Doing a little bit of prep work can make a big difference in your threading experience. “It's important to avoid retinoid and retinol-based products five to seven days before threading. These products are both vitamin A derivatives — retinoids are more potent than retinols — that makes the skin very sensitive,” Dr.

Threading clients need to come back every two to four weeks in order to maintain the shape and remove hairs that have grown back. Microblading clients come back once a year after their initial six to eight-week touchup. Threading removes hairs and microblading adds hair-like strokes with ink and a blade.

Threading, however, is the least painful. This is because the hair is removed directly from the root. If you've ever tweezed your brows, you can compare the feeling of threading to plucking five hairs at once.

Eyebrow waxing can last anywhere from 3-6 weeks, while threading lasts 2-5 weeks, so waxing your eyebrows would have longer-lasting results. However, the longevity of the results is pretty close in hand, and depending on your hair growth pattern, the amount of time both will last could be pretty equal for some people.