Eyebrow Bar

Stupid me waited an hour, there were 3 people working and only one doing eyebrows! The reception was so rude, not pleased with service at all! What kind of business like this has one person working all night??? Lame

I know where AMAR is. She is going to be at Ziba Serramonte starting mid-​Feb 2012!

GO TO YOCELYN OR VIVIANNA! These two ladies are AMAZING!
I had been going to AMAR the indian women but she only did it ok the 1^st time and EVERY TIME AFTER THAT SHE DID THEM HORRIBLE! DO NOT GO TO HER SHE WILL MESS YOU UP BIG TIME UNEVEN AND SLOPPY!
Yocelyn and or Vivianna will actually TAKE THE TIME and do a GREAT job.

this place does awesome threading! and the customer service is sooooo much better than the other place at stonestown! prices here are super affordable too! $ 5 for upper lip and $ 10 for brows. if you want your entire face done, it’s $ 30.

They’re quite under-​hired, which would explain their disorganization. A woman was ahead of me, while a large group proceeded to walk in, while there was no worker in the store front to be seen. Five minutes later, a young lady comes out with a pretty surprised face for the crowd and asks who came in first.
My eyebrows definitely did not look cleaned up, there were choppy stubbles left under my eyebrow and she even cut some skin off my eyelid, which left three harsh red bumps and stinging for days.
The price was $ 15 for both eyebrows and lip, but I think for what I got… it was still expensive. Aside from hiring new workers, they need to train these girls better.

Someone please tell me if threading is done correctly, is it suppose to hurt and sting for hours after??? Yes, I hear the sound similar to ripping paper but I feel that the lady that did my eyebrows pulled the hair out the opposite direction and slow which was PAINFUL!
This comes second to my pain of having my eyebrows tattooed (and I did not have numbing cream). That is how painful my experience was today! I was tearing along with the lady before me!
For you ladies that have done this, have you found that it is suppose to HURT like crazy??? I have waxed, and I have plucked elsewhere but this is one of my most painful first time experiences with my brows…

I wanted to get my eyebrows done before I gave birth, so I went in and just wanted a CLEAN UP… nothing fancy, no big changes. The lady told me she was going to «even up» my brows and I thought ok. sounds good. Well, I LOVED the arch… BUT DANG! They were so thin!!! I wanted to just LAUGH my head off, cuz at that point, what else can ya do? Thank goodness I usually fill them in a bit anyway, so I had to fill it in a lil more than usual! But on the day of my daughter’s birth, I didn’t get to and now all my pictures have me with anorexic brows!!! Oh well… lesson learned.

I happened to be shopping at Target and needed a quick brush up on my brows. It was already 6:30PM and there was no way that I’d make it back to my normal waxing place in SF by 7. So I asked the information desk if there was a brow place in the mall. She directed me to the Macy’s wing where I found Eyebrow Bar. I had never tried threading, but heard positive reviews about it from my friends. So I gave it a shot. The wait was about 2 min and the entire process took less than 5 minutes. $ 12 plus the lady gave me a voucher for $ 8 on my next visit. I must admit my brows were thinned a bit and it was a bit more painful than waxing.

TERRIBLE!!! they had one girl working for the longest time. Finally someone else came and it was my turn. She was very rough and rushed through the threading. She did not ask me what I wanted, I stopped her and had to tell her. She did not follow what I wanted. Both of my eyebrows now have different shapes. I told her she was very rough while she was doing them, she smirked and said «I’m rough?» like it was my first time or that she was the only one who has done it for me. I have gotten my eyebrows threaded twice a month for over a year at other places and she by far is the worst! It felt like she was going to rip my skin off, she was very heavy handed and rushed through the whole thing. This place is horrible. They also do not that a sign in sheet, they just ask the crowd who is next. I find that very inconvenient.

It used to be 5 stars but why the sudden change? They hired a bunch of new girls that really don’t know what they are doing. At first it was ok, but after the last time I am never going back.
–2 girls were working on me! I don’t know why and it was weird. The were rubbing the greasy hands all over me.
–They thinned my eyebrows out so much I look like a chola. Yup. I never asked to thin it just clean it up!
–And yea, the girls are pretty ghetto. =\ Oh well I guess my search continues now.

I’ve always gotten waxed and was hearing the raves about people that have converted to threading. At first, I had my reservations about threading because 1: the process looks weird with a piece of thread in someone’s mouth just didn’t seem sanitary and 2: most of the kiosks were in the middle of the mall so everyone can watch you.
But lately I’ve seen these «Eyebrow bars» all over the mall and they have their own little store front. So i was a little more at ease in wanting to see what threading was all about. I was still kind of hesitant because of the thread being in the mouth of the person that is threading you. Last week, I decided to bite the bullet and do it out of curiosity. When we passed by the store, there was a demonstration showing on the tv in the front. As my friend would say, «It was hypnotizing.» haha So I went inside to just see the prices and I ended up getting it done.
The process:
Its not too bad. You lay back and let the person do the magic. The sound of the ripping of hair from your skin is a little disturbing but so does ripping a piece of paper with wax from your face. After a bit of time it was nothing. It was so fast. I only got my brows done and it wasn’t so bad. I’ll try my upper lip but some of my friends say it will sting a bit.
The service:
The person who helped me was nice and talked to me while she was threading which amazed me because she had the thread in her mouth. But I had to knock off a star because her co-​worker decided to stand over me too and they proceeded to talk about their boy troubles. Ummm yeah I really didn’t want to hear about it besides at first I thought maybe the other person was observing or inspecting if the person helping me was doing a good job. I didn’t expect to hear questions such as, «Don’t you sometimes want space from your boyfriend?» Umm hello I’m right here! So I had to knock of a start for being unprofessional. Otherwise I would have given this place 4 stars.
Overall:
I like the store front and privacy of getting threading without the fear of the whole mall watching you. Its quick and painless. Its a cleaner way to keep your brows maintain. I would definitely come back to this place. Oh which btw they gave me a coupon for a discounted price to come back.

there was a time where i had my very first threading experience at eyebrow bar and i assumed that it wasnt going to hurt. But no! IT WAS A PAINFUL EXPERIENCE. I literally shouted quite loud and yes, everyone passing by the hall was staring. i didn’t care! the lady did it too fast and too thin! I had to grow them out and I hate hate haaaate growing out my eyebrows (that’s coz i end up feeling crappy if my eyebrows aren’t nice, don’t all girls do? lol) but despite that, it was pretty clean but the employee wasn’t too careful with my eyebrows. that’s why i only gave this place 3 stars!
BUT the painful and traumatized experience changed after going there a few days ago. Threading my eyebrows for the second time in my life was pain free! :)) this time it was a different lady who threaded my eyebrows and she took good care of my eyebrows! she told me to shut my eyes specificaly the way that it’s suppose to be so that i wouldn’t get hurt. My eyebrows came out perfect just the way i wanted it to be and it wasn’t skinny at all! it was thick, perfectly shaped, and even! :)
i lovemy eyebrows!
:))

Anyone seen Anjelah Johnson’s bit about Vietnamese nail salon? Well, my experience at the Serramonte Eyebrow Bar actually had a lot of similarity. I’ve been here twice with my sister so that’s a totally of 4 experiences. If I could give them 1.5 stars, I would. It takes a lot to get 1 star in my book. I mean, they didn’t shave off one of my eyebrows or anything that extreme but here’s why they even came close to having 1 star.
THE ADVERTISEMENT: Don’t let anyone tell you that this doesn’t hurt. It does. It hurts a lot more than waxing. I know there’s a price for beauty but the whole advertisement of how it doesn’t hurt is complete BS. I also disagree that it last longer than waxing. It last about 1 month which I say is about as long as waxing.
THE QUALITY: My lady’s name was Viviana. She was a little stoic. Not very friendly but I wouldn’t say she was unpleasant. The problem was when she finished one of my eyebrows was noticeable shorter than the other. I asked her about it. She said she noticed it when she started but she doesn’t want to make the other one shorter so they would match because that would make them too short. This is the first thing that reminded me of Anjelah Johnson’s bit. Funny that I didn’t notice that one of my eyebrows was shorter than the other before you started but I notice it now but apparently I was mistaken.
THE PROFESSIONALISM: Both times that I’ve been here, it feels like the store is being managed by a bunch of teenage girls. My sister had a lady name Jocelyn that she would describe to be unpleasant. She thought she was rude and kinda behaving like an angry teenager. My sister was not used to threading so she was tearing up a bit during the process. She needed to stop a few times to wipe away so tears than she couldn’t control and really basically supports my first point about how it is NOT a painless process. I paid for both of us so I was waiting for my sister right outside the store. Immediately after my sister walked out to join us, we saw Jocelyn walk up to Viviana, said something and both girls laughter out loud. Hummm… were these girls talking about us? Who knows? Did it make us feel like they were making fun of us? Definitely! Will I be going back? I’ll say no. We live in San Francisco. There are plenty of places that we can go to have this done. Good-​bye! No, thank you!

QUALITY OF WORK IS POOR.
Since this store front is very close to my home, I decided to give it a shot. As I sat down, I already felt uneasy due to the unprofessionalism that I started to notice. The young lady that threaded my eyebrows was nice, but by the way she was working I could tell that she just learned how to thread. Not much experience whatsoever. I think she might of even have spit on my face by mistake and she as rough. The other workers were pretty «ghetto» and spent their time not focusing on the client, but focusing more on arguing w/​her boyfriend over there phone. Once the young lady was done, I told her that they were not even and she argued with me that they were. I didnt feel like arguing back since she was pregnant so i just paid and left. When I came home I noticed that not only were they uneven, but she left a bunch of lose strands. Poor quality of work. I only give it 1 star b/​c I must say, her arguing with her boyfriend was quite entertaining. To the young, unexperienced employees of Eyebrow Bar: It’s about QUALITY not QUANTITY.

I was always afraid to try threading despite recommendations from various friends because I’ve also been told that threading is more painful than waxing. I used to get waxed at the same place for about the past 4 years — until I got burned the last 2 times. Needless to say, I was in search of a new place.
I was also reluctant to try threading because most places I see are kiosks in the middle of the mall where people constantly walk by and gawk. However, when I saw that Eyebrow Bar was located in a store-​front, I felt a little more at ease to try. Plus the place appears to be clean.
Amar did the threading and the process was a lot quicker than I expected. The threading wasn’t painful at all; however, I did feel it more in the lip area but the lip area is more sensitive so it was kind of expected.
The prices seem to be in line with other threading places. Currently brows are $ 12 and lip is $ 5 but they give you a coupon for $ 8 brows on your next visit. Amar told me that this discount will be «forever». So basically, brows work out to be $ 10 if you visit 2x.
I’ve found my new place!

Fantastic place! I went in very nervous since I have never had my eyebrows threaded before. I made sure I was prepared and brought an 11×8.5 picture of the eyebrow shape I wanted.
One of the techs who is currently pregnant, I can’t seem to remember her name, looked at the picture and looked at my eyebrows… «This eyebrow looks like it has potential but this one is a little thinner.» I liked that she didn’t just nod and went about her job like the nail salon waxers. She was very friendly and even though she had a very busy day and she was on her feet all day, she was still very pleasant. Great customer service!
Within 5 minutes she was done and my eyebrows looked great. I asked her to get a little of my hairline and she did at no extra charge. They were not plucked out of existence, she kept them thick, and the shape was pretty much what I wanted… considering that one of my eyebrows is diff than the other. So, even with that challenge, she did a great job. I was very happy and glad that I don’t have to get burned with wax anymore. I got a coupon for a discount upon a return visit!
The only downside to this is that you have to wait until your eyebrows are significantly overgrown so that the thread can get to your hairs… but it was really worth it!

I read the reviews for the Eyebrow bar, so I decided to give it a shot.
Waited about 10 mins for the previous client to be done, no biggie.
Overheard her telling her boyfriend that it hurt. Its threading… what can i say? If you do it often it won’t hurt.
Why the three stars? Well I honestly wanted to give it one star. BUT the girl was nice. She actually talked to you so you wont be bored and make you feel more relax. Which lead me to giving it a two stars. Reason for the third is their prices. They’re about 5 – 8 bucks cheaper than other places.
The missing two stars would be quality of the threading, and professionalism. One, the employee seemed to want to get it done fast since there was another customer waiting after me (which she said would take 5 – 10 mins). So its safe to say that she half assed my work. Having looked into the mirror after the first time she said it was «finished», i noticed my brows were weird. Which I pointed out to her, and she was able to fix this. I didn’t want to take too long since the girl waiting after me seem to be impatient and having a hissy fit so I left, having put my faith in the girl.
WRONG.
I arrived home, took a shower, and had a close up look at the work she done on my brows/​upper lipper. I could personally count out about 20 to 30 strands of hair that she had missed. Both on my eyebrows that were suppose to be «cleaned up» and my upper lip.
I mean I have to say the hairs above my upper lip are kind of hard to see, but as an employee that specializes in threading hair, they should be able to see and do a good job of getting rid of ALL the hairs.
Would I go back? Would i recommend girls to go here?
I would say its a ⁵⁰⁄₅₀. I would highly recommend girls to come here if they’re able to express their opinion and not give a shit for anybody else waiting after, cause threading is not something to be rushed.
I probably would just give them a second chance because first impressions aren’t everything. (Plus i have a coupon for a discount) BUT, if i’m disappointed a second time, I’m not going back.
p. s. I’m probably a little bitter too because I «thought» the girl did a good job and left her a 25% tip.

My first threading experience. $ 30 for the whole face, which includes the eyebrow shaping. Love! Now why 4 stars? My eyebrows doesn’t match! One slightly higher than the other. Maybe but 3 hairlines. Easy fix though. No biggie. Conveniently located in the mall outside of Macy’s. No worries about parking. Can’t beat that.

I GOT A HORRIBLE RASH FROM DIRTY THREADS!
My skin was NOT sensitive. BUT, after getting threaded here, my whole face has turned into a very sensitive skin-​type. It’s no longer as clear, evenly-​toned, and I break out in odd itchy skin bumps and RASHES from irritations ever since that dirty thread she used for my eyebrows!!!
I finally updated this review, but this was my original post:
«YES!!! I am so relieved I have finally found an eyebrow place I can count on for a nice clean sexy symmetrical arch!!!
Larraine did brow and lip threading for only $ 12 with student discount. The shape is perfect! Even better she really listened to what I wanted and she ALSO gave suggestions. So knowleadgeable!
The llittle gap in my left brow (it was there already! She did not do it) became a bit more obvious after the cut/​trim. I don’t know if I expected her to notice it on her own before trimming, but to be safe I should have notified her first about it.
Either way, this is the only place I want to go to from now on. I LOVE what she’s done for my eyebrows!!! And parking was a cinch! Worth it to come from sf!!!»

remember that old riddle?
«a man was in a small town for the day and needed a haircut. he noticed that there were only two barbers in town and decided to apply a bit of logical deduction to choosing the best one. looking at their shops, he saw that the first one was very neat and the barber was clean shaven with a nice haircut. the other shop was a mess and the barber there needed a shave and had a bad cut besides. why did the man choose to go to this barber?”*
so i was recently at the mall and noticed this new eyebrow bar. a girlfriend had tried it and based on her recommendation, i stopped in for a quick upper lip clean-​up. after admiring the eyebrows of the girl who did my pripming & pruning, i decided have my eyebrows cleaned up too (despite my best efforts to grow them out!) i asked her not to thin them out too much and while i think she could’ve left a bit more, i was pleasantly surprised with the results.
my skin didn’t get all red & puffy as it normally does after a wax, and unlike most eyebrow kiosks where every passerby can gawk as you’re defuzzed, this storefront offers a little privacy (there are still windows everywhere)…this was my first threading experience and it’s a bit more «interactive» than waxing — having to stretch & pull your eyelids and stick your tongue here & there for optimal lip treatment. plus the price is right! $ 5 for upper lip, eyebrow starts at $ 12 plus they gave me a coupon for an $ 8 eyebrow wax. definitely on my list of stops next time i’m at the mall…
*so the guy chose the messy barber w/​the bad haircut… b/​c if there are only 2 barbers in town, they have to cut each other’s hair and the messy barber’s shop is such a mess b/​c he gets all the business! therefore… perhaps i should check out the other wax tech’s brows to see who has the better brows… and to go the other person!