New York Brows

$ 5 for eyebrow threading. What a steal. Obviously, the service won’t be the best, but what are you really expecting from a place this cheap? They may not be most courteous, but they definitely get the job done. I’ve been coming here since December from a recommendation through a friend and plan on continuing.

Best eyebrow threading ever! I recently had my eyebrows butchered in Staten Island and came here and was pleasantly surprised. My eyebrows look great and have been getting so many compliments!!! Won’t be going anywhere else EVER.

This is my go to eyebrow threading place. I would have given it 5 stars if I was just rating on 1 professional, Samy who works only on Sundays. She is excellent; very nice polite and does fabulous job. However, I have made a mistake or coming in once or twice before during the weekdays and it was terrible experience. Rude professionals, bad service, watching their tv shows in background and talking to each other. She also ruined my eyebrows. So I have made it a point to only come on Sundays.

Best Brazilian for the price ($ 35 – 40). Meenu (Saturdays only) is amazing. Use the zinc wax. Virtually painless. Seriously. Go there.

Seems like this place has a bad rap from the few bad reviews. I’ve been consistently coming here for years actually and make an effort to come see Samy every Sunday. I’d give this place 5 stars if somehow Samy can be there 5 days a week instead of 1. Each time I end up anywhere else because I missed my one chance a week to see Samy, my brows get messed up and Samy is the only one who can fix it.

The only reason I am even giving this place a star is because there is no way around it. The service sucks and the customer service is the worst. There are 3 other places in the neighborhood with way better service and customer service, I don’t know why I even went there.

Got a waxing here from Meenu. She was thorough and efficient, doesn’t go through ceremonies but definitely gets the job done right. It was worth the price.

I really don’t get why everyone’s so mean with reviews. This is my cheap go-​to eyebrow threading location.
Yeah, the workers talk during your threading. Yeah, they don’t really care about service here. But do you really come to a $ 5 eyebrow threading location for service? ‘Cause I sure don’t. For those who do, perhaps spring those extra dollars for some better service.
They do a standard job here. Whenever I get lazy to do my own eyebrows, I come here for threading. I wouldn’t come here for waxing (as they don’t specialize in it)/more complicated jobs.

Not sure why the other reviewers are being so harsh. It’s $ 5 for eyebrow threading. It’s quick and easy. Nothing fancy you are in and out in about five minutes.

Absolutely worst customer service ever! The woman left a strip of wax on my upper lip when she was done! WTF? I asked her to wipe the wax off and she smothered aloe vera on top of it instead! Seriously, what is so difficult about finding a napkin to wipe wax off of my lip? I only come here because it is close by and the threading is cheap, but after this incident I’m sure as hell going to find another place!

Haven’t been here in a while (6 months), and I see that the quality of the work is not the same. I came here for brow threading and the lady over trimmed some brow hair. Now I have a hard time keeping them smooth since they are too short.
Oh well… moving on.

I walked into this place on a whim while waiting for my prescriptions to be filled at Duane Reade. I asked for an eyebrow and upper lip wax, and the technician seemed to understand. However, she threaded my eyebrows anyway! I let her go ahead with that but reiterated that I wanted my lip to be waxed, not threaded. She did the fastest wax I’ve ever had (fairly painful too) AND THEN PROCEEDED TO THREAD MY LIP. After I had explicitly asked her not to.
The thread broke twice while she was doing my eyebrows, and the two women working spoke really loudly the entire time. The technician did a really bad job – she trimmed my eyebrows (without asking) and now they’re weirdly tuftlike. There are random strays sticking out between my brows and they look like shit. But the worst part was when I went to go get my wallet and found a (presumably used) thread ON my bag. There were threads stuck against the wall, on the floor, and littered all over the sidewalk outside. Nope. Never again.
Pros:
–Cheap ($ 9 for eyebrow and lip. I gave a $ 2 tip but in hindsight I have no idea why.)
–Fast (though I’m not sure if this is actually a pro)

Between the woman who was crying while threading and the woman who was on her phone the whole time whilst ripping the hair out of my eyebrows, this place does not deserve more than 1 star.
To be honest, the woman who was crying before I came into the store did my eyebrows really, really well. I felt like I should have asked her what was wrong but I’m not sure if it was in my place to do so… but my eyebrows were great, funny enough…
I come here because I live in the area and it’s cheap and convenient. At best, my eyebrows are tame and the strays are plucked away, and I leave looking a little less caveman. At worst, my eyebrows were uneven and not flattering. (Thank you woman who was talking on her phone the whole time.) I’ve been here at least 8 or 9 times, having about four different women doing my eyebrows.
Take your business elsewhere for eyebrow threading unless you are lazy like me. Their customer service is horrendous… but, well, 5 $ threading.

I hate anything near my eyes — it makes me anxious. I have plucked my eyebrows myself since 8^th grade. But, my brows were starting to get sparse from being thin, then thick, then medium thickness, back to thick, then thin again… I thought, I’ll try threading, since my skin is very sensitive, and basically all wax has some reaction from me. I stumbled upon this place & gave it a try. I do not need a nice exterior to bring me in, or one to keep me coming back. This is a place that offers a service, is clean, is nice & does a great job. No need for extra pampering with threading in my book. I have been going here since Fall 2012, and my brows (when I don’t pluck myself in between — habit) look great! My brows are more even, more prominent & I feel comfortable sporting my non filled in brows on days without makeup on. You should be very clear from the beginning if it is 1) your first time & 2) ask for very specific looking brows. If you like to have hair (not) taken from above the brow — say so. If you want the arch to be at x mark — say so. If they are threading in a way you dislike — say so. A brow can be easily corrected — I have done it here — if you communicate what you want. For $ 5 this place is low balling themselves. Good work. Clean place. My go to spot for eyebrow maintenance.

Wow never again. but then again, what do you expect for $ 5? seems like she did it in a rush and totally messed up my right eyebrow. i learned my lesson.

As a threading-​addict for the past half decade, this is my new favorite eyebrow place. Great price ($ 5 for eyebrows), great service (they take their time), and no up-​selling. I have been a customer since they opened, and I’ve never had a subpar experience. Also, check out the filtered reviews… other people agree!

I randomly stumbled upon this shop after getting my nails done. When I saw the price list, I was excited to see that it offered herbal facials for the grand price of $ 30 and that they also did threading for $ 5. So in I went to inquire about their services.
The lady working there today promised me that her facials were excellent and that she would make sure that she would exfoliate my skin and do extractions. She also persuaded me to upgrade to the $ 35 special anti-​acne herbal facial. Because she seemed so genuinely enthusiastic about her special facials, I decided to go ahead and get one done.
I immediately regretted my decision when I realized that she didn’t really know how to give facials. Basically, different, smelly creams were applied to my face, after which she basically scrubbed and slapped my face. She then put the steamer on high heat and placed it thisclose to my face, making it difficult for me to breath. In the middle of my treatment, other people went inside the shop. She then decided to stop treating me to help two or three other customers. This would’ve been fine had she been gone for, say, ten minutes while the mask was resting but she did this twice, and basically disappeared for two *fifteen minute* stretches, making me wonder whether she had forgotten about me altogether. When she finally came back the second time, I think she felt rushed because there were other customers waiting for her, so she maybe did a minute’s worth of extractions and neglected the ‘massage’ that she promised came with the facial.
Because I’m a sucker, I also thought it would be a good idea to get my eyebrows threaded. Unilocalers, please note that I’ve been getting my eyebrows threaded for over a decade now, at least once a month. (You do the math). Never before have I experienced the most excruciating pain possible. I could feel every single eyebrow hair being yanked off and also felt that she was threading my forehead raw. After she was done, I realized that said pain occurred because she literally RIPPED SOME SKIN OFF MY FOREHEAD. This meant that when I sat up, I saw that a small patch of skin below my eyebrow was bleeding. Being paranoid, I really hope that this is just a wound and not a permanent scar. I visibly blanched when I saw what happened and got tissues to blot the bleeding. Rather than apologizing, the woman decided to chastise me for not holding my forehead taut. She also told me «not to worry» because she was «sure» that my bleeding would disappear.
This teaches me that sometimes, price isn’t really the most important factor in one’s decision-​making process. I was lured in by what I thought was a good deal and, well, fared badly.