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Wednesday, 12. 3. 2008  –  Category: Arts, Entertainment & Culture, Issue One, cover story, latest_stories, shantou highlight

Facial threading

(Facial Threading)

Facial threading, better known to Chinese as “Wan Mian”, is a traditional folk technique of facial hair removal practiced by old or mid-aged women. First, the beautician spreads some white powder on the consumer’s face to reduce the gloss of the fine hair. Then she holds one end of the cotton thread with her teeth and twists it by hands. As the thread, manipulated by her fingers, rolls over the face, the hair is removed.

In the old days, women usually did facial threading when there was a festival, happy event or wedding. Women also chat with each other during “Wan Mian”.

Index:

1. Recycling scrap metal and toothpaste shell
2. Facial threading
3. Foot bucket and waist bucket selling
4. Renew bucket bottom
5. Castration of roosters and pigs
6. “Pen” selling
7. Drug drum
8. Clothes-dyer
9. Fish sauce and soy sauce selling
10. Repair forging hearth or change the windows
11. Repair copper pots, galvanized pots and metal pails
12. The Verdigris Plaster Medicine
13. Snacks in the evening

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