PMU Pre-Care

2 weeks before your appointment:

💉 No Botox, Fillers, Facials or Microdermabrasion, Chemical Peels, Laser treatments

7 days before your appointment:

• 🌞 DO NOT be exposed to heavy sunlight, especially sunburn. Your skin should not be in the process of healing before procedure

• 🪒 DO NOT pluck, wax, thread or receive any hair removal services. This can also trigger the skin healing process and should be avoided!

• 🧼DO NOT use Retinol / Retin-A or other anti aging/ acne creams

• 🧼DO NOT apply any serum containing acid

• 💊Avoid Supplements & Medication that have blood thinning effects.

  Medication: DO NOT take warfarin or non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs.

  Supplements: DO NOT take Dong quai, fish oil, prenatal Vitamins, nutritional shakes (Shakeology, etc), "Hair, Skin, Nail" supplements, garlic, ginger, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, green tea, red clover and vitamin E

  48 hours prior to your appointment: 

• 💊 DO NOT take any NSAIDS such as Advil, Motren, Ibuprofen, Alieve, Naproxen, Aspirin, Niacen, for at least two days prior to your appointment. If you are on blood thinners PMU is containdicated.

• 👄 For Lip Blush Tattoo, If you have a history of reocurrant cold sores, consult your physician for a prescription of antiviral medication such as Valtrex to be used prophylaticly, usually initiated 2-3 days prior to your appointment.

  
  24 hours prior to your appointment:

• 🍹 DO NOT consume alcohol within 24 hours of your treatment

• ☕ No caffeine the day of your treatment. 
  

Others:

• 👁️ EYELINER - Do NOT wear contacts.

• 👄 LIP BLUSH - Hydrate! Drink lots of water to help reduce dryness on your lips. If you have severe dry, flaky lips gently exfoliate nightly for 7-14 days with a gentle lip scrub 1-2 times a week followed by a lip treatment. The night before the treatment, Exfoliate the lips & add lip treatment (such as fresh sugar lip serum advanced therapy, or Laneige Lip sleeping mask) to help hydration of the lips. Avoid oils on lips as it will clog pores reducing pigment retention.

• 🤕 If you are on insulin PMU treatments is not recommended.

• 🩺 Not recommended for any serious health concerns such as heart problems/ heart medication.

• 🤱 Nursing or pregnant is not recommended.

PMU After-Care

• 🚿 Keep the treated area dry, avoid direct water (no hot tubs, pools, saunas) until flaking has fall off.

• 🧻 Gently dab Brows with clean cloth to get rid of lymph fluids.

• 🧴 Lightly apply the after care cream I provided you in the morning after, and whenever the brows starts to feel uncomfortable and tied.

• 👄 Lip Blush Tattoo, use damp cotton pad to clean the area and then dry with a clean cotton pad. Use Q-tip to apply Vaseline 3-5 times a day for 14 days. The lips with feel chapped for up to 10 days - do not rub, pick or exfoliate your lips.

• 🔥Avoid food that will irritate the skin. Clean your lips after eating.

• 👁 Velvet Eyeliner Tattoo, gently clean the area with Q-top within 24 hours following your appointment. Clean the area each time before applying a thin layer of Vaseline to the eyeliner area for 7 days. You will not experience any scabbing.

• ⏳ Brows will start to get dark after 2-3 days then start to flake. Lips will appear darker or brighter, depending on the lip colour selected. DO NOT touch the flakes. Be patience and let them naturally fall off.

• 🖋 Pigment will heal about 20-30% lighter for brows, and 30-50% for Lips. Any spots missing will be touched up the next session.  

• 🏋️‍♀️ Do not workout or do anything that causes excessive sweat till the brows are fully healed (10-14 days).

• 💄 Avoid makeup and facials around the brows, lips eyelid until the flaking has stopped and has been fully healed (10-14 days).

• ☀️ Avoid sun and tanning during the healing process. Use a high SPF to avoid fading afterwards.

• 🩹 Discomfort and redness after the procedure is normal. All Brows, lips and eyeliner are healed differently depending on your skin and lifestyle. If you have dry skin, your brows will come out more crisp, if you have oily skin, your brows will come out mote soft.

• Avoid Retin-A, Chemical Peels, Laser Treatments, Microdermabrasions, and/or anything to treat hyperpigmentation around the brow area once healed to prevent fading of your brow tattoo.