If you visit a properly-trained barber they will singe nasal hairs and take out any protruding hairs from your ears and trim your eyebrows if requested. All part of the ritual of visiting a barbers.
Threading is an ancient art about which there are various claims of it beginning in China, India or the Middle East. A cotton thread is run back and forth over the skin snagging the hair and pulling it out by the root. Anyone not properly trained in the art could quite easily cut the skin.
One of the most popular items we sell is a beauty tool called Epicare which removes unwanted facial hair without pain very easily. This is aimed mainly at women though some men do buy them

not advisable to use on the male moustache area!