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For those with any kind of beauty inclination, brow tattooing will by no means be a foreign concept. Simply open Instagram and your Explore page is saturated with brows in their many skews; fat, sparse, slender, bushy, wiry, wayward and so forth. You may also be flooded with tattooed brows; a relatively new trend to envelop the beauty world, and as it sounds, is a conduit to join the dots (or hairs). A filling in the gaps for those lacking the natural blessings of the bush.
“Ultimately brow tattooing is a brilliant solution for people who have very sparse, or damaged brows from years of incorrect hair removal and sufferers of alopecia,” brow expert Jazz Pampling explains. A wizard with spool and brush in hand, Jazz tends to the eyebrows of the star set in Sydney and beyond. She has now honed her inimitable skill to include a tattoo microblade, and for a punctilious princess like myself, would only entrust Jazz to tend to my caterpillars with such a tool. Essentially, microblading and feathering is a procedure which must be embarked upon with research and a clear comprehension of what exactly is involved. “The procedure should be thoroughly researched and you should ensure who ever does this for you is well trained. Anyone can do the course and it’s a very unregulated industry. There are many courses that are offered out there and they only go for 1- 3 days. Make sure your artist has a couple courses they have trained in and that they work in a clean well maintained studio. Never compromise your beauty for a cheap deal.”
Still quite a new service, microblading also rouses many questions, and in turn, many myths are subsequently created. Below, Jazz debunks such myths and addresses those questions – once and for all.
Brow Tattooing doesn’t really hurt.
This really depends on the individual and your pain threshold. While numbing creams can be applied, they don’t completely take the sting out of this process.
It will last forever.
The Brow tattooing process of microblading / feathering is a semi permanent procedure. It only lasts a couple years and then it will fade away. You often need retouching around a year after.
What you see on Instagram is what I should expect to have also.
Not quite. Before and after images of brow tattooing are taken directly after the procedure has taken place. You really want to see healed results weeks and even months later. The beautiful crisp lines you see online will slightly blur over time depending on your skin type. I always do a test patch for my clients and we watch it heal over time. It allows both myself and the client to see how the skin will react to the process.
The colour will fade to orange, red or even green.
Yup this is in fact very true. After a year the original colour will fade out and the base tones of the ink will be remaining. These base colours are often red, orange, yellow or even green. This will mean you need a colour touch up in a years’ time, and you will need a colour correction another year later for that, and so on.
Once my brows are tattooed I will never have to touch them again.
Most people still feel the need to fill them in over time, as some strokes fade out. You will still need the hair around the brow removed as well. Coupled with colour correction every year, the process doesn’t always create low maintenance brows.
