Permanently Beautiful

Many women often overlook lips when it comes to their overall makeup routine, focusing solely on the eyes and cheeks. Lip liner, gloss, and lipstick however shouldn’t be skipped. The shape and color of lips has a significant amount of influence on your overall appearance – the look you’re projecting to the world.

Lips that are more vibrantly colored project youth and vitality whereas lips that are dull and chapped looking can project fatigue, aging, and even sickness. That’s why it’s important to make sure that you have a go-to lip makeup routine. If you go the every morning makeup application and reapplication route, you’ll need to use a shade of lip liner that matches your own lips closely as well as a lip gloss or lipstick in a beautiful shade every day. To avoid the hassle of applying lip makeup everyday and to look vibrant every day permanently, just choose the permanent lip color route.

Always remember that the shape of your lips is important too. The proper lip shape and size can really balance and a face and make it appear much more beautiful. Many women are born without a symmetrical pout and without large plump looking lips. Lining your lips will improve your lip shape. Using permanent cosmetics to get the perfectly shaped lips permanently is a great option. Permanent cosmetics are also the perfect solution for enlarging lips that have lost fullness due to aging.

We invite you to visit our website for photos done by the best permanent makeup artist in New York City, Melany Whitney.

If you tuned in the Today show Monday morning, we’re sure you were as surprised as we were to hear Today beauty editor Bobbi Brown say that nothing can be done about thin lips. Obviously, Bobbi isn’t familiar with the transformative powers of permanent makeup! A specialized cosmetic tattooing technique, permanent makeup is regularly used to reshape, redefine and enhance the appearance of imperfect lips.

Through the artistic application of permanent makeup, an expert permanent cosmetics artist like Melany Whitney can make thin lips appear wider, fuller and more luscious. Unattractively full lips can be toned down. Embarrassing irregular lip lines can be subtly corrected and lips reshaped to give a completely-natural, more-pleasing appearance. Using permanent makeup, naturally pale lips or lips paled by age can be restored to healthy, youthful color. Additional benefits of permanently colored lips are the elimination of unsightly “bleeding” into the fine lines around the mouth and an end to embarrassing lipstick stains on glasses, napkins and the cheek of your embarrassed nephew. The proven success of permanent makeup to significantly improve lip appearance has made “permanent lips” a popular procedure with both women and men.

For more information on using permanent makeup to make lips look more beautiful, click here to read Melany’s Lovely Lip Tips from our January 2009 newsletter.

Permanently Beautiful Lips

When you’re chatting with friends, look at their faces. Which features do you notice most? The eyes, certainly, draw you into a person’s face; but it is the shape and color of the lips that make a person look vibrantly alive or tired and worn out. Few people have perfectly shaped, movie star lips; but plenty of us have lips that are too grimly thin or clownishly large or deathly pale. Unattractive lips can dominate a face instead of enhancing it, detracting from our unique personal beauty and unfavorably coloring the first impressions of people we meet on the job or during social events.

Ordinary makeup can help correct imperfect lips, but it must be expertly applied and there is the constant fear that it will smear or be washed away by sweat in an over-warm office or at the gym. Your corrected lips could even disappear completely with an incautious wipe of your napkin while eating. How embarrassing! Your appearance could totally change right before your date’s eyes! The solution is permanent makeup.

Permanent makeup can hide imperfections in your lips, give your lips a more attractive shape and a rosier, healthier natural color. This is makeup that can’t be sweat away, wiped away or washed away. Permanent makeup-enhanced lips are as permanent as the lips you were born with, only more attractive.

Drew Barrymore

Have you seen the new commercials for Cover Girl Outlast Lipstain starring the always darling, inimitable Drew Barrymore? Highlighting Drew’s sunny smile, Cover Girl’s latest lip cover looks fresh and carefree, the perfect choice for easy, breezy summer wear. Light and pretty, the new lip stains introduced by Cover Girl, Revlon, Sephora, Candy and others brush your lips with light-weight color that lasts all day. An interesting new lip color product, lip stains feel less heavy on the lip and less “cakey” than traditional lipsticks, yet they provide a more penetrating lip cover than sheer lip glosses. Actually, what they seem to mimic most is permanent lip color.

Women who wear permanent lip color never have to worry about their lipstick being fresh, leaving those unsightly lipstick rings on glasses or smudging some hunky guy’s shirt collar with telltale lipstick smears. Artistically applied permanent cosmetics are used to saturate lips with permanent color that won’t wear off! Permanent lip color is the ultimate long-lasting lip stain, making your lips look fresh and kissably lush 24 hours a day.

Permanent lip color can be applied with or without lip liner. You can choose a shade that enhances your natural lip color or bring in your signature lipstick shade for matching. When applying permanent makeup to lips, nationally known permanent makeup artist Melany Whitney can repair lip line flaws, add fullness to thin lips and add symmetry to problem lips. Permanent makeup gives you lips that are always beautiful.

Vanessa Paradis, the face of Chanel Rouge Coco Lipstick

There is nothing sexier or more sensuous than perfectly shaped, perfectly colored red lips. It’s the classic, come-hither look. In an ode to the timeless beauty that is the legacy and legend of Coco Chanel, Chanel has just introduced its new Chanel Rouge Coco Lipstick, a soft, smooth modern take on your mother’s classic creme lip color. To advertise its new dreamy-colored lipstick palette, Chanel has plastered New York with sensuous poster photos of the ethereal Vanessa Paradis, the face of Rouge Coco Lipstick. The charming gap-toothed French singer, model and actress, 38, has been a European star since her early teens. An exquisite beauty with a voice to match, Vanessa’s admiration of another classic beauty, Marilyn Monroe, sparked her early interest in performing. It is Vanessa’s voice you hear singing What a day for a daydream in commercials for the new lipstick. (Click here to watch the YouTube video of the commercial being made. Turn up the volume to hear Vanessa sing.)

You can capture the exquisite classic beauty of perfectly shaped, perfectly colored red lips with permanent makeup. Artfully applied by nationally renowned permanent makeup artist Melany Whitney, permanent lip color can hide natural imperfections and create beautifully symmetrical, sensuously shaped lips in deep lush red or in your own personal signature color. With permanent makeup you never have to apply lipstick. Like Vanessa’s, your lips are always model perfect.

Permanently Beautiful Lips

Have you heard about the latest lip plumping cosmetic surgery procedure? It’s called a lip implant and involves grafting a snip of your neck muscle onto your lips. It’s said to improve lip color as well as form. Pioneered in India, the procedure is fairly new and largely unstudied. Possible side effects include loss of feeling in the lips, head movement limitations, neck pain, nerve injury and lip deformities. All that risk and U.S. researchers say the procedure only provides beneficial results for 2 years. After that, lip color fades again.

How much smarter (and more cost effective) to use permanent makeup to make your lips permanently full and rosy. In permanent cosmetics, a paramedical tattooing process is used to insert natural pigments under the skin to add permanent, long-lasting color to pale lips. An expert permanent makeup artist like Melany Whitney can make lips appear fuller and even correct uneven or irregular lip lines and minor scars. Permanent lip clients can choose to go natural and have their lips colored a slightly darker shade than their skin tone or call more attention to their lips by having Melany match their favorite lip stain color to create a signature look.

Red Lips on the Red Carpet

Naturally, the gowns were gorgeous, but what really stood out at Sunday’s Academy Awards telecast were the lush red lips many stars wore almost as an accessory. Best Actress winner Sandra Bullock gleamed almost as brightly as her Oscar statue in a stunning, form-fitting silver Marchesa gown with a beautifully embroidered bodice. With just a touch of jewelry at her ears and wrist, it was Sandra’s bright red lips that stole the show. Vera Farmiga matched her stunning lip color to the brilliant magenta silk crepe pleats that cascaded in lush curves down her strapless Marchesa column gown. Charlize Theron garnered a lot of attention with a unique deep amethyst Dior gown that featured hug pink satin rosettes placed directly over her breasts. Her beautiful deep red lip color did bring attention back to her face, but only briefly.

Deep, bright red lip color calls attention to your face and is the hot new look for spring and summer. Unfortunately, deep lip shades can be out of place in the workplace. Women who wear permanent makeup can enjoy the best of both worlds. They can have their lips colored the perfect shade of neutral pink or beige to match their skin tone for everyday wear and enhance their lips with a deeper shade of lip color for evening affairs. Permanent lip color doesn’t exclude you from wearing lipstick when you feel like a change. Simply apply lipstick or gloss directly over your permanent lip color.

Jen's Natural Look

Jennifer Aniston worked her way into American hearts as Rachel on Friends and never left. She’s the proverbial “girl next door,” fresh and wholesome looking. Jennifer uses a few special makeup tricks to create her very natural look. She may look like she’s not wearing makeup, but it’s a light hand and adept application that give Jen the natural appearance admired by so many.

How does she do it? Jen only applies eyeliner to her top eyelid, usually leaving the bottom lid naked or applying only a faint, thin stroke of liner to the bottom lid. To enhance her natural look, Jennifer chooses eyeliners in pale grays and light browns. She counts on a medium coating of mascara on both top and bottom lashes to make her eyes pop. To enhance her eyes, Jennifer favors barely there, lightly applied eye shadow in pale grays, beiges, pinks and lavenders. Jen sticks to natural looking lip colors in light brown, peach or pink. Her trick is to color her lips just slightly darker than their natural color.

Permanent makeup can give you Jennifer Aniston’s natural look 24 hours a day without tedious time in front of the mirror. You can have permanent eyeliner in a natural shade tattooed on just your upper lid or add a barely there line to your lower lid. Permanent eye shadow can enhance your eyes with natural beauty 24/7 and it never cakes or creases. Your lips will always look naturally beautiful with permanent lip color. Permanent makeup is the ultimate natural look!

Tomorrow scour your wardrobe for bright red clothing and put on your brightest red lipstick. It’s time to Go Red to support women’s heart health. February 5 is National Wear Red Day when millions of women and the men who love them don red to call attention to heart disease, the No. 1 killer of women in the U.S. The American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women campaign encourages women to learn more about heart health and how to prevent heart disease. Click here to take the AHA’s quick Heart Check Up to assess your heart health. On the same site check out Better U diet and exercise tips to promote good heart health.

You’ll want to keep that tube of red lipstick handy after tomorrow. Bright electric reds, oranges and pinks are this spring’s hot new lip colors. You can apply them right over your permanent lip color. Much like popular new lip stains but with less fuss, permanent makeup subtly colors lips in the perfect shade for your skin tone and personal preference. Permanent lips are beautiful naked or with a touch of lip gloss when you’re on the go and provide the perfect base when you feel like a change and want to command attention with one of this spring’s bright corals or hot reds.

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.