Permanently Beautiful

Did you ever think about just how much a trip to the salon really costs you?  If you’re like many women, you need to visit your salon at least bi-monthly to maintain well groomed brows.  Eyebrow shaping and/or waxing can range anywhere from $8 to $45 per visit on average.  Many women need to visit their salon at least bi-monthly to maintain well groomed, well arched brows.  That adds a recurring cost of anywhere from $16-$90 on average to your monthly budget.

Even if your waxing salon is fairly close to home, you will still usually need to drive a few miles and from the salon each time you go.  With gas prices always increasing, the cost of your trip is always increasing as well.  You can add at least three to ten dollars to every salon trip just for gas alone, but luckily there is an easier way!

You can get perfectly arched brows without going to the see your waxer more than you probably see most of your family members!  Permanent makeup offers the perfect solution.  Having permanent brows drawn on once can save you hundreds and even thousands of dollars in trips to the salon over the course of your life time and you’ll never have to worry about your eyebrow waxer or shaper making a mistake!  Experts at the Melany Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics are not only eyebrow experts, but also Asian eye experts as well, so no matter what your ethnicity, you’ll be sure to love your new look.

As the days get warmer and longer, many women spend more and more time in the sun.  This can be bad news for our eyebrows!  Even dark eyebrows fade easily in the sun, often into a less than flattering brassy color, and eyebrows that are very light to begin with may become so pale that they are hard to see.

To remedy this, many women opt to tint or dye their brows darker throughout the year as needed in an effort to forego daily use of eyebrow pencil or eyebrow powder.  While eyebrow print might achieve this purpose if done perfectly, it can be very difficult to do correctly.  From choosing the perfect color, to ensuring you don’t get dye on your skin and in your eyes, the whole process can be quite tricky.

Additionally, eyebrows will only “hold on” to hair follicles for a significant period of time, not skin.  Therefore if your hairs are sparse, dye may not help to sufficiently make your eyebrows look thicker or darker.  What’s worse?  The dye can fade out easily with regular face washing and leave your eyebrows brassy and damaged.

Having and expert Boca Raton permanent makeup artist apply permanent brows, however, is a great alternative to monthly, or even weekly eyebrow tinting.  Permanent makeup can give you the darker, thicker looking brows you want without any downtime or the need to reapply them regularly yourself.

According to reporter Michelle Man of BN Magazine and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), in 2005, plastic surgeons witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of non-Caucasians in the United States opting to have plastic surgery.

The spike in number was particularly dramatic among English Speaking Asians, Latinos, and African Americans.  Increasing numbers of women with Asian Ethnic background continue to undergo the three common Western plastic surgeries.  These include rhinoplasty (nose reshaping), breast augmentation (breast enlargement), and perhaps most notably, bletharoplasty (eyelid surgery).

Generally, instead of opting for the usual droopy eyelid removal that bletharoplasty commonly involves, Westernized sophisticated Asian women are often opting to create the look of the bigger, rounder, eyes with the “double lids” that are common in American Caucasians.

Plastic surgery is a personal choice, no matter what ethnic group a man or woman originates from.  Fortunately modern surgeons offer a variety of options for those who can be made more comfortable and confident by a few cosmetic changes.  It’s important to remember that permanent cosmetics or paramedical tattooing can often pick up where a surgeon leaves off.

For women who have had eyelid surgery and would like new and improved full and beautifully arched permanent eyebrows to complete their new look, The Melany Whitney Center for New York permanent cosmetics offers a great solution.

Do you remember when you were just a pre-teen and everything about makeup was new?  Some of us may have had the advantage of being directly taught how to apply makeup, but when it comes to proper makeup application for many young girls, no formal training is available.  They’re left to fend for themselves in a world of beauty trial and error.

If not told by a friend about a makeup mistake at an early age, a woman may be stuck making the same makeup mistakes well into adulthood!  Could you be one of those women?  Read on as we share some of the common makeup mistakes to avoid.

Makeup Mistake # 1 – Not blending your foundation with your hairline:

Not applying makeup up through to your hairline and just a little beyond can leave you looking like you’re wearing a mask.  Blend your base into your hairline and back to your ears as well to ensure coverage looks natural.

Makeup Mistake # 2 – Not paying any mind to your eyebrows:

Many women, regardless of age, are guilty of not grooming their eyebrows.  This is a no-no because perfect eyebrows can really make your face. Tweeze stray hairs and use brow powder to get well groomed brows, or if you’re intimidated by brow shaping, consult with a permanent makeup artist to have permanent brows applied.

Stay tuned to our Permanently Beautiful blog for next week where we’ll share more makeup mistakes to avoid!

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.

Did you know permanent makeup can be a stress relieving solution for those who suffer from Alopecia Universalis, a medical condition involving rapid loss of all hair including eyebrows and eyelashes?  This medical condition, which is the most severe form of Alopecia affects about 1 out of every 100,000 people throughout the world.  One fifth of people with the condition have a family history of Alopecia, or hair loss.   

Alopecia Universalis is thought to be an autoimmune disease in which a person’s immune system mistakenly attacks their hair follicles, although the cause is still technically unknown.  Although this disease is relatively rare, it is all too real to the many men and women who suffer from the condition.  Absence of normal hair growth on the head and face can cause embarrassment and lack of confidence.  It can sometimes also cause unwanted attention and questioning from strangers. 

Permanent tattooing (or permanent cosmetics) offers those with Alopecia an attractive and affordable solution to these issues.  Wigs can help with hair loss on the scalp, but what about eyebrows?  Permanent makeup can be used to create natural looking eyebrows in absence of hair growth above the eye. 

Whether you suffer from Pattern Alopecia, Androgenic Alopecia, or Traction Alopecia (compulsive hair pulling or tweezing), permanent makeup can help.

Eyebrow sculpting is the hot new trend in male grooming. Men with bushy eyebrows are paying $75 a visit to have their out-of-control brows trimmed and plucked into submission at trendy salons in Manhattan and L.A. The Borat unibrow and Groucho Marx tangle are out. Today’s well-groomed man wants eyebrows that attract attention to his face without overwhelming it.

The well-groomed guybrow does not have a feminine arch. It forms a gentle curve that follows the upper contours of the eye socket. To tame bushy brows, eyebrow hair is thinned and overlong hairs are trimmed. Excessive hair growth above and below the natural brow line is removed to create a more defined brow. The goal of male eyebrow sculpting is to create a more handsome brow line without making it look “done.” Stylists sometimes leave a few stray hairs to give the brow a completely natural appearance.

For men whose problem is not too much eyebrow hair but too little, permanent cosmetics provide the perfect solution. In the hands of an experienced permanent makeup artist, individual eyebrow hairs are tattooed along the desired brow line, making eyebrows appear thicker, darker and completely natural. Permanent cosmetics can also recontour asymetrical brows and camouflage scars that mar the brow line. And because permanent eyebrows are tattooed into the skin, men don’t have to worry about them “coming off” in the shower or when they work out at the gym.

The desire to improve their appearance is what leads most women to choose permanent makeup. Imperfections, scarring, convenience and aging are the four primary reasons women choose to undergo permanent makeup procedures. Watch the video and hear two women tell their stories. 

Imperfections. Nature is an imperfect creator. Most of us have a small facial flaw that eats away at our self-confidence. We may feel that our eyebrows are too sparse or our lips too thin. We may have been over-zealous tweezers and long for the full, beautifully-shaped brows of our youth. Permanent makeup can fill in and arch sparse brows. It can make thin lips appear fuller and make overly full lips more proportional. In the hands of a skilled permanent makeup artist, permanent cosmetics can perfect what nature created.

Scarring. Expertly matching cosmetic pigments to natural skin coloring, an expert permanent makeup artist can camouflage facial scars and make them disappear. Unlike makeup, permanent cosmetics will not wear off or wash off. Your scar will remain hidden.

Age. As we age, our skin becomes sallow and the youthful pink of our lips fades. Permanent makeup can restore youthful color to lips and cheeks and add definition to the eyes. And when arthritis or failing eyesight makes it difficult to apply makeup, permanent makeup is always perfectly applied.

Convenience. When you wear permanent makeup, you gain the time you spend putting on makeup, touching it up and taking it off. Cleanse, moisturize and you’re out the door, looking beautiful 24/7.

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.