Permanently Beautiful

Even though it doesn’t come wrapped in one of those famous little blue boxes, the gift of permanent makeup will elicit the same stunned ohs and ahs as a diamond from Tiffany’s. Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but permanent makeup is a gift of personal beauty that will enrich every moment of your life. Permanent makeup doesn’t sit in an elegant box waiting to be taken out and worn on special occasions. Permanent makeup enhances your unique personal beauty every hour of every day, filling your life with an elegant sparkle and deep inner glow to rival any diamond.

Artfully applied permanent makeup is an intimate outward expression of your inner poise and beauty. It enhances the natural beauty of your features — eyes, brows, lips, cheeks — and can be used to correct any minor imperfections and flaws that may bother you. Those little flaws that only you see when you look in the mirror can slowly chip away at your self-esteem. Permanent makeup artfully hides those flaws so that you always present your best face to the world.

This holiday give the gift of permanent beauty to someone you love. The Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics offers a full range of facial cosmetic enhancement services for women and men. Our services are performed by board-certified permanent makeup artist and instructor Melany Whitney, a nationally-recognized expert in the field of permanent cosmetics. To find out more about our permanent makeup services, please contact the Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics. Staff at our offices in New York City, New York, New Jersey and South Florida and will be pleased to answer your questions and schedule an appointment. Consider our gift services this holiday.

The outward appearance of our face and body so often affects how we feel about ourselves. Surgery and injury can leave us scarred, not just physically, but emotionally. Nationally recognized permanent makeup expert Melany Whitney has perfected paramedical cosmetic tattooing techniques and pioneered new procedures in the field that permanently restore the unique personal beauty of disease and accident victims.

Melany Whitney’s exceptional expertise, impressive experience and talented artistry make her one of the nation’s top experts in the application of permanent paramedical cosmetic tattooing. Nationally prominent plastic surgeons, including physicians at the prestigious New York Presbyterian Hospital of Cornell University and the world-renowned Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, regularly recommend Ms. Whitney to their patients. She has pioneered some of the industry’s most successful techniques in the field of scar camouflaging from burns and injury, cosmetic tattooing to help ease the suffering of Alopecia Areata and Trichotillomania victims, and paramedical tattooing to aid women recovering from breast surgery or mastectomy. Her empathy for breast cancer survivors led Melany to develop a unique 3-D nipple restoration and areola repigmentation that recreates the look of a woman’s natural breast for those undergoing breast reconstruction surgery.

One of the nation’s most accomplished and artistic practitioners in the techniques and art of permanent cosmetics application and paramedical tattooing, Ms. Whitney is a highly sought-after instructor in the field. On the teaching staff of the prestigious Florida College of Natural Health, Ms. Whitney developed its nationally recognized Permanent Makeup Training Course. Having taught sold-out courses for the past five years, Ms. Whitney now conducts individual and advanced training as her schedule permits.

Achieving the beautiful, natural look you desire from permanent cosmetics depends on the expertise, experience and artistry of your technician. (See our Nov. 19 and 21 posts on how to choose a permanent makeup technician.) Exemplifying the perfect blend of technical expertise and innate artistry, Melany Whitney of the Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics is nationally recognized as the “Voice of Permanent Makeup.”

The nation’s foremost spokesperson for permanent cosmetics, Melany appears frequently on television and is regularly featured in major national magazines on the topics of permanent cosmetics and paramedical tattooing. Ms. Whitney brings extensive paramedical training, prodigious experience and unique artistic talent to her passionate desire to inspire every individual’s natural beauty through permanent makeup.

An expert in all skin types, including international and ethnic skin, Melany has defined the art of creating natural-looking beauty through permanent cosmetics. She is a world-class expert in the artistic creation of permanent eyeliner, permanent eyebrows, permanent lip color and full face enhancement. Recognizing a need, she has also brought the advantages of permanent cosmetics to men, offering specialized services to meet their specific needs.  

An accomplished professional artist, Ms. Whitney graduated with honors from the prestigious School of Art and Architecture of Cornell University in New York. Before entering the field of permanent cosmetics, she was a successful New York City fashion model, actress and professional makeup artist, training at the Fifth Avenue offices of Estee Lauder and Revlon. In her pursuit of professional excellence, Ms. Whitney has undertaken extensive paramedical cosmetic tattoo training and acquired impressive clinical certification, including the highest accreditation, Cum Laude, on her diplomatic boards. A Board Certified Permanent Cosmetic Professional, Ms. Whitney is fully licensed and accredited to practice professionally in the states of New York, New Jersey and Florida. 

Next time: Melany Whitney’s pioneering accomplishments in paramedical cosmetic tattooing

When choosing a permanent cosmetics technician, the expertise, experience and artistry of the technician are essential to achieving the beautiful, natural look you desire. In our November 19 post we shared some tips for selecting a permanent makeup technician from the Society of Permanent Cosmetic Proessionals. Today we continue with more tips:

• Ask about the technician’s background. Ask about experience and education. Find out how long the technician has been practicing in the industry. The application of permanent makeup cannot be learned in a two-day course. It requires continuous study to keep abreast of this rapidly evolving field and long hours of experience to perfect the exacting techniques involved in micropigmentation. Make sure the technician is Board Certified. Ask to see certificates of training and continuing education and inquire about professional organizations to which the technician belongs.
• Review the technician’s portfolio. To ensure that you are pleased with the end result, the technician’s work should match your personal style. When you look at the picture portfolio, pay attention to the details, such as the width of eye liner, depth of lip color and lip liner. Discuss your procedure with the technician and be clear about the look you wish to achieve. 
• Ask about experience in the specific procedure you seek. Different techniques are involved in applying micropigmentation to lips or eyes or the entire face. It is essential that the technician you choose have specific, long-standing experience performing the particular procedure you desire.

You should know that lip work is more advanced than eyebrows and eyeliner and that cheek blush and eyeshadow are the most difficult permanent cosmetic effects to achieve successfully. It takes years of experience and a certain artistry to create a beautiful, natural-looking permanent cosmetics effect. Choose a permanent cosmetics technician who can meet the challenge.

Choosing the right permanent cosmetics technician is critical. When you decide to invest in permanent makeup, your goal is to enhance and perhaps improve your natural beauty. You want the results to look beautiful and natural, not garish or artificial. The expertise, experience and artistry of the permanent cosmetics technician you decide to work with are critical to achieving the results you desire.

With its increasing popularity, permanent makeup services are more widely offered, sometimes by facilities and technicians with limited experience in the field. You should be aware that there are currently no uniform regulations governing the industry in the U.S. Because permanent makeup will permanently alter your appearance, it is essential that you carefully research any technician and facility you consider.

The Society of Permanent Cosmetic Professionals, which has been lobbying for the establishment of industry standards, recommends the following:

• Visit the site where the work will be performed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) do set standards for physical cleanliness and sanitary work environments. Ask to view the rooms where procedures are performed. Facilities should have the spotless cleanliness of surgical facilities. Rooms should be private to prevent contamination from other procedures being performed at the facility. Hot and cold running water should be available to technicians outside of the restroom.
• Meet the technician. Is their appearance clean and neat? Are their nails clean? Make certain that new gloves and clean sheets are used for every client. And, most critically, find out if new sterile needles and equipment are used for each client.

More on how to choose a Permanent Cosmetics Technician on Friday.

Some women seem to have a certain commanding presence. No matter where they are or what they’re doing, they stand out in a crowd. Your eye just seems to be drawn toward them. It’s not really a matter of beauty, though many are attractive; it’s more that they exude an aura of complete self-confidence. I noticed a woman like this across the gym floor the other day. Like the rest of us, she was working hard, sweat glistening on her face. But unlike the women to either side of her who looked tired and haggard from exertion, this woman looked radiant, her cheeks glowing, her eyes sparkling, her lips curved with pleasure. In a room full of many attractive and many younger women, this particular woman stood out and commanded attention.

If permanent makeup can keep you looking fresh, calm, collected and in control in the middle of a strenuous workout, think what it can do for you during a board room presentation. With permanent cosmetics you know you look your best whether you’re whirling away in spinning class or making a killer presentation to the firm’s top client. You never have to worry about your makeup. When you’ve added permanent cosmetics to your beauty regime, you know your brows are perfect, your eyeliner expert and your lips beautiful every hour of the day. There is no better boost to your self-esteem than knowing that you always look your best.

The Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics specializes in the artistic application of permanent cosmetics to enhance your natural beauty. Our expert board-certified permanent cosmetic professional, Melany Whitney, is a nationally recognized expert in permanent makeup. Recently featured on NBC Today, CNN and Entertainment Tonight, Melany Whitney is recognized as the national “Voice of Permanent Makeup.” To find out more about how permanent cosmetics can enhance your natural beauty, please visit the Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics website.

Permanent makeup evolved from the time-honored art of tattooing. From the time of early man, tattoos have been used to beautify the human form. The art of tattooing dates back at least to 12,000 B.C. References to tattooing can be found in ancient Chinese literature and the writings of Julius Caesar. Tattoos decorate the mummies of Neolithic cavemen and Egyptian queens.

Tattoos have a long tradition in human ritual and culture. Northern European clans used tattoos to identify clan affiliation. In Polynesia, they were used to indicate social status. Natives in Borneo used tattoos to advertise their weaving or hunting skills when seeking a mate. The early Chinese believed tattoos could ward off illness.

Our English word “tattoo” comes from the Tahitian “tatau” meaning “to mark or strike twice,” referring to the traditional method of applying tattoos with sharpened sticks. The earliest recorded purely cosmetic tattoos date to the time of the great pyramids where they were used to enhance the beauty of Egyptian queens and concubines.

Taking a page from the beauty secrets of those ancient Egyptians, modern women have embraced natural, beauty-enhancing permanent cosmetics as a way to ensure that they always look their best. Permanent makeup uses artistic cosmetic tattooing to enhance and augment your natural beauty. It can also be used to improve your natural features to restore confidence in your appearance. With permanent makeup you can have perfectly applied eye liner, beautifully defined brows, and lush, full lips every hour of every day — without any effort. Visit the Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics website to learn more about how permanent cosmetics can enhance your natural beauty.

You don’t have to be a metrosexual to understand the value of a sharp, attractive appearance in the business arena. Astute businessmen know that first impressions count. The way you look is an important component of the image you project in the business world. Permanent cosmetics for men give you an executive polish that boosts your image and confidence. With the help of permanent cosmetics, you look cool, collected and in charge no matter how long and stressful your day. That’s a business edge worth having.

The Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics offers special services tailored just to men. We understand the importance of maintaining a polished, vigorous appearance in the workplace. There’s a lot of truth to the old adage, “The face is the window to the soul.” The appearance you project in business defines you to associates and clients. Appearance has the power to create an aura of command and competence. Permanent cosmetics for men can enhance your appearance and augment your unique, personal style.

Many businessmen have found early male pattern baldness to be a disadvantage in the workplace. Our society values the vigor and enthusiasm of youth. The appearance of age can cause colleagues to unfairly stereotype you as outdated. Many men have embraced hair transplants as a way to combat early baldness and maintain an appearance as flexible and vigorous as their business ideals. Unsightly scarring, however, has been a major drawback. Paramedical cosmetic tattooing camouflages scars from hair transplant harvesting sites, giving you back the attractive, natural look of youth.

Eyebrow thickening provides vigor and forcefulness to facial planes, enhancing your unique, dynamic, personal style. Some men are born with naturally thin eyebrows, but Alopecia Areata Universalis, the second most common hair loss disease, can cause thick brows to thin unnaturally or even disappear. Because our eyebrows provide the frame that defines our face, they are an essential element in creating facial expressions. Thin eyebrows can make us seem ineffectual, unintelligent and constantly surprised; while strong eyebrows project a sense of command, authority and masculinity. How you look can affect the consideration and weight you and your ideas are given in the workplace.

I was captivated by Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain during the final days of the presidential election. Thrust into the national spotlight, both of these uniquely different women radiated a stunning presence deserving of our admiration. Each woman had her own definitive style, yet both earned our respect for their gracious demeanor and steadfast support of their spouse and his ideals. As the final frantic days of the election drew to a close, the candidates’ wives always appeared calm, serene and composed, an oasis of sanity in a sea of chaos. It was easy to believe that whichever man became president, the woman who was his partner would provide a centering influence in his life during the turbulent days to come.

In thinking about what engendered these feelings of admiration and respect, much of it came down to the physical presence of these two fascinating women. Despite what had to be long, exhausting days and nights on the campaign trail, these women were always impeccably turned out, their clothes tastefully chosen, hair immaculate and makeup flawless. Through their appearance and demeanor they created an aura of graciousness and generosity of spirit that we found compelling.

While we are taught not to judge a book by its cover, physical appearance will always shape the way we think and feel about people, at least initially. As with the candidates’ wives, an individual’s outer persona is too often the only indication we are allowed of the dynamic individual who may lie within. The 24-hour beauty of permanent cosmetics allows you to project your perfect persona at every hour of the day, no matter how hectic or exhausting that day may be. Through the artistry of permanent cosmetics, you wake up gorgeous and go to bed gorgeous.