The Ugly Truth About Microblading

In this day and age, beauty is all about the face, and the most important part of the face are the eyebrows.  Beautifully shaped eyebrows provide a frame for your eyes, and full natural eyebrows can even make you look years younger.  

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But not everyone is fortunate enough to have perfect eyebrows.  If you have a genetic disposition to thin eyebrows, you over-plucked them in your youth, you have alopecia, you’re recovering from cancer treatment, you have sparse areas, or you simply don’t like the shape, you might be considering semi-permanent makeup as a way to enhance and beautify your most important facial feature.

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SEMI-PERMANENT MAKEUP

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Semi-permanent makeup is the growing beauty trend we can all now access.  Semi-permanent makeup is a cosmetic tattooing technique where the pigment is deposited into a shallow layer of the skin. The pigment fades over time (anywhere from months to years) and requires ongoing maintenance.  Semi-permanent makeup can be applied to eyebrows, eyes and lips.

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MICROBLADING = SLICING!

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Microblading is the most well known brow tattoo technique in Australia, and is promoted as the semi-permanent makeup solution for perfect eyebrows, but it is a technique that can leave you with disastrous results….

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The primary (and scariest) problem with microblading is that the procedure uses a hand tool to cut the skin in order to deposit the pigment.  The hand tool or ‘microblade’ is actually comprised of a row of needles which is used to slice the skin in the brow area.  Tattoo pigment is deposited into these slices to look like brow hairs.

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Although this technique is described as ‘feathering’, it would be more accurate to call it ‘cutting’ or ‘slicing’!

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MICROBLADING DOESN'T LAST...

Because microblading involves making cuts in the skin, it must be done VERY superficially.  If cuts are made deeper, they won’t look fine enough to resemble hairs and there is the potential for bleeding.  Due to skin cell turnover, microblading never lasts very long, which means you will need more and more touch-ups for the rest of your life, creating unnecessary trauma to the skin.

MICROBLADING CAUSES SCARRING

As microblading is a manual technique, you are also at the mercy of your technician, and it is far too easy to traumatise the skin by making the cuts too deeply and inconsistently.  And the more trauma the cuts have created in the skin, the more the body will attempt to repair the area by laying down scar tissue which leaves permanent damage.

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A simple image search on the internet can reveal what happens when microblading goes horribly wrong.  Even when performed by the best technicians, microblading will eventually result in permanent scarring, leaving microblading clients with mediocre results and scars on their brows.

MICROBLADING GOES BLURRY

While those initial photos of microblading can look awesome, clients will eventually be unhappy with these results over time because the microblading cuts soften and blur, which is why you very rarely see any photos of microbrading at the "6 week healed" mark.  The manual method of microblading doesn’t place pigment precisely or at a consistent depth in the skin.  So the pigment migrates over time and makes the cuts look blurred.

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Oily/combination skin types also don’t get good results from microblading.  Oilier skin has larger pores and excess sebum which can’t retain the pigment when it is microbladed.  The sebum literally pushes the pigment out, or the strokes become blurry due to large pores.

THE BETTER ALTERNATIVE: POWDER BROW USING NANO NEEDLE TREATMENT

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There is, however, a longer lasting alternative to microblading, which doesn’t involve cutting, slicing and scarring, and which will give you those beautiful eyebrows you have always dreamed about.  Although similar to microblading, the procedure and results are vastly superior – lasting longer (one to three years) and maintaining the integrity of the skin.  The powder brow technique is a cosmetic tattoo performed with a digital machine that uses nano-needle technology to gently implant micro-dots of pigment into the delicate eyebrow skin.  The needle penetrates and exits the skin very rapidly while implanting tiny micro-dots of pigment throughout the brow.  Colour can be built up and graduated, meaning results can be tailored to your unique brows.  This can’t be done with microblading, as you can’t build up cuts!  In addition, the skin heals far better around dots of pigment, as the overall integrity of the skin is better preserved.  

A tattoo machine can also place pigment at a precise, consistent and deeper level in the skin which means it will last longer.  You’ll get at least a year out of your tattoo before fading begins.  And fading happens more evenly than it does with microblading, due to more consistent placement of pigment.  So even when your powder brow tattoo fades, it still looks good!

All of this results in natural looking, balanced eyebrows custom made for your face.

If you want to have beautiful, natural looking, healthy eyebrows, reject the invasive, damaging microblading technique in favour of this advanced technique which will give you superior results and gorgeous eyebrows you can be proud of. 

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