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When you’ve invested in your beautiful permanent makeup, you’ll want to keep it looking its best for as long as possible. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Most treatments last from one year up to two years before you require a colour boost appointment.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Helping your cosmetic tattoo to stay sharp and nicely coloured means you’ll need to take care of it long term, although really this care is minimal. I recommend:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Always using sunscreen, as sunlight will fade your semi permanent makeup quicker⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Avoid using anti-aging creams directly on the area of your permanent makeup, as they can affect your tattoos⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Avoid certain skin treatments in the area, such as chemical peels, facial scrubs, laser rejuvenation, microdermabrasion and others⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
If you plan a skin treatment, tell your beautician about your permanent makeup⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
If you need an MRI scan or other medical procedure, inform your doctor about your permanent makeup⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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That's it, nice and easy! Enjoy your permanent makeup until you need a colour boost. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

​Semi permanent makeup is always a 2 step process. You will definitely need your initial session, and a touch up session 6-12 weeks after.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Skin is a living organ, and pigments that are placed into the skin are foreign body, and your skin will always try to get rid of it. That's why permanent makeup always looks darker/brighter straight after the procedure and lighter once healed: because the skin and your immune system gets rid of some of the pigment.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Because everyone is different, different amounts of pigment will be pushed out during the healing process, and on the first session we are kind of testing the skin. We won't know how much pigment will be retained until we see the healed results. This is what the touch up is for: we assess the healed results and go from there. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Thus on the first procedure I tend to go lighter, as I would much rather you say: it's faded too much, I want it darker and thicker! rather than: it's too dark and thick I don't like it!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Sometimes third session may be required, because some skin just doesn't hold the pigment well. But in the vast majority of cases 2 procedures will be enough to achieve desired look

​HOME MADE SCRUB RECIPE FOR LIPS AND BODY
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Scrubs remove dead cells from skin surface making our skin look brighter and healthier.
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It is also important to use scrub before your permanent makeup procedure to get rid of those dead skin cells, ESPECIALLY on lips
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Below is a very simple recipe that anyone can make at home in about 1 minute!
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1. Take 3 spoons of granulated sugar ⠀
2. Take 3 spoons of good quality oil, e.g. olive, grapeseed, avocado, jojoba.⠀
3. Mix together and your scrub is ready!⠀
You can add a few drops of your favourite essential oils to give your scrub a lovely scent, or a spoon of your favourite shower get if making scrub for body.
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For permanent makeup procedure on lips, use your scrub every evening for 2-3 days before your appointment. Otherwise, it can be used anywhere on your body 1-3 times a week to keep the skin soft, supple and healthy ⠀

Straight after the procedure there will be some swelling. It is very individual and some ladies have very minimal swelling that they actually like (gentle lip filler effect ), while others will swell more.
In any case, the swelling goes down considerably in 1-2 hours, and usually lips go back to normal unswallen state within 24 hours.
In today's world where we have to wear masks almost everywhere, it's easy to hide your lips if you feel that swelling is a bit too much for your liking
On the picture you can see before, 3 hours after the procedure, and healed after 1 session. There was more swelling straight after, but as you can see, after 3 hours swelling is minimal, and most people won't even notice anything apart from the lovely bright colour on the lips.

​For more information about lip blushing in Cambridge, go my dedicated LIP BLUSH page.

​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.

For more information about lip blushing in Cambridge, go my dedicated LIP BLUSH page.

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

​Every single face has some asymmetry: one eye is bigger, one brow is higher, one side of the lip is thinner etc.
When pre drawing the shape of the lips, we certainly aim to create as much symmetry and balance as possible. Slight asymmetry can be fixed by adding a little bit on one side and/or removing a tiny bit on the other to create as much balance as possible.
BUT We must always stay within the natural lip border! We absolutely can not tattoo outside lip tissue as the skin there is different from the skin on lips: it has pores and hair, and tattooing in this area will not only result in having hairy and porous lips, but also the colour on facial skin will look different from the colour on lips.
Now about making the lips bigger. Very often, lip tissue is very pale right next to the vermilion border. In this case, by colouring in this pale bit the lips will indeed start looking plumper and fuller. But as with asymmetry, by no means we can go outside of the natural lip border.
Unfortunately there still are some "artists" around who tattoo outside the natural lip border, so please, if anyone tells you that they can make your lips bigger with permanent makeup, run away!
To summarize, very slight asymmetry can usually be corrected with permanent makeup, and if your natural lip border is pale, permanent lipstick may make your lips look fuller by giving the colour to the pale bits. But if you would like to achieved more dramatic effects of lip augmentation, or correct a more obvious asymmetry, you should seek help and advise from aesthetician doing lip fillers

​Juicy colour on your lips
When your lips just need more colour permanent lip blush is a perfect solution! With this procedure it is possible to get a nice shade on your lips that won't smudge and leave marks even when wearing a mask or drinking or giving someone a kiss
Don't be scared of very bright results: modern pigments and techniques can achieve anything from very natural looking to deeper berry shades, whatever you prefer.
It's important to know that straight after the procedure the colour will look 20-%50% brighter, and lips will be slightly swollen, but the colour will fade and soften within 4-5 days as the healing takes place, and the swelling will go down.

For more information about lip blushing in Cambridge, go my dedicated LIP BLUSH page.