Read on to find out whether you should wax or thread your brows to achieve your goal look. If you're using retinol-infused products, we recommend swapping them out a week prior to getting either treatment just to be safe. This is because retinoids can lead to a sensitivity.
Avoid touching the treated area for 2-4 hours. No make-up or perfumed products should be applied for 2-4 hours. Avoid steam treatment or heat source like sun bathing / tanning beds, hot baths or sauna for at least 24 hours. Avoid swimming or spray tanning 24-48 hours post threading.
Essentially, yes. The lack of skin damage and chemicals makes threading appropriate for those on medications that can cause skin sensitivity, like retinoids and certain acne medications as well as those prone to breaking out after waxing.
After threading, you can apply aloe vera lotion, extract or natural pulp to the affected areas, and it will significantly reduce the pain after threading.
Moisturize. Hydrate your skin as much as possible. As part of your daily and/or nightly beauty routine, apply a moisturizer that does not contain perfume or alcohol, since these can deter your healing process and cause more irritation.
You can expect a complete recovery from your thread lift in no more than two weeks. It's important to get advice from your doctor on what activities to avoid as the tissue heals; for example, we recommend you avoid vigorous exercise and facial massage.
After getting threaded, place witch hazel or acne astringent on threaded areas. Most salons should have witch hazel and aloe for you to place on threaded areas to prevent breakouts. Do not touch or rub your face with your hands.
A great way to treat skin irritation after threading is done, is to always try to apply a light nourishing moisturizer to calm your skin down. It's also very important that the moisturizer you pick would be free of perfume or any alcohol.
A gentle face wash a few hours after your treatment is recommended but ensure you don't exfoliate for at least 24 hours after your treatment.
Conclusion. Retinol can be very effective in fading microblading, as well as other forms of brow tattoo, such as powder brows, ombre brows, nano brows etc. If you want your microbladed brows to appear lighter, apply retinol creams onto the area for some time. Many people get great results, and hopefully, you will too.
After waxing, you can use your retinol products again but give your skin a few days to recover from the wax. However, if you're coming in frequently, you may find switching to what they call “the natural retinol” a better solution. If you don't want to chance any irritations from retinol, you can always try bakuchiol.
Retinol may also prolong the anagen phase of the hair cycle and increase the rate of hair growth. It may be especially effective at stimulating hair growth when combined with Nanoxidil®. Fortunately, both ingredients are contained in our SPECTRAL. BROW serum and can help you achieve optimum eyebrow growth results.
Threading is also hygienic because nothing but clean strands of the cotton come in contact with the face. Those with sensitive or aging skin find threading is less likely than waxing to cause wrinkles or skin pulling.
Crooks adds that: “You should only thread hair you never want to see again. This is because when the thread wraps around the hair follicle, it breaks it off, causing damage to the follicle, meaning the hair may grow back curly, out of place, or not at all.”
While every person has a different type of hair that grows differently regarding speed and intensity, professionals say in their experience people go as long as 4 weeks between threading sessions.
There is a comedogenic product that is being applied to your skin before or after the procedure that is clogging your pores and planting new acne seeds in the skin. The irritation from the wax itself or the hair being pulled out of the follicle is causing existing acne under the surface of the skin to become inflamed.
But while threading is most commonly used for brows, it's worth noting that it's also a highly effective way of removing unwanted hair on the entire face and upper lip area.
'Breakouts' after eyebrow threading are usually one of two things – irritation or folliculitis. If you develop some minor redness and a few tiny little 'bumps', this may be a simple irritant reaction. For mild irritant reactions, a soothing aloe vera gel might be all you need (wash your hands before applying it!).
No doubt, threading leaves your skin completely smooth, but it also is extremely irritating! Often touted as “exfoliation”, the threads can damage the very top layer of skin, the epidermis, as they pull out the hair.
Powder can also be used for cooling after threading. Apart from this, the best way to remove pimples on the face is to apply toothpaste on the face and after drying, wash the face with lukewarm water after half an hour. The pimples will clear up immediately.
However, complications of facial threading, including irritant dermatitis, folliculitis, koebnerization, verrucae, and impetigo, have also been reported. Although facial threading carries some potential risk, many women are still interested in this natural, traditional beauty technique.
In addition to being ideal for lifting the skin, threads combat aging in another way: by provoking the body's "healing response" and causing the body to direct large surges of collagen to treated areas. This is important because of the vital role collagen plays in the aging process.
Men Are Prone to Ingrown Facial Hairs
Retinol can help both prevent and treat ingrown hairs by stimulating cellular turnover and preventing any dead skin build up which can make you more susceptible to ingrown hairs.
Ironically, the most serious side effect of retinol that was reported on several years ago was actually hair loss. However, it's important to note that this was when the ingredient was used in skin care and was often down to overuse.