Permanently Beautiful

Dove is chipping away at America’s idealistic views about beauty, doing its part to show that each of us is beautiful in our own way. Dove used the Super Bowl to tackle stereotypes about men’s grooming. Using the tag line “Be Comfortable in Your Own Skin,” Dove used buff athletic men to portray moisturizing and skin care as a healthy way for a man to nurture his body.

For centuries men took a bare bones approach to grooming. A shower and a shave was the male standard. In the 1800s, male grooming products were introduced at upscale barbershops and men’s clubs, but were sneered at by the Joe on the street. With the exception of hair pomades which faded in and out of style and were considered more of a necessity than a matter of vanity, male toiletries comprised an extremely thin market through the 1950s. The 1960s sexual revolution heralded a turning point in male grooming standards. By the 1960s men’s toiletries had become a fast growing market, although selection was still limited to basics like shaving cream, hair gel and aftershave.

It wasn’t until 2000 that male fragrances exploded onto the cosmetics market, opening the door to skin care and other grooming products designed specifically for men. Today most men take as much care in their appearance as women and many turn to permanent cosmetics to enhance their appearance, camouflage scars or correct flawed features. To find out more about male permanent cosmetics, visit our permanent makeup site for men.

Childhood accidents happen. A fall off a bike, a collision with a wildly thrown baseball, a skateboard trick gone wrong — as your mom will tell you, kids are an accident waiting to happen. Some accidents leave scars, little white lines or puckers on knees and chins, badges of a youth well spent. A defining scar on the chin of a handsome movie star may add to his on-screen allure, but many people consider those childhood scars unsightly blemishes that mar their appearance.

You may have to live with the memories of the accident that created a scar, but you no longer have to live with the scar. Permanent cosmetic micropigmentation can permanently camouflage scars and restore your confidence in your appearance. Scars and skin imperfections resulting from childhood (or adult) accidents, injuries, burns and surgery can be camouflaged using paramedical cosmetic tattooing. Artfully applied micropigmentation can break up scar tissue and color it to more perfectly match and blend with your natural skin tone, making the scar disappear from sight.

Nationally renowned permanent makeup artist and paramedical tattoo expert Melany Whitney regularly receives referrals from prominent plastic surgeons and physicians to assist their patients. Melany has perfected scar camouflage micropigmentation and paramedical tattooing techniques that allow patients to reclaim their natural beauty.

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.

Facial scars leave their mark not only on the skin but on the soul. There is something about our face that more than any other part of our body determines our comfort with ourselves. Perhaps it’s that our face is the window through which others see us. Most see only the reflection in the glass; few come close enough to peer past the surface into the soul. With no knowledge of our depths, we are judged by our face.

Facial scars can be damaging to our sense of self. Even a small scar from a childhood injury or teenaged acne can undermine our self confidence and make us feel ugly when we gaze in the mirror. I know a young woman who had thyroid cancer surgery. Despite understanding the necessity, she was so devastated and embarrassed by the thin scar that slit across her throat that it destroyed the way she saw herself. It did not matter that others saw only a minor imperfection; she saw a monstrosity. For years she wore turtlenecks and multi-strand chokers until she was finally able to come to terms with her appearance.

Cosmetic tattooing performed by an artistically accomplished paramedical tattoo artist like Melany Whitney can permanently hide facial scars and restore your confidence in your natural beauty. Prominent plastic surgeons nationwide frequently refer their patients to Melany to remove the embarrassment of unsightly scars or natural skin imperfections. There is no need to suffer. Cosmetic tattooing can restore your natural beauty.

As women we reject the chauvinistic notion that we are defined by our most protruding feature. We are not our breasts. Yet, the undeniable reality is that our breasts do differentiate us as wholly female and are inextricably intertwined with our sense of femininity. When a woman loses a breast to cancer, she grieves. Part of what makes her feel female is gone forever. The emotional struggle to adjust to the loss of a breast from mastectomy is one more hurdle toward recovery.

Breast reconstruction surgery has helped many breast cancer survivors regain confidence in their femininity. But breast reconstruction provides only the shape of the lost breast. For many women, the scarring and lack of areola and nipple definition can be as horrible as the initial loss and a jarring daily reminder of that loss. A breast is more than a mound of tissue. The deeper colored areola and protruding nipple define a woman’s breast. Without that essential definition it is difficult for many women to embrace a reconstructed breast as their own.

Many plastic surgeons do not understand the emotional need to create an aesthetically realistic breast. Through her work with mastectomy patients, paramedical tattoo expert Melany Whitney came to realize the deep emotional need breast cancer survivors had for reconstructed breasts that looked real. Combining her artistic ability and professional expertise, Melany developed a unique micropigmentation tattoo technique that recreates the natural, three-dimensional look of a real breast. Click here to see actual results. Paramedical breast restoration can be the final step in successful breast cancer recovery.

Time to wear pink! October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and we’re happy to report that progress is being made. According to the American Cancer Society, since 1990 breast cancer deaths in the U.S. have been declining by about 2% a year. Even so, 192,370 U.S. women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year and 40,170 will die from the disease. The good news is that survival rates are improving: 89% at five years after diagnosis, 82% after 10 years and 75% after 15 years. But survival often carries a high price tag. Women lose their hair, eyebrows and eyelashes to chemotherapy. They may lose a breast if they have to undergo a mastectomy. Cancer surgery can leave unsightly scars. Certainly, it seems a small price to pay for life; but the physical aftermath of battling cancer can continue to reopen emotional wounds as survivors try to move on with their lives.

If you are a cancer survivor, we want you to know that you are not alone. The caring staff at the Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics offers our support. Specialized paramedical tattooing techniques perfected by nationally-recognized technician Melany Whitney can help cancer survivors regain their beauty and self-confidence. Permanent makeup can recreate natural eyebrows and eyelashes lost during chemotherapy. Artistic paramedical tattooing can camouflage scars from tumor surgery. Melany’s unique three-dimensional nipple and areola restoration can make surgically reconstructed breasts look natural again. There is life after cancer. Permanent makeup can help a beautiful new you enjoy each new day.

The new summer movie, “My Sister’s Keeper,” puts out there on the big screen what people look like when they undergo chemotherapy.  In the film, the older of two girls in a family has leukemia and the younger sues to stop having to donate her body parts to keep her sister alive. The sister with the illness is realistically shown with no hair, eyelashes or eyebrows.

As often supportive friends and family do, the mother in the movie, played by Cameron Diaz, shaves her own hair so she will be bald like her cancer-stricken daughter. But she still is Cameron Diaz and still looks beautiful. She still has her striking eyebrows and eyelashes. People undergoing chemotherapy don’t. And it can make the ordeal even more devastating. Especially for women who in our culture continue to have a premium placed on their looks.

Permanent makeup can help give anyone facing chemotherapy – a child, man or woman – the chance to feel better about themselves when they look in the mirror. And they deserve every bit of feeling better that they can get. Applied by a professional, permanent makeup can give them eyebrows and eyes that help them look like their former selves.

It may be better for someone who has cancer to have permanent makeup applied before chemotherapy or in the early stages of treatment to reduce stress and promote healing. A doctor’s release should be provided. Alternatively, with approval of the physician, permanent makeup can be applied in the midst of a course of chemotherapy during an off-week when no chemo drugs are administered. Advance approval of the doctor is recommended for all attendees before enrolling in the clinic.

Paramedical uses of permanent makeup provide liberation from the embarrassment of unsightly scars and natural skin imperfections. Also called micropigmentation, paramedical permanent makeup is the implantation of pigment within the skin in a safe and sterile environment by our highly skilled Board Certified and nationally recognized expert, Melany Whitney.

Melany Whitney’s Professional Credentials:

• Board Certified Permanent Makeup Artist and Instructor
• Member and Trainer, Society of Permanent Cosmetic Professionals (SPCP)
• Fellow of the American Academy of Micropigmentation (AAM)
• Certified Advanced Paramedical Professional Health Care Provider
• Instructor at the Florida College of Natural Health, Steiner Education Group

Ms. Whitney has undertaken extensive paramedical cosmetic tattoo training and acquired impressive clinical certification. She achieved the highest accreditation, Cum Laude, on her diplomatic boards. She is a Board Certified Permanent Cosmetic Professional.

Permanent makeup provides a finishing touch to surgical procedures, camouflaging scars and burns, and breast reconstruction.  Micropigmentation’s ability to break up scar tissue and color it to better match your natural skin tone improves your appearance and gives you renewed confidence in your appearance. Permanent cosmetics can disguise scars and discolorations from cleft palate, birthmarks, freckles, non-pigmented age spots, and cosmetic surgeries like face lifts and tummy tucks.

“Para,” as a Greek root or prefix, literally means “alongside.” It usually suggests something that aids or accompanies something else. In Latin, the root “para” means “beyond,” and both of these perfectly describe the paramedical work done by Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics™. 

Once the medical work has been done, the doctor can refer his or her patients for paramedical work that aids and accompanies a complete healing process. Once scars have healed, paramedical work can go beyond the doctors’ work to help camouflage the scars. 

The Whitney Center For Permanent Cosmetics™ regularly receives referrals from physicians at the New York Presbyterian Hospital of Cornell University and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, as well as from prominent plastic surgeons nationally. Though the word “cosmetics” implies beautification, the Center’s services are for much more than just creating beautiful faces.

Doctors can and do refer their patients to The Whitney Center For Permanent Cosmetics™ with confidence, knowing that their patients will receive remarkable results from a facility headed by a certified permanent cosmetic professional who is not only talented, but also licensed to perform paramedical work. Melany Whitney is fully educated in sterile environments and sanitary procedures, and strictly adheres to all universal health precautions. With such extensive service offerings and impressive credentials, why would anyone go elsewhere?

Breasts are central to our identities as women. Whether it be from social pressure or not, from adolescence onwards we vascillate between embarrassment and pride over their power to make us feel feminine. Our clothing choices are made based on whether we want to flaunt or disguise our feminine assets, and we are met with them regularly between the mirror and the shower. They have to be considered as we take up sports. And then of course, there’s motherhood, which makes them useful in a whole new way.

For breast cancer survivors who have undergone mastectomies, issues of mortality may give way to an appreciation of life, where ideas about femininity and identity come up. That trip between the mirror and the shower may not offer the reflection it once did and that can be difficult to deal with, let alone sharing the view with anyone else. Research has shown that having breast reconstruction improves self-image and morale, which may help improve the odds of surviving breast cancer.

An aspect of reconstruction is permanent areola repigmentation and nipple restoration. Even for women who have had other breast surgery, or who may have irregular or fading areolas, permanent paramedical breast restoration may seem like nothing short of a medical miracle. Melany Whitney’s permanent areola repigmentation and nipple restoration techniques employ cosmetically tattooed micropigmentation to restore the natural beauty of your breasts so you can regain confidence in your own femininity.