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Is this normal scabbing/peeling or did my skin not take the pigment?! (Photo)

lmn3113Mar 13, 2018
I had my eyebrows microbladed 4 days ago. When I woke up day 3 I noticed a few strokes in the tail were gone and by the end of the night most of the color color from the tail was gone and a spot in the arch was missing. Is this normal scabbing/peeling or did my skin not take the pigment?!

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