Things you will need to consider before proceeding with a lip procedure.

Always with any Micropigmentation procedure, the colour chosen plus your underlying skin tone is what will determine the final colour. Colour can be added to at a later date with warmer or cooler shades to balance according to your desired look.

There are many variables when it comes to tattooing the lips and it is important that you are aware before you proceed.

Firstly, you should know what you’re in for when it comes to time out.

Lips swell quite a bit for 3 or 4 days and take about a week to go down completely. Lips may ooze the first couple of days, peel for a week and chapped for two weeks. During the peeling process it may seem like there is not much colour in the lips. The lip colour starts showing more after a couple of weeks when the healing and sloughing process has finished.

Techniques, pigments, and tools, vary from one practitioner to another. The coil or the Rotary machines deposit colour faster, and more aggressively into the skin speeding up the process, but creat more welling and bleeding. A dentist’s block is commonly used.to alliviate any pain.

The Hand Tool method is more gentle but takes longer to perform and causes less swelling. A topical anesthetic is commonly used, and there will be some bleeding and swelling.

Most lip procedures need two or more treatments to get an even coating of colour in. Colour selection is very important because what you see in the bottle is not what will appear on the lips. The lips contain a lot of blood vessels and so by nature they are blue based. Remember your skin tone plus the tone of the pigment determines the final colour. Much better to go lightly and add depth later than go in too dark.

If you get fever blisters / cold sores you may experience an outbreak after procedures. Antiviral prescription should be taken. Prepare by using Zovirax ointment 3 or four days prior to procedure.

Lips that have been injected with fillers may not hold colour well. Restylane injected superficially near the lip edge has caused migration or feathering to occur along the lip line. Lips that have been injected with liquid silicone risk disruption of the capsular formation holding the micro droplets in place due to stretching and pressure applied for the permanent lip colour procedure. Loss of liquid injectable silicone may occur, and all risks associated with free silicon applied if this happens. Lip implants may become infected if the lips acquire an infection.