“Permanent tattoo for "hair challenged" eyebrows”
Permanent makeup: Worth it
Pain: Severe
I am unfortunately eyebrow-hair challenged at the outer part of my eyebrows and had been drawing them on for many, many years (probably since i was 16) with my good ol' Rimmel eyebrow pencil ~ bless!. I was fine with drawing them on until i hit 27 and the idea of waking up every morning for the rest of my life and re-applying my eyebrows was truly a horrifying thought.
It was becoming time consuming and was inconvenient when i wanted to go swimming as they would come off in the water (even with the 'waterproof' pencil) So i decided to take the plunge and do it!
I was scared of the permanency but did my research and asked a million questions until i found the right cosmetic tattooist AND I have never looked back, it's been about 4 weeks scince i had it done and i love it!!!! It hurt like hell even with the numbing cream but i would do it again in a heart beat.
My tattoist was very patient with me, going through all the colours until i found one i liked and we worked on the shape of them for a good hour until i was happy :)
Took about 2 weeks for them to heal completely and about 3 weeks for the colour to calm (the colour comes out a lot darker when you first get them done).
Over all I am very happy.
Aug 11, 2009Comments and replies (2)
1 post
26 Sep 2009
what are good questions to ask the tattooist?
2 posts
30 Sep 2009
I mainly just asked a lot of random Q's (unfortunately i cant remember most of them now becuase i was nervous at the time :) But i really just wanted to get an idea of what sort of cosmetic tattooist she was, how long she had been doing it for and even talked to another one of her previous clients in the waiting room who was there for a touch up. I asked to see her previous work in her portfolio(which i think is important). And one good tip the tattooist gave me was to do the eyebrows thinner than what i had wanted at the time because she pointed out that thick eyebrows are in vouge at the moment but thinner eyebrows are sure to make a comeback again and you dont want to be permantly stuck with a thick brow. And she offered some wise words... "You can always add more but you can never take away!". So i went with a thinner brow so that when i go out i can still touch up with a bit of pencil and i am soooo glad i listened to her! Hope this helps :)