Threads

Very impressed with this place. Even as a walk in, I was seated and ready to go in less than 5 min. The staff was very professional and my eyebrows came out looking perfect. Highly recommend!

Came here at opening time which is 11 am waited 30 minutes and no one showed up to open store. So I guess they open the store when ever they feel like it.

WOW! I was recommend by my building manager. I have been going to the same lady for over 3 years. I tried this place today and I have to say I am at a loss of words. They are AMAZING! New to the area and will continue to come here. I would definitely recommend. Free garage parking in the back!

Least painful eyebrow threading I’ve ever had. These people really know what they’re doing. Their skills are authentic and they do a beautiful job. I also got an underarm wax while there. They did a good job but their workspace for that service needs some finish work so that’s why I only gave them 4 stars. The waxing area is basically in an unfinished utility area. Other than that one bit of oddity, you can’t beat the price and convenience. Very nice staff!

So I wrote a review for this place several years ago but I think I need to update it! This is specifically about the Bethesda MD location. I have gone here for the past four years and any time I stray (doing business trips or being lazy) I end up asking their forgiveness and them completely transforming my brow to the way it should look for my face!!! Preeti and Jas are both amazing so any day you go and get one of them you will be in great hands! Highly recommend this location!

After visiting Threads numerous times over the past almost 6 years, I have to say that my opinion is now mixed. The quality of the service has really gone down and the price certainly hasn’t. Initially, the threaders were more experienced and did a great job. Depending on the location that you visit, you can have a good or bad experience. I usually don’t make an appointment but just show up. Over the past 1 – 2 years, whenever I get my brows done, I come out bleeding with patches of skin ripped off. Due to convenience and very few other options in DC that I know of, I keep going back. and keep getting disappointed and embarrassed by the bloody mess that they make that takes several days to heal… and asking why?! My opinion is that the U St. location is the worst (dirty; least skilled employees who don’t wash their oniony smelling hands after eating their lunch), followed by Chinatown (one person working on a Friday afternoon with a 10 – 15 person wait and the person in front of me conveniently is getting their entire face threaded). Bethesda is probably the best, though it can’t be guaranteed that the inexperienced threaders aren’t working there the day I go in.
There’s an aunty near to my new office that apparently does a good job that I’m going to check out soon. Fingers crossed that it’s better than this place.

Always do a great job. They don’t overthread and they listen to what you want. Never overcrowded and there is a parking garage attached to the back. Only place I go too!

I usually do my eyebrows at the mall. Yesterday I had an hour to kill and I decided why don’t I get my eyebrows done? Worst idea ever! Not only it was more expensive, the lady totally changed the shape of my eyebrows and I am very upset. I told her specifically how I wanted my eyebrows to be done, but unfortunately, I wasn’t heard.

Meh. Was in the area and decided to check out the shop. My brows needed some cleaning up and the reviews weren’t too bad.
It was a Monday afternoon and there wasn’t anything going on in the shop. There was one woman behind the desk. She had me sit and then came over to start my brows. I asked her to please sanitize her hands, as it seemed like there was no hand washing sink in sight. There was tons of thread all over the floor. In my opinion, if it’s slow and you have nothing going on, the least you can do is sweep up leftover thread and clean up after the last client.
I told her I just needed my brows cleaned up and she did a good and efficient job. My brows look good, though not anything to write home about. There are two or three tiny stray hairs that I’ll pluck when I get home.
Overall, with all the threading and waxing competition in the area, Threads of Bethesda gets a Meh rating from me and I don’t think I’ll be back.

I love the work Jaspreet does. She goes by Jas. She is always detailed, careful and accurate. I heard she is in India for a few months…

It has been a MONTH since I got my eyebrows done here and they still look just as good as they did when I walked out of the studio. I’ve had to do some quick clean-​up with tweezers once or twice since I’ve had them done, but that’s it. I’ve never been to a place that allowed me to go more than 2 weeks without my next wax. The demeanor of the technician no longer bothers me — they do a fantastic job here, and I will definitely be back (if my eyebrows ever grown back in)!

I’ve been going to threads on and off for about 3 years, and unfortunately I believe the service is getting worse and worse.
At my last visit to threads Jess was 20 minutes late to the stores posted opening time, and there was already a line of 4 people waiting. When she started threading people it was very clear that she was not paying attention and just trying to get the job done as fast as possible. during my time in the chair she answered the phone 3 times– clearly was not focusing.
When I looked in the mirror afterwards I saw that she had BUTCHERED my eyebrows. way too thin, uneven, many stray hairs. I had been trying to grow them out so I was extremely disappointed. I’ve been getting my eyebrows threaded for years and have had it done at many places, and while Threads was once good, I think it’s honestly pretty crummy now.
If you’re getting your eyebrows threaded for the first time — DO NOT GO. 2 stars because the other woman (I don’t remember her name) is much more focused and does a far better job than jess.

I would give zero stars if I could. AVOID at all costs. I asked to have my brows cleaned up, said I did not like them thin. The threader thinned out the brows I had spent months (years?) growing out. I felt totally butchered. Will never return and I suggest you don’t either if you expect someone to listen to what you want. Pinched my skin too, leaving a red mark for two days.
Don’t know why similar negative reviews of this place get buried on Unilocal,but I’m hoping others will heed this warning. I wish I’d read a review like this before I went and got my brows ruined by an uncaring, unprofessional threader.

Clean, easy, nice, and GREAT at one thing: threading! Very happy with the results, and the PAINLESSNESS of her technique. Amazing! Price is higher than most places but I assume the rent here is ALSO higher than most places…
Would do 4 stars just because of price but the service provided here deserves all 5!

I was in need of getting my brows done — I let them grow after a terrible thread job at another threading shop (not Threads). I happened to be in Bethesda at the time and decided to walk to the nearest place. Luckily there was a threads a few blocks away from the Bethesda metro station. It was a late Monday afternoon so I was the only customer. I was immediately greeted when I walked in and the young woman made conversation and made sure I felt comfortable.
Not only was the threading fast but she re-​shaped my eyebrows to PERFECTION. I literally said ‘my eyebrows have not looked this good in months!’. I told her I would give her a shout-​out on Unilocal and a big thank you for the great threading experience. I’m willing to pay the $ 3 premium for my eyebrows to look perfect.
Jess — you are top notch and one of the best threaders in town. I will see you in ~2.5 weeks!

This place is very inconsistent. The first time I went here, my eyebrows were beautiful and the threading did not hurt at all. Even though there were a few people waiting, she took her time and made sure that everything was was even. The second time, a different woman did the threading and she was late opening the shop. Once she opened the shop, she rushed through my eyebrows even though there was only one person waiting. This time it was extremely painful and my eyebrows were very uneven. I would’ve had her fix them, but it was just too painful.
I ended up fixing my eyebrows myself when I got home. I had never done my own eyebrows before that day, but I quickly learned how and now I do them myself.

I decided to head here on a whim when I needed to get away from the office. My eyebrows were in desperate need of some attention, I vastly prefer threading over waxing, the salon was about a 10-​minute walk away … why not?
Given that it was past 2pm, I waited about five minutes before I was in the chair. My eyebrows were shaped nicely; no stray hairs, great arch, minimal redness. It was quick and painless.
Price is on the high side of what I’m used to, but it’s what I would expect in Bethesda. However, it’s so convenient and my eyebrows look so good that I’m sure I’ll be going back.

Threads was my go-​to eyebrow threading place for years. There is no need for an appointment, you just show up and wait your turn. The most I’ve waited is 30 minutes. She’s very efficient and quick.
This year, however, her quality of work has declined. She now rushes through her appointment and misses quite a few stray hairs. But I stuck it out since she did great work the last few years and I am pretty loyal to places that I like. Plus it’s five minutes walking distance from my home.
My last straw was the last time I went to have my eyebrows done, she messed up and made one eyebrow noticeably thinner than the other. When I pointed it out, she would not admit it nor offer to fix it or make it up to me in any way. I am no longer going back there no matter how convenient.

I’ve never had my eyebrows threaded before but all my friends swear by it. So I decided to give it a try. I was terrified by the sound effects while waiting for my turn, but it’s surprisingly not as painful. I loved the clean feeling afterwards, I asked that my eyebrows not be shaped too thin as I don’t like that and she did a great job with them. They look natural and even.
The only thing is, a lot of people seem to visit during lunch hour so the wait can be a little long (I got in around 12.30pm on Monday, waited about 30 – 40 minutes, and there were 5 people waiting behind me).

There was a time when I decided to be a little lower maintenance and forego some beauty appointments.
Then I woke up one day and saw Frieda Kahlo and Anthony Davis’s lovechild looking back at me in the mirror.
This was not acceptable and I raced over to Threads for my first eyebrow threading. Even though it was a Monday afternoon, there were three ladies ahead of me, and I waited for about 20 minutes without an appointment in a spacious waiting area with magazines.
Then it was my turn and next thing I know I was lying back in a chair, with some lady’s armpit in my direct line of vision having my offensive hairs ripped out. It was fascinating to watch once the armpit was out of my way. The threader lady took a thin long thread looped it around her finger, then around a right molar in her mouth and then created little loops in the thread and rolled them over my eyebrows. It was quick and painless, and all I could think was her job basically involves flossing all day, so she must have no tartar build up at all.
$ 15 and five minutes later, I was out without a word spoken, even though my nose was pressed into her arm pit and I watched her floss. I consider these both intimate moments, but we were like two strangers in the night. In the end, I had precisely shaped eyebrows with none of the red flared up skin reactions I get from waxing, while I doubt I will pay $ 15 with extra for tip for threading again when there are cheaper places, but I won’t go back to the unibrow look ever again.