Food and Bollywood bop aren't the only reasons to visit Jackson Heights Little India neighborhood. Gulzar Beauty Salon is one of several salons offering facial hair removal via threading, a traditional Indian technique. Wendy Zarganis, the About.com Brooklyn guide, even leaves her favorite borough to go to Gulzar. She emailed:

It's a weird experience. You just sit in a barbershop type chair and they whip out the thread and use it like dental floss around the eyebrow. You should check it out. I think it was like 5 bucks.

Think I'll take a pass on it, thanks very much, but here's another writer on eyebrow threading who says it's less painful than tweezing.

• Gulzar Beauty Salon, 74-01B Roosevelt Ave., Jackson Heights, NY, 718-779-2800

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