Choosing a Permanent Makeup Artist: What Should You Look For?

1. The Permanent Makeup artist should be a licensed tattoo artist in the State of Tennessee,
trained and certified in permanent makeup or cosmetic tattooing.

2. In the State of Tennessee, permanent cosmetics procedures cannot be
performed in beauty salons, nail spas, esthetician rooms or lash extensions
parlors. Regulated facilities are inspected 4x per year and the inspection score
must be displayed on the wall, along with the establishment permit designated
as tattoo studio.

3. The Permanent Makeup artist shall have first aid and blood borne pathogen training.

4. You shall be offered a consultation and sketch prior to your treatment. While
you’re there, be sure to pay attention to the cleanliness of the studio.

5. The treatment room should look and smell clean. Artists should change their
gloves frequently and disinfect all the surfaces between clients.

6. The Permanent Makeup artist should ask health history questions in order to avoid any
adverse reactions and bad consequences and contingencies.

7. Any clinic you choose should exclusively use single use cartridges. They should
come in pre-sterilized, sealed packages and must be open in front of you.

8. Sterile single use handles (that hold the blade when performing microblading)
are best. If your artist says they reuse their manual microblading handle, then it
should be sterilized using an autoclave. Same is applicable to machines, they
need to be sterilized in between and completely covered by protective film or
plastic glove.

9. Permanent Makeup artists should practice on artificial latex skin and dummies before practicing on family, friends or clients.

10. Good Permanent Makeup artists will be continuously updated in their education in order to learn all techniques and offer the most natural looking brows, eyeliner and lips.

11. Look for healed results on someone who had the job done by the same artist.
Most Permanent Makeup jobs look great on pictures when newly done. However, healed
results are a better indicator of skill. Look at the colors. Do they look nice with
the client’s hair and skin color? Are the brows a good shape and size for the
client’s face?

12. Make sure that the brows the artist makes are the kind you like. Each artist will
have his or her own style: manicured, messy, sparse and natural, dense, etc.

13.Look for an eyebrows artist who answers your questions and is confident discussing
the Permanent Makeup process. He or she should be willing to talk about his/her education and experience.

14. Generally, the best Permanent Makeup artists are booked. You may have to wait to see one, but waiting will be worth it.

15. Not only does the artist need to be certified, but it takes a lot of time to get good
at the craft as well, as the experience of working with the pigments on different
skin types. Someone can advertise that they are offering a PMU service, but that doesn’t mean they know what they are doing.

16. Don ́t trust someone who had a weekend training and started touching people ́s
faces in the following Monday. Your face is going to represent you for a very
long time and should never be put at risk. Cheaper artists and groupon deals
may cost you a lot more if your brows need “fixing” afterwards.

Permanent makeup is easy to admire when it’s fresh.

Almost every artist can show beautiful photographs taken immediately after a procedure or a few weeks later. Those images tell you what the brows looked like that day.

They don’t tell you how they’ll look years from now.

That’s the difference.

Over the years, I’ve met countless clients whose eyebrows looked beautiful when they were first done but gradually changed into colors they never expected. Those experiences taught me something that completely changed the way I approach permanent makeup.

Today, I don’t think only about how your brows will heal.

I think about how they’ll age.

That’s the philosophy behind our Tru2Color™ Method, and it’s the same philosophy I bring to every eyebrow procedure I perform.

Click HERE to know more about our Tru2Color™ Method

Before you trust someone with your face, don’t just ask to see beautiful work.

Ask how that artist plans for the years ahead.

Because beautiful permanent makeup isn’t defined by the day it’s done.

It’s defined by how beautifully it ages.