Permanently Beautiful

Dr. Mehmet Oz

In a moving segment on the Dr. Oz Show (click the link to watch), Melany Whitney was able to change the life of a woman whose badly scarred face had haunted her for 27 years. At the age of 15, Suzanne’s face was shattered in a devastating car accident. It took doctors 10 hours and 500 stitches to reconstruct her face, leaving massive, ugly scars. Five plastic surgeries were able to repair most of the facial damage but not the hideous scars. Even makeup was not able to hide all of the scarring that slashed across Suzanne’s face. At the age of 42, Suzanne felt doomed to a life where people quickly turned away on meeting her and children found her frightening. Every time she passed a mirror or caught her reflection in a shop window, she was reminded afresh of the horror of that moment long ago when her life changed forever.

Moved by Suzanne’s plight, Dr. Oz sent her to Melany. Melany carefully mixed permanent cosmetic color pigments to precisely match Suzanne’s facial skin tone. She then injected and blended the pigment into the skin layers along the white scars on her face, completely hiding the scars. When Suzanne joined Dr. Oz and Melany on stage to show off her new face, she was ecstatic. For the first time, she said, her daughter had told her, “Mommy, you’re so beautiful.”

Watch the video on our website to see how Melany and permanent cosmetics changed Suzanne’s life.

Scruffy five o’clock shadows are so yesterday. Today’s popular look for the well-dressed man is the perfect two-day chin shadow. Not quite a beard, the well-groomed two-day growth favored by Hollywood’s leading men and young male professionals covers the upper lip, cheeks and chin with a clean, tight scruff that is ruggedly handsome and super sexy. It’s the lusty look that earned Charles Paz the title Mr. Romance at the Romantic Times Book-lovers Convention last year. The 30-year-old freelance California model and photographer sports a nicely groomed two-day growth with a little longer soul patch that keeps female fans sighing. While some men shave off their shadow once it hits the neck, Paz lets his beard grow down his neck just a bit to create a darker shadow that strengthens and emphasizes his rugged jaw line.

The longer shadow look has replaced formerly popular full beards which are rare today. Today’s smart-looking man emulates the shorter hair and shorter beard popularized by soccer star David Beckham and Hollywood hunk Brad Pitt. It’s definitely a younger man’s look, cosmetologists warn. Older executives tend to gravitate to well-maintained goatees.

The sexy look can be a problem for men who have facial areas where hair doesn’t grow or grows unevenly, sometimes the result of Mother Nature or a childhood scar. Artistic permanent cosmetics for men can fill in bare beard areas and simulate the natural looking hair for a uniform and sexy beard.

Makeup artist at work.

Kate Gosselin may have had trouble staying in step on Dancing With The Stars, from which she just got the boot, but the divorced mom and former reality star of Jon & Kate Plus 8 manages to keep step where it counts — at home caring for her famous brood. With a new hairdo and glamorous makeover, Kate looked more like a Hollywood starlet than the busy mom of quintuplets. To help Kate maintain her new look and keep her makeup organized, makeup artist Zena Shteysel sent Kate home with a supply of Z Palettes, special clear vinyl magnetic cases that hold makeup pots so everything is visible and won’t get jumbled about.

Kate has the cases packed with plenty of neutral shades for the natural look she prefers. But at Zena’s urging, Kate will be adding some brighter colors to her makeup palette like purple and magenta for a bright look that’s a little more fun when she’s at home and out and about with the kids. Zena also suggested Kate brighten her lips with a rosy tinted lip shade.

While keeping her makeup organized will help whittle a few precious seconds out of Kate’s busy days, permanent makeup could give the harried mom hours of free time every week. Permanent makeup goes on once and keeps you looking gorgeous every second of every day. With permanent makeup Kate would never have to worry about the paparazzi catching her in a bad light. She’d always look fresh and fabulous.

Long, lush eyelashes are considered romantic and sensual which explains our love affair with lash lengthening and lash thickening mascara. Our desire to have alluring, femme fatale eyelashes doesn’t have to be done just with liquid applications.  With permanent makeup eyelashes can appear fuller and more alluring around the clock.

Using a careful process Melany Whitney can add color between your eyelashes top and bottom to create the illusion of more luxurious eyelashes. With some topical lash enhancing solutions costing over a hundred dollars, a “permanent” solution to enhancing your lashes may be just the perfect answer you have been seeking to give you years of enjoyment. Melany’s skill in adding the “right” color in the “right” way only comes from her years of experience.

By drawing attention to your eyes with eyelash enhancements you can choose to skip mascara altogether if you want. Why not also consider adding permanent eyeliner while you’re considering a permanent lash enhancement to add that extra definition that really draws attention to your eyes. You don’t have to be born with luxurious lashes or wonderfully accented eyes when you have Melany Whitney to enhance what you naturally have!

A great solution to thin eyelashes is permanent makeup which can create the illusion of longer, thicker lashes. Click here to find out how permanent makeup artist Melany Whitney creates beautiful, natural-looking eyelashes with permanent cosmetics.

Melany Whitney's Artistry

Is it art or is it science? Permanent makeup is both. But when the results are stunningly beautiful, you know that an artist’s hand is guiding the science. The success of nationally renowned permanent makeup artist Melany Whitney comes from her unique ability to combine the precise medical and technical knowledge of a scientist with the artist’s aesthetic eye for color, line, form and beauty.

Before she rose to the top of her career as an innovator and national leader in the field of permanent makeup, Melany’s artistic talent led her to a career as an artist. An honors graduate of the School of Art and Architecture at highly respected Cornell University in New York, Melany worked as a commercial fine arts artist for The New York Times. You can see Melany’s superlative eye for the subtleties of color and the beauty of form in her stunning personal art portfolio. 

Melany’s interest in beauty and style led her into the related fields of fashion and cosmetics which allowed her to apply her professional artistry to new endeavors. Training at the Fifth Avenue offices of Estee Lauder and Revlon led to successful careers as a New York City fashion model, an actress and a professional makeup artist.

Next time: Mixing art with science: How Melany has changed the face of permanent cosmetics.

Melany Whitney, the Face of Permanent Makeup

The face is the ultimate artist’s canvas. The desire to inspire every woman’s natural beauty is what drew Melany Whitney to combine her innate artistic talent with a proficiency for medical technology and forever change the field of permanent personal beauty. Now a nationally renowned expert in the field of permanent makeup, Melany is the face and voice of the permanent makeup industry. Melany regularly appears on national television shows to talk about permanent makeup and was a recent guest on the Dr. Oz show.

As a professional artist Melany understands the importance of color and the subtleties of color mixing. An accomplished artist, model, actress and makeup artist, she is intimately familiar with the planes of the human face and is an expert in the use of color, line and shadow to create natural facial beauty.

 As an expert paramedical technician, Melany also understands the nuances in the human skin that can be created with precise micropigmentation techniques. Melany has been able to meld her prodigious artistic and technical talents to develop advanced techniques in micropigmentation that have revolutionized the permanent makeup industry. But it is not the national acclaim garners by her achievements that provides Melany with the greatest satisfaction. For Melany, satisfaction comes from the ability to use her art and skill as a permanent makeup artist to transform her patients with permanent beauty.

Before you even consider purchasing permanent makeup we recommend that you check out your prospective technician’s gallery of clients. On our own website we have before and after images of clients for all the procedures we offer:  eyebrows, eyeliner, lips, full face treatments, hair loss coverage, and a variety of scar camouflage procedures. As you evaluate your technician, do you see what you like? Is the skill repeated over numerous times? Is there a consistent professional application?

Take time to evaluate your prospective technician carefully. Yes, it is true that sometime client’s ask for a technician to do eyebrows in a certain color or style that the technician may not select to do normally, but if you see images over and over of a specific arch type, thickness, or color mismatch in the before and after images of multiple clients, you should be cautious in choosing that professional to do your own procedure.

As you review our own gallery you will see that Melany does not do eyebrows a certain way or with a certain color. She adjusts her own style to fit the needs of each face, skin type, and client. That is the mark of a true expert!

If your prospective permanent makeup technician does not have a photo portfolio to show you examples of their own work, I would recommend that you wait and not use that technician as they may be new in the field or not have work that they will want to show off to prospective clients.

In this field seeing a wide illustration of results will help you to make the decision of which professional you want to do your own permanent makeup. We know that when you choose us at the Whitney Center of Permanent Cosmetics that we will make sure that your permanent makeup is a beautiful, natural-looking reflection of your own personal unique beauty. Don’t just trust what we say, look at the photos of our clients that prove it!

We invite you to view Melany Whitney’s oil paintings to see her wonderful artistic abilities and eye for color and detail.

Vanessa Paradis, the face of Chanel Rouge Coco Lipstick

There is nothing sexier or more sensuous than perfectly shaped, perfectly colored red lips. It’s the classic, come-hither look. In an ode to the timeless beauty that is the legacy and legend of Coco Chanel, Chanel has just introduced its new Chanel Rouge Coco Lipstick, a soft, smooth modern take on your mother’s classic creme lip color. To advertise its new dreamy-colored lipstick palette, Chanel has plastered New York with sensuous poster photos of the ethereal Vanessa Paradis, the face of Rouge Coco Lipstick. The charming gap-toothed French singer, model and actress, 38, has been a European star since her early teens. An exquisite beauty with a voice to match, Vanessa’s admiration of another classic beauty, Marilyn Monroe, sparked her early interest in performing. It is Vanessa’s voice you hear singing What a day for a daydream in commercials for the new lipstick. (Click here to watch the YouTube video of the commercial being made. Turn up the volume to hear Vanessa sing.)

You can capture the exquisite classic beauty of perfectly shaped, perfectly colored red lips with permanent makeup. Artfully applied by nationally renowned permanent makeup artist Melany Whitney, permanent lip color can hide natural imperfections and create beautifully symmetrical, sensuously shaped lips in deep lush red or in your own personal signature color. With permanent makeup you never have to apply lipstick. Like Vanessa’s, your lips are always model perfect.

Artistically applied permanent cosmetics for men can camouflage male pattern baldness. Nationally renowned permanent makeup artist Melany Whitney is able to create the appearance of a full head of hair with the artistic application of precise tattooing techniques. Permanent makeup for men can disguise bald spots and thinning areas, creating the appearance of a full, natural-looking head of hair. See the results for yourself. Visit our Permanent Cosmetics for Men website to see before and after photos of tattoo applications to camouflage bald spots.

With permanent cosmetics, men can retain the look of a full head of hair without messy lotions, ugly transplants or unnatural looking toupees. Permanent cosmetics move with you naturally whether you’re sweating at the gym, swimming laps or making a presentation in the board room.