It’s been a year since Misbah Etman, a real estate agent in Los Angeles, stepped foot in a salon for any kind of beauty treatment, but threading is the one she has missed the most. Before the pandemic ...

The eyes are the windows to the soul. But for 48-year-old Pirya Matai, eyebrows are everything. Last spring, when the pandemic first swept through the country, shutting down businesses and restricting ...

Faith Vander Voort is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. In 1985, Lata Jagtiani immigrated to New York City from India with a dream to be her own boss by opening her own ...

SACRAMENTO – Salon workers who practice “threading” to remove unwanted facial hair – a procedure that is popular among some immigrants but controversial in the cosmetology industry – received a boost ...

A 28-year-old woman reportedly developed acute liver failure just days after visiting a local salon for a routine eyebrow threading session. According to Dr. Aditij Dhamija (MBBS), who shared the ...

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