Enhancing our looks with permanent make-up

Everybody wants to be beautiful. Being beautiful can open up many doors paving the way for many opportunities. Opportunities come success and wealth.

Over the years we are always finding ways to make ourselves more beautiful. We started with applying cosmetics on our faces, progressing to surgeries on our faces and bodies, advancing to tattooing on eyebrows and lips and now developing to permanent makeup.

“The effect of permanent makeup lasts two to five years. The most popular kind of permanent makeup these days is “contour makeup,” which was developed by the German company Longtime Liner and uses special equipment and ultra-fine pigment particles that are inserted evenly in the exterior layer of the skin to create distinctive facial features. It takes only half an hour to apply permanent makeup to each facial part and causes no swelling.”

The above paragraph is extracted from KBS Global. Further to their reporting, the most popular are to create permanent eyebrows, eye linings (with two tones) and lip linings (with more than 20 tones to choose from). It caters to working individuals, suitable for people who go for frequent exercises or swimming and young men who are amateurish in their makeup skills.

Actually, permanent make-up is tattooing. They similarly involved needles, poke, poke, poke your skin, adds colors and you are beautiful. Permanent make-up is performed by machine or without machine. The color implanted on the dermis is executed by pointillism, ovuvoid, lining and shading techniques. (according to one practitioner).

In 1979 Pati Pavlik, a traditional tattoo artist started cosmetic tattooing. Described as “Mother of Permanent Cosmetic”, she founded the National Cosmetic Tattooing Association in 1989. Its popularity and acceptance grew and The Society of Permanent Cosmetic Professionals was founded by Susan Church and Susan Preston in 1990 and later the American Academy of Micropigmentation was founded in 1995 and the first permanent cosmetic trade magazine Cosmetech was published in 2001.

Whatever name they come by, they are the same. Tattooing is more towards gangsterism, dermal pigmentation is more scientific and professional but permanent make-up is more acceptable to the general public.

There is the pain and blood involved. Then are the color pigments used harmful to us? And lastly is the fear of infected needles. I do not want to contact AIDS. Some of these practitioners do not change the needles!

Rachael has encouraged me to go for eyebrow embroidery. It is not tattooing, she said. More natural than tattooing and you can erase the colors if you do not like it. Should I believe her?

Oh yeah, Cleopatra is believed to rely on permanent cosmetic to sparkle her countenance.