Eyebrow tattoo

Eyebrow tattooing is the most common type of permanent makeup today. And this is quite understandable: for example, if you can choose the color of lipstick for your lips according to your mood, or not paint them at all, then with eyebrows the situation is different. It is unlikely that any self-respecting girl will leave the house with sloppy, unplucked or untinted eyebrows. And in order not to waste time on this daily ritual every time, girls resort to such drastic measures as tattooing.

Permanent makeup, like many other things, came to us from America. It was there that the resourceful plastic surgeon Crowell Byrd first used a tattoo machine for other purposes, filling large voids between his patient's eyelashes. This was the beginning of a new direction in cosmetology, and already in 1990 the first special device for permanent makeup appeared. But, nevertheless, cosmetic tattooing is still a type of regular tattoo. The only difference is that with permanent makeup, the paint pigments are not introduced as deeply under the skin as when printing designs on the body, due to which they stay there only for up to 5 years.

Eyebrow tattoo was originally designed for women who have naturally light, sparse or asymmetrical eyebrows that cannot be corrected with regular plucking and pencil. But soon girls began to actively use this service simply so as not to waste time tinting and plucking their eyebrows every morning.

Eyebrow tattoo - before and after photos

Eyebrow tattoo techniques

With the help of modern permanent makeup techniques, you can change your face beyond recognition, because it is the eyebrows that are the basis of your face, they give it mood, expression and correct features and even type. If you are a natural owner round face, then you can correct it with your eyebrows, visually giving it the shape of an almost perfect oval. Or if you’ve just always dreamed of “off-the-cuff” eyebrows, with a beautiful curve, but by nature you have sparse, straight eyebrows - now it’s possible to make this dream come true.

An experienced master will select a technique for your permanent makeup based on the result you expect to receive in the end. To achieve the most natural effect, a specialist can mix several techniques and shades of paint. But still, there are two main techniques for permanent eyebrow makeup, from which many other methods flow.

1. Hair method. The name speaks for itself: the master draws individual missing hairs, either of different lengths and widths (Oriental hair technique), or standard ones, one to one, with the same angle of 45 degrees and intervals (European hair technique). The shades of paint are selected slightly darker and lighter than the main eyebrow. Thanks to this, a volume effect appears and the hairs look like real ones. With the European hair technique, each hair is slightly rounded towards the tip to visually give the eyebrows a slight bend. Not every artist can do the Eastern hair technique; making such a tattoo is quite difficult and takes many times longer than with the European technique.  But a tattoo done in this way will be very difficult for an ordinary person to notice and will last you longer than other methods. This method can be used to disguise scars on the eyebrows where, as a rule, hairs no longer grow. The technique is also suitable for those who want to change the shape of their natural eyebrows, or for those who naturally have practically no eyebrows.
2. Shotting. In essence, this is an improved oriental hair technique. The master also draws individual hairs, but each of them differs from each other not only in angle of inclination, length and width, but also in color: several shades can be concentrated in one hair - dark at the base, and light at the end. In addition, with the finishing touch, the master shades the applied paint pigments and the eyebrow turns out to be more decorative, smooth, without clear contours and as if tinted with shadows.

Preparing the skin before eyebrow tattooing

Having decided on such a procedure, first of all you must clearly understand and imagine what kind of result you want to get in the end. Find the perfect shape for your face type. Of course, an experienced master can do all this at his own discretion, but keep in mind that your tastes may not fundamentally coincide with the tastes and preferences of even the best master, and the already done fix tattoo will be quite problematic.

Before starting his work, a competent master must wear sterile gloves, check with you for any contraindications, check the cleanliness of the device and disinfect the area of your eyebrows. If at least one of these points is not fulfilled, under no circumstances continue the procedure with this specialist! In addition, a qualified specialist will never remove or shave your eyebrows: on the contrary, he should adhere to their growth and follow exactly your hairs.

Eyebrow tattoo - procedure

1. The specialist, together with you, selects the color and shape of the eyebrows that suit your face type, determines the technique, depending on your expected result.
2. Prepares the necessary sterile instruments and disinfects your skin.
3. Draws the boundaries of the eyebrows with a permanent marker.
4. Using a special device, the master draws each hair according to the method you choose, without going beyond the boundaries of the marker.
5. Both eyebrows are treated with anesthesia gel, as the procedure is extremely painful. If your pain threshold is low, you can also ask a specialist to give you an injection with anesthesia.
6. As soon as the anesthesia has taken effect, the most difficult stage begins for both you and the master. Using a special needle machine, the specialist draws each hair along the intended lines several times.
7. The master removes paint residues from the skin with an antibacterial alcohol-free solution.

Crusts during the healing period of eyebrow tattoo

As you already know, with permanent makeup, the paint gets under the skin thanks to many punctures of the layers of the epidermis with a thin needle. The skin on the face is very delicate and thin, and after such a painful procedure, irritation and redness may appear for several days - this is normal after such significant damage.

Immediately after the procedure, the skin of the eyebrows will be covered with a layer of ichor - this is a protective reaction of the body, because it no longer knows what else to expect from you. A huge mistake that clients often make after tattooing is trying to wipe off their eyebrows, dried blood and ichor.

As with any tattoo, painful crusts form on the eyebrows after tattooing. Moreover, the thicker the layer of ichor was, the thicker the crusts will subsequently be. In no case should you remove them yourself: this is fraught with various complications and infection. During the healing period, it is also not recommended to visit the sauna, swimming pool, solarium - you should not steam your face. Do not use facial products containing chemicals - there is a risk that the paint may react. Do not rub the skin of your eyebrows and eyes with a towel or your hands. No specialist can answer how long it will take for your skin to heal - it all depends only on the characteristics of your body, you can only help it a little with special healing agents.

How long does eyebrow tattoo last?

One of the reasons why women choose permanent makeup is its long-lasting properties. Eyebrow tattoo lasts from one to 5 years. This depends on the chosen technique - if the paint was not deeply injected into the skin, then, of course, it will dissolve much faster - and on your lifestyle and skin care. If you spend a lot of time in the sun and in the solarium, often use scrubs and peelings, then you will have to repeat the procedure a little more often.

Eyebrow tattoo correction

It is important to remember that the desired eyebrow color will appear only after a month, so if you do not see the desired result, do not be upset ahead of time. It is exactly a month that the skin needs to completely renew its surface cells. Until this time, the color of the eyebrows will be unnaturally bright. But even if you categorically did not like the tattoo either in shape or color, do not rush to injure the skin again, wait until it returns to normal.

In any case, in exactly a month you will need to make a tattoo correction: correct the color, small unevenness, shape of the eyebrows - neither you nor even the most experienced artist will immediately see the final result, a lot depends on your skin care and its characteristics.

Eyebrow tattoo care

In order to see a result in a month that is as close as possible to your expectations, a lot will depend on your efforts.

• During the healing period, try not to wet or injure the area of ​​the fresh tattoo.
• The skin may ache and ache very much; if necessary, take painkillers, but if the pain is such that you cannot endure it, it makes sense to consult a doctor.
• Do not sunbathe in a solarium or spend time in the sun for the first 20-30 days.
• Many experts recommend applying special products to the skin - color fixers. Before taking their advice, do an allergy test.
• Moisturize your skin with eucalyptus and rosemary oil.
• Do not tear off or scratch the crusts under any circumstances.
• If you tattooed in winter, avoid chapping and hypothermia of the skin.

Ointment after eyebrow tattoo

Following all recommendations for care, your skin will give you significantly less inconvenience and pain. For speedy healing, doctors recommend using medications. One of these products with the most positive reviews is D-Panthenol ointment - it is not noticeable on the skin, and with regular use for a week 2-4 times a day, the crusts will heal and stop hurting and itching after 4-5 days. It's all about the large amount of panthenolic acid contained in the ointment, which is extremely necessary for damaged skin.

Eyebrow tattoo removal

The month promised by the master has passed, the color has changed, the shape has been adjusted, but you are still unhappy with the result. Well, this often happens.

• Some advise contacting the same master: he can paint over his own strokes with paint to match the color of the skin. The method, of course, is risky and painful, but sometimes it works. Essentially, this is a new eyebrow tattoo, but on just-healed, thin skin that has not fully strengthened and will take even longer to heal again.
• There is also chemical removal: a special composition literally burns the paint out from under the skin. This option is absolutely not suitable for sensitive skin; it may leave scars.
• For very brave women, doctors use surgical tattoo removal: under local anesthesia, the surgeon wields a scalpel. Effective, but very painful, and again, scars cannot be avoided.
• Electrocoagulation. The tattoo is completely removed in just one procedure using electric currents. The disadvantage of this method is that the skin takes a long time to heal.
• Laser removal. It leaves the best result, but requires long-term skin care, several procedures and large financial costs.

How to fix a bad eyebrow tattoo

Insignificant cost savings, choosing an insufficiently experienced but “familiar” master and other “little things” can lead to terrible consequences: faded paint, different heights and shapes of eyebrows, and other troubles on your face. One way or another, when deciding on permanent makeup, you must be prepared for it, even if the specialist has many positive reviews.

If a month has passed since the procedure, you have made corrections, but to no avail, there are only two options left:

1. Laser. By heating the inner layers of the skin, the laser beam destroys the coloring pigment and thereby removes the paint. Modern technologies do not allow the laser to penetrate deeper into the skin than the layer where the pigment is located, thanks to this there are no burns or scars left on the face. An effective procedure, after which only redness will remain on the skin for 2-3 weeks.
2. Remover. Less painful and expensive than laser, and sometimes even more effective. This is a chemical that, when applied to the eyebrows, after a long enough time it will draw the paint to the surface of the skin. Under no circumstances is it recommended to use the remover on sensitive skin or on areas located too close to the mucous membrane, for example on the eyelids and between the eyelashes.

It also happens that in the first few years you are very happy with your permanent makeup, but after a couple of years you begin to notice that the paint, instead of fading, on the contrary, acquires a bright blue or unnaturally red tint. This is exactly how unscrupulous specialists are identified who, in order to save money, use synthetic-based tattoo pigments in their arsenal. At the same time, age-related changes begin to occur in your face one way or another and your eyebrows literally “blur” and droop.

Eyebrow tattoo - video

Eyebrow tattooing contraindications

Any permanent makeup has a lot of contraindications, regardless of which part of the face you choose to tattoo: eyebrows, lips or eyelids.

Pregnancy, lactation, HIV, herpes, oncology, diabetes, epilepsy, allergic reactions, conjunctivitis, poor blood clotting, mental illness and much more. Also, permanent makeup procedures are not recommended in cases of exacerbation of chronic diseases, hypertension, allergies and on menstrual periods. Be sure to consult with a competent specialist before the procedure to avoid disastrous consequences.

Cons of eyebrow tattoo

Before deciding on permanent makeup, you need to not only blindly consider the benefits of tattooing and imagine the expected result, but also carefully weigh all the disadvantages, of which there are many, as well as advantages.

• If lip tattooing, if necessary, can still be painted over with a dark tone of lipstick, then there is nothing you can do about the eyebrows. Are you sure you won't want to change in the next five years?
• You take risks and worry even when you go to make a new one haircut, but hair will grow back much faster than new skin. In addition, when getting a tattoo, there is a high risk of getting an infection and getting a disastrous result, which depends entirely on a stranger.
• If the master’s mistake can be corrected (which also does not always happen, it is important to take this into account), then it will cost a certain amount of money, nerves and spoiled mood for a long time.
• Much depends on the characteristics of your body. Even if you are completely confident in the master, your skin may have its own plans.
• Painful procedure, allergic reactions to paint pigments and anesthesia.

Reviews about eyebrow tattoo

Reviews about eyebrow tattooing are very different: a lot depends on the chosen artist, skin characteristics and expected results. It's up to you to decide whether it's worth risking your face or whether you can still afford to devote 10-15 minutes to your natural eyebrows in the morning.