Before & After

COSMETIC BEFORE & AFTER PHOTOS

The following before & after photos are immediately following procedure & healed procedures. It is important to remember each person is different. Several factors can play a role in what you look like right after a procedure, your healing, and the end result in the color. Questions & Research must be done before you sit in any chair for a procedure. Currently there are few laws governing the permanent cosmetic industry. Not all technicians have the same passion for this as art form. This is more than a technical procedure. There are many forms of artistry involved, along with health standards, and technical education. We have outstanding technicians out there that have paid the price to educate themselves. Looking at the opposite end of the spectrum, we have technicians out there that have opted for a low cost education. This is an industry that the technicians must have a passion to deliver an ethically sound service to their clients. Moreover, they MUST be educated and continue their education as the industry standards change. If you ask a technician a question and they hesitate, give vague answers, or simply just do not answer the initial question DO NOT get the procedure done.

EYE LINER

(all are immediately following an upper & lower eye liner procedure)

Just as a quality frame brings out the art work of a painting, eye liner can bring out the true color of our eyes. It adds a little more sparkle to our eyes. The older we get the more our natural coloring fades and washes out. It is important when getting permanent cosmetics that your technician does not go too bold. You have to remember, you can always add color with a pencil for a bolder effect. You can not take this off. As you age it will migrate with the flow of you skin dropping in the corners.

Eye Liner & Lash Extensions:

As you can see in her before and after photo, there are amazing results with eye liner brightening her eyes. With the added Lash Extensions her eyes are that much more enhanced. This client does not wear mascara or eyeliner. She is very active, travels, swims, and works. All she does now is fluff her lashes and walks out the door.

BROWS:

There is something to be said about this remarkable young lady. She came to us for eye brows because she was tired of drawing them on everyday. She told me that she was getting them for her husband's birthday (it was the day after her procedure). She had the greatest little giggle behind her words. She was using a dark pencil. I did not want to use dark pigment and explained to her that a softer pigment would blend well with her hair color. She let me know (proudly) that she had never colored her hair. When I began talking about her permanent cosmetics and aging, she quickly slapped her hand over mine and said, "we don't worry about age at 91." Chuckling the entire time. Of course I had to ask how old her husband was going to be the next day. "85" she giggled as though she were 17 years old and infatuated with a new love. She is our oldest client to date and full of energy.

The cropped picture is immediately following her brow procedure. We stayed within her natural brow line, the boundaries that she was used to drawing on, and compensated for deeply creased areas due to aging. Her touch up appointment was no less entertaining with stories of her friend's opinions.

Many woman (and men), just do not have brow hair. Some grow only half way leaving the individual with no shape to their brow. Brow hair simulation procedures are the answer to many clients. They do not want the drawn on pencil appearance. The brow hair simulation is a procedure with an artist technique of tattooing strands of hair in the brow area. It will not leave a clean line edge as though the brows were drawn on. This procedure will heal and give an illusion of hair strands and a more natural uneven edge.

LIPS:

Lips loose there color and seem to blend in with our skin tones as we age. We truly can't defy the aging process. Fair complexions seem to have a tougher time with their lips becoming washed out. The vermillion border is the defined ridge that is located at the edge of our lips. For some, natural color does not meet the border of the lips. A technician should not go beyond this border. Permanent Cosmetics can aid correcting uneven lips, or enhance the color of lips. Permanent Cosmetics are not to give an individual with fine lips big, plump cupid's lips. That my friends is totally up to fillers.

The first photo is a lip liner that shows a more defined vermillion border, evening up the lower lip. The after picture is immediately following her procedure. The liner pigment appears dark and rich immediately after a procedure. However, when it heals it will soften and blend in with her natural lip tones.

The second photo is a lip liner enhancement. This gal was 32, very fair tones, with virtually no lip color. We chose a natural shade for her undertones, lined her lips, and with the same shade feathered it up into her lip slightly. The after photo is healed 7 months. She did have a touch up to define the border and replace lost pigment. Her touch up was 8 weeks after her initial procedure date.

The third photo is a full lip fill. She was healed in this photo. As you can see, she now has a much crisper vermillion border and a rosey color in her lips. (Sorry, the before photo does have a bit of numbing still on her lips.) Nevertheless, you can see how milky, or washed out her lips have become. Now she only wears lip gloss, or lip balm with sun block.