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Permanent Makeup: Forever Fresh-Faced

Permanent makeup makes it easy to exchange your makeup bag for a few extra minutes in bed. Read up on this convenient cosmetic treatment before going under the needle.

Permanent makeup—usually used to define or fill in eyelids, eyebrows, and lips—is essentially a tattoo. But in this case, the lines applied to skin are typically designed not to stand out but to blend in. Using a standard tattoo gun—or as with the SofTap method, a special hand-guided tool—a cosmetic technician implants micropigments made from inert minerals just below the surface of the skin. The artist may create a solid wash of color to make lips rosier or lash lines darker, or may carefully draw in individual strands of hair along the brow.

After Treatment

Some residual swelling is normal after the procedure. While some clients may have no swelling, others may have a lot. This is individualized. Dry skin, itching, and tenderness are common after the procedure. Those symptoms will dissipate each day and very on an individual basis. Color will fade/ soften 30-50% as healing is different with each client. At your touch-up appointment, we will enhance any area that has faded, as well as adding more strokes if needed. This is reason why; the second session is very important. Also, in most of the cases, a color boost is necessary every 1-3 years to maintain its fresh natural appearance. If you are out in the sun often, use anti-aging creams, Retinol products, Proactive acne products, heavy oil moisturizers, natural elements, regular chemical peels (Glycolic acid, etc.), or exercise frequently, you will need a color boost sooner than a year. The better you take care of the treated area, the longer it will last.

Bonus Points

• Permanent makeup’s uses go beyond the obvious: in 2007, one artist told Elle that some clients have opted to tattoo already-full brows as a permanent guideline for waxing techs.
• Cosmetic tattooing isn’t a Western invention. Some of the Maori women of New Zealand are reported to have felt that their elaborate, traditional facial tattoos also kept wrinkles from developing around the mouth.