Indeed, permanent eyebrows is a complex cosmetic procedure which final effects depend on the skills of a brow artist who performs it. Are you aware of the things that may go wrong if you decide to get permanent eyebrows done? Learn all the drawbacks and possible health risks before you expose your brow ridges to semi-permanent tattooing.
Popularity of permanent makeup is so huge that more and more women decide to get it done. The good side of this is that there is a growing number of well-qualified lingerists who know how to map eyebrows correctly to reconstruct them. On the flip side, we must realize that apart from the professionals, permanent makeup procedures are also carried out by regular beauticians who sadly in most cases haven’t gained enough experience to give you the dream eyebrows. Giving yourself up to inexperienced hands might turn out to be disastrous.
BOTCHED PERMANENT MAKEUP: THE LIST OF THINGS THAT MAY GO WRONG
You can be allergic either to preparations used for anesthesia or those used for permanent makeup.
Permanent makeup requires using various types of numbing creams, ointments as well as pigments. All of them may contain chemical substances that can affect your skin in bigger or lesser degree. In general, they are preparations that have been certified for being safe to use so no adverse reaction should occur, unless your skin is hypersensitive. In some cases it may turn out that the permanent makeup you got is unsuccessful due to the irritation that appears right after the cosmetic procedure. For that reason, it’s a good idea to run a patch test first to find out whether permanent makeup won’t do you more harm than good.
A brow artist may map the new arches wrongly so the permanent brows will be asymmetrical, too thick, too dark, too sharp, etc.
When you finally made up your mind and arrange a visit with a brow artist, you are giving yourself to a complete stranger, but you just have to… trust them. Sadly, you don’t have a ringside seat to observe and monitor what is being done to your face during the procedure. Without doubt, each poorly drawn hair or ill-matched shade of the pigment take you closer to achieving blemishing look, to say the least. And there are plenty of things that may go wrong: too thick or too thin eyebrows (the latter can be fixed though), too dark, too sharp, too high or too flat arches. All of the factors mentioned have an immense influence over the appearance of face. Moreover, the sad truth is that permanent makeup can’t be removed by the use of laser – this is a myth. Obviously, you can ask for some corrections but this procedure is rather costly. All things considered, before choosing a brow artist, find some opinions that other people gave about s/he online and get acquainted with her/his portfolio. Only then will you minimize the risk of getting botched permanent makeup.
After the procedure, an inflammation may appear that is connected with hypersensitive skin.
Permanent makeup depends on introducing pigment into skin. Not only can we react with an allergy to a chemical constituent of the pigment but also our skin may develop an inflammation caused by the invasiveness of this procedure itself. Undoubtedly, exposing brow ridges to permanent eyebrow makeup is a huge burden that skin has to endure. When hypersensitive, skin may develop a serious inflammation.
Skin exposed to permanent makeup may experience difficulties with healing up, hence long medical treatment.
Another difficulty, we may come across, is the problem connected with full skin recovery. These microscopic perforations caused by the needle piercing are expected to close within 24 hours. In general, skin should recover completely within a week. However, if permanent makeup was done inappropriately, if the preparations used were of low quality, then it may turn out that skin needs more time to heal up. In extreme cases, a bacterial infection, purulent inflammation and other nasty skin conditions may occur. Among others, this is exactly why it’s so important to keep eyebrow skin clean (cleanse it with water every day) and apply antibiotic ointments after the procedure.
The pigment may either change shades or fade which in a consequence gives us eyebrows that look worse than before the procedure.
Botched permanent eyebrows procedure includes also makeup that starts fading and losing its intensive color soon after the procedure. Reportedly, such thing happens rarely, yet this scenario is possible. Whether the color fades or not depends on the pigment used for the procedure. Nowadays, preparations used for permanent makeup are resistant to the sun and other external factors. Some time ago however, it was common for the pigment to get blueish, greenish or even gray. Therefore, it’s a good thing to ask a brow artist what type of pigment they work with before deciding to get permanent eyebrows done at the very beauty salon.