Basic Permanent Makeup Course: What Techniques to Learn?

Practice shows that it is simply not realistic for a beginner who comes to learn the basics of permanent makeup at the basic course to cover all existing techniques at once. The hand of a novice master is not yet ready for such a variety of movements, and a real information porridge is formed in the head.

Therefore, PM schools/studios and masters, who conduct their own basic courses for more than one year, develop the most rational training options that have shown their effectiveness for many years. Now we will not focus on the axiom: professionals with sufficient practical experience should teach basic courses, and the group should be formed taking into account the possibility of an individual approach to each student. Let us dwell only on the necessary amount of theoretical knowledge and practical skills that the organizers of the basic course must provide to their students “on the way out”.

Basic training is always the basics (which is clear even from the name). We are talking about the basis, foundation, that baggage of knowledge, without which independent practice will be extremely problematic, and your further growth as a master will be more than difficult. Many who want to learn ask why they need a theory if they can study the structure of the skin on Wikipedia. But after all, the initial level of knowledge in the field of permanent makeup is not only the theory of skin structure. This includes make-up, and unique coloring, and the secrets of quick sketching, and important aspects of the use of anesthesia, and asepsis, and much more.

Also, the master must navigate with his eyes closed in the features of different types of needles, equipment, pigments. Without this knowledge, you will simply be confused in the first days of your independent practice.

Usually, teaching theory in basic courses takes two to three full days, and in addition, lecture notes are given for home study of theoretical points.

At the same time, work is underway with the motor skills of the hand in various techniques - primarily on paper. And only at the moment when each student develops the automatism of ideal movements on paper, the practice on artificial skin begins. It is at this stage that the essence of the process of introducing the pigment into the skin is explained, such an important setting of the hand takes place, it is explained what exactly affects the quality of the pigment in the skin (the speed of the hand, the correct selection of the pigment, the application technique, and much more), the technical differences in the work on different areas of the face, etc.

As part of the basic training, students are taught to understand the process of permanent makeup, and if you successfully master all these subtleties, you can work in any basic technique.

Thus, after completing basic training in permanent makeup at school, novice masters should be fully prepared for independent practice and be able to perform high-quality work on the eyelids (eyelashes), eyebrows and lips using powder and shading techniques. But in tattooing there are certain techniques (volumetric, hair) that require specific knowledge and practical skills, therefore they are practiced by masters with a long work experience. These techniques are not taught in the basic course: after all, it would be so illogical to study logarithms in the first grade.