Permanently Beautiful

Glam-rock is back and it has put punky, dramatic, kohl-rimmed eyes back in the spotlight. With the opening of the Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning film The Runaways, eye makeup is stepping back in time to revisit the 1960s when Joan Jett and Cherie Currie formed one of rock’s most famous all-girl bands. In keeping with the film’s realistic portrayal of the young teens’ rise to fame, makeup artists were instructed to create a look that was realistic, teen-aged blemishes and all. Without the typical Hollywood flawless skin to wow the camera, makeup artists for The Runaways focused on the eyes.

Pouring over old magazine ads and watching hours of concert footage of the real Runaways performing, makeup artists for the film focused on weird, tiny details to create an authentic look on screen. For instance, Jett and Currie painted only one fingernail red. But it was their dark smoky eyes that created the band’s signature look in the ’60s.

With permanent cosmetics you can create your own permanent signature look. Permanent eyes can rim your lids in thin or thick permanent eyeliner in the color of your choice so you look beautiful day and nice. When you want to glam or punk it up, add a thicker layer right over your permanent cosmetics. Permanent makeup gives you the best of both worlds.

Permanent cosmetics are a way to “outsmart Mother Nature and time,” one of our customers told us. So true. What nature gives us, she eventually takes away. As we age, our skin begins to loose elasticity and color and wrinkles start to appear. We start to develop that “old lady pucker” around our lips. The color slowly fades from our once rosy lips and cheeks, leaving us a pale imitation of our younger selves like a faded photograph stored too long in the attic. We may still feel vibrant and energized inside, but our outward appearance begins to look a little old and tired. Permanent makep is the solution.

Artfully applied by nationally known permanent makeup expert Melany Whitney, permanent cosmetics allow you to outsmart Mother Nature and roll back the hands of time. Permanent makeup can restore the youthful color to your lips and the blush to your cheeks. It can line and fill your lips with lush color and banish wrinkled puckers. Permanent makeup can make your eyes sparkle with delight and your spirits soar.

After permanent cosmetics, the face you see in the mirror will look younger, fresher, more vibrant. Permanent makeup banishes the dull grays and washed out beiges of age and restores your skin’s youthful color palette. Who says you can’t trick Mother Nature?

Permanently Beautiful Lips

Have you heard about the latest lip plumping cosmetic surgery procedure? It’s called a lip implant and involves grafting a snip of your neck muscle onto your lips. It’s said to improve lip color as well as form. Pioneered in India, the procedure is fairly new and largely unstudied. Possible side effects include loss of feeling in the lips, head movement limitations, neck pain, nerve injury and lip deformities. All that risk and U.S. researchers say the procedure only provides beneficial results for 2 years. After that, lip color fades again.

How much smarter (and more cost effective) to use permanent makeup to make your lips permanently full and rosy. In permanent cosmetics, a paramedical tattooing process is used to insert natural pigments under the skin to add permanent, long-lasting color to pale lips. An expert permanent makeup artist like Melany Whitney can make lips appear fuller and even correct uneven or irregular lip lines and minor scars. Permanent lip clients can choose to go natural and have their lips colored a slightly darker shade than their skin tone or call more attention to their lips by having Melany match their favorite lip stain color to create a signature look.

Have you ever wondered if there isn’t something magical in the skin of Olympic athletes? Lindsey Vonn skied a grueling, heart-thumping run to take the gold medal; yet when the cameras zoomed in for a close up seconds after she crossed the finish line, her face looked as fresh and beautiful as if she’d just applied her makeup. Despite hot sun, soaking rains, humid arenas and super-human exertion, you never seem to see an Olympic athlete who doesn’t look beautifully made up and ready for the cameras. The rest of us stop by the gym for a 30-minute cardio workout and in minutes are fighting sweaty foundation rivulets and sweat-smeared mascara.

Asked how she manages to keep her makeup looking fresh even during grueling workouts, skier Lindsay Vonn confided to the LA Times that she keeps her ski really clean, exfoliating every day, and relies on a good medium-weight moisturizing sunscreen. Vonn, who does wear makeup on the slopes, starts with a base coat of moisturizer followed by a light powder foundation and prefers liquid eyeliner for its staying power.

Olympic athletes would be good candidates for permanent makeup. With permanent makeup your face always looks fresh and beautiful whether you’re sweating in the gym or taking charge in the board room. Clean, moisturize and you’re ready for the day — and night. When you wear permanent makeup, you know you always look your best.

Christina Applegate

With advances in breast reconstruction surgery, more women are choosing to fight cancer by having their entire breast removed instead of just the immediately affected tissue. They feel that when cancer is diagnosed, removal of the entire breast gives them the best chance of long-term health. By removing the entire breast, women feel they are removing the opportunity for cancer to recur or spread. In fact, the emotional, physical and financial cost of fighting breast cancer and the constant worry of recurrence or spread has a growing number of women pressuring surgeons to remove healthy breasts as a preventive measure.

Many women were shocked by Christina Applegate’s decision to have both healthy breasts removed two years ago when she discovered she carried a known genetic risk marker for breast cancer. But since then more than 9,000 women have followed her lead and had a healthy breast removed, according to a new study in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Expert permanent makeup artist Melany Whitney works closely with many breast cancer patients and their surgeons to help create real-looking breasts after mastectomy. Through her work with breast cancer patients, Melany has developed a unique paramedical tattooing technique that can create a real-looking three-dimensional nipple and areola on a reconstructed breast. Melany’s technique and artistry allow breast cancer survivors to feel confident and proud about their breasts after mastectomy.

According to international celebrity makeup artist Claudio Riaz who counts among his clients Nicole Kidman, Hilary Duff and Jennifer Aniston, the five most common makeup mistakes women make are:

1. Overdone bronzer and blush
2. Wrong foundation tone
3. Clumpy mascara
4. Overdrawn lips
5. Incorrectly used eyeliner and concealer

Incorrectly, inexpertly or too heavily applied makeup can not only leave you with a less than polished appearance, it can also add years to your face. But even if correctly applied, using the wrong color of foundation or concealer can have disastrous results. Foundation should be applied with a very light touch and match your skin color as perfectly as possible. Your concealer shade should be just slightly lighter than the shade of your foundation and should be applied with a light touch. Using a cream blush instead of powdered blush will create a flattering, subtle glow instead of overdone clown cheeks.

The best way to avoid common makeup mistakes is with permanent makeup expertly applied by nationally renowned permanent makeup artist Melany Whitney. The added advantage of permanent cosmetics is that small flaws can be permanently corrected during the paramedical tattooing process. Lip lines can be made fuller and more symmetrical. Eyebrows can be filled in and feathered, and brow lines artfully curved. Thin lashes can be made to appear fuller. With permanent makeup you don’t have to worry about makeup faux pas. You can have the confidence that comes with knowing that your makeup is always perfect.

Red Lips on the Red Carpet

Naturally, the gowns were gorgeous, but what really stood out at Sunday’s Academy Awards telecast were the lush red lips many stars wore almost as an accessory. Best Actress winner Sandra Bullock gleamed almost as brightly as her Oscar statue in a stunning, form-fitting silver Marchesa gown with a beautifully embroidered bodice. With just a touch of jewelry at her ears and wrist, it was Sandra’s bright red lips that stole the show. Vera Farmiga matched her stunning lip color to the brilliant magenta silk crepe pleats that cascaded in lush curves down her strapless Marchesa column gown. Charlize Theron garnered a lot of attention with a unique deep amethyst Dior gown that featured hug pink satin rosettes placed directly over her breasts. Her beautiful deep red lip color did bring attention back to her face, but only briefly.

Deep, bright red lip color calls attention to your face and is the hot new look for spring and summer. Unfortunately, deep lip shades can be out of place in the workplace. Women who wear permanent makeup can enjoy the best of both worlds. They can have their lips colored the perfect shade of neutral pink or beige to match their skin tone for everyday wear and enhance their lips with a deeper shade of lip color for evening affairs. Permanent lip color doesn’t exclude you from wearing lipstick when you feel like a change. Simply apply lipstick or gloss directly over your permanent lip color.

Get a second look with Permanent Cosmetics for Men.

It’s all over in 15 to 20 seconds. That’s all the time guys have to make that all important first impression when they meet a woman. At least that’s the view of the authors of a fun and fascinating new book that will be in bookstores later this month. In Undateable: 311 Things Guys Do That Guarantee They Won’t Be Dating or Having Sex, authors Ellen Rakieten and Anne Coyle provide a hilarious field guide to male dating faux pas. Cringe-worthy wardrobe malfunctions, disastrous relationship-tanking behavior, unfortunate male mood-breakers and a host of other dating red flags are come under scrutiny. Sure, the book subjects male dating behavior to some hilarious ridicule, but it also provides thoughtful insight into the female mind and practical recommendations for getting past those first 20 make-or-break seconds successfully.

While Undateable focuses largely on fashion and behavior faux pas, it’s a person’s face that first captures attention and is the focal point of a large portion of those critical first 20 seconds when men and women meet. Permanent cosmetics for men can ensure that you make the most of each critical first encounter. Permanent cosmetics for men can camouflage unsightly facial scars and correct pigment problems, create a more symmetrical lip line and create fuller, more commanding eyebrows. Visit our Permanent Makeup for Men website to find out more. The clock is ticking!

Self-adjusting makeup is the latest buzz in fashion mags and at makeup counters. Makeup manufacturers from inexpensive Cover Girl and Almay to upscale Dior and Lancome have been debuting a variety of makeup products that seem to promise a highly personalized makeup experience by precisely matching the individual color of the wearer’s skin. Touted as a chemical break-through in the highly competitive world of commercial cosmetics, the hype is that these cutting-edge foundations, concealors and blushers are formulated with specialized shade-sensing agents that, ads claim, allow the makeup to almost magically mimic the color of your skin.

The commercial cosmetics industry has long sought ways to personalize its products. Gimmicks have come and gone. From simple color charts to intricate multi-choice wheels through quirky sliding gizmos, the makeup industry has tried any number of color-coded, number-matching, skin tone-identifying gimmicks to try to create a personal experience from mass marketed products produced for the largest number of users. This latest trick may be fun and some of the cosmetics do turn a pleasing color on the skin, but no mass-produced product will ever be truly personalized to the unique makeup requirements of a specific individual.

If you desire a truly personalized makeup experience, distinctively mixed and artistically applied permanent cosmetics will give you the perfect makeup colors and lines you desire to showcase and enhance your uniquely personal beauty.