“Mouth Scarred After Permanent Makeup”

Do a search on scar improvement products. The silicone, copper peptides, or DMSO products might help. I run a medispa in a plastic surgeon's office. We have a lady that does permanent makeup. She has been doing it since the early 1990's. Our first experiences with yeast infections were not pleasant. Since we didn't see any sign of thrush or anything it just didn't occur to anyone that it might be candida. It wasn't until we finally sent in a culture that was positive for yeast that we figured it out. Women can have a high candida content after antibiotics (plus other reasons). Anything in the mouth gets on the lips after tattooing. The delayed healing added more days of friction between the inflammed tattooed area and the stronger healthy tissue around it. You get a pulling and tugging along the border with mouth movement and can end up with that tightness. It does eventually relax more, but can take months to a few years. Just like a facelift is tight at first but eventually relaxes.

I believe this is the only site that mentions skin yeast infections after permanent makeup on lips. After my permanent makeup lip procedure, my lips hurt like they were on fire. The healing was very slow. For weeks my lips got little cracks and bleeding, were sore to touch, and I could feel lumps deep down under the skin. I thought I was allergic to it but a dermatologist biopsy said it was not an allergic reaction. My dentist was the savior in this situation. I went in on a routine visit, told him not to tugg or pull on my lips because they hurt. My tongue was even starting to burn. He said the problem was candida albicans. As a partial denture wearer, that increased the growth of yeast- kind of like thrush, but not exactly, you couldn't tell by looking. He said I have angular chelitis also, which is a yeast that grows on the skin in those fine lines around the mouth that angle down at the corners. He prescribed diflucan. My lips got better while taking the medication, but then got worse after I had finished the two weeks of it. Turns out I kept reinfecting myself. I had to throw out old toothbrushes, treat the partials, discard old lip glosses, and put grapefruit seed oil and anti-fungal products on the skin around my mouth. I finally beat it, but it took months.

I had permanent makeup procedures for eyeliner and lips. I didn't have any problems, but can see how a lot of people can run into problems with lips. The mouth is so full of germs. I am a dental hygienist. Candida albicans can be in the mouth and on the skin. Asymptomatic means it is there but not causing any problems. Sometimes you might see small pinkish spots on skin around the mouth if it is on the skin, or pinkness in the crease of smile lines. Candida seems to like creases and weaknesses in skin. Most of the time you don't see anything at all. Saliva drools out of the mouth when you sleep. You can see stains on pillows. This is one way it gets colonized on the skin. Over the past several years, it seems we see more candida infections, and worse infections. In addition to prescription medications, things you can do to help get rid of it, or get it under control are 1) grapefruit seed oil, 2) paint the area with gentian violet, 3) use olive leaf extract. The dentist at my office has patients use the olive leaf extract two ways: brushing gums with it and swallowing the powder. You open the capsule and brush the powder down into the gum line. Swallow the powder - don't rinse it out. The gum pockets go down a few millimeters and the powder needs to make direct contact with the germs down there for best results. Patients later tell us that their other fungal infections got better, whether the other infection was GI, sinus, skin, or whatever. GI or systemic yeast infections can make a person feel tired or easily fatigued. Our office recommends Seagate brand olive leaf extract capules because they use cold pressed freshwater extraction to retain the high quality natural properties.

Try Emu oil for your scar.

My dermatologist prescribed Biafine for some of my scarring. It is very good for moisting, healing, and shedding dead skin. Great for sunburn, dermatological healing, etc.