Microblading vs Soft-Țap Tattooing Technique
Why Lana Says "No" to Microblading
While microblading has gained popularity, Lana strongly advises against it. Here's why:
The Superiority of Soft Tap
Lana prefers the Soft Tap (Tebori) technique, a traditional Japanese method that offers numerous advantages:
Make an Informed Choice
When considering permanent makeup for your eyebrows, it's crucial to understand the pros and cons of different techniques. Lana's expertise and commitment to client satisfaction have led her to embrace Soft Tap as the safest and most effective method for achieving beautiful, natural-looking eyebrows.
While microblading has gained popularity, Lana strongly advises against it. Here's why:
- Short-lived results: Microblading fades quickly, often requiring touch-ups every 6–12 months.
- Painful and potentially damaging: The process can be quite painful and may cause scarring or damage to hair follicles.
- Limited longevity: After a few touch-ups, the fine lines of microblading tend to blur, resulting in a less natural look.
The Superiority of Soft Tap
Lana prefers the Soft Tap (Tebori) technique, a traditional Japanese method that offers numerous advantages:
- Gentle and safe: Soft Tap is less painful and gentler on the skin, minimizing the risk of scarring.
- Natural-looking results: The technique creates soft, powdery brows that mimic the appearance of natural hair.
- Long-lasting: Soft Tap results can last 2–3 years with proper care.
- Versatile: It's suitable for all skin types.
Make an Informed Choice
When considering permanent makeup for your eyebrows, it's crucial to understand the pros and cons of different techniques. Lana's expertise and commitment to client satisfaction have led her to embrace Soft Tap as the safest and most effective method for achieving beautiful, natural-looking eyebrows.
MIcrobladed Eyebrows : Immediately after the procedure: Eyebrows microbladed by one of the best and very experienced technician
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MIcrobladed Eyebrows
The same eyebrows microbladed by one of the best and very experienced technician starting to heal with the crust slowly chipping away together with the color after about 3 to 4 days post procedure
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MIcrobladed Eyebrows
The same eyebrows microbladed by one of the best and very experienced technician after about 2 weeks of healing. As you can see most of the color and sharp lines are gone leaving merely a shadow. The beginning of the eyebrow is not a tattoo -it is customer's own hair.
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The sad truth about microbladed eyebrows and what fully healed microbladed eyebrows really look like (see below photos)
Healed Microbladed Eyebrows done by industry's top microbladers
Microbladed eyebrows after 3 to 6 months
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(PHOTOS ABOVE) Healed Microbladed eyebrow's done by industry's top microbladers
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(PHOTOS BELOW) Healed Soft Tap eyebrows done by Lana Schluter RN, BSN
Healed Soft Tap eyebrows done by Lana Schluter RN, BSN
Soft tap technique eyebrows before they were done by Lana Schluter
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Soft tap technique healed after only one session!!! Far superior to microblading technique , with much better color retention, faster healing time and no skin damage , longer color retention , less # of visits are needed to build the eyebrows color. Better shape retention.
Done by Lana Schluter via soft tap technique
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Thinking about getting permanent makeup or having your eyebrows microbladed?
Say NO to thick eyebrows tattoo. Btw, microblading is a tattoo, Trust me with this one - just say NO!
Say NO to microblading or any other type of hair drawing technique, unless you wish to end-up with big, uneven and patchy looking eyebrows as they fade, and they do fade very fast but never completely.
Regardless of what your technician is telling you, microbladed eyebrows will never fade away completely, and it will be very difficult for you to trace them to maintain your eyebrow's shape since faded microbladed eyebrows look very patchy, spread out and ambiguous. With all of that you will simply lose your outline and will not know exactly where to pencil, tweeze and trim your eyebrows to maintain their original shape. To make things worse, your technician also will not be able to consistently maintain the same eyebrows shape, therefore, your eyebrows' shape will change and spread out in different directions after each color boost.
Say YES to a thinner and well-defined Soft tap powder filled eyebrows.
It is a lot better to have a more solid and evenly fading eyebrows that client can see and maintain by coloring over it with the eyebrow pencil, that having a microbladed undefined patchy mess that when faded looks like a dirty dusty skin mixed with customer's own eyebrows hair that impossible to maintain or to see exactly where to tweeze since there is no clear outline to follow
See client's photo below to understand how why you would not be unable to maintain your eyebrows shape if they were microbladed or nano-bladed via the hair stroke technique. I think this photo below speaks louder than words. Hair stock eyebrows look shapeless as they fade and-there is no clear outline to follow! Therefore, with every touch up, the shape of these eyebrows will be altered, leaving clients with thicker and more uneven eyebrows after every touch up.
Say NO to thick eyebrows tattoo. Btw, microblading is a tattoo, Trust me with this one - just say NO!
Say NO to microblading or any other type of hair drawing technique, unless you wish to end-up with big, uneven and patchy looking eyebrows as they fade, and they do fade very fast but never completely.
Regardless of what your technician is telling you, microbladed eyebrows will never fade away completely, and it will be very difficult for you to trace them to maintain your eyebrow's shape since faded microbladed eyebrows look very patchy, spread out and ambiguous. With all of that you will simply lose your outline and will not know exactly where to pencil, tweeze and trim your eyebrows to maintain their original shape. To make things worse, your technician also will not be able to consistently maintain the same eyebrows shape, therefore, your eyebrows' shape will change and spread out in different directions after each color boost.
Say YES to a thinner and well-defined Soft tap powder filled eyebrows.
It is a lot better to have a more solid and evenly fading eyebrows that client can see and maintain by coloring over it with the eyebrow pencil, that having a microbladed undefined patchy mess that when faded looks like a dirty dusty skin mixed with customer's own eyebrows hair that impossible to maintain or to see exactly where to tweeze since there is no clear outline to follow
See client's photo below to understand how why you would not be unable to maintain your eyebrows shape if they were microbladed or nano-bladed via the hair stroke technique. I think this photo below speaks louder than words. Hair stock eyebrows look shapeless as they fade and-there is no clear outline to follow! Therefore, with every touch up, the shape of these eyebrows will be altered, leaving clients with thicker and more uneven eyebrows after every touch up.
Say NO to all the eyebrow measuring tools, face measuring devices, and eyebrow mapping techniques!!!!!!!!!!
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but none of these methods work because our faces are not symmetrical.
Using them results in unflattering and uneven eyebrows. The "golden ratio" concept is simply a marketing tactic designed to sell useless makeup products and train permanent makeup technicians who lack the talent or vision to design their client's eyebrows free-hand. These strange measuring tools and techniques are only suitable for paint-by-number kits. It's best to rely on experienced and skilled artists who can create beautiful, natural-looking eyebrows free-hand without measuring tools.
Keep on reading to learn more......
The Truth About Microblading They Don't Want You To Know
Soft tap is by far way superior to microblading !!!!!!!!!!!
With the sudden popularity of microblading and an explosion in its mass production by inexperienced technicians, many customers are led to believe that microblading is not a tattoo process. Permanent cosmetics, micropigmentation, dermal implantation, microblading/microstroking, eyebrow embroidery, and long-lasting makeup are all different names for the same procedure – cosmetic tattooing. Whenever color is placed into the skin with any device, it is a tattoo process as defined by the medical community and state government regulators. They recently rewrote tattooing regulations clarifying that “microblading,” in which a practitioner uses fine needles and pigment to create eyebrow hairs, is tattooing and not an aesthetic or cosmetic practice.
Many practitioners promote microblading or eyebrow embroidery as a semi-permanent process, claiming the color only reaches the epidermal (outer) layer of the skin. However, a careful review of basic skin anatomy and physiology reveals this is not true. By definition and tattoo industry standards, color is implanted into the dermis of the skin. If pigment particles do not reach the dermis, they will disappear during the skin's healing phase and normal cell regeneration at the epidermal level. Pigments do fade over time, but this does not make the process semi-permanent. It is impossible to predict how much pigment will fade and how long it will take with any measure of consistency or reliability.
The biggest mistake when shopping for permanent makeup via the microblading technique is to base the search primarily on photos of microbladed eyebrows taken immediately after the procedure, assuming this is how their eyebrows will heal. Most permanent makeup technicians and salons do not display the results of their work after it has healed. None of those real-looking eyebrows still look "real" or even the same after one month when they are fully healed.
What most consumers do not realize is that permanent and semi-permanent makeup does not heal the same as regular body tattoos because, in permanent and semi-permanent makeup, we use pigment, not ink. Due to its different chemical structure, pigment heals blurry and more powder-like. Therefore, the same sharp-looking hairs you see immediately after your eyebrows are microbladed are actually just thin paper cuts in your skin and not an actual tattoo. Once those thin paper cuts heal, they no longer look delicate or thin. With microblading, there is no way to predict how much pigment will remain in your skin and how exactly it will look after it heals. Most heal like a shadow, patchy, or mostly disappear, needing multiple reapplications only to fade into very patchy-looking eyebrows 6 to 7 months later.
So why is microblading suddenly so popular? It is nothing more than a trendy money-making machine. Anyone can learn it by attending a 3-day course and then turn around and make money by teaching others. It doesn't require any special tattooing skills or expensive tattoo equipment. Most importantly, it is very easy to sell to unsuspecting customers who think this is how their eyebrows will look when they heal in a few weeks. To further contribute to public confusion, many of those "happy and satisfied" customers immediately after their procedure go to Yelp to write raving reviews about how they just had their eyebrows microbladed and how natural they look. Then, later on, their eyebrows fully heal. All those "real" looking sharp hair strokes "turn into a pumpkin after the ball." Once all the tiny paper-cut scratches heal in 10–15 days, they will either turn into a shadow or, in many cases, simply disappear. Most of those customers never follow up on their earlier impulsive and premature review with an update on fully healed eyebrows since most people feel embarrassed and disappointed. In rare cases where customers do follow up and post photos of their healed eyebrows, those photos are almost always too dark, blurry, taken too far, or the customers had so much of their own eyebrow hair that anything, even a black sharpie, would make their eyebrows look natural.
My biggest concern with microblading in the long run is the formation of permanent scarring and the destruction of clients' eyebrow hair follicles due to frequent and multiple skin slicing, cutting, and scratching touch-ups required by the microblading technique. At this time, microblading is still relatively new in the United States, and it is too early to see its long-lasting complications. However, something tells me that many of today's biggest fans of microblading will soon begin to notice that with each touch-up they lose more of their own eyebrow hair, and with each touch-up, their skin loses its original elasticity, resulting in hair strokes no longer healing or looking the same. Due to the formation of scar tissue, they will experience less color retention and more pain that is impossible to numb or keep numb.
When shopping for permanent makeup, try to be as realistic as possible and look for photos of healed microbladed eyebrows showing people who do not have any of their own eyebrow hair to get a better picture of what to expect. What most microblading technicians don't tell you is that they recently received their training either online or by attending a 2 to 3-day class taught by someone who also just recently learned how to microblade. Microblading is primarily the only method they know.
The solution is to find an experienced permanent makeup practitioner with at least 7 years of full-time permanent makeup experience who can utilize a Soft tap permanent makeup application technique instead of microblading. A talented and experienced permanent makeup artist will work with their customers to determine which technique would work best for their skin.
Microblading vs other permanent makeup tattooing techniques
FAQ: What technique do I use to tattoo eyebrows?
Answer:
I use a modified Japanese hand-tool technique, aka "Soft tap" technique, to tattoo eyebrows.
I use a permanent makeup machine technique to tattoo eyeliner and lips
FAQ: So what is the difference between microblading and soft tap techniques?
Answer:
Soft-Tap Technique
Microblading technique
The Truth About Microblading They Don't Want You To Know
Soft tap is by far way superior to microblading !!!!!!!!!!!
With the sudden popularity of microblading and an explosion in its mass production by inexperienced technicians, many customers are led to believe that microblading is not a tattoo process. Permanent cosmetics, micropigmentation, dermal implantation, microblading/microstroking, eyebrow embroidery, and long-lasting makeup are all different names for the same procedure – cosmetic tattooing. Whenever color is placed into the skin with any device, it is a tattoo process as defined by the medical community and state government regulators. They recently rewrote tattooing regulations clarifying that “microblading,” in which a practitioner uses fine needles and pigment to create eyebrow hairs, is tattooing and not an aesthetic or cosmetic practice.
Many practitioners promote microblading or eyebrow embroidery as a semi-permanent process, claiming the color only reaches the epidermal (outer) layer of the skin. However, a careful review of basic skin anatomy and physiology reveals this is not true. By definition and tattoo industry standards, color is implanted into the dermis of the skin. If pigment particles do not reach the dermis, they will disappear during the skin's healing phase and normal cell regeneration at the epidermal level. Pigments do fade over time, but this does not make the process semi-permanent. It is impossible to predict how much pigment will fade and how long it will take with any measure of consistency or reliability.
The biggest mistake when shopping for permanent makeup via the microblading technique is to base the search primarily on photos of microbladed eyebrows taken immediately after the procedure, assuming this is how their eyebrows will heal. Most permanent makeup technicians and salons do not display the results of their work after it has healed. None of those real-looking eyebrows still look "real" or even the same after one month when they are fully healed.
What most consumers do not realize is that permanent and semi-permanent makeup does not heal the same as regular body tattoos because, in permanent and semi-permanent makeup, we use pigment, not ink. Due to its different chemical structure, pigment heals blurry and more powder-like. Therefore, the same sharp-looking hairs you see immediately after your eyebrows are microbladed are actually just thin paper cuts in your skin and not an actual tattoo. Once those thin paper cuts heal, they no longer look delicate or thin. With microblading, there is no way to predict how much pigment will remain in your skin and how exactly it will look after it heals. Most heal like a shadow, patchy, or mostly disappear, needing multiple reapplications only to fade into very patchy-looking eyebrows 6 to 7 months later.
So why is microblading suddenly so popular? It is nothing more than a trendy money-making machine. Anyone can learn it by attending a 3-day course and then turn around and make money by teaching others. It doesn't require any special tattooing skills or expensive tattoo equipment. Most importantly, it is very easy to sell to unsuspecting customers who think this is how their eyebrows will look when they heal in a few weeks. To further contribute to public confusion, many of those "happy and satisfied" customers immediately after their procedure go to Yelp to write raving reviews about how they just had their eyebrows microbladed and how natural they look. Then, later on, their eyebrows fully heal. All those "real" looking sharp hair strokes "turn into a pumpkin after the ball." Once all the tiny paper-cut scratches heal in 10–15 days, they will either turn into a shadow or, in many cases, simply disappear. Most of those customers never follow up on their earlier impulsive and premature review with an update on fully healed eyebrows since most people feel embarrassed and disappointed. In rare cases where customers do follow up and post photos of their healed eyebrows, those photos are almost always too dark, blurry, taken too far, or the customers had so much of their own eyebrow hair that anything, even a black sharpie, would make their eyebrows look natural.
My biggest concern with microblading in the long run is the formation of permanent scarring and the destruction of clients' eyebrow hair follicles due to frequent and multiple skin slicing, cutting, and scratching touch-ups required by the microblading technique. At this time, microblading is still relatively new in the United States, and it is too early to see its long-lasting complications. However, something tells me that many of today's biggest fans of microblading will soon begin to notice that with each touch-up they lose more of their own eyebrow hair, and with each touch-up, their skin loses its original elasticity, resulting in hair strokes no longer healing or looking the same. Due to the formation of scar tissue, they will experience less color retention and more pain that is impossible to numb or keep numb.
When shopping for permanent makeup, try to be as realistic as possible and look for photos of healed microbladed eyebrows showing people who do not have any of their own eyebrow hair to get a better picture of what to expect. What most microblading technicians don't tell you is that they recently received their training either online or by attending a 2 to 3-day class taught by someone who also just recently learned how to microblade. Microblading is primarily the only method they know.
The solution is to find an experienced permanent makeup practitioner with at least 7 years of full-time permanent makeup experience who can utilize a Soft tap permanent makeup application technique instead of microblading. A talented and experienced permanent makeup artist will work with their customers to determine which technique would work best for their skin.
Microblading vs other permanent makeup tattooing techniques
FAQ: What technique do I use to tattoo eyebrows?
Answer:
I use a modified Japanese hand-tool technique, aka "Soft tap" technique, to tattoo eyebrows.
I use a permanent makeup machine technique to tattoo eyeliner and lips
FAQ: So what is the difference between microblading and soft tap techniques?
Answer:
Soft-Tap Technique
- Less Painful: Less painful and cause less bleeding than microblading.
- Healing Time: Heals faster, with the crust coming off in 5 to 6 days.
- Color Absorption: More color is absorbed by the skin, lasting 2 to 3.5 years after 2 sessions.
- Predictable Results: Results are more predictable and look soft and natural after healing.
- Suitability: Looks good with or without existing eyebrow hair; suitable for blondes, brunettes and clients with oily skin
- No Scarring: Multiple sessions do not leave scars, unlike microblading where skin is scratched.
- Predictable Shape and Design: Eyebrow shape and design are much more predictable with Soft-Tap.
- Color Adjustment: The color is more predictable and easily adjustable; will cover and correct existing eyebrow scars.
- Time and Precision: Takes much more time and requires more effort and precision from the technician.
- Manual Application: Done by hand and pigment is tapped into the skin.
- Immediate Appearance: Looks dark and solid immediately after the procedure.
- Healed Appearance: Heals soft and natural-looking with some areas lighter and some darker, creating a natural, multidimensional look. Appears 25% to 50% lighter after healing.
- Sessions and Healing: Most require two sessions. Takes only 1 week to heal.
- Minimal Swelling and Bleeding: Causes very little swelling and bleeding.
- No Hair Loss or Scars: Does not cause scars or eyebrow hair loss.
- Longevity: With proper care, lasts 2 to 3 years.
- Color Correction: Can repair and correct eyebrow tattoo color.
Microblading technique
- Method: The pigment is scratched into the skin, leaves scars and damages existing eyebrows hair follicles.
- Results: Not predictable and may look very different after fully healed. Most require three sessions
- Suitability: Not for clients with oily skin or those who want light eyebrows.
- Appearance After Procedure: Looks very swollen. Takes 2 to 3 weeks to heal. Increased bleeding during the procedure.
- Longevity: Lasts only 3 to 6 months.
- Effects on Skin and Hair: Can cause damage to existing eyebrow hair follicles, scars, and skin damage. Very painful.
- Color Stability: Will not correct microbladed eyebrows color if they fade to blue or purple. Color might look good immediately after the procedure, but almost disappears after fully healed.
- Healed Appearance: Hair stroke lines do not look as sharp and delicate as immediately after the procedure, and do not blend in with existing hair like initially. After fully healed, clients with very little to no hair might look like their eyebrows are made of randomly painted hair sticks.
- Color Predictability: Not easily adjustable; color heals cooler than Soft Tap, resulting in bluish-purplish hair strokes.
- Coverage: Will not cover eyebrow scars. Tattooing an exact thin or medium shape is more difficult compared to Soft Tap.
The hair stroke technique with tattoo gun vs. manual Japanese technique (aka Soft Tap)
Quality vs. Quantity
Personally, I prefer to use a manual modified Japanese hand-tool technique, also known as "Soft Tap," to tattoo eyebrows. This is the only way to achieve consistent, predictable, desirable, and precise results while creating multidimensional, beautiful, natural-looking eyebrows without surprises or mistakes. The manual hand-tool technique is gentler on the client's skin, can cover existing eyebrow scars, does not create new scars, can make existing scars less visible, and can even stimulate new hair growth. When done manually, eyebrows heal faster, swell less, are less prone to bleeding and infection, and look soft and natural almost immediately after the procedure.
So if the manual technique is the best, why doesn't every permanent makeup technician use it? The answer is simple: money. It's another classic example of service providers not acting in their clients' best interests. Although the manual hand tool technique is far superior to the tattoo gun's hair stroke technique, most permanent makeup technicians don't use it because it takes four times longer to tattoo by hand than with a tattoo gun. Most permanent makeup practitioners value quantity over quality. Most will book less than 1.5 hours for a client's first permanent eyebrow tattooing appointment and less than one hour for their second follow-up appointment.
I book 4 to 5 hours for a client's first eyebrow procedure appointment and 4 hours for their second follow-up appointment. You're probably wondering why it can take 4 to 7 hours to tattoo a client's eyebrows, so here is my average first appointment time breakdown:
- Discussion of client's needs and expectations: 30 minutes and up
- Choosing the right color: Mixing a wide variety of eyebrow colors and testing them on the client until we find a perfect mix. I do not stop mixing colors until we find the one that isn't just okay—it has to be perfect! This can take anywhere from 30 minutes to sometimes over 2 hours, depending on how soon we find what we are looking for and when the client is completely happy and confident with their choice.
- Eyebrow design: This is the most important part of our appointment. It can easily take 2 to 4 hours, as we usually draw many eyebrow shapes and designs until we find the perfect one. We don't stop drawing until it is perfect.
- Numbing the eyebrow area: 15 to 30 minutes
- Manually tattooing client's eyebrows: 1.5 to 2.5 hours
- End of procedure: Taking pictures, going over home care instructions, and gathering the client's home care supplies, including everything they will need to take care of their eyebrows—20 to 30 minutes.
Just in case you're wondering what usually happens at the "drive-through" permanent makeup salons when a client isn't finished within their 1.5-hour appointment time frame, here's the scoop. These places "really know" how to treat their clients! The unfortunate client who isn't done in the 1.5-hour time frame will be labeled as difficult, needy, and picky, blamed for wasting too much time on drawing and choosing the shape and color of their new eyebrows (more than 15 minutes). The technician will rush, and the client will end up with uneven and unflattering eyebrows they absolutely hate. This client will then go home and cry every time they see themselves in the mirror, spending hours and days on the internet looking for tattoo removal information, too embarrassed to go anywhere, not even to work! It's always the same story I hear repeatedly from clients whose eyebrows I have repaired.
By the way, I forgot to mention that most permanent makeup technicians do not mix and choose colors since they don't want to waste their valuable time and pigments on such "unimportant and time-consuming" tasks. They will simply pull one single color and tattoo it without even trying it on the client's skin.
So, as you shop for permanent makeup, keep all the above information in mind and remember that cheaper is not better because you might end up paying 10 times more for correction if it's even correctable. Also, keep in mind that it is very hard to find someone who is good at correcting permanent makeup since many clients come to me from all over the United States once a month for many months until we are done correcting their eyebrows.
My main goals are quality, safety, and beauty. I always do what's best for my client, even if it takes me more time and work.
Based on my experience, eyebrows done with the tattoo gun's hair stroke technique do not look natural. They look fake, especially on clients who have no eyebrow hair to hide the "hair sticks" that some call "hair strokes." Real eyebrow hair does not grow in such perfect sequence, all starting at the same level and in the same perfect direction under the same perfect angle! Plus, we are not supposed to see individual eyebrow hair unless the person's eyebrows are sparse.
Another big reason why the hair stroke technique can never look like real hair is that in the permanent makeup industry, we do not use ink; we use pigment, which is made of much larger particles than ink. It is impossible to draw thin hairlines with pigment because the pigment is too thick.
Facial skin is much thinner than the rest of our body, so when ink is used to tattoo the most delicate parts of the face (eyebrows, eyes, and lips), it is more likely to migrate (spread under the skin, which is called ink migration). Ink migration looks like a bruise and is NOT repairable! Google "ink migration photos," and you will understand exactly what I mean. This is why the best and most reputable permanent makeup practices in the US only use the best quality, expensive, and thick pigments made in the USA. They NEVER use ink or cheap, low-quality ink-like pigments. I personally like pigments made by "Kolorsource," whose president and owner is American Medical Doctor Linda Dixon MD. All of their pigments are top quality, tested for safety, and made in the USA. In short, good quality pigments are much thicker than ink, so the possibility of them migrating is very slim to none. However, many poor-quality pigments are made by unknown or foreign companies that are very thin and just as bad as ink. I cannot stress enough the importance of educating yourself about permanent makeup before trusting your face to just anyone! Keep in mind that the tattooing industry is not really regulated by anyone! Just because someone has a tattoo license does not mean they are good at what they do. A tattoo license is not issued to one person, it is issued for the whole tattoo facility regardless of who works there, as long as they are over 18, to show the public that the facility was inspected by the Department of Health and found to be clean! That is all! The FDA does not regulate the tattoo industry's ink or pigment, any more than they regulate candies. If someone is telling you that their pigments or inks are FDA-approved – run! A tattoo parlor or a permanent makeup salon can pretty much use whatever they want. They can make their own ink or pigment, or they can buy it from China, Mexico, India, Taiwan, Africa, anywhere they can get it cheap. So do you know what is being implanted under your skin? Good question – write it down and make sure to ask your tattoo artist.
So, let's say your face was destroyed with horrible-looking eyebrows, totally uneven and migrated eyeliner, blue or black lips, and scars all over your eyebrows, eyes, and lips. Can you sue them? The answer is sure you can sue anyone for anything, but will you win? Sorry, but you will not win because, in case you didn't know it – tattooing is art and you can't sue an artist for bad art, no more than you can sue Picasso and Dali because you don't like their somewhat strange art. When it comes to art, there is no right or wrong, good or bad. As far as scars go – sorry again, do you recall signing any consent forms? Do you remember what was written on those consent forms? Oh, so you weren't given any consent forms to sign? Well, guess where your permanent makeup technician is now? Let us take some geography lessons and see what would be the furthest country on the map!
Sorry, we got off the subject here. Let's go back to the pigment versus ink discussion. A good quality pigment is much thicker than ink, so as a result, it can never imitate human hair because it cannot make the line thin enough to look like real hair! When done with pigment using the hair stroke technique, eyebrows will always look like either a bunch of thick sticks, or if the strokes were tattooed too thin with pigment, they will nearly disappear in about 1 to 2 weeks after the procedure. This is the main reason why most permanent makeup technicians who advertise a hair stroke technique don't like to display photos of healed eyebrows in their portfolios. Notice that most of the "after" photos in their portfolios were taken immediately after the procedure and not after they healed, since healed eyebrows will look nothing like they did immediately after the procedure. A hair stroke technique is too unpredictable and inconsistent and cannot guarantee the expected results, since the exact shape, hair location, and length cannot be planned ahead of time; it is pretty much created during the actual tattooing process.
Here at "Chicago Permanent Makeup by Lana Schluter RN, BSN " we value quality above quantity. We have many high-profile clients, many of whom are also well-known public figures. They need to look good not only in person but also on TV as well as in front of the camera. Many of our clients are actors and models whose work and income depend on how they look. Clients choose us not because we offer competitive prices and not because our services are on sale; they choose us because they are not willing to take any chances with their faces. They know that here they will receive consistent, high-quality, personalized, custom work with high attention to every detail. They also know that here they will never be rushed, like they would be at any other permanent makeup salon.
For more information about manual hand tool tattooing technique please visit " Soft Tap" website at :
http://www.softaps.com/