New York: California regulators and lawmakers will soon have to decide whether threading, a hair removal technique mostly practised by immigrant Indian American women, should be exempted from state cosmetology regulations that protect consumers.Threading does not fall under the purview of California’s Board of Barbering and Cosmetology, the principal cosmetology industry group that oversees cosmetologists, barbers, manicurists and electrologists, as the practice is void of chemicals and scissors covered by cosmetology rules. Besides, one does not require a licence to run a threading salon.
The method is a more comfortable alternative to waxing and has become increasingly popular with threading salons - mostly run by Indian Americans - that proliferate in the Silicon Valley in a big way.
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