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Would You Ever Get Permanent Makeup?
Posted by Karen on November 19th, 2008
When I was a kid, one of our neighbors had her eyebrows and eyeliner tattooed. I remember her coming out into her yard in the mornings to get the paper and thinking she always looked a bit off, like her makeup was too blue or something.
Today, permanent makeup (permanent pigmentation of the dermis) is more popular than ever. Some women do it for convenience (I admit — filling in my brows every day sure gets old), but others do it after illness, chemotherapy or injury to recreate eyebrows, disguise scars and white spots or to restore pigmentation to damaged skin.
Would you ever get permanent makeup?
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November 19th, 2008 at 6:43 am
Not just no, HELL NO!!!!
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November 19th, 2008 at 6:47 am
I’d love to get some guidelines of my eyebrows tattooed on. Like not my whole brow but a really subtle mark where my arch should be, and where my eyebrow should end. That would speed things up for me but still not look cheesy.
November 19th, 2008 at 7:02 am
I pretty much agree with Katee.
I know a girl who has her eyeliner and eyebrows done and she’s so pale and her makeup is like BLACK and it just looks awful and unnatural. She loves it, but I wouldn’t want it.
November 19th, 2008 at 7:16 am
I’ve had it done actually. I had my eyebrows and my eyeliner (upper and lower, along the lashline - or more like in between the eyelashes. it makes the lashes look fuller.) done about 2 yrs ago at Gold Coast MedSpa in Chicago. I’ve also had laser hair removal, dermabrasion, and botox done there as well. Julie Hoff, a certified nurse, did the procedure and since she is a RN she was able to give me an injection to numb my forehead as opposed to a topical which made it much less painful!!!
The results look very natural. I had it done because I overplucked my eyebrows (been plucking since I was 12 and am now 27) so they stopped growing and i do still have brows, but very very sparingly. either way, its great not to have to put my brows on every morning!
November 19th, 2008 at 7:56 am
my mom had cosmetic surgery done when i was younger. she had her blush, eyeliner, lipstick and eyebrows down. it’s pretty much all faded now. you can still see a hint of it but not much. i dont think i’d ever do it. i’ve got 6 tattoos but i dont think i could handle one on my face.
November 19th, 2008 at 8:37 am
I am actually considering getting the tail of my eyebrows done. It’s not that they are sparse (hell no my eyebrows are the last you’ll call sparse), it’s just that in France, my beautician threads my eyebrows too thin towards the end(it’s their trend I guess) and they don’t grow out much anymore and they look more sparse in comparison with the rest of my eyebrows and frankly I’m getting a little fed-up with having to fill it in every morning (though it’s been less than 6 months that I’ve been doing so). My mum did get her eyebrows done though and they look perfectly natural because the tattoo is semi-permanent and little strokes that represent hair are drawn instead of a whole patch of colour.
November 19th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Oh gosh no never ever ever!! Maybe its the committment phobe in me but anything that I cant just get rid of once im bored is a huge no no for me!
Plus I have seen some horiffic lip and brow lines in my time on the counter haha!
November 19th, 2008 at 8:56 am
I couldn’t do without the options of makeup. What about colored liners!?! Maybe if I was older and my eyebrows hairs got thinner I would.
November 19th, 2008 at 9:08 am
my mom got permenant eyebrows, but she was dragged in by my aunt. She says tat it was sooo painful and when they started to do her eyeliner, she finally yelled STOP!
so, no way! oh and have you heard of eyelash surgery. Some ccrazy women decided to get implants on their eyelashes. That hurrrts!
November 19th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Initially I want to say NO! But if it was necessary after medical procedures I would consider going to someone whose work I could see before decided to use them. Like a plastic surgeon’s book, I’d want to see proof of their skill.
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November 19th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Yea
it’s not harmful so I wouldn’t mind. I think I want to get them semi-permanent so they fade away after a few months.
I just want to get my brows done so I don’t have to bother with them..and because my brows are just annoying as hell, there’s no shape and it’s so sparse haah
November 19th, 2008 at 10:57 am
I would do it… but only due to illness. I think its great that options are available for women to feel beautiful!
November 19th, 2008 at 11:14 am
I have 2 tattoos on my body and I’m considering to get more but I would never consider tattooing sensitive areas like eyelids or lips. It sounds too painful, even for me.
November 19th, 2008 at 11:40 am
I also would only do it if I had an illness, I was just watching an episode of judge Mathis or something where someone did this and it went way wrong. Aah!
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November 19th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
i probably wouldn’t do it just because it will take away the fun of putting on makeup ^^
November 19th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
I’m with Holly, I could never commit to one style! Even if I wanted to, I could never pick one style to commit to!
November 19th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I would love the chance to have my eyebrows done! If it is ever in my budget this is at the top of my have to have list. I have practically zero eyebrow hair & have tried everything to make them look….well, you know…more!My make-up cabinet is full of products that promise to either make them magically grow or make them appear with very little to show for my effort not to mention(I always laugh at that phrase as, well your mentioning it)the amount of cold hard cash I’ve invested. I really should have said NOTHING to show but I tend to be a generous soul! If you ever fing anything that really works I will gladly worship at your goddess feet!
November 19th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I have a naturally very crooked lip line and have always been tempted to go in for such a procedure since I normally don’t like to wear lipstick. I always end up going for the other type of tattoos instead…love the endorphin rush.
November 19th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
No thanks, I could never commit to something like that! Funny, I can commit to a man, but I could NEVER commit to a tattoo or perm makeup or something like that!
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November 19th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I am a total wuss and I don´t think I could stand the pain..
My eyebrows are sparse and filling them in every day is a pain in the behind, but I am to scared to get them tattoed…I also like that I can draw different shapes now (more or less).
Maybe I would consider doing that if I´d loose my hair due to a desease or medication, but now? Nope.
As for eyeliner or lipliner (*shudder* there are loads of women running around here who had a dark lipliner tattoed in the 90s when the dark liner/light lipstick-combo was so hot. They look ridiculous now…and a little cheap..) - no way!!!
November 19th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
maybe…if there really is no other choice
November 19th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Where I work, they offer this service in the Skin Care center part of the practice. The lady who does it has been doing it for YEARS and does a wonderful job. A number of my coworker have had liner and brows done. It does fade since this area of your body is exposed to a lot of light, you can choose how light/dark of a color, and the area is numbed so it’s not painful. My boss had her eyeliner done… she’s got bad allergies to just about every kind of eyeliner, so it’s been a godsend for her. After two years, she had it redone as it had faded considerably. It looks very natural.
If I were to have it done, I’d have her do a medium brown so that I’d still have the option of going over it with different colors or black. And if I was feelin’ lazy, it’d already be ready to go with the brown.
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November 19th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
I got talked into getting an eyeliner tatoo for my lower lashes when I was in my early 20’s (Oh, to be that young, but not that foolish, again!). It hurt like H*LL! I freaked when I saw how hard looking and dark it was. I went home, took a washcloth and scrubbed the H*LL out of my poor lower eyelid skin. It worked, and I was left with a very faint, soft greyish line. My poor skin was red and raw for a week, BUT now I look like I have naturally full lower eyelashes and you have to look really closely to see that it’s a tatoo. BUT I would never put myself through another experience with permanent makeup again.
November 19th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
I swear that I’m the only person I know who has to tame and not fill in my eyebrows. If I ever had the cash, I’d love to get my eyelashes tinted and magically curled, because I actually have thick lashes, they’re just really faint for my coloring. If I were ever hurt or sick, though, I would consider some procedures to lighten scars or whatnot.
Just out of curiosity, what brought up permanent make-up?
November 19th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Trends change so quickly in makeup (bushy eyebrows one year, nearly plucked away the next)… I think only if I had to medically would I do this. Mind you, like my mom, I am losing the edges of my once fantastic “perfect never had to do anything to them” eyebrows. Ah, aging!!!
Anastasia.
November 19th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
At this point in my life I don’t think that I would. Funny story - my mom for some reason sees tattoos as a sign of rebellion or something like that. Always makes comments about people with tattoos. Well one day, I finally started laughing at her when she mentioned her tattoo peeve because my mom has her bottom liner and brows tattooed. I asked her if she realize that she also fell into the rebellious way of living (according to her) and she was mortified. I didn’t think she realized that no matter where you get inked it is still a tattoo.
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November 19th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
why would i want to look like i’m permanently surprised or angry? what’s the fun in that?
November 19th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
My sister recently got her eyebrows tattooed. It doesn’t look that bad. I also know someone who got her eyebrows and eyeliner tattooed. All I could think about was how much it must have hurt to get the liner tattooed.
November 19th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
One of my friends has her eyebrows tattooed in, but I guess it was a while ago so they’ve faded… and with her sparse brows it just looks AWFUL when she doesn’t keep up with her plucking. I’ve considered getting just the tails of my eyebrows done (and not done in China like she had hers…) because I basically don’t HAVE tail ends but I haven’t really considered it seriously. My bangs hide the ends of my brows anyway so I haven’t even bothered to draw them in most of the time.
November 20th, 2008 at 12:56 am
I have a half sleeve on my arm (tattooed from shoulder to elbow), but I would not do permanent makeup. To see how the colors change, even over a course of 5 years is enough to put me off. I don’t think I would do it, even if I lost my hair due to disease/medical reasons.
As a tattooed individual, my advice is to see a portfolio of work, containing unedited photos of freshly done tattoos, and tattoos that are healed! See what the finished product looks like before you commit, done by the particular person you are working with. If you don’t feel comfortable with them, or they refuse to give you references/photos, it’s ok to leave.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:08 am
my mom has her eyebrows and eyeliner tattooed. She got the procedure done decades ago, and now her eyebrows have blue-ish tint to them. It looks really fake and…blue! haha. Her eyeliner looks subtle but her brows are really something.
November 20th, 2008 at 7:13 am
I can understand if you were ill and did it to have eyebrows, but otherwise it looks so fake and tacky imo.
And what about when they’re old? It’ll be all wrinkly and saggy and disgusting.
November 20th, 2008 at 11:25 am
I would consider getting a very very thin eyeliner tattooed just on the along the lashline, as long as it could still pass off as natural.
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November 20th, 2008 at 11:30 am
I have a handful of aunts and whatnot that have tattooed eyebrows. Tons of the older filipino women at my church have those tat brows. when i was younger i thought they were so cool since i suffered from man brows bushing above my eyes but when i noticed they all had a slightly blueish tint to them up close i nixed the idea. HA.
November 20th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Well I was against it too, until I saw how good my girlfriend looked after she had it done … First I didn’t know why she looked fresher and younger … When she told me what it was, I had to look twice because everything was so fine , and perfectly blending with her natural brow, eyes and lips , that you would swear she had nothing on… It looked like she had had a face lift !!!
… But it was all worst it … Now I am saving to get some scar camouflage done… Oh and although she is very busy , with big names , she is super nice and down to earth …
Although I was against having it done It looked so nice I couldn’t help it but doing it too :)and made an appointment with Dominique Bossavy in Beverly Hills… had the full job done ( ebrows, liner, lips) not only it didn’t hurt, I was able to go out the same night ! I must say , I am SOOOO HAPPY ! I have never seen permanent makeup look so good before … This would probably explain , why I had to wait 3 weeks to get in
November 20th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
What happens in like 20 years when your face falls….what will it look like then?
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Absolutely not! Never! I’m a look changer upper, LOL.
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