Lips | Lip Blush
One of the many enjoyments of permanent cosmetics is to wake up with the perfect color on your lips! Nothing that is too bold but just the right amount to enhance your natural beauty and create definition to your lips. Permanent lip color very effectively enhances naturally pale tissue, provides definition, and corrects uneven or asymmetric borders.
Lip Liner
Permanent lip liner also eliminates lipstick bleed, softens fine lines around the mouth, and creates a more voluminous, sensual looking lip. Lips can lose volume, color, and definition as a result of aging, hormonal changes, various medical conditions, sun damage and trauma. Permanent lip color and lip liner enhancement is an excellent solution that provides stunning results with anti-aging effects.
The most color question I get asked is “can you apply the pigment outside of my lip line?” Yes but no. With permanent makeup lip application, I usually apply the color to someone’s natural lip border or slightly above. One of the biggest mistakes with permanent makeup lip application is when a certified technician creates a new outline of someone’s lips to make them look fuller and bigger. If someone wants to add fullness to their lips, I highly recommend to do lip filler first, then permanent makeup. The results end up beautiful and the outcome is just what the client is looking for, rather than having pigment in areas that could end up looking unnatural.
Average Cost Lip Liner = $500 (Price includes a 60-90 day touchup)
PLEASE schedule your 60-90 day touchup along with your initial appointment to insure you have the day and time of your preference.
Lip color |Lip Blush
Lip blush is the newest trend and popular service that is a more natural looking enhancement to the lips. It enhances the lips by creating a light tint which creates a fuller, healthier look. The lip blush is becoming increasing popular when paired with lip filler. The result creates a subtle, plump effect by deepening the color of your lips. The color is customized depending on the clients skin tone and lip color of choice.
Lip blush has the same healing of traditional permanent makeup lip application. Lip blush can be darkened on the touchup application to ensure the perfect tint to the lips.
Average Cost Full Lip Color | Lip Blush = $600 (Price includes a 60-90 day touchup)
PLEASE schedule your 60-90 day touchup along with your initial appointment to insure you have the day and time of your preference.
Pigment Selection
Before I start the application, we will pick a color and color match for the desired results. I encourage a client to pick a shade one or two shades darker or brighter depending on their natural skin tone. The pigment is inserted into the dermis and our lip tissue is like a sheer cloth over the top of healed pigment.
I recommend wearing a tinted gloss over the healed lip color. This will add luminance and color to your lip application.
Remember, pick a color that enhances your natural beauty and gives color to your face. You can always wear a different, darker color over the top of your lips if you want to change up your color!
What to Expect
The lips have a little different healing process. Immediately after the procedure the lips will appear very dark, thick and bold. You will want to apply ice to bring down the swelling after the procedure and the following day. It will take 3-7 days for the crusting to shed off. During the 3-7 days, the lips will feel very dry and tight. You will want to keep them hydrated! Once the crusts flake off your lips will look opaque or like all the color has disappeared. It can take 2 weeks to 30 days for the color to rejuvenate back to the surface. The lips are $600. That price does include a touchup that is scheduled 60 days from the initial procedure. If the lips need to be darker, lighter or if a piece chips off, it’s all enhanced during the touchup. Before I start of you there is a little bit of paperwork, but we will go over before and after pictures, colors, shapes, sizes and the whole in ‘s and out’s of permanent makeup! If you are prone to fever blisters, please start on an anti-viral medication (prescribed by your physician) 5 days prior to any lip procedure.
This will help avoid an outbreak since fever blisters are a known side effect to the lip procedures. The lips take around 2 hours. The longest part is letting the numbing creams set and going over details about the procedure. Take Tylenol 30 minutes before your procedure and bring your lips colors with you to match the color.
Understanding the Healing of the Lips
Unlike other parts of the face, lips are a muscle, without hair follicles. Lips also have a very large supply of blood. The ratio of pigment retention taking on the vermilion border verses the vermilion tissue of the lip is very different. Lip liner will have a much greater retention of color. The vermilion tissue of the lips will be far less. Lip pigments tend to be translucent and need to be layered. This means a full lip may take 2-3 sessions, depending on the desired results, along with the natural lip color. In many cases a client will lose from up to 30-50% of the initial lip pigment application. They will get a much greater uptake of color on the second session, and third if warranted. I try to inform every client to follow post-care instructions, and have realistic expectations about your final lip color, that way you can enjoy the remarkable benefits of what a permanent lip procedure can offer!!!