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Permanent Makeup / Tattoo Correction

Can Permanent Makeup or Tattoo Be Corrected? 
Like most states in the U.S., Texas has few laws regulating permanent cosmetics. The best way to obtain attractive, safely-applied permanent makeup is to carefully select a qualified and experienced specialist.* Unfortunately, many consumers choose a technician based on a low price or convenient location and later regret that choice. Although permanent makeup will fade over time, inferior work can be heartbreaking. Fortunately, in many cases permanent makeup mistakes can be corrected or at least improved. (*Read our Consumer Guidelines page for help in selecting a specialist).
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Permanent Makeup/Tattoo Correction Techniques 
Moon can improve the tattooed makeup using color and/or shape adjustment techniques:

1. Color Adjustment: This technique is used when the shape of the eyebrow, eyeliner, or lip liner tattoo is good but the color is poor such as orange, blue, or purple. A corrective pigment color is implanted (tattooed) over the faded makeup to “neutralize” it toward a more natural shade. Usually the improvement is immediately noticeable, but it may take several weeks for the correction color to heal and stabilize to the desired result. Also, more than one appointment for corrective color micropigmentation may be necessary to achieve the best healed coverage.
2. Shape Adjustment: Sometimes the shape of permanent eyebrows or lip liner is not “terrible” yet it would look better with a few changes. In these cases, additional makeup tattooing might improve the shape, symmetry or balance of uneven permanent eyeliner or eyebrows. The tattooing necessary to correct the eyebrows or eyeliner may increase their thickness, so Moon will demonstrate the changes first with temporary color. He and his client will then decide together on the next step to achieve the best looking results. If the extra tattooing will not look good, then some of the old pigment must be concealed first before proceeding with micropigmentation.​

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Methods to Remove or Lighten Permanent Makeup 
It is faster and easier to obtain a body or makeup tattoo than it is to remove either one. Several methods are available to remove body art tattoos and, sometimes, permanent makeup:

Surgical Excision

A physician cuts out the tattoo and sutures the edges of the skin back together. The skin over and around the tattoo may need to be stretched first.

Dermabrasion

The tattooed skin is "sanded" by a physician with a special device. The top and middle layers of the skin that contain the old ink or pigment are removed.

Laser Technology

Pulses of light are used to break up the tattoo ink under the skin so the body's cells can "eat it up.” Results vary depending on the type of laser and wavelength of light used. Laser tattoo removal is popular for removing body art, but few physicians use lasers for permanent makeup removal because of the risks. Removing permanent eyeliner with lasers is extremely difficult and expensive. Physicians are cautious about using lasers to remove permanent lip liner because the lips are so vascular (bleed easily). Also, they are concerned about lasers turning permanent makeup black which can occur any time a laser is used on or near the pigment.

Salabrasion (Saline Removal)

​Similar to the Salabrasion process that was used by physicians, the saline or salt water technique uses the scientific principles of osmosis and equalization. Saline or concentrated salt water is tattooed over the unwanted pigment or ink to draw it up to the surface of the skin and out of the body into a scab. Once the scab falls off, the pigment will be gone or its color will be lighter. The treated area will be pink from the new skin that has formed. State of Texas does not approve any form of salabrasion for tattoo (or permanent makeup) removal.

Camouflage

An opaque (cloudy) flesh colored pigment is meticulously implanted to conceal the unwanted permanent makeup and scars. Moon uses this method to conceal permanent makeup.

Permanent Makeup Correction & Salabrasion (Saline Tattoo Removal) Portfolio

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