EYEBROW TATTOO HEALING PROCESS
The healing process requires patience. Please ensure you've read this information as your healed results rely heavily on how well you can follow the aftercare advice.
It’s important to wait until your eyebrows are properly healed (after your 6 week touch up appointment) before making a final judgement about them. This treatment is a two-step process requiring patience (with some clients needing a second touch up) to get the full desired look which won’t be achieved until after your 6 week touch up appointment. At your touch up appointment, we can make any changes you want - a lot of clients go a bit bolder at their touch up as they have had time to adjust to their new brows and feel more confident with the process.
During the first day, your brows will look warmer than they will heal and you may experience some minor swelling, redness and blanching (white glow caused by the numbing solution). Tenderness in the area is common. This is a fresh tattoo that needs time to close up and heal. During the following few days, tenderness may continue as well as some tightness or itchiness around the eyebrow area. Your eyebrow area may feel like sunburn when you sneeze or frown. This is normal and is the start of your skin healing.
If your eyebrows are kept clean and dry then only a thin film (similar to sunburn peel, not a scab) will appear. The film will make your eyebrows look darker than when first done, but this is not the colour your eyebrows will heal (so don’t panic). The film will peel off by itself after 5 - 10 days and may not lift evenly. Leave the film alone; picking will cause irritation, can cause scarring and will lift colour from the skin resulting in unevenness and blank spots. Let the area heal naturally for best results. Once the film is off, the colour implanted will look around 50% lighter and the shape will also have shrunk in size.
Whilst the film is peeling, it may seem as though the treatment hasn't worked. The colour may look weak or it may seem as though the ink has disappeared. Why? Eyebrow tattoos are not as deep as a 'normal' tattoo - your new healing skin is covering the ink and when your skin and the ink start to settle down (between weeks 2 and 4), you'll notice that your eyebrows start coming back. They didn't disappear in the first place; it was just harder to see the ink through a thicker layer of healing skin. If the colour is still weak or patchy at weeks 5 to 6, don't worry! This is a delicate tattoo to heal, and this is why we do 2 sessions. If you liked your brows as they were when you left the first appointment (shape, colour, style etc), we will do the exact same thing again at your touch up appointment. Most clients actually go darker! After your touch up, the ink holds a lot better. Your brows won’t fade as much and will feel and look healed quicker than the first time.
Healing is specific to each client and it’s important to realise that you’ll need a colour boost every 6 / 9 / 12 / 18 months depending on your skin type and lifestyle to maintain the vibrancy of your eyebrows. Permanent makeup is an art, not a science. Your results will vary and using a brow pencil or powder may still be needed, especially when wearing make up (foundation / powder etc). Please remember that brow tattoos are only an enhancement to your natural brows. This is not necessarily a no maintenance treatment, but a low maintenance treatment. No two sides of the face are the same or perfectly symmetrical and whilst trying to obtain perfect symmetry is my goal, nothing is guaranteed or 100% perfect.
It’s important to wait until your eyebrows are properly healed (after your 6 week touch up appointment) before making a final judgement about them. This treatment is a two-step process requiring patience (with some clients needing a second touch up) to get the full desired look which won’t be achieved until after your 6 week touch up appointment. At your touch up appointment, we can make any changes you want - a lot of clients go a bit bolder at their touch up as they have had time to adjust to their new brows and feel more confident with the process.
During the first day, your brows will look warmer than they will heal and you may experience some minor swelling, redness and blanching (white glow caused by the numbing solution). Tenderness in the area is common. This is a fresh tattoo that needs time to close up and heal. During the following few days, tenderness may continue as well as some tightness or itchiness around the eyebrow area. Your eyebrow area may feel like sunburn when you sneeze or frown. This is normal and is the start of your skin healing.
If your eyebrows are kept clean and dry then only a thin film (similar to sunburn peel, not a scab) will appear. The film will make your eyebrows look darker than when first done, but this is not the colour your eyebrows will heal (so don’t panic). The film will peel off by itself after 5 - 10 days and may not lift evenly. Leave the film alone; picking will cause irritation, can cause scarring and will lift colour from the skin resulting in unevenness and blank spots. Let the area heal naturally for best results. Once the film is off, the colour implanted will look around 50% lighter and the shape will also have shrunk in size.
Whilst the film is peeling, it may seem as though the treatment hasn't worked. The colour may look weak or it may seem as though the ink has disappeared. Why? Eyebrow tattoos are not as deep as a 'normal' tattoo - your new healing skin is covering the ink and when your skin and the ink start to settle down (between weeks 2 and 4), you'll notice that your eyebrows start coming back. They didn't disappear in the first place; it was just harder to see the ink through a thicker layer of healing skin. If the colour is still weak or patchy at weeks 5 to 6, don't worry! This is a delicate tattoo to heal, and this is why we do 2 sessions. If you liked your brows as they were when you left the first appointment (shape, colour, style etc), we will do the exact same thing again at your touch up appointment. Most clients actually go darker! After your touch up, the ink holds a lot better. Your brows won’t fade as much and will feel and look healed quicker than the first time.
Healing is specific to each client and it’s important to realise that you’ll need a colour boost every 6 / 9 / 12 / 18 months depending on your skin type and lifestyle to maintain the vibrancy of your eyebrows. Permanent makeup is an art, not a science. Your results will vary and using a brow pencil or powder may still be needed, especially when wearing make up (foundation / powder etc). Please remember that brow tattoos are only an enhancement to your natural brows. This is not necessarily a no maintenance treatment, but a low maintenance treatment. No two sides of the face are the same or perfectly symmetrical and whilst trying to obtain perfect symmetry is my goal, nothing is guaranteed or 100% perfect.
