Permanent make-up
- Who is interested in permanent make-up?
- active women who want to save time
- women with allergies to cosmetics
- women who wear contact lenses
- women whose skin does take to make-up
- women with alopecy, or hair loss, in the eyelashes
- sportive women who want to enhance their femininity
- women who want to wake up looking their best
- women who want to correct facial asymmetries
- women with scarring due to accidents or surgery
- Tattooing procedures:
- the Lip Line: Obtain a clear and neat lip line, with correction and augmentation of volume if necessary. Reduce visibility of wrinkles on the upper-lip by stopping lipstick bleed.
- eyebrow: Emphasize the character of a face. In cases of excessive epilation, the thinned area can be "filled" to reinforce the line.
- eyeliner, Upper and Lower Lids: Intensifies the eyes and creates the illusion of thicker eyelashes.
- camouflage: hide scarring due to facelifts or other procedures, including aureoles on the breasts.
- beauty mark: turn a flaw into an asset.
- scalp and facial hair: fill-in a hair transplant, mustache or beard.
- Is it painful?
- The advantage off having permanent make-up applied in a medical center is that the doctor can use local anesthetic in order to render the procedure painless.
- Risks
- No risks of allergy because the pigments are obtained from iron oxides to which other minerals have been added. During pregnancy, however, there is a risk of hyperpigmentation.
- Procedure
- application of an aesthetic cream.
- choice of color. I suggest moderation in color, which can be modified one month after the initial procedure.
- choice of the form, using a make-up crayon to correct, if necessary, small imperfections.
- How long before the make-up is visible?
- Three to four days. The color oxidizes and darkens to the chosen shade.
- A few precautions.
- Patients who have herpes are systematically treated with an antiviral drug (Zorirax) 4 days before and 2 days after the treatment.
- Follow-up care.
- No sun exposure without a complete sun block. The sun and UV can intensify the color.
Avoid all chance of infection or vasodilatation, including sauna, hammam and Jacuzzi for four days.
A touch-up is often necessary one month after the initial procedure because the skin sometimes rejects color at certain spots.
- Side effects.
- Reddening of the skin may briefly occur, usually for less than a couple hours.
During the time of healing, the color gradually darkens (4 days maximum for the eyes, and 10 days for the eyebrows). Eyeliner often causes the eyelids to swell for 24 hours or less.
- Duration of results.
- Between 2 to 5 years, depending on the quality of the skin and the rate of cellular renewal.
