​Day 1: Lips will be swallen and sensitive after the procedure , however the swelling will go down considerably within 1-3 hours. The colour will appear brighter than the end results.
Day 2: Swelling will subside and colour is likely to appear darker than on day one.
Day 3-4: Lips will start to become dry and flaky. It is very important to keep them moisturised and let the flakes peel off naturally.
Day 5-7: The flakes will be gone and your new lip colour will be up to 50% lighter and looking more natural than they were during the first two days.
Day 7-30: The colour will be settling in as deeper skin layers will carry on healing. Colour may look lighter or even almost gone on some days and looking darker on others. It will settle in after around 30 days and a touch up may be performed after that time.

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Permanent powder brows is a very gentle technique, where skin is scratched very lightly to implant the colour. Because of it being so gentle, the skin trauma is minimal: there is no blood during the treatment, swelling and redness is minimal to none, and healing is very comfortable.
With correct aftercare, there will be NO thick scabs as many expect, but some light peeling that starts to occur around day 5, and slowly flaking off for the next 5-7 days.
After the flakes are gone, it may look like the colour has almost disappeared, but in most cases it will come back and darken slightly in the next 2-4 weeks as deeper layers of skin carry on healing.
On darker skin, there is a chance of hyper or hypo pigmentation, where skin looks darker or lighter in places where flaking has come off. This is absolutely normal and the skin colour will come back to normal within a few weeks.
So the main healing takes around 10-14 days, and deeper healing takes up to a month. This is why we never schedule a touch up appointment earlier than 4 weeks after the initial procedure.
All in all, the healing process is very comfortable and you can go around your usual business without the need to hide your lovely new brows whilst they're healing