Permanently Beautiful

Areola restoration is the art of restoring the look of natural nipple areola onto the breast.  Otherwise known as areola nipple pigmentation or areola nipple
repigmentation, areola restoration is expertly performed by paramedical tattooing professionals.  The procedure is commonly needed after breast surgeries such as mastectomies, breast lifts, breast reductions, and male gynocomastia surgeryies.

People in many different fields offer to perform areola restoration, but it is important to choose a qualified paramedical tattooing professional.  Doctors, nurses, regular tattoo artists, reconstructive surgeon office assistants, and medical assistants are some examples of parties offering areola restoration, however, it is important to be ware.  Be sure to ask your areola restoration artist for before and after photos of their past work and think twice before you choose anyone other than a qualified permanent cosmetics professional.  Your decision in this matter can make or break your confidence levels after your breast surgery.

The artist that performs your procedure will need to take into account many things only a properly trained and gifted artist can master.  These include “the illusion of protrusion,” proper depth and shading, skin tone appropriate coloring, symmetry, and appropriate proportion.

There are several tattoo artists out there, but Melany Whitney is also a trained artist.  Consult with the qualified Miami area experts at the Melany Whitney
Center for Permanent Cosmetics Florida office to learn more.

In the beauty profession there are always horror stories floating around. The inexpert haircut that practically scalped the client. The Botox injections that turned a face into a frozen mask. The permanent makeup job that disfigured the client’s face. Recovery from a botched haircut is merely a matter of time. A bad Botox job will, hopefully, self-correct when the effects of the filler dissipate. But poorly done permanent makeup is forever.

People whose appearance has been damaged by an inadequately trained, inexperienced or artistically-inept permanent makeup technician turn to Melany Whitney in the hope that she will be able to undo the damage and make them feel beautiful again. To these people, Melany is a savior. Nationally known as “the voice of permanent makeup,” Melany has the well-honed technical skills, broad experience, and artistic talent to correct flaws made by others and create beauty.

An innovator in the field of paramedical tattooing, Melany regularly works with plastic surgeons to hide scars and improve the appearance of facial features. When Dr. Mehmet Oz offered to restore the looks of a woman tragically disfigured in a car accident, he called upon Melany to hide scars and redefine the woman’s facial features. In a post-treatment appearance on the Dr. Oz Show, the woman tearfully told Melany and the audience that it was the first time she had felt beautiful since the accident.

If you’re considering permanent makeup, place your face in the hands of someone you can trust to achieve the beautiful results you desire.


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.

Always the rebel, the Baby Boomer generation is being dragged kicking and screaming into their golden years — and they’re fighting back! Refusing to look older than they feel, active boomers are dying their hair, stepping up the pace at the gym, liposuctioning away stubborn fat, and rejuvenating their appearance with permanent cosmetics to retain a youthful look. While social stereotypes would make most people assume that women are at the root of this boom in anti-aging pursuits, they would be wrong. Men are leading the charge!

Staying competitive in a tight job market is the primary reason men give for rejuvenating their appearance, but late-life dating lurks in the background, unspoken but equally important to male boomers. In both the business and dating arenas, men are finding that a mature but more youthful appearance gives them back the competitive edge Mother Nature is stealing away.

In their battle against time, many men are discovering the benefits of permanent cosmetics for men.  With permanent cosmetics there is no invasive medical procedure like there is in cosmetic surgery; and results are immediate, unlike the long months of hard work required to achieve noticeable results from diet and exercise programs.

Permanent cosmetics for men can bring natural, youthful color back to pale, aging lips. It can thicken and darken thinning eyebrows. Permanent makeup for men can even camouflage hair loss. Click here to find out more about how permanent makeup for men can make you look as young as you feel.

Unsightly scars whittle away at a person’s self-esteem and self-confidence. Even small scars loom large if they are visible to others. But a scar doesn’t have to be readily visible to diminish a person’s enjoyment of life. Embarrassment about a scar can cause people to change the way they dress to keep their scar hidden from view. Some people avoid physical activities that might expose their scar. Other people are so cognizant of their scar that it interferes with their desire to socialize, potentially leading to unhealthy isolation. Worst of all, a scar can shake a person’s confidence in his or her appearance and make the individual feel ugly and repulsive.

It was embarrassment about an unsightly chest scar that lead one woman to seek permanent relief from permanent makeup artist Melany Whitney. One of the country’s most respected paramedical tattoo experts, Melany was able to camouflage the woman’s scar so completely that it seems to disappear before your eyes. To see for yourself, click here to watch the actual procedure on a recent Fox News health segment on scar camouflage.

An innovator in the field of paramedical tattooing, Melany combines expert technical skill with her training as a professional artist to camouflage scars from accidents and surgery. While not all scar tissue can be successfully repigmented, many scars are excellent candidates for paramedical tattooing. Precise color matching and meticulous technique allow Melany to banish unsightly scars forever, restoring the patient’s self-confidence and making them feel whole and beautiful again.

When Fox News decided to do a health segment on scar camouflage, they came to Melany Whitney, a recognized expert in the art of paramedical tattooing. The news segment tells the story of a woman who was embarrassed by an unsightly scar on her chest left after removal of basal cells. (Click here to watch the Fox News segment on scar camouflage.)

The scar was high enough on the breast bone to be visible if the woman wore a V-neck sweater or did not keep her blouse tightly buttoned. She confessed that she found the inevitable questions and remarks at the health club and at the pool during the summer to be uncomfortably intrusive and embarrassing. Rather than hiding the scar, makeup just seemed to call attention to it, left a telltale stain on clothing and, of course, was useless if exposed to sweat or water. With another summer looming, the woman was desperate to find a permanent solution that would end her feelings of humiliation and embarrassment.

Paramedical tattooing provided the permanent solution the woman had been looking for. Paramedical tattooing is a highly specialized application of permanent makeup in which medical-grade pigment is injected into the intradermal layers of the skin to change the color and appearance of the skin. When performed by an expert permanent makeup artist like Melany Whitney, the technique makes scars seem to disappear.

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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!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and traditional tattoo shops are doing a brisk business in pink ribbon and cancer tribute tattoos. The body art industry has also expressed an admirable increased awareness in the need for permanent cosmetic and paramedical tattoo services to assist recovering cancer patients. However, there is considerable concern among experienced paramedical tattoo professionals that unsuspecting breast cancer survivors who rely on the limited training and fledgling experience of ink artists focused on expanding their financial base will be deeply disappointed in the results obtained. Should results fall short of expectations, the potential to inflict additional emotional pain on already suffering cancer survivors is tragically real.

A Massachusetts ink artist who 8 years ago decided to expand his tattoo business into the paramedical field began the transition with a week-long certification course at a Texas intradermal cosmetics technical school. In an interview with The Herald News, the ink artist admitted that it took years of practical experience after receiving his certification “to get to the point where you’re actually getting the ink to go where you want it to go.” He said that his experience as a former makeup artist gave him an edge in learning the complex pigment-blending techniques necessary to create the natural-looking skin colors so important to successful paramedical tattooing. He also had to learn sanitary and anesthetizing procedures that were quite different from those practiced by ink artists.

Next time: Choose your paramedical tattoo artist wisely

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.