ABOUT PERMANENT MAKE-UP

Permanent make-up is a soft and natural enhancement or correction of a persons natural features. The application, if properly applied, will last for approximately 5 - 8 yrs. and will not discolour or change shape within the skin.

The field of Permanent Cosmetics is rapidly expanding in popularity. Women all over the country are learning of the benefits of having Permanent eyeliner, eyebrow colouring, lip colour or lip liner as well as many other reconstructive applications. What could be better than to wake up looking as good in the morning as you did in the evening?. Thanks to the art and the development of Permanent make-up, many woman in all stages of life and even some men are having their eyebrows, eyeliner and lips colored permanently. In the 1970's Various tattoo artists around the world began offering permanent makeup/cosmetic tattooing and reconstructive pigmentation. In the l980's aestheticians, electrologists, nurses, and cosmetologists became interested in performing these procedures. Training programs were established throughout the world and the industry has grown rapidly since then.

How safe is Permanent make-up?

Very safe, according to the Center for Disease Control in the USA. There has not been any incidence of HIV attributable to tattooing or Permanent make-up nor has there been any increase of Hepatitis B in the last 10 years. When the tattoo or permanent make-up work is done under proper conditions, there is no opportunity for disease transmission. If the technician is using approved sterilisation procedures on their instruments, not reusing needles and has a clean, sanitary environment, the chances of developing any type of communicable disease are remote if not impossible.

The media opened up the chances of allergic reactions. The chances of developing an allergic reaction to pigments are extremely remote. Less than 0.l% in over 100,000 estimated permanent cosmetic procedures performed nationwide over the last 10 years resulted in an allergic reaction, according to "Micropigmentation, State of the Art", by Charles S. Zwerling. M.D.

As is true on many issues in this industry, the question of MRI safety has also been incorrectly reported. According to Dr. Frank Shellock of Tower Imaging in Los Angeles, CA, a top expert in MRI safety, only a handful of people have reported minor problems around the eye area and no problems around the lip or brow area. In those rare instances when redness and edema in the eye area occurred, it did not cause any permanent damage. Test studies have confirmed that the "iron" particles in pigment are too microscopic to react as true metal pieces but rather are more accurately compared with "metals" which already exist microscopically in the body. Today, hundreds of thousands of women have chosen to have permanent make up procedures done.

Many, many times women have exclaimed, "This is the best thing I have ever done for myself!"