How you look after your skin in the first days and weeks affects how evenly the colour heals and how long it lasts. Here is what is normal and what matters.
Every skin heals at its own pace: some flake a lot, some barely at all. The days are a guide for brows, lips and eyeliner.
Day 1
The area feels tender and the colour looks stronger than it will stay. Swelling, redness and even slight bruising are normal: most of it eases within a few hours and is usually gone after a day or two. If a little wound fluid appears, dab it off gently with a damp cotton pad so that no thick scabs form.
Days 2–4
Fine scabs form, which is why the area now looks darker. There may still be some swelling or redness.
Days 4–7
Scabs and flakes start to come away, on the lips often from day three. Depending on your skin and the treatment this takes three to ten days. Please don’t scratch or pick, even if it itches: picking takes colour with it.
Week 2
Once the flakes have gone, the colour often looks very light all of a sudden, sometimes patchy too. The surface of the skin has closed. Over the next few weeks the colour gradually comes back.
4–6 weeks
The skin has healed and the true colour shows. Next comes the touch-up, for lips as well as brows and eyeliner: I refine the shape and colour. It is included in the price if your first treatment was with me; more than 8 weeks after the first treatment it is a new treatment at a reduced price.
After the treatment I give you an aftercare cream and all the aftercare advice. Coffee, alcohol and painkillers are fine again, though alcohol can slow healing.
On top of the general rules, each area has a few of its own, mostly about cleaning and the cream.
Permanent makeup fades over time. How fast depends on your skin type, your lifestyle and the treated area.
Dark, light, patchy, then even: these stages are normal. Judge the result only when your skin has fully healed, which takes a few weeks. At the touch-up I even out any areas that have faded more than others.
Please see your doctor or a dermatology clinic, and let me know as well.
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About four to six weeks, until the skin has fully healed and the true colour shows. Scabs and flakes come away within three to ten days, depending on your skin and the treatment. After that the colour often looks light for a while and gradually comes back.
Fine scabs form in the first days, so the area looks darker than it will stay. Once the flakes have gone, the colour often looks very light, sometimes patchy, and comes back over the next weeks. Judge the result only after four to six weeks.
Makeup and other skincare products on the area after 7 days; swimming pools, saunas and hard workouts after 10 days. Sunbathing, sunbeds, acids, retinol and vitamin C on the area only after 4 weeks.
The aftercare cream I give you: from the second day, apply it thinly once or twice a day, for 5–7 days. On the first day, gently dab off any wound fluid with a damp cotton pad so that no thick scabs form. After a lash line enhancement, no cream on the eyes.
No. Let scabs and flakes come off by themselves, even if it itches: picking takes colour with it.
If swelling doesn’t go down, redness stays, or you notice inflammation, a rash or a fever: please see your doctor or a dermatology clinic, and let me know as well. Swelling, redness and even slight bruising in the first day or two are normal.
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