Threading Course

Add Threading To Your Treatment Menu

Threading removes hair with nothing but a twisted cotton thread. No product touches the skin, which is why it is often the option offered to clients who react to wax, who are using skin treatments that rule waxing out, or who simply prefer it. It is a short appointment, so it works well slotted between longer bookings or added to a brow service.

It is a manual skill, and that shapes how this course runs. The theory is brief — three units — and the rest is practice. Victoria demonstrates the hand and mouth techniques in step-by-step video so you can watch the thread control frame by frame, then you practise on your own models and submit your work for tutor feedback.

What You’ll Be Able To Do

• Hold and control a twisted thread using both the hand and mouth techniques
• Thread the brow line, upper lip, chin and sides of the face
• Consult and prepare the client and the work area before you start
• Identify contra-indications from the skin health module and know when to decline
• Work at a pace that keeps a short appointment profitable
• Give aftercare for skin that has just been threaded

What To Learn Alongside Threading

Threading is most often sold beside a brow service — Eyebrow Definition includes threading alongside tinting and waxing if you want the full brow menu in one course. For facial and body hair removal more broadly, Waxing and Hot Waxing cover the alternatives.

What You’ll Need To Practise

Very little — threading needs cotton thread, scissors, a powder to keep the skin dry and the usual consultation and hygiene supplies. Our Threading Kit is the least expensive of our kits for that reason. It is optional, though you will get through a lot of thread while you learn.

Threading Course FAQs

How Long Does the Threading Course Take?

There are 26 units across four modules, and only three of them are on threading itself — the smallest treatment module of our brow and hair-removal courses. That does not make it the quickest to finish. The reading is short, but thread control takes repetition, and most students spend far longer practising than studying. Most complete their training within a few weeks to a few months.

How Is the Course Delivered?

Entirely online. Threading is harder to learn from text than most treatments, so the video is where the course does its work — you can replay the hand and mouth techniques as often as you need and match your own grip to what is on screen. You arrange your own models.

How Am I Assessed?

All 26 units are assessed, with unlimited resubmissions. For the threading module, the assessment is about consistency: anyone can remove a hair, and what is being checked is whether you can work cleanly along a line at a sensible pace.

Is the Threading Course Accredited?

Yes — by ABT, IPHM and IGCT. The certificate is recognised by insurers including Towergate, Radius, Insync and Balens, and each insurer sets its own requirements, so check with yours before taking bookings.

Do I Need to Buy the Kit?

No. Threading needs the least equipment of any treatment we teach, and the Threading Kit is priced accordingly. Cotton thread bought separately works perfectly well.

Do I Need Any Experience?

No. The Anatomy and Physiology module opens with hair structure and removal, which is worth reading before you start — threading takes the hair from the follicle, and knowing the growth cycle explains why regrowth patterns differ between clients.

What Business Training Is Included?

The Foundation module’s 12 units cover business promotion, promoting products and services, reception duties, retail legislation and taking payments. Threading is a low-price, short-appointment treatment, so the units on pricing and filling your diary matter more here than on a premium service.

What Support Do I Get?

Tutor feedback on every assessment, our private student group, and lifetime access to your materials. Threading is the skill students most often come back to review, and the videos stay available for as long as you need them.