Skin Deep Cosmetic Beauty: Permanent Makeup and Eyebrow Design

The importance of eyebrows as a powerful beauty asset is oftenoverlooked. Eyebrows can be shaped to pull together all of theelements of the face into balance, giving your best featuresglory and the flaws respectful supporting roles. People withthin, partial or no eyebrows often choose to use pencil orpowder to create their eyebrows daily and even multiple timesdaily since this makeup tends to smudge or disappear. Many ofthese people are ending that daily ritual with permanent makeup.Permanent makeup, also known as cosmetic tattoo or micropigmentation, is used to create a variety of changes in theface. Eyebrow enhancement is an extremely popular permanentmakeup procedure.Eyebrow Design Need Only Be Done OnceIn her book Bobbi Brown Beauty, Ms. Brown writes, "....awell-groomed, well-defined brow can be extremely flattering andadd considerable strength to a woman's eyes. It can open up herface so that she actually needs less makeup. A well-shaped browcan also help lift deep-set eyes or maximize small eyes. Thereare even instances where a lifted, manicured brow has had thesame effect as a surgical eyelift." Good brows are rarelyaccomplished by guesswork. A permanent makeup artist must beadept in the art and the science of designing the shape, colorand placement for beautiful symmetrical eyebrows that enhancethrough the decades. A well-chosen neutral eyebrow will flatteryou through all your hair color changes. Adjustments in thecolor of your permanent makeup can be made, if necessary, whenyou have a touch up on it every one to five years.Cosmetic Tattoo, A Versatile SolutionThe causes of missing hair in the eyebrows are many-genes,illness, over-plucked, age related hair loss and physical traumafor instance. An inspired and talented cosmetic tattoo artistcan work with the "landscape" of the brow area be it totallyblank, scarred or deeply wrinkled. A lifting arch can be putinto straight or droopy eyebrows, width into thin ones, lengthinto short ones and symmetry into asymmetrical ones. Whateverthe case may be, tattoo offers a precision that is difficult toobtain and keep with regular makeup. Tattooed eyebrows stay putwhether the design is strong and precise or subtle and naturallooking. Eyebrows can be applied in delicate hair strokes, apowder fill or a combination of the two, always using more thanone color of pigment to create the illusion of dimension. Asmuch as possible of one's natural brow hair is incorporated intothe design. The solution of permanent eyebrows is used by men,as well as women.Make A StatementEyebrows not only frame the eyes, but when shaped appropriatelyfor a face they bring the entire face into focus, giving aperson more presence. The eyebrow design may even serve toqualify that presence as, for instance, down-to-earth,glamorous, soft or assertive. In other words, eyebrows caninfluence the way people perceive you. In fact, eyebrows caninfluence the way you perceive yourself. Even when you knowbeauty is on the inside, you want to look your best. Confidencecan change the impression you leave in all of your social andprofessional interaction. Positive, healthy self-esteem allowsyou to focus on important goals, instead of stress about lookingold, tired or unattractive. Legendary makeup artist Kevyn Aucoinsaid, "the most dramatic thing you could do to change your lookis to shape your eyebrows." Always Plan AheadA permanent makeup procedure is a process that most commonlyrequires two sessions, usually three or four weeks apart forpermanent eyebrows. In the first session the design is appliedand in the second session color, shape and detail is refines.Building the eyebrows in stages can minimize or eliminatealtogether that oh-so-scary dark eyebrow stage. You need notfeel self-conscious about your appearance at any point in theprocess. If you are planning to have surgery to lift the brow,eyes or full face complete the surgery and the healing processbefore adding permanent cosmetics to your face. When planning tohave Botox, chemotherapy or radiation therapy get your cosmetictattoos applied first. In regards to laser treatments, discussthese during your consultation.