Am I a Candidate?

Anyone who wears make-up is a potential candidate for semi-permanent make-up. If you lack colour and shape to your lips and want to enhance them without having dermal fillers; if you regularly pencil in your eyebrows or would like to give them a better shape or fill in gaps where they have been over plucked; if you want to enhance your eyes and want the effects of eyeliner without the running and under eye smudging; if you want to open up your eyes and raise your eyebrows without the need for a brow lift; if you are allergic to traditional cosmetics or if you simply want to save time by not having to apply a full face of make-up every day, then semi-permanent make-up could be an option for you. The ideal candidate for this treatment will also have realistic expectations about what it can achieve.

The technique is also used for medical applications such as:

• Areola (nipple) tattooing following mastectomy

• Eyebrow reconstruction for alopecia patients and those who have lost hair through burns, operations or accidents

• Camouflage of vitaligo

• Cosmetic correction of cleft palate

• Correction of facial asymmetry

• Camouflage of surgical scars (See our section on Medical Tattooing for more information on this).

People who should not have treatment are those with an active skin disease or infection, women who are pregnant or breast feeding, insulin dependant diabetics, people with heart conditions and those who are prone to keloid scarring.