All the secrets of tattooing. Types, techniques, procedure, skin care, tattoo removal

What woman doesn't dream of being beautiful and well-groomed 24 hours a day, seven days a week? At the same time, without spending a lot of your precious time on makeup. Fortunately, modern technology can now easily turn this dream into reality. One of the ways to help women take care of themselves is permanent makeup or, more simply, tattooing.

Types of tattoo

Most likely, you have already come across the term "tattoo" more than once or are even familiar with this trend in cosmetology firsthand. Then it will be all the more interesting for you to learn about modern innovations in the field of permanent make-up and its possibilities - you probably did not even know about many of them.

What is tattooing? In simple words, this is a procedure during which coloring pigments are introduced under the skin on a selected area with a needle machine. The procedure is certainly painful, but it's up to you to decide whether it is worth it or not, and we, in turn, will try to describe in detail in this article all the pros and cons of permanent makeup.

Tattoo techniques

Today there are many permanent makeup techniques for every part of the face. At the same time, when a new technique appears on the market, competent specialists do not completely abandon the old one, but select it for each client individually, or even mix several techniques, depending on what result the client expects in the end.

Therefore, speaking about tattoo techniques, it is important to take into account that it is different for each area of ​​the face, and each one needs to be given special attention.

Eyebrow tattoo

The art of tattooing is already 5-6 thousand years old, and tattooing is nothing more than one of its types, which has undergone many changes. Interestingly, even in Ancient Egypt, the priests successfully transformed the beauties of the time of Cleopatra, making their eyebrows expressive with the help of tattoos.

Over time, such an unusual way of transformation was forgotten, but in the 20th century it was successfully revived again by American doctors, first simply as a help to patients with non-standard appearance, and only then the idea was taken up by women, using it as a way to become even more attractive, significantly saving their daily time.

Nowadays, eyebrow tattooing is one of the most popular types of permanent makeup. With it, you can change the color, shape, bend, width and height of the eyebrow, thereby drastically changing the expression and even type of your face, because it is the eyebrows that are its basis. Outrageous or as natural as possible: you have a lot to choose from.

For eyebrow tattoo specialists usually use two techniques, mixing or adding to each their own "zest", sometimes form new techniques, even more advanced.

1. Hair method. The name of this method speaks for itself: having drawn the desired shape of the eyebrow with a special marker, a specialist with a tattoo machine carefully draws individual hairs several times without going beyond the marker. This technique has several varieties, which we will discuss in more detail below. This eyebrow tattooing method is the basis from which all his other techniques follow.
2. Shooting or shading method. If you can draw absolutely any eyebrow using the hair method, then shots were invented to give the permanent make-up maximum naturalness. As in the hair technique, the shooting method involves drawing each individual hair, but here the finished eyebrow will not have a clear outline, and due to the shading of the paint pigments, it will seem to others that you just slightly tinted your eyebrows with shadows.

Lip tattoo

As in the case of eyebrows, the main task of lip tattooing is to hide or correct obvious imperfections: scars and scars, naturally irregular in shape or size.

There are also several basic techniques, the choice of which depends on the expected result.

• Permanent make-up with a contour, full filling and shading. This is one of the most popular types of permanent lip makeup. With its help, lips will turn out to be symmetrical and monochromatic, and thanks to shading, they will seem as natural as possible. With such a technique, playing with shades and mixing them, it will be enough for a competent master to change the shape and volume of your lips.
• Partially filled contour. This technology is applied to those clients who just want to visually slightly increase the volume of their lips, while preserving their natural color and shape as much as possible. Paint pigments are applied along the contour, slightly brighter than the main color of the lips and carefully shaded to the bottom. The corners of the lips are well painted over, and towards the middle, on the contrary, the paint becomes lighter and, as it were, disappears completely. Sometimes specialists mix these two techniques to add volume and color to the lips.
• Tattoo contour. This is one of the first lip tattooing techniques, which is still actively used on its own. As a result, the lips seem to be simply drawn with a cosmetic pencil, the client chooses the width of the eyeliner herself, it can be up to 2 mm. This type of permanent makeup is used by girls who are absolutely satisfied with their natural lip shape, who just want to emphasize it a little.
• Light kayal. For perfect symmetrical lips, but not voluminous enough: the contour of the lips is drawn with a light pigment, painting over the skin above and below them. As a result, the lips are very feminine, plump and embossed.

Eye tattoo

Modern cosmetology has reached the point that a competent specialist can even change your natural eye shape and for this you do not need to lie down on the table of a plastic surgeon. With the help of permanent makeup between the eyelashes, you can visually reduce or enlarge the eyes, make their color more saturated and deep. With the inevitable age-related changes, women sometimes just need to visually raise or lower the corner of the eye to look younger.

The most popular types of eye tattoo are arrows of all kinds of shapes and colors, a thin line along the eyelashes and filling the space between sparse hairs with colored pigments. As well as lip and eyebrow tattooing, eyelid tattooing can be performed with a shading effect, then it will not be so obvious and your eyes will become mesmerizing.

Hair tattoo

As we said at the beginning of the article, the hair technique is used for permanent eyebrow makeup. Drawing each hair separately, the master uses different shades, helping to give the eyebrows a natural look. Today there are two types hair technique tattooing.

1. Eastern hair tattoo technique. This is a rather complex type of hair technique, which not every specialist can do even after training. Here you need to have not only theoretical knowledge, but also an artistic flair: each drawn hair differs from each other not only in shape and size, but also in the interval between them, direction and shade - in the oriental hair technique, several shades of paint are used for each hair to give the most voluminous effect, and the master sometimes even intertwines them with each other to give the eyebrows naturalness and naturalness.
2. European hair tattoo technique. The most common type of hair method: a specialist, just like with the oriental method, carefully draws each hair, but at the same time they have clear standards for length, width, direction of growth and even the interval between them. The hairs are drawn strictly at an angle of 45 degrees at the end and look parallel to each other. This procedure takes much less time than the oriental hair method, but, of course, the result is also significantly different. But such eyebrows are clear, bright and thick.

Henna tattoo

For those who have not yet decided or want to experiment with their eyebrow shape, it is suitable temporary tattoo Iranian henna or, as it is also called, biotattoo.

The main feature of such a tattoo is its safety and hypoallergenicity, it can be used even by teenage girls who want to look well-groomed. Henna biotattoo will not cause any harm to the skin, rather, on the contrary, it nourishes it with natural microelements and stimulates hair growth.

Such eyebrow tattoo will last on the skin from a week to 21 days, depending on the characteristics of the skin and your care for it. It is not recommended to steam the eyebrow area, smear with greasy creams and use scrubs and peels.

Inter-eyelash tattoo

In the past few years, inter-eyelash tattooing has become very popular among women, and today there are at least 2 main techniques for its implementation.

1. Classic eyelid tattoo. The result will be similar to a slight tint of the eyelid with eyeshadow. You can perform such a tattoo both on the lower and upper eyelids. Some women paint over only a small part of the eyelid in this way, without going beyond the length of the eyelashes, and someone fills the entire eyelid with paint. Thanks to the shading, the clear boundaries of the paint are not visible and the makeup looks quite natural.
2. Arrows with an outline. The master draws bright arrows of the shape of your choice on the eyelids or simply clearly brings the eyes along the lash line on the lower or upper eyelid. This type of permanent makeup is suitable for women who draw arrows on their eyelids every day and feel naked without them - it also happens. In this case, such a tattoo is a significant time saving, because sometimes it is not so fast to draw equally even arrows.

Both of these techniques of inter-eyelash permanent make-up of the eyelids can be perfectly combined with each other, or used independently. Of course, you can draw bright arrows or paint over the eyelid with a pigment of a bright color, but remember that the tattoo cannot be washed off in the evening when you come home, and you will have to walk in the chosen image for at least several years.

Laser tattoo

Any service, even the most demanded one, has the other side of the coin. Especially when specialists who consider themselves professionals, but in fact have nothing but a couple of certificates, take up the task. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for women to fall into the hands of such craftsmen and, as a result, they do not receive anything except the spoiled shape of eyebrows, lips, crooked arrows, disappointment and tears.

Therefore, while perfecting and creating new techniques of permanent make-up, true professionals in this field do not forget about correcting and removing unsuccessful works. To date, the most effective remedy is laser, although it is considered one of the most expensive. But here it is usually not a pity either for herself or for any money, just to fix what you have received.

With a neodymium laser, you can remove unsuccessful tattoo for several half-hour sessions with an interval of 1-2 months. The number of such sessions depends on the depth of injection of the dye pigment, the color and sensitivity of your skin. The laser beam literally crushes the paint pigment and forces it out onto the surface of the skin.

Manual tattoo

This technique can also be found in salons under various names: manual manual tattooing, 6D eyebrow reconstruction, manual tattooing technique, Slide & Tap retouching, etc. All this is the same procedure that came to us from the East.

Manual tattooing is a type of permanent eyebrow makeup, reminiscent of the oriental hair technique, but performed not with an automatic tattoo machine, but manually, using a special handpiece and disposable ultra-thin needles.

Of all the available methods of eyebrow tattooing, when using manual tattooing, the most natural look of eyebrows is obtained and the procedure itself is not so painful. In addition, only with manual tattooing you have the opportunity to paint over not the entire eyebrow, but only part of it, for example, a scar where no hairs grow. After the procedure, neither swelling nor crusts appear, and healing is much faster and more comfortable.

Tattoo paint

Choosing a shade for tattooing is one of the most important parts of the procedure. The master will offer you several paint options that suit your color type, but you will have to make the final choice yourself, because you will have to become related to this color for at least several years.

The most difficult thing is to choose a shade for the eyebrows, since the lips can be of any color and if you wish, you can paint over them with a regular lipstick of a darker tone, the arrows and eyeliner of the girl, as a rule, are made black, for the eyelids they prefer neutral light brown, and with eyebrows things are different. Makeup artists recommend choosing a shade for eyebrow color that is as close as possible to the color of your hair - darker or lighter by tone.

But by choosing the right color, the pitfalls are just beginning. The choice of an experienced, conscientious specialist is very important here, because the result depends on the material with which he works, the real side of which sometimes you can see only after a couple of years.

High-quality tattoo paint lasts about 2 years, after which it begins to brighten and eventually disappears completely. This is its main difference from ink for tattoos on the body, which remains on the skin for life, losing its saturation over the years. In order to save money, unscrupulous specialists can use such paint on your face, so the low cost of permanent makeup should alert you if you do not want to get green eyebrows in a couple of years, which are extremely difficult to bring without scars and scars.

Tattoo machine

Applying permanent makeup to the skin is very similar to knocking out an ordinary tattoo on the body, but thanks to a special apparatus, the paint is not injected so deeply, which is why it dissolves in just a few years.

Unlike a tattoo machine, a tattoo machine does not injure the delicate skin of the face so much due to its special thin needles. Good, high-quality devices are equipped with a touch screen, where the master sets the mode and speed of the pen, and where information about the density of the skin and the pressure on it with the pen comes. If you want to get a high-quality result in the end, it is better not to risk it, if the master has a tool consisting of only one pen on batteries - there are some.

How to prepare your skin before tattooing

Before carrying out the procedure, a competent master must tell you about many nuances, ranging from contraindications and ending with the preparation of the skin.

Contraindications include:

• pregnancy, feeding period;
• menstruation;
• hypersensitivity of the skin;
• diabetes mellitus and other diseases that affect blood clotting;
• herpes, including the herpes virus in the blood;
• bronchial asthma;
• epilepsy;
• lowered immunity, HIV.

If at least one of these points applies to you, we recommend that you abandon the procedure in order to avoid dire consequences.

A few days before the procedure, it is strictly forbidden to consume alcohol, coffee and drugs that thin the blood, for example, aspirin, otherwise the paint will lie unevenly due to profuse bleeding. You cannot be in contact lenses during the procedure and put them on earlier than a day after applying the tattoo.

Post-tattoo care

Immediately after the operation, a protective layer of ichor is formed on the area where the tattoo was performed, which forms a crust when it dries. In no case, do not tear it off yourself, you risk not only removing paint particles, but also causing an infection - after a week the crust will disappear by itself.

After the procedure, you need to pay enough attention to your face: for some time you cannot wet your skin, use means for washing. Make-up is not recommended until complete healing. During the month, do not visit the bathhouse, sauna, do not spend a lot of time in the sun. For early healing, doctors recommend lubricating the injured skin with medicinal ointment, for example, "D-Panthenol" or "Rescuer".

How long does the tattoo last

How long the tattoo will last will also depend on your departure. Usually it is from one to five years. The deeper the dye is injected, the longer it will last under the skin. If you often visit the sauna, solarium and sunbathe in the sun, then the paint will fade faster. Active sports speed up the metabolism, and with age it, on the contrary, slows down, so young girls will need to renew permanent makeup much more often, since the body will try to push out foreign paint pigments throughout the entire time.

Correction of tattoo

It is important to know that even immediately after healing, you will not see the final color and shape of the tattoo. It is necessary to wait until the superficial skin cells are completely renewed, usually within 30 days. During this time, your permanent makeup will be unnaturally bright and conspicuous - this does not depend on the professionalism of the master. Therefore, a month after the tattoo, the master should invite you for a mandatory correction in order to add some touches and make changes to the color by adding new shades of paint.

Only after correction will you get the perfect color and shape of your lips or eyebrows that you have always dreamed of.

Tattoo removal

If a month after the tattooing you still regret that you agreed to carry out this procedure and the correction not only did not correct the situation, but even aggravated it, then you will have to resort to removing the tattoo.

Tattoo removal is a difficult procedure, but quite possible if you have patience and money. As we have already said above, the laser copes best with the removal of permanent makeup, although it is one of the most expensive methods.

The cosmetology market offers creams and gels-removers with components that help destroy paint pigments. But such creams can cause allergies and, if they get on healthy skin, can seriously injure it, since the main component of such products is trichloroacetic acid.

Also, the method of clogging up a tattoo with paint of a different color is very common, although this method is very painful, since in fact this is the application of a new tattoo on already damaged thin skin and no master can guarantee a high-quality result.

Less commonly, there are methods for removing tattoo by surgery and using chemical elements: thermal burning (coagulation), chemical burning and abrasive skin grinding (dermabrasion).

What to do if you have a bad tattoo

Deciding on such a painful procedure as tattooing, every woman hopes for a quality result that will change her for the better and emphasize all her advantages. But it often happens the other way around. Asymmetrical lips, different arrows, eyebrows one higher than the other and of different lengths - all these are just the smallest consequences of an unsuccessful tattoo.

Sometimes, due to the fact that the body does not perceive the paint and rejects it, eyebrows and eyelashes begin to fall out. In this case, try lubricating them with castor, peach or apricot oil and be sure to see a dermatologist.

Don't exacerbate an already deplorable situation with tons of cosmetics. At the very least, it looks ridiculous, but at the most, it is one of the obvious ways to introduce an infection.

Permanent make-up at home

At home, you can only make temporary biotattoo, or rather, dyeing eyebrows with Iranian henna, which we already talked about a little higher. Real permanent make-up should be done only in a salon by a qualified specialist, and nothing else.

You can either purchase a ready-made henna-based eyebrow dye, or prepare the paint itself from ordinary henna and coloring pigment, depending on the desired color: basma, strong tea, coffee. Henna in its pure form will make your eyebrows red.

1. Dilute henna with boiling water to a thick sour cream, you can add a few drops of lemon juice.
2. While the henna is cooling, draw the outline of your eyebrows with a cosmetic pencil.
3. If you are not very confident in your abilities, we recommend that you carefully paint over the area around the staining site with a white cosmetic pencil: it is very difficult to wash henna immediately after staining.
4. With a thin brush, gently paint over both eyebrows at the same time, first the tails, then the middle and widest part.
5. Don't touch your eyebrows for an hour. For a richer color, you can cover them with pieces of cellophane.
6. Remove excess paint with cotton pads.

Video how to make a tattoo

If you have already weighed all the pros and cons of permanent makeup and decided to make a tattoo for yourself, then it will be very useful to look from the outside how this procedure is carried out.

How to make a lip tattoo:

How to make eyebrow tattoo:

How do eyelash tattooing:

Reviews about tattoo

There are many good and bad reviews about permanent makeup on the Internet. Remember that you trust your face to an unfamiliar person and literally rely on chance. But, on the other hand, there are a huge number of women who are glad that they once rallied their strength and decided on this painful procedure.