Lip Blushing

Lip Blushing is a form of semi permanent cosmetic tattooing that leaves your lips with a hint of pigment. The process uses a machine that create micro pixels to create a soft blushed look. This service can help create symmetry, create a fuller looking lip, camouflage scars, and redefine lip border for pale or injected lips. The pigment will fade 30-50% allowing for a more natural healed result. Typically a touchup is required to deepen the pigment to reach your target color goal.

A typical appointment will involve the following steps:
1. Discuss Service

First, we will talk about your expectations, aftercare, the procedure, and the healing process.

2. Map

We will shape your lips to resolve any asymmetry, cover scars, and enhance shape to appear fuller. Once approved we will begin the procedure.

3. Begin Service

We will begin the procedure according to the mapped shaped. Expect 3-4 passes and after each pass a numbing agent is applied for comfort.

How to prepare for your service

  • Gentle Scrub lips 1 week prior to service
    • Brown Sugar & Coconut oil makes a great simple scrub!
  • Moisturize your lips 1 week before your appointment.
    • Drink Water & Lip Balm: AQUAPHOR 
    • DO NOT use Vaseline as a moisturizer
  • Do not work out the day of the procedure.
  • Do not tan or have sunburned face.
  • Do not take Aspirin, Niacin, Vitamin E, Fish Oil or Ibuprofen 24 hours before procedure.
  • No alcohol or caffeine 2 days before the procedure.
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  • Lips must be in perfect conditions
  • If you tend to get blisters (Herpes) with frequency please ask your doctor for antiviral medication to avoid activating the virus.

Aftercare

What Does Lip Tattoo Aftercare Entail?

After the treatment, your lips need some special attention to heal properly.

They’ll go through several stages including swelling (you can relieve it with an ice pack) and peeling, and they’ll fade into a shade 50% lighter than right after the treatment. The severity of the symptoms depends on how saturated in pigment the lips are.

In any case, you will need to follow an aftercare routine prescribed by your artist for about 10 days.

There are 2 general types of aftercare – dry and wet healing – the second one being more popular.

Whichever you’re prescribed, avoid the following for 10 days:

  • Extreme exercise, swimming in pools or the ocean, saunas and steam baths – anything that causes excessive sweating and getting the treated area soaking wet
  • Tanning in the sun or a sunbed
  • Makeup in the area
  • Touching the area
  • Spicy food

Dry Healing

Basically, you have to keep your lips dry – no getting them wet, no products of any kind. You just let them heal on their own.

This may sound easy since you don’t need to do anything at all, but without any moisturization, your lips scab more and thus lose more pigment, plus they can feel tight and itchy. That’s why dry healing isn’t very popular anymore.

Wet Healing

This is the basic aftercare routine that can be adapted slightly to suit the needs of your lips.

Wet healing implies blotting away the lymph from the treated area as frequently as your artist prescribes for 3-5 days after the procedure, and keeping the lips moisturized with a special aftercare ointment that aids healing until the peeling ends.

Sticking to the schedule may be a bit annoying, but it’ll give more even results and better retention.

Can I Wear Makeup After the Lip Color Tattoo Treatment?

You mustn’t wear lip makeup until the scabbing or peeling stage is over – you risk getting an infection.

 

Once all the scabs have fallen off, you can wear lip makeup as usual, although you won’t need to enhance the color anymore.

It’s a good idea to get fresh products, as the ones you used before may be contaminated with bacteria your freshly treated lips may not be able to handle.

Tips to get you through the Healing Process

Tip #1: Get informed

If you know what to expect, there will be no unpleasant surprises and you will know what to do and how to deal with all the powder brows healing stages.

Tip #2: Carefully plan the date of your Lip Blush/Dark Lip  treatment

Now you know how long your powder brows healing process will last and what it will look like, make sure you don’t book the appointment immediately before an important event or a special occasion. You don’t want to show up at the party with lip scabs  – they don’t photograph well!

Tip #3: Don’t overthink

Try not to think and obsess about your brows too much. Keep yourself busy and try to stay away from mirrors as much as possible – staring at your brows won’t make them heal faster.

Tip #4: Contact your the artist in case of uncertainties

If you have any worries or you think your Lip Blush/Dark Lip healing process takes too long, contact your artist.

Lip Blush Healing Process

How Long Does the Lip Tattoo Healing Process Last?

The healing period lasts around 7-10 days.

Your lips will be swollen for a couple of days and some scabbing will appear after that. Also, the color will look too intense, but 50% of it will fade during the first week. It takes a little bit longer for the color to settle.

During this period, you should religiously follow the tips your artist gave you, in order to avoid any discomfort during healing and get maximum pigment retention.

Contraindications To Lip Blush & Lip Neutralization

If you have any worries or you think your Lip Blush / Dark Lip healing process takes too long, contact your artist.

  • If you have any of the following, you may not be a good candidate for this treatment.

    • 18 yrs old or younger

    • Pregnant or Breastfeeding

    • Lip cancer
    • Smoker, leads to less than optimal retention.
    • Herpes Zoster in the face
    • Herpes Simplex with a regular break out (approx. 3 times a year)
    • Currently have an outbreak or have had an outbreak approximately 3 times a
      year.
    • Outbreaks compromise color retention leading to more touch ups. It could
      also cause the body to be stressed causing more outbreaks.
    • Lip Injections less than 4 weeks old

    • Allergies to topical anesthetics

    • Keratosis, facial psoriasis or eczema near the treated area (rashes, acne, sunburn, etc.)

    • If you have a transmittable blood disease such as HIV or hepatitis

    • Accutane in the past year

    • Seborrheic dermatitis

    • Viral infections and/ or diseases

    • Chemical peel within the last few weeks

    • Medications, treatments, or illness that compromises the immune system

    • Diabetes, Chemotherapy and any other Medical conditions consult your doctor (must provide doctor’s note)

    • Botox in the last 3-4 weeks
 

Doctors Approval Required for the Following:

  • Uncontrolled high blood pressure

  • Organ transplant

  • Pacemaker or major heart problems

  • Epilepsy

  • Diabetes

  • Any treatment, medication, or illness that compromises the immune system ex HIV/AIDS,  any Autoimmune diseases that may prolong or cause complications during healing.

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