Women worldwide will spend hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on cosmetics, perfume, and makeup products throughout their lifetime. Have you ever thought how nice it would be if you just got up, rinsed your face, and makeup would already be there? With Permanent Make-up (PMU), all this is possible; even it can help solve the woes of buying and putting on cosmetics every day. With PMU, you can now have your perfectly applied makeup even when you play sports, you are in a rush somewhere, or when you have imperfections on your skin that you wish to change. PMU can leave you with full brows, tinted lips, and a sharp cat eye for years—no products needed. There are many applications for it, and what is best about it, everyone is a candidate. Permanent makeup is now a fast-growing part of the health and beauty industry.

What is Permanent Make-up?

Permanent Make-up or cosmetic tattoo, also known as intradermal pigmentation, is a decorative technique that employs tattoos (permanent pigmentation of the dermis) as a means of producing designs that resemble makeup, such as eye-lining and other permanent enhancing colours to the skin of the face, lips, eyeliners, and brows.

If you have faint eyebrows, no eyebrows, or partial eyebrows, a cosmetic tattoo can help. A lip tattoo can reduce “lipstick bleed” and define the lip line. With a coloured lip tattoo, lip scars seem to disappear, plus you can kiss lipstick goodbye. After an eyeliner tattoo, you can put away your eye pencils for several years. With PMU, your lips, lip liner, eyebrow and eyeliner will appear as just-applied 24/7.

A Love Red colour lip tattoo.

Apart from having this beautifying effect, PMU is also valuable for people who wish to disguise vitiligo, scars and white spots or who suffer from diseases such as alopecia totalis and want to have eyebrows again. Similarly, it is also used to restore or enhance the breast’s areola after surgery. Even if PMU is beautiful, convenient, time-saving, and affordable, none of these benefits matter without one crucial element: safety.

Is permanent makeup safe?

The answer is yes. Getting your permanent makeup done is entirely safe as long as your salon and artist adhere to their Health Department and Center for Disease Control guidelines. The procedure is very similar to the process of applying a tattoo. You must find a respected, reputable facility that employs well-trained technicians. Look for a facility that takes safety seriously and treats permanent makeup as a medical procedure.

How Permanent Make-up is done?

Proper sterilization, techniques, and licensing are fundamental for the permanent makeup process. The process is called micro pigmentation, in which a special tattoo pen injects permanent pigment ink into your skin. The procedure involves needles, but so does getting a regular tattoo. Thus, there is no reason to be afraid. The pen is equipped with a hollow, vibrating needle that penetrates the skin and releases a droplet of pigment every time it touches it. Before applying permanent makeup, you’ll get a patch test on your skin to check whether you have an allergic reaction to the pigment used.

After that, you will choose the colour depending on your favourite colour and based on advice and suggestions from the makeup artist. The technician will then use a sterile surgical pen to sketch the area to be tattooed. You will feel a slight stinging. To ease the pain, the makeup artist will apply a local anesthetic to numb the treated area, so you will only feel minor to no discomfort, usually in the form of slight stinging.

Each procedure typically lasts between 90 and 120 minutes, like any tattoo. The colours will be a little darker/brighter at the beginning, and the area will be swollen and red. Still, depending on the procedure, everything will come into place after a few days.

Permanent Make-up includes the following services:

  • Lip Tattooing
  • Eyebrow Tattooing: microblading, hair stroke, ombre, shading.
  • Eyeliner tattooing.

How long does PMU take to heal and how long does it last?

Permanent Make-Up is a journey. Before you get to stunning natural healed results like the images you see on Instagram, you’ve got to go through the healing process, which takes time and can be a bit of a roller coaster. Besides, age, health and lifestyle can all play a part in how fast your body heals. Typically those who are older or of ill health will take longer to heal, including individuals with conditions such as diabetes or taking anti-inflammatory or immunosuppressive medication. Once the skin has been broken, the body automatically enters its wound healing process in response. The process is complex, and for Permanent Make-Up treatments, it typically lasts between 4-8 weeks.

Permanent Make-up is technically a tattoo. We all know that tattoos last a lifetime. However, unlike body tattoos, PMU has been designed to fade over time. If you’re thinking about using PMU to save time in front of the mirror every day, then you’re probably keen to know how long this treatment will last. Luckily, the longevity of PMU is considerable. On average, Permanent Make-Up can last for two to five years per treatment, and that’s two to five years of a breezy daily beauty routine. Besides, with additional touchups every few years, PMU can last very long, as long as you take good care of your skin.

Conclusion

Women have been using various forms of make-up to enhance their natural beauty since the very start of civilization. Women have always known the power of make-up. However, modern women with busy lives don’t always have the time to apply make-up, which means we always look for shortcuts. With PMU, the energy will become more accessible to both men and women, people seeking to enhance their looks or those who want to feel better about themselves. Also, even though it is called permanent make-up, it doesn’t last forever, so it will need touchups every once in a while, depending on the procedures.

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