razor to shave those - carefully :pQuote:
Originally Posted by ChayesFSS
Mine aren't stubborn, just a little harder to reach
Thank you, for clarifying. I'm in the same boat as Haglahoo.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChayesFSS
I could use it for my upper lip and chin hair, since those are the areas that I have the hardest time with right now.
When I was 12 or 13 I read a biography of Sitting Bull, the great Sioux warrior and shaman. The author said (and it was probably B/S) that Sitting Bull plucked the hairs from his face as they grew in.
So thinking that was a good idea I grabbed my mother's tweezers and gave it a shot. I only did it one time and I can guarantee it was painful. :) I've never seen that string thing before. Like Lee I just shave those with the rest of them.
That just looks like it hurts... I just use my razor carefully, like hoglahoo
I could be wrong, but I don't think this would work at all on stubble (whiskers). It's to catch the fine, peach-fuzz hairs that grow just about everywhere the whiskers don't. When you see Japanese barbers shaving women's foreheads and whatnot - those hairs.
When I used to let my stubble grow out and trimmed twice a month I once got a beard hair caught in a zip on my top. It pulled, hard and hurt like nothing I've ever known, but didn't pull it out, that single hair took most of the weight of my top.
The very idea of plucking anything on my face now makes me squirm.
And since I have gone to so much trouble to create perhaps the ultimate tool for removing hair from my face why try something else.
I have seen the women on India use this technique though and would like to learn it just for the sake of knowing how to.
And it would be fun to teach my lady a new way to do her legs, when I get a new one that is.
:boohoo:
I've never heard of that tecnique but it's interesting. I've heard of plucking/tweezing and even I don't want to do that. Seems that the method is comparable to those.
I just shave peach fuzz carefully. http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...f?t=1220517328
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...f?t=1209176008Quote:
Shane looks like a new man as he poses with Ali. Now, Shane's chin is almost as shiny as his head!!
I've watched videos of this on youtube and people had said the Turkish barbers use that technique to get the hair around the eye area where the skin is thin and shaving can do damage.