Permanently Beautiful

Tomorrow scour your wardrobe for bright red clothing and put on your brightest red lipstick. It’s time to Go Red to support women’s heart health. February 5 is National Wear Red Day when millions of women and the men who love them don red to call attention to heart disease, the No. 1 killer of women in the U.S. The American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women campaign encourages women to learn more about heart health and how to prevent heart disease. Click here to take the AHA’s quick Heart Check Up to assess your heart health. On the same site check out Better U diet and exercise tips to promote good heart health.

You’ll want to keep that tube of red lipstick handy after tomorrow. Bright electric reds, oranges and pinks are this spring’s hot new lip colors. You can apply them right over your permanent lip color. Much like popular new lip stains but with less fuss, permanent makeup subtly colors lips in the perfect shade for your skin tone and personal preference. Permanent lips are beautiful naked or with a touch of lip gloss when you’re on the go and provide the perfect base when you feel like a change and want to command attention with one of this spring’s bright corals or hot reds.

After enduring a mastectomy, or any other breast surgery, your nipples can look irregular. This may be the case of fading or discoloration of the area or due to surgery and a change in position. With permanent paramedical breast restoration a medical miracle for patients such as you. You can be beautiful again. With repigmentation and restoration techniques, a cosmetically tattooed new areola can be created.

An initial consultation is required, in which potential patients can discuss their expectations for the cosmetic  procedure. Ultimately, areola restoration allows patients to have their natural beautiful looking breasts and nipples back. This procedure generally helps to increase your self confidence and is especially helpful for women who have had breast cancer surgery. You can get a sense of normalcy and feel like a “real” woman again.

Permanent paramedical makeup technicians like Melany Whitney provide a natural breast look to her patients. Realistic looking nipples and areolas are created with the use of circles and color and a special 3-D technique that is truly miraculous and unique to Melany Whitney. For many women their insurance companies may cover the procedure as a result of their cancer treatments. It’s important to research if your procedure would be covered before having an initial consultation with a permanent paramedical makeup technician.

Give yourself the self confidence that you once had back! Feel like a woman once more through the use of nipple restoration procedures. To review the miracle of paramedical tattooing we invite you to visit our breast page to see before and after photographs that you simply will not believe.

Have you ever heard a woman say, “I feel naked until I put my face on”? For many women putting on their makeup is more than part of their morning routine, it’s a symbol of their femininity. Like doing their hair and dabbing on their favorite scent, applying eye makeup and lipstick makes women feel more beautiful, self-confident and ready to meet whatever the day has in store. Even women who favor the natural look and choose to skip foundation prefer the way they look with a dash of eyeliner, a swipe of mascara and a touch of lipstick. Makeup enhances our natural beauty and makes us feel good about ourselves.

A stroke, arthritis, muscular dystrophy, long illness, accident or other degenerative condition or disease strikes at the very core of who a person is as an individual and a woman. The inability to apply makeup when motor skills are lost and hands shake can be a tragic blow to a woman’s sense of femininity and sense of self. Without makeup she no longer sees in the mirror the woman she once was. It makes her loss cut even deeper. Permanent cosmetics can restore a woman’s sense of personal beauty and her self confidence in her appearance.

Artfully applied cosmetic tattooing can create beauty-enhancing permanent eyeliner, permanent eyebrows, permanent lips or even a full face enhancement. With permanent makeup, a woman who is no longer able to apply her own cosmetics can still look like she’s just applied fresh makeup.

Childhood accidents happen. A fall off a bike, a collision with a wildly thrown baseball, a skateboard trick gone wrong — as your mom will tell you, kids are an accident waiting to happen. Some accidents leave scars, little white lines or puckers on knees and chins, badges of a youth well spent. A defining scar on the chin of a handsome movie star may add to his on-screen allure, but many people consider those childhood scars unsightly blemishes that mar their appearance.

You may have to live with the memories of the accident that created a scar, but you no longer have to live with the scar. Permanent cosmetic micropigmentation can permanently camouflage scars and restore your confidence in your appearance. Scars and skin imperfections resulting from childhood (or adult) accidents, injuries, burns and surgery can be camouflaged using paramedical cosmetic tattooing. Artfully applied micropigmentation can break up scar tissue and color it to more perfectly match and blend with your natural skin tone, making the scar disappear from sight.

Nationally renowned permanent makeup artist and paramedical tattoo expert Melany Whitney regularly receives referrals from prominent plastic surgeons and physicians to assist their patients. Melany has perfected scar camouflage micropigmentation and paramedical tattooing techniques that allow patients to reclaim their natural beauty.

Good news for women of all skin types and skin tones, makeup is going matte! No-shine matte makeup is replacing sheen and gleam for a fresh, natural look this spring. Glimmery makeup was fun during the holidays, but shine emphasizes every tiny facial imperfection. The new matte look minimizes little flaws, allowing them to fade from sight. Matte doesn’t mean dull and flat, though. The new matte look is sheer and satiny, very pretty and natural. Always use moisturizer to prevent a caky look.

The almost air-brushed appearance of matte skin tones lets you focus attention on eyes and lips. Watch for eye shadows in soft earth tones and barely there evening sky colors mixed with pale skin-tone pinks, browns and beiges. Minimal black-brown eyeliner highlights the new downplayed look. And those spiky black stiletto lashes that were such fun during the holidays? Gone; replaced by a soft, natural look. Lashes go au naturel or with just a swipe of soft black-brown mascara. This spring, lips provide the wow! Go retro with bright red, innocent with pale pink or vamp it up with purple. 

If you have permanent makeup, you already have the perfect base for spring’s new natural look. Permanent cosmetics treat you to a salon makeup finish all day long. To change it up, apply cosmetics directly over permanent makeup. Otherwise, just moisturize and you’re out the door!

The dress took center stage at the Golden Globe Awards last weekend. Fabulous body-hugging sheaths bedecked with ruffled trains and cotton candy poufs of chiffon sent the message: Feminine is back! Pink and red were the hot red carpet colors this year with dreamy, creamy lips to match highlighted with a wisp of shine. The vampire craze may have waned. Smudged Twilight eyes were left to smolder in the shadows while stars paraded a return to a more traditional eye makeup style into the spotlight. Eyes were lined with black, highlighted with well blended natural shadow colors — beiges, pale roses and grays — and shellacked with glistening coats of mascara. (This is Hollywood, after all. Unless you’re strutting the red carpet, you’ll want to dial back the mascara to a few swipes.)

Also noticeable was the absence of flashy, gem-studded jewelry. In deference to the economic situation, stars choose elegant earrings and a jangle of bracelets instead of flaunting a neckline full of diamonds. Why annoy cash-strapped fans? Obviously, this year actresses put their money in the dress.

The emphasis on natural makeup was welcome. The stars looked gorgeous but somehow more approachable. That’s the goal of permanent cosmetics, to enhance your natural beauty, emphasize your best features and “repair” any annoying little flaws. Hollywood actresses do it with professional makeup artists and hours in the makeup chair. Permanent cosmetics can give you the same beautifully finished appearance without all the fuss and bother.

It doesn’t take long for new moms to loose that wholesome pregnancy glow. Loss of sleep from round-the-clock feeding schedules, learning to juggle new responsibilities, rushing from home to daycare to work and back again — it can leave new moms feeling and looking exhausted. When you’re a new mom, a crying baby trumps taking time to put on your eye makeup. You’re lucky to find time to swipe some lip gloss across your lips. It’s all too easy for new moms to go from glowing, rosy-cheeked excitement to droopy-eyed, sallow-faced frumpiness after the baby is born. New motherhood is challenging enough without feeling depressed about how awful you look.

Permanent cosmetics is the solution. Permanent cosmetics can give new moms that same beautiful rosy glow they had before their baby was born. A specialized form of cosmetic tattooing, permanent makeup enhances your natural beauty so you look beautiful 24 hours a day. There’s nothing more rejuvenating for a new mom than knowing she’ll wake up beautiful and stay beautiful all day long, even when baby’s needs leave no time for primping.

To look bright and fresh, new moms should concentrate on eyes and lips. Add permanent eye shadow in a natural shade of pink, brown or light beige with a thin line of permanent eyeliner to make eyes shine. Make your lips sexy again with permanent lips in your favorite color. Add a hint of rosy glow to cheeks and you’ll feel like a whole new woman!

What's you bra color?

Tiger stripes. Purple with lace. Boring beige. Plain white. What’s the update in your Facebook status box today? Color. Just a single word statement of solidarity and support. Women started posting their bra color to their Facebook status update in the morning. Before they arrived at the office the phenomenon had gone viral. Single color statements of white or black were soon joined by the more colorful choices of women who enjoy expressing their individuality with their undergarments. Plaid with tiny flowers. Pink roses. Leopard spots. Red with yellow polka dots. No one really knew what was going on or why but it was fun!

For many it turned became a way to “spread the wings of cancer awareness.” It started out just for us girls with women sending their status only to gal pals. But it didn’t take men — and the media – long to catch on. Some guys even started posting their boxer colors in support! Whatever the reason for participating, it was a fun way to show your support for the fight against breast cancer.

Permanent cosmetics expert Melany Whitney is a long-time supporter of breast cancer awareness. Her revolutionary areola repigmentation and nipple restoration techniques have helped breast cancer patients undergoing breast reconstruction regain confidence in their personal beauty and femininity. Combining her skilled artistry with expert cosmetic tattoo micropigmentation techniques, Melany is able to create a natural three-dimensional appearing nipple and areola for women who have lost a breast to cancer.

Hair transplants have come a long way since the old hair plug days when harvesting left male scalps cross-hatched with chicken-scratch Xs. Modern surgical hair restoration techniques now graft entire follicle units onto thinning sites creating a seamless and very natural appearance. Harvesting sites generally remain hidden for years, covered by still vital hair growth. But as in all things, nature eventually catches up, hair loss continues and once-hidden hair transplant harvest sites are exposed. Harvesting scars along the back of the skull often show up as ugly red lines and can give men a lobotomized look. Not exactly in tune with your suave, savvy, accomplished image!

Expert paramedical tattooing, a form of permanent makeup, can reduce transplant harvest scars to a nearly invisible line. Permanent makeup, known medically as micropigmentation, tattoos iron oxide cosmetic pigments into the dermal layer of the skin. The technique can be used to camouflage scar tissue, hide embarrassing hair loss from thinning hair, camouflage bare patches in beards and sideburns, reshape uneven or scarred lip lines, enhance eyelash loss and create thicker looking eyebrows.

To see how permanent makeup for men can hide transplant harvest scars, visit our website to see before and after pictures of actual patients. Don’t let embarrassing hair loss or transplant scars diminish your self-confidence in your appearance. Permanent makeup for men can give you back your competitive advantage.

The economy will continue to drive the way we dress and live in 2010. Realistic fashionistas are going practical with a return to smart basics. Expect clothing to feature good, sturdy fabrics in mixable neutral shades of brown and gray. Clean lines, simple cuts and a more classic look will dominate 2010 fashion. Versatility will be the name of the game. Women will splurge on just a few fabulous pieces that offer multiple ways to dress up or dress down their wardrobe. For example, savvy shoppers will look for items like a sleek leather tunic that can be worn as a mini-dress, vest, tunic over leggings or even light outerwear. Women will continue to look for smart ways to stretch their clothing budgets. Individual expression in the midst of Plain Jane fashions will come from colorful custom-designed jewelry and artfully applied permanent makeup.

This year the eyes have it! In 2010, permanent eye makeup will focus attention on your beautiful face. It’s your eyes that will add that special spark of alluring fire to practical fashions. Perfectly arched and feathered permanent eyebrows will provide a window to eyes exquisitely lined with permanent eyeliner. Add neutral shadows for serious work hours, then go wild with a slash of neon bright shadow for evening wear. The spring release of Tim Burton’s film version of Alice in Wonderland is expected to add a hint of Victorian whimsy and wild psychedelic colors to fashion accessories and makeup pallets this spring.