Permanently Beautiful

Permanent Makeup for Men

As competition heats up on the job market, more men are turning to permanent makeup to keep their competitive edge and maintain their grip on the corporate ladder. A few facial lines or a touch of gray may connote desirable experience, but looking old won’t earn you any votes in the board room. Corporations want their executives to look commanding, energetic and virile. Permanent makeup for men can enhance your most attractive features and make weak features more commanding, allowing you to maintain your competitive edge.

Permanent makeup is a type of cosmetic tattooing known medically as micropigmentation. The application of permanent makeup involves the tattooing of iron oxide cosmetic pigments into the dermal layer of the skin. A highly skilled permanent makeup artist like Melany Whitney can use permanent makeup to:

• Camouflage facial scars and scars from injuries, facelifts or hair transplants.
• Redraw uneven lip lines so they appear more symmetrical.
• Redefine the color and definition of facial areas affected by cleft palate surgery so they look more pleasing and natural. 
• Fill in unsightly bald patches and hair loss caused by male pattern baldness.
• Thicken and redefine eyebrows using Melany’s unique, natural-looking, feather-stroke technique.
• Enhance eyelashes to rejuvenate and highlight the eyes.

Permanent cosmetics for men can rejuvenate your appearance and help you recapture your competitive edge.

Your face is your window to the world. Our face is the feature by which we are first judged when we meet someone new. A pleasing countenance opens the door to friendships, job advancement, even love. We hate to think we’re that shallow, but business studies have shown that beautiful people climb the corporate ladder more quickly, are compensated more richly and have an easier time making their way through life. As people get to know you, certainly your personality, strengths and abilities play a huge role in forming opinion, but at those first critical meetings when people first get together, it is your face that people judge.

With so much at stake, many men and women are turning to permanent cosmetics to enhance and improve their facial features. In the hands of a gifted artist like Melany Whitney, permanent cosmetics can enhance the natural beauty of your facial features, correct and reshape imperfections and even hide small scars to make sure that you are always putting your best face forward.

Choose a permanent makeup artist with care. While considerable technical skill and practiced experience are needed to produce consistently pleasing permanent makeup results, it is the artistic vision of the permanent makeup artist that creates the permanent beauty you desire. The pleasing arch of a brow, the sensuous curve of a lip, the careful shadowing of an eyelid — these are the things that set apart mere cosmetic technicians from highly-sought permanent makeup artists like Melany Whitney.

Heidi Klum

Summer travel means makeup needs to be fast, easy and portable. You want to look great when you travel during the summer, but who wants to spend their vacation in front of a makeup mirror when you could be splashing in the sun and surf? Hot, humid summer days invite a minimalist approach to makeup. Less makeup means fewer touch ups to control sweat and shine. Then there’s the whole space issue. When you’re trying to avoid those hefty baggage check-in fees, packing light becomes an art form. Every inch of space in your carry-on becomes precious. Who wants to choose between a bulging makeup bag and those to-die-for sandals? Pare down your makeup bag and pack both!

So what’s the absolute minimum amount of makeup you can comfortably get away with? Women who have artistically-applied permanent makeup need only pack a moisturizer with sunscreen and some lip gloss. When you wear permanent cosmetics, life is just that simple. The ultimate minimalist makeup, permanent makeup ensures that you look utterly fabulous whether you’re tanning on the beach, going for a dip in the ocean, sweating during spinning class or sipping margaritas by the pool.

Without permanent makeup, you’ll need to add a few items to your makeup kit. When model Heidi Klum travels, she packs only the bare necessities: sunscreen, concealer, gloss, lipstick and mascara. The rest of us would probably add foundation, powder, eyeliner and blush. Without permanent makeup, it’s hard to keep your makeup bag from bulging.

Permanent makeup isn’t just about personal beauty and convenience. The same procedures that make you look beautiful without a stitch of makeup, prove a godsend to accident victims, physically and emotionally scarred by their injuries. Referred to as cosmetic and medical tattooing or paramedical tattooing, permanent makeup can be used to camouflage scars and artistically redraw features that have been damaged by an accident or ensuing surgeries.

Nationally renowned permanent makeup artist Melany Whitney is frequently sought out by cosmetic reconstruction surgeons to assist their patients. Reconstructive surgery can repair the broad damage to the human body from serious accidents or burns, but it cannot restore the fine personal beauty lost in the aftermath of such accidents. It takes the considerable technical skills and remarkable personal artistry of a national expert in paramedical tattooing and permanent makeup to restore beauty to damaged features. Melany has derived great personal satisfaction from being able to help accident victims and surgical patients regain their sense of personal beauty and self-confidence.

Earlier this year, Melany was asked by Dr. Mehmet Oz to help restore an accident victim’s tragically scarred face. Disfigured by an accident in her teens, the now middle-aged woman had given up hope of ever looking attractive. Melany was able to use paramedical tattooing to camouflage the woman’s facial scars and redefine damaged features. To see Melany’s miraculous results, click here to watch Melany on the Dr. Oz show.

One of the fun things about permanent makeup is that you can layer makeup directly over it whenever you want to create a special novelty look like Lady Gaga’s huge anime eyes. But the nicest thing about permanent makeup is that after the party’s over and you strip away all the gunk, you still look model beautiful!

Here’s how to create Lady Gaga’s huge anime eyes:

1. Apply primer around the eye, including lower lashes, using a slightly lighter concealer or foundation than on your face.
2. Fill in your brow with deep brown eye shadow, increasing the arch.
3. Enlarge the white of the eye by lining lower lids with a 1/4 inch curved line of white cream shadow. The line should be very thin at the eye’s inner corner, becoming thicker as you move toward the outer corner.
4. Layer 3 sets of false eyelashes on upper lids and apply a single layer to the skin along the white area under your lower lids.
5. Draw a thin line of charcoal gray liner along the false lash lines. 
6. Use dark pink shadow to create curved contours along the upper lid and under the lower lid, making the outermost end of the curving sweeps slightly thicker.
7. Highlight contours with shimmering silver cream shadow, adding a single dot of silver to inner eye corners and the center of each upper lid to focus admirers’ attention.

Watch out for paparazzi!

Anime Eyes

Those huge doll eyes Lady Gaga showed off in the bathroom scene of her recently released Bad Romance video have struck a chord with teens and twenty-somethings and become this summer’s surprise must-have accessory. Young women are using outsized colored contact lenses imported from Asia to mimic the avant-garde singer’s bigger-than-life anime-style eyes. These specially designed circle contacts create the effect of huge doll eyes by covering part of the whites surrounding the eye’s iris with a huge circle of color. Fans call the new look cute, but the FDA warns that the foreign-made, Internet-sold contacts are illegal and unregulated and pose a risk of eye damage. U.S. ophthamologists warn that wearing improperly prescribed contact lenses can cause serious eye injuries including infections, corneal ulcers and corneal scratches. Blindness can even result from severe eye infections or injuries. 

Of course, Lady Gaga didn’t put her beautiful peepers on the line when she made the video. Computer-generated special effects were used to create her wide-eyed look. You too can have Gaga’s childlike eyes without risking your eyesight. Using special makeup techniques, you can apply makeup directly over your permanent makeup to go “Gaga” for an evening of uninhibited fun. That’s one of the advantages of permanent makeup. Your permanent makeup keeps you looking fresh and gorgeous 24/7 while providing the perfect base for those times when you want to glam it up!

Next time we’ll tell you how to create Lady Gaga’s anime eyes.

It begins with a small bald patch. In as little as 4 to 6 weeks, every hair on your body disappears. You are completely and totally bald. Your head, eyelashes, eyebrows, beard, arms, legs — yes, even there. Alopecia areata sufferers may joke about never having to wax or shave again, but nothing about this disease is funny. Alopecia drastically changes a person’s appearance, causing severe emotional pain.

Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease that induces the body to attack its own hair follicles. Progression of the disease, which attacks men and women equally, is individual and unpredictable for the 2% of the population affected. Some alopecia sufferers lose every hair on their body (alopecia universalis); others experience a few bald patches.

Genetic research at Columbia University shines the first rays of hope on this emotionally devastating disease. Researchers have discovered a genetic trigger that focuses immune cells on hair follicles, killing them. Previously, scientists believed alopecia was an autoimmune skin disease like psoriasis. New research indicates that alopecia behaves more like rheumatoid arthritis and celiac disease. Heralded as a major breakthrough, researchers hope new findings will lead to a cure for alopecia.

For now, paramedical tattooing offers the only solution for alopecia sufferers. A skilled permanent makeup artist can tattoo natural-looking hairs to fill in patchy beards or eyebrows for those suffering mild cases of alopecia. While there is little relief for alopecia universalis sufferers, tattooed permanent eyebrows can give the face a normal appearance.

Melting in NYC

Ugh! The mercury climbed to 100 degrees in Central Park yesterday with no relief in sight! The heat wave blanketing the Northeast is expected to keep NYC temperatures languishing in the high 90s and triple digits for most of the week. Steamy subway platforms have turned usually crisply turned out New Yorkers into post-match World Cup wanna-bes. Until temperatures drop again, the rumpled, sweaty look will be de rigueur for city residents.

Baking between the city’s concrete towers, New Yorkers struggled back to work today after the long holiday weekend, clothes limp and hair straggling in the sweat. Putting on makeup was a farce. Less than 10 steps out the door and you could feel it melting down your face! By the time you arrived at the office you were lucky to have a few streaks of eyeliner smudged down your cheek.

Summer has barely started. Can you imagine what it’s going to be like in August? You might as well dump your makeup down the drain now for all the good it’s going to do you. Or you could be smart and get artistically applied permanent makeup. When all around you people are melting, permanent makeup keeps you looking fresh and beautiful. Permanent makeup is the only make up tip that works when New York sizzles!

We’re careful to check the expiration date when we pick up a quart of milk. We toss leftovers when they start to turn. But our makeup? How many of us layer our faces, eyelids and lips with makeup we’ve had around for more than a year, sometimes many years? Be honest. Is there a reason you’re still making room in your makeup drawer for the purple glimmer eye shadow you loved in high school?’

Germs can grow on any surface, including makeup. Constant use loads your makeup brushes, puffs and sponges with makeup, grime, oil and bacteria. Every time you swipe your face, you’re leaving an unhealthy residue. Share makeup with a friend and you double your risk. Face it. We don’t go around licking our friends’ faces, but we don’t bat an eye at sharing a lipstick.

The only truly safe and healthy makeup is permanent makeup. Artistically applied by permanent makeup artists in a sterile environment, permanent makeup goes on once and stays beautiful 24/7. No more bacteria-laden brushes or sponges. Apply sunscreen-enhanced moisturizer in the morning and you’re good to go.

If you haven’t discovered the advantages of permanent cosmetics, follow these tips:

• Use brushes or sponges, not fingers to apply makeup.
• Wash makeup brushes once a month in warm, soapy water. Rinse, blot, blow dry.
• Sharpen eye pencils after use to expose a germ-free surface. Clean sharpener with alcohol.
• A cold is okay, but toss lipsticks if you get strep throat.