Cosmetic Tattooing Vs. Body Art
Tattoo art has been around for over 5000 years originating in Tahitian, Polynesian, and African culture. For centuries people have used tattoos for spiritual, religious and cultural reasons. The word tattoo became popular in Europe and the West in 1769 when the explorer Joseph Banks published a journal about the natives from the South Pacific and their beautifully adorned bodies.
Cosmetic Tattooing
It wasn’t until the 1960’s that tattoo art was used for cosmetic and medical purposes. With that said, you should know that there is one very important difference between body art, and cosmetic tattooing. For tattoo art, we use tattoo ink. These are strong primary colors that are suitable for body art. For example, if you were getting a flower on your shoulder, you would want the petal of that rose to be a bright and vibrant red, the stems of that rose should be a strong earthy green. If I were to use that same red ink on your lips however, you would have fire engine red lips and I promise you will NOT be happy with me. Your lips or eyebrows would walk into the room before you did….. For cosmetic tattooing we use “pigment”. Pigments are soft tertiary colors that are far removed from primary colors so that it looks soft and natural, like makeup, not body art.
The one thing permanent cosmetics does NOT do is take the place of conventional makeup. Cosmetic tattooing is designed to accentuate and add a little color in the three main focal points of your face: your eyes, eyebrows, and lip. As we age, we look ”washed out” without color…. In my humble opinion, application of permanent cosmetics should always look like “day wear” makeup, not evening wear.
Mara,
I am so glad to see there is someone in my area that can do this. When I was 16 yrs old I am now 47 yrs old, I saw a program on Perma-dermatology and I have always wanted to do this. I see the deal in living social but am unable to purchase the deal at this time. However I am going to work towards saving money to eventually have this done. Please if you have another deal go on in the future I would love to be contacted. Your cedentials look great and I would not hesitate to come see you for the eyeliner I will someday have you do for me.
Sincerely,
Val Thayer
I had heard about these procedures from friends and was always afraid to go ahead with them.
Then Mara ran a Living Social coupon and I decided to go ahead and give it a try. I was very impressed by Mara’s professionalism. She explained the whole procedure so well and made me feel at ease.
First I had my eyebrows done, then my upper eyelids and I will make an appointment for my lower eyelids next. The results are really good and it is so nice to always look at my best, even when I wake up in the morning.
Thank you, Mara!
Annette Langefeld
I am very interested in having the eyeliner done. Have been wanting it done for a very long time. After looking at your photos I am also interested in the brows. Can you give me a combination price for upper and lower eyeliner and brows. Thank You
I am wondering how much it would be for bottom and top eye liner?
Hi Alston, good to hear from you… I currently have a few inhouse specials.. top eyeliner is $100 and bottom eyeliner is $100. If you want both, it’s $200. I am sending you an email as well in case this ends up in your spam folder…Mara