Hair removal with oriental thread: we have tried it and we can no longer give it up

Have you ever heard of hair removal with thread? Not me, at least until a few weeks ago. A dear friend tells me: «Come, I’ll show you something. You’ll like it.” I then accompany her to Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi, a historic building in the center of Milan, where a splendid Iranian lady, Leila Pasar, has her beauty studio, and she immediately makes my friend sit in a comfortable armchair. He takes a white thread, weaves it between his two hands as if to form a triangle and passes it over and under the eyebrows with very rapid movements, in order to epilate them and give them a beautiful line. Meanwhile he explains to me that this hair removal technique with cotton or silk thread is very ancient, comes from India and is widespread throughout the oriental world. Furthermore, in your country, women are very careful about the definition of their eyebrows and the presence of unwanted hair on the face, which is traditionally framed by the veil. While finishing the work by making small adjustments with tiny scissors, she says: «I have been passionate about beauty and its rituals since I was a child. And I have always loved dealing with aesthetics, so much so that I also learned this type of technique when I was a little girl. I studied engineering at the University of Tehran, then literature here in Italy, but in reality I wanted to dedicate myself to face and body care. Here I discovered that Italian women have a too aggressive approach with eyebrows. For example, they resort to tattooing, which never gives a natural result. So I decided to specialize in the most natural possible care of eyebrows, eyelashes, face and hair.” While she says this, she shapes and colors my friend’s beautiful eyebrows with henna, so that they are perfectly defined and have an even line. Then move on to removing hair from the rest of your face, from your mustache to the hair on your chin. Then apply a soothing oil to calm any irritation.

And now it’s my turn. I am half-lying in the comfortable armchair, which suddenly becomes very uncomfortable. This threaded hair removal hurts like hell. What is written on the Internet is not true, it is not painful. It certainly is, because Leila works at full speed, removing the eyebrow hairs from the root one by one. But he doesn’t remove one and then another after a moment, like you do with tweezers. By passing the wire it removes entire rows of hair at supersonic speed, as if it were mowing a lawn. Like Silkepil, but a little worse. It seems that the discomfort, however, decreases after the first sessions. On the contrary, I must add, for the sake of truth, that there are people who don’t hurt at all. The positive aspect, also, is that the operation lasts very little. Not only that. The hairs are removed together with the follicles, so that they then grow back very slowly. And another plus point is the fact that there is no tearing typical of waxing: there is only a delicate movement of crossing threads. So they may hurt, but they don’t traumatize the skin, they don’t exfoliate it and they don’t irritate it.

When the eyebrow epilation is finished, Leila vi he applies an oil of his own production, made with seven types of nuts, which helps to thicken them. After that he moves on to the mustache and chin hair. An evil that I won’t even tell you about. While she works, I am reminded of the phrase our grandmothers used to say: “Whoever wants to appear beautiful must suffer.” So I can also tolerate the removal of hair above the upper lip, which is particularly annoying. However, it too is fast. When she is satisfied with the result, Leila dabs rose oil all over her face and it smells wonderful (“I’ll get it from Iran”) and immediately calms the blush. Then complete the work by coloring my eyebrows with a drop of henna too, without darkening them too much, since I have light hair.

The procedure lasted no more than 10 minutes in total. And the surprising thing is that, even though I have very delicate skin, which gets irritated at the slightest thing, the modest redness that results disappears within a few minutes. Furthermore I have a very smooth faceon which not even a single hair was left by accident. I trust Leila and, once I get home, I don’t apply calming or antibiotic ointments, as I usually do to ward off folliculitis. And in the following days the skin remains perfectly smooth, without red dots, without the follicles that usually become inflamed when I use tweezers or, even worse, waxing. The eyebrows are well defined, enhanced by henna and give great expressiveness to the gaze. What’s more, there is no regrowth for about a month. Never again without itI feel like saying. Because if Paris is worth a Massa smooth face is worth ten minutes of completely bearable discomfort. Last but not leastthe products that Leila is launching with her brand Leila Pasar are excellent, from the regenerating and calming rose oil to the seven nut oil that thickens the eyebrows, from the Damask rose water and hyaluronic acid, which hydrates and refreshes, with myrtle oil, which helps regenerate and fortify the hair. All treatments that Leila has developed in Iran and India together with local artisans and all based on natural oils, free of chemicals.

I forgot. In my ignorance I didn’t know that Leila is the true eyebrow guru, the best and best known in Milan. Many celebrities also go to her. In fact, when I go out I come across one. Who is? I promised not to say it, but I assure you that she has regained her eyelashes, eyebrows and thick hair thanks to the care of the legendary Iranian beauty.