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How to cut your face with thread?

What you said about cutting the face with thread, commonly known as "opening the face", is also called twisting the face to open the face. It is a long-standing beauty method for removing female facial hair with thread in West Asia, Central Asia and East Asia.

In China, from north to south, such as Hebei, Jiangxi, and Guangxi, there is a custom for women to open their faces. Moreover, it is usually performed by female elders before women get married, which is a rite of passage. A woman opens her face once in her life, and then she doesn't open it after divorce and remarriage.

In the specific operation, the performer uses a flexible thin thread, which is pulled by one hand in the middle and tied to the thumb and forefinger of the other hand at both ends. Or bite in the middle with your mouth, and two gloves pinch both ends to form a cross triangle. The opening and closing angle of this "triangle" is controlled by the thumb and forefinger (similar to the action of scissors), and the thread is wound around the woman's face to remove hair.

This method of "replacing cutting with line" is very simple to operate and will be learned as soon as you learn it.

Good luck!