Alaar Threading Salon

Eyebrows took less than 5 minutes and cost less than 8 dollars. Can’t get better than that!

i got a wax, not threading. perhaps their threading is great.
i should have walked out when i got to the very dirty area in the back where i was lead for the waxing. i asked about double dipping and she said they never did. she broke the sticks and that was reassuring. the rest of the waxing was as unprofessional as i could imaging. i left feeling sticky, burnt, not fully clean and feeling like a dope. Partly my fault but mostly theirs. Don’t offer something you don’t really know how to do or feel good about offering.

This place was okay. Had to wait one person, but the lady was super fast. I thought she did a decent job. The thread didn’t break at all unlike experiences I’ve had at other places. The thing I didn’t necessarily like was that the lady was talking on the phone (ear piece) the whole time. She was on the phone the whole time with the customer in front of me, too. It was a little warm in there, too. Couldnt’ they get a ceiling fan or open some windows or something? Even some music playing would have been better than listening to her talk on the phone. Seemed very unprofessional and bizarre.

The woman who works here is incredibly fast and very reasonably priced. She’s also incredibly accomodating — one night she stayed past closing because appointments for my 2 roomates and I took longer than anticipated. She’s open 7 days a week and is never too busy to fit you in. I’ve been a loyal customer of Alaar’s for about 6 months now.

Today was all about eyes. It’s the new year. I needed new contacts. I had my appointment at the eye doctor and then (after a small detour at Colson Patisserie — coffee and pistachio bun, yummm) I headed to Alaar.
I’ve been to many threading salons, they are all the same. No frills, just a chair, and ladies who thread. What else do you want?
Oh yeah, someone who isn’t too sassy. I’ve had my share of those. Sass is NOT ok at the brow salon. No ma’am.
I was a little worried when I entered (I have a weird fear of getting thread in my eye. Not great if you get your brows threaded. I blame Un Chien Andalou. Thanks, Buñuel.) But once I sat down and had Sweety’s (I believe this is her name) able fingers working on my brows, I felt a wee bit better.
I’ve been to places where the thread snaps off during the process. A little disconcerting. Here, the thread was, gold in color, and very strong. Sweety was very precise, and gave me explicit instructions on where to place my fingers (hers required more fingers, I guess it helped!)
Sometimes her finger nails touched my eyes, in which case I asked her to stop, and I sometimes the falling brow hair was making my eyes itch a little. At any rate, dabs of tissue in the right spots helped, and soon after, I took a good look at my brows, and was pretty impressed. A lot of work, done in a little amount of time, with barely any pain.
I have to thank Sweety for being so thorough, precise and honest: she was nice enough to advise against threading where there was acne as it would irritate the skin even more.
It’s in the neighborhood, it’s not expensive and it’s great. That’s a combo that’s often hard to find in the olé Park Slope.

So it’s not exactly one of those schmancy Soho places where a live violinist serenades your threading and handmaidens anoint your brows with rosewater, but it is convenient, fast and thorough.
I’ve been in a few times, seen a few women and never had any complaints. It’s clean, there’s no wait, the women are legit fast and my brows always look perfect afterward. I tend to judge threading places on how long my face stays red after they’re done, and with these guys it’s always back to normal by the time I’ve walked the four blocks home.
I will say that I wish they’d invest in an air conditioner. But aside from that, don’t let the one-​star reviews fool you and please frequent this business — I need them to stay in business so I don’t have to trek all over creation to get mah brows did.

I’ve been here a few times to get my eyebrows threaded and I like this place because there’s never a wait and they do a good job without pushing other services on you. I just got my first facial there (they do an herbal facial for $ 29.99, limited time offer) and I was pleasantly surprised. The woman did a thorough job and I’m sure I’ll be back again soon.

It hurts, oh jeebus, it hurts.
But I keep coming back. Probably because they make my eyebrows look nice and I’m completely hooked on not having hot wax all over my face. I’ve found that they need no instructions from me… they do a good job every time. But I do leave with watery eyes.
The price for beauty, I guess.
I’m surprised by the low rating… don’t let it fool you. Give it a try and see how you like it.
(Thanks to a fellow Unilocaler for dragging me in here!!)

I have been going to this place since they first opened. I always found the staff very unfriendly, but figure if they do a good job on my brows, I can tolerate the unfriendliness.
The service was never consistent! Every time I asked to keep the thickness of my brows & got something different. Over 4 months ago, they made my brows so thin that I’m still growing them out!
I decided to go back for another service (giving them the benefit of a doubt), the girl who worked there interrupted her work twice to answer a personal phone call on her cell! That really pushed me over the edge & I just got up & left. I will never go back.
Here’s a word of advice for you local businesses who have competition in the neighborhood: you have to try to get customers & keep them. You are not doing me a favor by threading my brows — I Am doing you a favor to keep you in business. So next time, a customer walks in to your shop, smile, acknowledge and provide a good service. You can always get on your cell phone for your personal calls when you have no customer waiting!

I like this place. But after a few thinner-​than-​desired-​eyebrows, I have learned to be proactive and tell my threader EXACTLY what I want. And — tada! — I get it, in about 3 minutes. Lip and eyebrows for $ 12. I find that the women are thorough, amenable and very speedy. I have never been hurt, left with a wonky brow, or been reduced to tears. It’s just eyebrows, after all.

This place is pretty good, don’t let the low rating fool ya.
I’ve found that with threading, it depends on who is doing it, how much information you give them, and their state of mind. Like another reviewer, I’ve had a different woman each time I’ve been there.
Unlike some of the spendy places (I’m thinking Browhaus) this is a quick and dirty process, but do you really want to extend the time someone is ripping hair out of your face? Even at spendy places, it’s all about being clear about the shape you want before the process starts. I’ve had the same good: not great ratio here and other places.
And I would have given another star, if the last woman hadn’t nicked my skin — so I have a cut from the thread because she was lazy and not paying attention to the fact that the end of it was on my skin as she was threading.
At $ 7 for eyebrows and $ 5 for lip, it’s pretty cheap. There are also specials for certain days of the week. And it’s right near the F/​G stop at 7^th Ave.

This place is cheap, but I got soooo much less than I paid for. I’m going to have to be graphic for this review. Usually, when you go in for a brazilian wax, you start out by telling the ‘esthetician’ exactly which areas she will be taking off that day. I did that. And the woman at Alaar took off the wrong area. So, we had to go with EVERYTHING, which is not what I wanted for so many reasons. If I had noticed that her English wasn’t fluent enough to understand what I was saying I wouldn’t have minded being more clear, but instead of asking questions, she just threw the wax on. Then, on the places where I did want the hair gone, she wasn’t so thorough, despite going over them waay more than I have experienced in past waxing situations. I’m still recovering. There are worse things in life that can happen to a girl, but I won’t be returning.

Been here 3x in past 6 mos, and hope to go more often. I haven’t seen the same woman there more than once, but have also gone several times at different times of day. One time in the past two weeks I went to go before 8pm, but they looked closed — so if you’re going at night, check to see that they’re open. As with other review $ 12 got me eyebrow, lip and quick — I’m not complaining about quickness when the hair on my face is getting yanked out with thread. I would recommend!

Very sad to say that after several excellent experiences here, I had a TERRIBLE eyebrow threading yesterday. There was a different woman in there than who I’ve always seem but I figured, hey, the other lady is so good this one is probably at least decent. I’ve never experienced anything like it, she was so bad at shaping. I have always had very nice, full eyebrows but no longer. They are so thin and very uneven now. She kept going back and forth saying she needed to «even them out.» Well, yeah, duh, when you take too much off one side I guess you have to go take more off the other and so on and so on… She also got the scissors out, which I’m used to a couple of snips on each side, but then she started hacking away with those. Like 6 – 7 snips on each eyebrow. I had to get up and leave. It’s the worst eyebrow experience I’ve ever had. I asked where the woman who is usually there was and the woman responded that she left the shop to further her education. Ugh, should have inquired when I got there apparently! It’s going to take lots of penciling and months for my brows to be beautiful again :(

Should have realized by the very dim lighting that I wouldn’t get the most thorough threading job. I got eyebrow ($ 7) and upper lip ($ 5) threading, and it literally took 2 minutes. Also, I was charged tax (??) on threading, a first for me.
When I got home and looked in the mirror, I saw missed spots and a generally messy threading job. Definitely wouldn’t recommend to others.