Eyebrow Permanent Makeup: 2 Key Mistakes When Applying Pigment into the Skin and How to Overcome Them

A permanent makeup artist isn't born overnight. You know how much effort is behind you and how many specializations lie ahead. No one is infallible. There is only a path to perfection, and each one of us has progressed more or less on it. Everyone is expected to make mistakes on that path. The crucial thing is to acknowledge the mistake and learn how to overcome it. That means that with each passing day, you get one step closer to ideal results. You guessed it – today, we talk about common mistakes in permanent makeup and ways to overcome them.

Skin Is Your Canvas

For every artist, it is crucial to be familiar with the characteristics of the foundation they are working on. Painters get extremely picky when choosing the right canvas. It is the foundation for the longevity and success of their paintings. If permanent makeup is your art, the skin is the foundation of your work. That's why you have to learn a lot about it. The knowledge you have about the skin is the basis for all the skills you have as a permanent makeup artist.

• One more thing connects you with painters. It is the importance of the amount of pressure when applying paint. Paint won't manifest well enough on the canvas if it is applied too lightly or too intensely. In the first case, it will stay as a hardly noticeable contour. In the second, it will diffuse and look messy, even damaging the canvas. To be skilled and experienced means being able to find the right balance and maintain it. It is one significant step on your path to success.

Perfection Is in Balance

We have all heard that you learn best from your own mistakes. It is similar when it comes to finding balance. In order to find where it is, you must first learn where it is not.

• What Balance Means in Permanent Makeup Art? We have to go back to the mistakes from the beginning. Today, we outline two most common difficulties that every permanent makeup artist faces when working on the skin:

1. In PMU, less Is Not More...

Has it ever happened to you that the pigment doesn't stay in the skin? It seems as if you had done everything correctly, yet your clients keep coming for corrections with way too pale color. You even risk that they eventually stop coming.

 

It is possible that these mistakes are caused by low-quality pigments, but sometimes the mistake can be in the technique itself. If you are using ultrapigmented colors, then the fault is not in the pigments.

You mustn't be afraid of the skin. The pigment has to get inside of it. Too light pressure means that you have applied the pigment in the epidermis. That is the surface skin layer that repeatedly renews itself.

• What Does That Mean for Permanent Makeup?

Imagine this layer as the cup of soda. Young cells keep pushing elder ones outside of the skin. Molecules of the pigment you just applied are like bubbles in the cup. Together with the old cells, they will also be pushed out of the skin and soon enough disappear completely. With the loss of every bubble, soda becomes less sparkling. The same happens with the color. At first, it might not be noticeable, but within a day, a week, or a month, your clients' eyebrows will become pale and frowned upon – that is not the outcome they hoped for when they came for treatment.

2. ...Unless When It Is

If one extreme is shallowly applied color, then the other extreme is located too deeply into the skin.

• And the Balance? It's Exactly In Between, but More on That Later.

Too much pressure causes the color to be applied in the lower layer of the dermis, where capillaries and glands are located. Do you remember how a painter can damage the canvas if they apply paint with too much pressure? The same happens with the skin. The color will stay, but there will also be blood and scars. You don't want that for your clients.

Because you are applying it in the layer that has lots of liquid circulating through it, the color can diffuse too much. Over time, strokes you made will lose precision and sharpness. The outcome will be blurred and fuzzy-looking eyebrows. And the clients? They are dissatisfied once again. However, if you recognize the mistakes you make, you have already solved half of the problem.

How to Find Balance in permanent makeup?

At the end, let's go back to the first sentence – you can't achieve balance overnight. To achieve quality outcomes, you need lots of time and lots of mistakes. If you want to keep your clients' trust, permanent makeup is the field in which you cannot allow yourself that many mistakes. There is a solution – you can rely on the experience of other artists. You don't have to learn from your own mistakes only. Experienced permanent makeup artists have learned how to avoid these mistakes. Some of them know how to qualitatively pass that knowledge on.

Savich Beauty permanent makeup educations are thoroughly and patiently adapted to both experienced artists and beginners, with the goal to support the artists on their way to success and to significantly improve the quality of permanent makeup work. We are here to support you through our many education programs. With our training and support, you will never again question the quality of your work, you will have the opportunity to grow and improve as an artist, but also to educate others and pass on knowledge and experience you have gained!