Permanently Beautiful

Grammy winner Rihanna has one. So does sexy Victoria Secrets super model Gisele Bundchen. You’d expect wild women Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan to sport tattoos; but so do Posh Spice fashionista Victoria Beckham, husky-voiced headliner Norah Jones and perky Hollywood A-lister Drew Barrymore. All have been inked and wear their tats proudly. Tattooing has become a popular expression of individuality; its popularity crossing class and socio-economic boundaries; its craftsmen recognized as serious artists. 

Since before the time of Ancient Egypt’s pharaohs, tattoos have been part of the human experience, periodically waxing and waning in popularity. Tattoos sported by South Seas sailors so intrigued Europe’s upper class that nearly one in five members of the gentry showed off tattoos in the 1890s. Just before WWI, tattooed cheeks, colored lips and eyeliner were all the rage in trendy NYC social circles. The popularity of body art enjoyed another resurgence during the free-spirited ’60s. Today, tattooing has gone mainstream and is considered an exhilarating form of personal expression.

Many women are again discovering the no-care convenience and beauty-enhancing qualities of cosmetic tattooing, also called permanent makeup. Permanent eyeliner is the most sought enhancement, followed closely by lip liner and coloring. Permanent makeup can enhance your natural features, correct problem areas and give your self-esteem a boost that comes from knowing you look your best every hour of the day or night.

When you’re standing in the checkout line at the grocery, who doesn’t love to sneak a peek at the less than glamorous pics of Hollywood’s elite on the pages of Star or the Globe? It’s fun to catch the rich and famous with their hair down and their makeup off; kind of levels the field. One celeb the paparazzi will never catch in a less than photog-ready moment is singer-songwriter and business mogul Dolly Parton. Despite the admonishments of cosmeticians to strip off your makeup at night to give your pores a rest, the Nashville legend with the giggly laugh goes to bed with her makeup intact, particularly when she’s visiting LA or NYC where her Tony Award-nominated Broadway show 9 to 5: The Musical will close on Labor Day.

Dolly isn’t about to let the paparazzi catch her in a Nick Nolte moment. “I think I’m not going to wash my face until morning, and then I’ll clean it off and I’ll put it on in case I have to get up in the middle of the night,” she told CNN. “If I go out in public, people expect me to look a certain way. And if you say, ‘There’s Dolly’ … you expect to see them in the way that … you know them.”

What Dolly needs is permanent makeup. With natural-looking permanent eyeliner and permanent lip color, you look picture perfect day and night.

As Sue Storm in the Fantastic Four film series, sexy Jessica Alba played the tantalizing now-you-see-me-now-you-don’t Invisible Woman. Now she’s the trench coat-clad vixen on the set of Gary Marshall’s star-studded romantic comedy Valentine’s Day. The ensemble film, likely to be released next February right in time for you know what, also stars Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Garner and Jessica Biel in a tangled story of hopeful L.A. romantics.

When she’s not on the film set, you can see Jessica on the tube. She’s the fabulous face of Revlon’s barely there Custom Creations makeup, the foundation that lets you dial the perfect shade for your skin tone. The ads claim that Custom Creations’ unique formulation allows you to adjust your makeup from winter pale to sun-kissed tan with a twist of the cap. Makeup that’s always the perfect shade for your face? Who wouldn’t want that?

But real women reviews of the new product have been mixed. Not everyone has been able to achieve the stunning, natural look Jessica flashes at the camera along with her come hither smile. Jessica may look amazing in hi def wearing Revlon’s new product, but there’s no guarantee you will. Only permanent cosmetics guarantees perfectly applied, natural looking makeup every time in the most flattering shade for your skin tone.

Page through any glossy fashion magazine and you’ll see pages of ultra gorgeous women with pouty lips, perfect brows and lush, lash-framed eyes. We may love the look, but it’s hard to identify with uber sleek runway models when we peer into the mirror in the morning. CoverGirl understands that we need real women role models. The cosmetic giant chose Ellen DeGeneres, everybody’s every woman, as the unconventional cover girl to headline a new ad campaign.

You have to smile as Ellen flirts self-consciously with the camera, seeming surprised to be caught in the spotlight. Ellen’s cute and she’s got great dance moves, but no one would peg her as a glamorous model — least of all Ellen. ”Women don’t necessarily want to look slimmer, younger or more stylishly turned out,” Lesley Jane Seymour, editor-in-chief of More magazine, told The New York Times. “They just want to be the best that they can be …”

Today’s self-assured woman is looking for “a woman they can relate to both physically and emotionally,” Esi Eggleston Bracey, VP of Procter & Gamble, makers of CoverGirl cosmetics, told the Times. “In Ellen, she sees a slightly better version of herself, someone appealing from the inside out.” 

That’s what we really want from cosmetics. We want to enhance our own natural beauty. Permanent cosmetics, artfully applied by Melany Whitney, give you that perfect, natural look — the look that makes Ellen feel like one of the girls.

This morning as I descended into the third level of hell, otherwise known as the 59th Street subway platform, I wondered how Carrie and the Sex in the City gals always managed to look so fresh, polished and put together. Sure, I understand the fantasy of television; and Carrie et al. did seem to take a lot of cabs; but practical New Yorkers know that the only way to get somewhere in Manhattan’s perpetually snarled traffic is to take the subway. Unfortunately, an uncomfortable lack of air conditioning — are you listening, Mayor Bloomberg? — turns the NYC subway system into a giant Panini press during August heat waves.

You emerge from the depths of the subway hot and steamy, sweat making unattractive rivulets down your once perfect makeup. You can feel your eyeliner starting to run and your foundation slowly sloughing off your face like a Chinese mudslide in free fall. OMG, all that careful work this morning and it lasted less than an hour! Where is Mr. Big and his sleek, black, air-conditioned car? This would be the perfect time for it to glide to the curb and rescue you.

There’s no need to cue Mr. Big. Permanent makeup guarantees you’ll look fresh and polished all day long, whether you’re fighting subway crowds or leading a board room presentation. Stop worrying about August heat waves and eliminate daily makeup application with a permanent makeup full face beauty enhancement.

Permanent makeup procedures can be used for the correction of a variety of beauty flaws or other skin-related problems. They can even be used to enhance or improve your appearance. A permanent cosmetic makeup professional, such as Melany Whitney, can perform these procedures that will leave you with a lasting result that makes looking in the mirror no longer a fear.

An initial consultation with a permanent cosmetic professional will give you the opportunity to express your concerns about the procedure, discuss your finished look goals and any other questions relating to the procedure. A quality permanent makeup professional will inform you in advance what to expect and if your desired “look” is doable. Some of things that cannot be fixed after they have been done permanently are:

1. Poor color selection of eyebrows - a common error due to lack of proper color training
2. Narrowing eyeliner once it has been applied permanently by another technician
3. Correction of lip color errors (from a past procedure)

In some cases problems that cannot be corrected are caused by an inexperienced technician who has not selected the proper colors or does not have the experience to properly apply the permanent makeup.

When you work with Melany Whitney, you can trust that your permanent makeup will be skillfully and beautifully applied. With years of experience and even certification to teach permanent makeup to other technicians, Melany is the top choice for natural, trouble-free permanent makeup.

Trichotillomania is an impulse disorder where sufferers pull out their own hair. This condition can include eyelashes, eyebrows and hair on the body. While this is a devastating condition, a permanent cosmetic professional can improve the outcome of such acts. With nearly 2.5 million sufferers in the United States alone, Melany Whitney and her impressive paramedical skills can provide results that make looking in the mirror bearable once more.

A permanent micropigmentation procedure will give sufferers confidence in their appearance once more. Her artistry will give sufferers the eyelashes, eyebrows or hair they once had back to them. These natural enhancement procedures can help camouflage the bald spots that are found on the scalp as a result of trichotillomania. This camouflage technique is effective and gives instant and natural results.

If you are unsure of having such procedures, there is a way to create a perfect eyebrow look on your own:

 First of all, find an eyebrow pencil that matches the color of your hair as closely as possible.

 Next, place the pencil vertically on the side of your nostril, your eyebrow should start here.

 To determine where your eyebrow should end, place your eyebrow pencil diagonally on the outer corner of your eye.

 To determine the arch of your eyebrow, place the pencil on the outer third of your eye, your arch should appear here.

 The thickness of the eyebrow is up to you, however the closer your eyes are together, the thinner the eyebrow should be.

Angelina Jolie and her perfectly-plump lips have women everywhere longing to have ones just like hers. A permanent cosmetic professional can help you determine the perfect permanent lip liner look for your face. Saving yourself time and money for the future, permanent makeup for your lips is a means of emphasizing your lips to look perfect every day with no effort. The permanent lip liner procedure also helps to minimize the look of wrinkles and give lips a finished lips, no matter the time of day.

Choosing the type of look you are going for is simple. A professional cosmetic technician will discuss your options of natural or a more dramatic look. This decision is determined by your personal style, and your daily work environment. If however, you are undecided on the permanent lip liner procedure, here are a few tips of achieving the Angelina lips you desire:

• Prep with a lip plumper on your lips. This lip product moistens the lips and gives a bee stung look. One particular lip gloss is Lip Venom.
• Next, line your lips with a brown lip liner (whether nude or a darker shade of brown). It’s important to match your skin tone as closely as possible for a natural look.
• Apply a matte lipstick that nearly matches the shade of your lip.

As you can see, achieving a natural, yet full lip-lined look is simple. Your lips will look like Angelina Jolie’s in no time!