Permanently Beautiful

Have you ever heard a woman say, “I feel naked until I put my face on”? For many women putting on their makeup is more than part of their morning routine, it’s a symbol of their femininity. Like doing their hair and dabbing on their favorite scent, applying eye makeup and lipstick makes women feel more beautiful, self-confident and ready to meet whatever the day has in store. Even women who favor the natural look and choose to skip foundation prefer the way they look with a dash of eyeliner, a swipe of mascara and a touch of lipstick. Makeup enhances our natural beauty and makes us feel good about ourselves.

A stroke, arthritis, muscular dystrophy, long illness, accident or other degenerative condition or disease strikes at the very core of who a person is as an individual and a woman. The inability to apply makeup when motor skills are lost and hands shake can be a tragic blow to a woman’s sense of femininity and sense of self. Without makeup she no longer sees in the mirror the woman she once was. It makes her loss cut even deeper. Permanent cosmetics can restore a woman’s sense of personal beauty and her self confidence in her appearance.

Artfully applied cosmetic tattooing can create beauty-enhancing permanent eyeliner, permanent eyebrows, permanent lips or even a full face enhancement. With permanent makeup, a woman who is no longer able to apply her own cosmetics can still look like she’s just applied fresh makeup.

The economy will continue to drive the way we dress and live in 2010. Realistic fashionistas are going practical with a return to smart basics. Expect clothing to feature good, sturdy fabrics in mixable neutral shades of brown and gray. Clean lines, simple cuts and a more classic look will dominate 2010 fashion. Versatility will be the name of the game. Women will splurge on just a few fabulous pieces that offer multiple ways to dress up or dress down their wardrobe. For example, savvy shoppers will look for items like a sleek leather tunic that can be worn as a mini-dress, vest, tunic over leggings or even light outerwear. Women will continue to look for smart ways to stretch their clothing budgets. Individual expression in the midst of Plain Jane fashions will come from colorful custom-designed jewelry and artfully applied permanent makeup.

This year the eyes have it! In 2010, permanent eye makeup will focus attention on your beautiful face. It’s your eyes that will add that special spark of alluring fire to practical fashions. Perfectly arched and feathered permanent eyebrows will provide a window to eyes exquisitely lined with permanent eyeliner. Add neutral shadows for serious work hours, then go wild with a slash of neon bright shadow for evening wear. The spring release of Tim Burton’s film version of Alice in Wonderland is expected to add a hint of Victorian whimsy and wild psychedelic colors to fashion accessories and makeup pallets this spring.

Women aren’t the only ones taken with the brooding vampire look popularized by Robert Pattinson in the hit movie Twilight and its just opening sequel New Moon. There are plenty of guys who are fans of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga. And even men who prefer Bram Stoker’s more brutal portrayal of the great fanged one in the 1992 film Dracula  to Twilight’s romanticized tortured hero have tuned in to the power of those brooding brows. For it’s Pattinson’s lush, full, dark eyebrows that have women swooning.

Those sexy brows dominate Pattinson’s face, giving him an allure of mystery and power with a “shivers down the back” touch of danger. What’s not to love? Eyebrows frame and define the face. Hollywood makeup artists, who deal in perception, know that thick dark brows indicate power and command. Even though Pattinson seems to have been born with superb brow genes, you can bet the Tinsletown paint and brush experts have plied their craft to make those brows look thicker, fuller and more brooding.

It’s a look that can benefit any man who wants to get ahead in life. Commanding brows make a man appear powerful, in charge, self-assured and confident. In business — and in matters of the heart — people respond to the way you look. For those without great brow genes, permanent makeup for men can create a strong, commanding but natural-looking eyebrow line. Find out more at Permanent Makeup for Men.

New Moon, the second eagerly-awaited installment in the Twilight Saga, is opening in theaters. With brooding, blood-sucking hunk Edward (Robert Pattinson) off doing vampire things, will beautiful Bella (Kristen Stewart) turn for comfort — and romance? — to mysterious werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner)? The allure of the Twilight series goes beyond teenybopper fandom. The best selling series by Stephenie Meyer has women of all ages turning pages late into the night. Sensuous and sexual without being explicit, Meyer has transformed sex into the more emotionally powerful yearning. In a Time magazine interview, saga screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg called it “safe sexuality. It’s the ultimate romantic ideal. You have the allure of danger. And yet there’s only so far you can go.”

Who knows how far you’ll go when you slip into New Moon’s mysterious “Twilight Eyes.” The dangerous allure of New Moon’s otherworldliness begins with the eyes. Create Bella’s sensuously tortured look by first defining eyes with a thin line of chocolate eyeliner. Thicken and define brows. Use a pale neutral pink shadow under the brow. Apply russet brown shadow lightly to eyelid, feathering and slightly smudging up toward inner brow terminus and slightly beyond outer eye line. Add a very light swipe of shadow under eye and feather slightly toward cheek; don’t smudge the eyeliner.

Permanent makeup provides the perfect foundation for Twilight Eyes or any look. Lush permanent eyebrows perfectly frame your face. Permanent eyeliner flawlessly defines eyes. Add shadow and you’re ready to prowl!

My friend is distraught. She isn’t even 30 and she’s starting to lose her hair. We expect men to have thinning hair and bald spots, but women? Sure you see the occasional older woman with wispy hair. I had an aunt with hair so thin you could see her pink scalp through her wispy bouffant, but she was in her 80s. Thinning hair just isn’t something most women think about. Unfortunately, Alopecia Areata Universalis (AAU) is more common than you’d expect.

The second most common hair loss disease, AAU more often affects women, although it can affect men and children. AAU occurs in apparently healthy people like my friend and generally develops in the late teens or young adulthood. Sometimes called “spot baldness,” in its early stages the disease creates small thinning patches that can become bald. The disease can spread over the entire scalp and even affect other body hair, including eyebrows, eyelashes and pubic hair.

Researchers suspect a genetic factor as the non-communicable disease appears to be hereditary. Research also indicates that AAU may be an autoimmune disease exacerbated by stress. Whatever its cause, my friend finds it highly embarrassing. Fortunately, permanent makeup can help restore to eyebrows, eyelashes and scalp the natural appearance of hair lost from Alopecia Areata Universalis. Combining expert cosmetic tattooing with practiced artistry, Melany Whitney can restore a woman’s confidence by recreating naturally sensuous eyebrows and eyelashes and using permanent paramedical repigmentation to help hide scalp hair loss.

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.

Women aren’t the only ones seeking permanent eyebrow enhancements (see our Sept. 8 post). More men are recognizing the youthful effect of full, thick eyebrows and turning to permanent cosmetics for men to recapture lost youth. Maintaining a young, virile appearance isn’t about ego; it’s about keeping your competitive edge. In today’s uber-competitive job market, it’s essential to look young. Show your age and people start to wonder if you’ve lost your edge. You become an easy target for up-and-coming young turks battling for a spot on the corporate ladder and easy pickings for layoff-hunting executives. Full, thick eyebrows created with paramedical tattooing can restore that predatory look of youthful vigor and turn you back into the hunter, instead of the hunted.

As men age, they start to lose hair not just from their scalps, but from their eyebrows. Once strong, virile, commanding brows become thin, particularly in the inner nasal area that defines a man’s face. Aging brows become soft and sparse and seem to disappear into the face, leaving the impression of ineffectiveness, indecision and weakness. Exactingly performed, single stroke paramedical tattooing can recreate each individual natural hair, adding depth and thickness to brows and restoring the virile look of youth.

Visit the Whitney Center for Permanent Cosmetics website just for men to learn more.

Brooke Shield’s fabulous eyebrows seem to be everywhere on TV these days. The former model and last season’s Lipstick Jungle star probably has the most famous brows in Hollywood. Lush, thick, richly colored and perfectly shaped, Brooke’s unique brows have made her famous. Until Brooke hit the cover of Vogue, the youngest model ever to earn that honor, Hollywood brows were narrow, plucked arches that framed the face without being particularly noticed. Brooke brought the natural brow back to popularity.

Just like eyes, eyebrows vary in size and shape. Your brows frame the most important and expressive part of your face and must be sculpted to enhance your unique facial features. Not everyone can pull off Brooke’s thick eyebrows, but most of us could use a little help to achieve the polished Hollywood perfection of Courtney Cox’s or Angelina Jolie’s expressive brows. Properly placed and defined brows can open up your eyes and improve the appearance of your face. Permanent eyebrows artfully applied by nationally recognized permanent makeup artist Melany Whitney will get you Hollywood star notice.

Using exacting hair stroke simulation, Melany uses her skill and experience as a professional makeup artist to artistically reshape and thicken brows so they perfectly frame your face. Even brows that have been destroyed by Trichotillomania can be restored with permanent makeup so that TTM sufferers feel beautiful again.

Beautiful New Permanent Eyebrows

Ultimately, our eyebrows give our face expression. They also frame our face providing definition that makes our finished look more polished and naturally-looking. Proper tweezing and shaping of the brows should create the illusion of opening our eyes. This can also change the appearance of our face.

Whether someone is tired of plucking or waxing their brows on a weekly basis or just tired of having little or no eyebrow hair at all, permanent makeup for one’s eyebrows may be the answer. A professional permanent makeup technician specializes in perfecting the skin and face to look fresh everyday (with no work on your end)!

Professional permanent makeup technician such as Melany Whitney will provide perfect eyebrows for anyone with their initial consultation. After creating these brows, at one’s second session, she will perfect the shape and color to ensure they are perfect. The skin is allowed to heal in between sessions as nearly four weeks are placed in between the first and second appointments with Melany.

Permanent eyebrow makeup gives women extra time on a weekly basis to do something for herself. Instead of slaving away at the mirror with the tweezers or the expense of weekly waxing, this one-time procedure will provide perfect looking eyebrows that beautify a face.

The Whitney Center For Permanent Cosmetics provides premium permanent makeup services. Procedures such as permanent eyebrows allow patients to continue with their life, with no down time.

Beautiful newly done eyebrows.

So you’ve got a tattoo of a rose on your ankle, maybe you have one on your shoulder too, so what’s holding you back from getting the perfect eyebrows done with permanent cosmetics? Yes, permanent cosmetics are tattoos too, but as they are on your most visible part of  your body your face, so you want them done “Just Right”.

Not every tattoo artist, or for that matter not every permanent cosmetic technician, is capable of providing the lasting, classic beauty look that you want on YOUR face. When it is your face and your eyebrows, you want natural! Keep them guessing, but you want the correct shape, the arch that draws out your eyes, and you want beauty!

This is where training, experience, and artistic flair is absolutely crucial to who you choose to do your eyebrows. The tattoo artist who drew a lifelike flower may not understand facial morphology nor have been a cosmetic artist trained to enhance and beautify faces. Melany Whitney is all of these things and more. She is  the consummate artist, a professional makeup artist, superiorly trained, and on top of that nationally recognized.

Don’t just think anyone can or should do your eyebrows when you are ready to experience the freedom from makeup now that you are over your fear of tattoos. Think only of Melany Whitney, the expert when it comes to permanent makeup for YOUR face.