Permanently Beautiful

One of the hot beauty trends for fall and spring 2011 is fuller brows. Let’s face it. Not many of us have naturally full brows with the perfect arch. Many women spend years and hundreds of dollars, not to mention countless hours in the mirror, trying to get the perfectly arched brow – one that isn’t too bushy or too sparse. Consider these tips to get (or fake) thicker eyebrows.

In a recent article in Cosmopolitan inspired by the Spring 2011 runway show, artist makeup Hibba Kapil suggested using pencil to fill in areas of your brow that have gone missing, either from birth or by way of over-tweezing. Be careful when using this method as you’ll want to match your brow hair color as much as possible. You’ll also want to be careful to draw in hairs in such a way that they look natural.

Many makeup artists use powder to make eyebrows appear thicker. Using a brush to dust colored powder over the brow can give the appearance of slightly thicker brow hair. Without using stencil, however, powdering in the perfect arch can be tough.

If you want to save time and money, you’ll want to strongly consider permanent brow enhancement. This technique is perfect for men and women who lack a goo arch, eyebrow thickness, or have over-tweezed their brows. The Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics can have you ready for Fall/Spring 2011 in no time without any downtime by skillfully creating the perfect brow for you, permanently.

Hair loss isn’t something that happens only to men. While female hair loss doesn’t usually reach the “bullet head” stage, many women do experience varying degrees of hair loss as they age. You may have noticed women in their golden years whose hair is so thin that their scalp can be clearly seen through the wispy stands. Some women even develop a circular bald spot at their crown.

Called Androgenetic Alopecia, clinical pattern baldness can happen to men, women and even children. When they’re pregnant, quite a few women suffer thinning hair caused by hormonal changes. In many cases the hair regains its pre-pregnancy thickness but in some cases the hair loss is permanent.

Thinning hair and bald spots can be especially distressing to women because it is unexpected and unaccepted by society. Men may loathe losing their hair, but at least hair loss is anticipated as a normal part of male aging. That is not the case for women which makes the thinning of their hair that much more devastating. Women may feel tremendously embarrassed by their loss of hair, even freak-like.

Fortunately, there is a solution. Paramedical tattooing, the clinical application of permanent makeup, can give the appearance of hair where hair has been lost, making it look as if you have a full head of hair. By injecting medical-grade pigment into the dermal layers of the skin, a permanent makeup artist can create the illusion of individual hairs on the scalp, effectively camouflaging female hair loss.

It’s surprising what a difference in our appearance our eyebrows make. That arch of hair over each eye frames and defines our face. Perhaps our most expressive facial feature, we use our eyebrows to express delight, anger, surprise and thoughtfulness. Our eyebrows make us look human. Without eyebrows we look vaguely robotic and incomplete. 

Believed to be an autoimmune disorder, Alopecia Areata Universalis causes rapid loss of all facial and body hair. It can strike at any age, including early childhood, leaving alopecia sufferers feeling self-conscious and extremely uncomfortable about their appearance. Some sufferers of the disorder say the stares and rude comments of strangers can make them feel freakish about their appearance and reluctant to participate in social activities.

Many alopecia sufferers have found relief from their condition in paramedical tattooing. Using precision paramedical tattoo techniques, expert permanent makeup artists like Melany Whitney are able to create natural-looking permanent eyebrows where none existed. To help alopecia sufferers reclaim their natural beauty, Melany combines expert technical skill with her talent as a professional artist to tattoo individual eyebrow “hairs” above the eye sockets, creating perfectly-shaped eyebrows that look three-dimensional and completely natural.

To find out more about paramedical tattoo solutions to Alopecia Areata Universalis and view before and after photos of actual patients, click here to visit our website.

For most men hair loss is the dark side of aging. You can color graying hair, but there’s not much you can do when your hair starts to disappear — or is there? In the hands of a highly skilled permanent cosmetics artist, permanent makeup for men can camouflage hair loss and male pattern baldness, giving you a younger, more virile appearance.

Using a specialized form of tattooing, permanent makeup artists implant pigment interdermally into the skin layers of the scalp. When performed by an expert permanent makeup artist, the result gives the appearance of natural hair. However, your choice of permanent makeup provider is critical to achieving successful results.

Melany Whitney is a recognized specialist and innovator in the field of permanent makeup. Combining her extraordinary technical skill with her talent as a professional artist, Melany has developed a permanent makeup application technique to camouflage hair loss that mimics the three-dimensional appearance of natural hair. Using precise color matching and expert technique, Melany creates individual “hairs” on balding areas, blending them perfectly into the receding natural hairline. The result is indiscernible to the eye. See for yourself; click here to view before and after photos of actual clients.

Permanent makeup for men can also “correct” receding eyebrows and restore your brows to their youthful, thick, dark, manly appearance.

Painting by Melany Whitney

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder; but when cancer survivors look at themselves in the mirror, they focus on the scarred tissue from cancer surgery, the doughy flesh of reconstructed breasts and the baldness left by chemotherapy. The person they see in the mirror is unfamiliar, ugly, unfeminine. Yes, cancer survivors will agree, they’re lucky to be alive, but it’s not enough. They long to look attractive and feminine again, to feel whole. Physicians may be able to restore the body, but artistically-applied paramedical tattoos and permanent cosmetics can revive the soul, restoring the natural beauty and self-assurance that cancer stripped away.

Doctors’ offices, spas and tattoo shops have begun offering cosmetic tattooing. A nurse or ink tech may be able to tattoo a bull’s eye on a breast mound, but that won’t make it look like a real breast. Many cancer survivors disappointed with the botched results of inferior medical tattoos turn to permanent cosmetics artist Melany Whitney for help. Working with the country’s top cancer specialists and plastic surgeons, Melany uses her technical and artistic skill to recreate life-like nipple/areola complexes to complete reconstructed breasts. Melany’s close association with recovering breast cancer patients led her to create an innovative paramedical tattoo technique that creates the illusion of a natural areola and protruding, three-dimensional nipple. For breast cancer survivors, Melany’s artistic gift is the difference between surviving and living!

You’ve probably seen the television ad for a men’s hair coloring product where two corporate types are discussing job applicants. One points to a younger man with dark hair and says, “We need his energy.” His colleague points to a gray-haired man, saying, “Yes, but we need his experience.” Of course, (this is a commercial, after all) the solution is a “touch of gray,” implying that with a little hair color a man can appear to offer the best of both worlds.

Typical TV hype? Sure, but with a strong current of truth. The job market and corporate ladder have never been more dog-eat-dog than they are today. Looking fit, attractive and a bit younger than your years gives men a crucial competitive edge in today’s work place. A youthful appearance makes you appear more energetic and vital; people think you still have what it takes to “get the job done.” Men who have tuned into this new reality are using plastic surgery, hair transplants and permanent makeup to improve their appearance and give themselves a leg up in the business world.

Unfortunately, facelift and hair transplant procedures often leave telltale scars, negating the natural appearance hoped for. Paramedical tattooing by a highly skilled permanent makeup artist like Melany Whitney can camouflage facelift or transplant harvesting scars, hide bald patches in the scalp or beard, thicken eyebrows to give you a more commanding appearance and more. Find out about our specialized services for discerning men at Permanent Makeup for Men.

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.

Your eyebrows frame your face. They are the portals to your eyes, pulling people into their limpid depths. Eyebrows come in all shapes and sizes. Today, lush, naturally-shaped eyebrows are fashionable, but in times past barely there, pencil thin brows have been in vogue. Today, we prefer eyebrows that follow a gently-sloping natual contour, but past fashions have included straight-lined beetle brows, exotic slanted brows and high-peaked, overly-arched eyebrows. Unfortunately, eyebrows perpetually plucked and trained to narrow or highly-stylized shapes may balk and refuse to regrow when we wish to adopt the natural look popular today.

Other forces can also impact the way our eyebrows grow and look. Many women have little understanding of natural eyebrow shape and over-pluck their eyebrows. In time, plucked hairs may refuse to grow back, leaving eyebrows that start a bit too far from the nose, arch too thinly above the eye or end too soon in an abrupt taper. Many men and women pull and tug at their eyebrows and eyelashes when they’re nervous. In it’s most severe form, Trichotillomania sufferers from may pluck their eyebrows and eyelashes bald. Age, too, affects hair growth and may leave eyebrows thin and patchy looking.

Inadequate eyebrows are a problem for both men and women, but, fortunately, it is a problem solved by permanent makeup and permanent makeup for men. Permanent eyebrows can correct eyebrow flaws, hide eyebrow scars, fill in thin or irregularly-shaped eyebrows and create the illusion of natural, healthy, well-formed brows.

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.

Hair transplants have come a long way since the old hair plug days when harvesting left male scalps cross-hatched with chicken-scratch Xs. Modern surgical hair restoration techniques now graft entire follicle units onto thinning sites creating a seamless and very natural appearance. Harvesting sites generally remain hidden for years, covered by still vital hair growth. But as in all things, nature eventually catches up, hair loss continues and once-hidden hair transplant harvest sites are exposed. Harvesting scars along the back of the skull often show up as ugly red lines and can give men a lobotomized look. Not exactly in tune with your suave, savvy, accomplished image!

Expert paramedical tattooing, a form of permanent makeup, can reduce transplant harvest scars to a nearly invisible line. Permanent makeup, known medically as micropigmentation, tattoos iron oxide cosmetic pigments into the dermal layer of the skin. The technique can be used to camouflage scar tissue, hide embarrassing hair loss from thinning hair, camouflage bare patches in beards and sideburns, reshape uneven or scarred lip lines, enhance eyelash loss and create thicker looking eyebrows.

To see how permanent makeup for men can hide transplant harvest scars, visit our website to see before and after pictures of actual patients. Don’t let embarrassing hair loss or transplant scars diminish your self-confidence in your appearance. Permanent makeup for men can give you back your competitive advantage.