Permanent make-up and aesthetic lip correction methods

Permanent makeup and aesthetic cosmetology are two areas that can delicately and skillfully transform a woman. Difficulties arise when the sequence of procedures is not followed. What to do first: permanent makeup or lip augmentation with fillers? The methods of aesthetic correction that cosmetologists use when working on the shape of the lips have both their pluses and minuses. Permanent makeup allows you to work with shape and color in a plane, while fillers (gel-like preparations, usually based on hyaluronic acid) only work with volume, modeling and leveling it. A good master can achieve unique results by combining these two techniques. The main thing is to observe the measure.

Correction of the shape of the lips with the help of permanent makeup gives excellent results if a woman is naturally the owner of plump lips. In other cases, temporary fillers are used to achieve the effect. The combination of these drugs with tattoo makeup allows you to radically change the shape of the lips, completely transforming the face.
Masters who combine these two methods in their practice often wonder what to do first: contouring with fillers or permanent makeup. From a technical point of view, the order of these procedures does not matter; they can be done in any order. But in order to obtain the correct aesthetic effect, it is better to first correct the shape of the lips with the help of permanent makeup, and then proceed to modeling their volume with fillers.
Permanent makeup is done for two or three years, but sometimes for a longer period. The effect of temporary fillers is from several months to a year, depending on the viscosity of the drug and the depth of its injection. Then the fillers dissolve. If you correct the shape of the lips according to the injected filler, after six months the result can be disastrous. The volume created by the “gel” will go away, and when the original shape of the lips returns, it may well turn out that it is asymmetric. The master will again have to make a correction.
Thus, if the patient has not yet done any of these procedures, it is better to start with permanent makeup. It happens that tattoo makeup is enough to get the desired result. Immediately after this procedure, the lips look swollen, and a woman, looking in the mirror, can imagine how her lips will look with the "gel" and understand if she needs it.
But there is a category of women who are simply shown lip correction with fillers. Take at least such a cosmetic flaw as too thin lips.

Working with shape and color

With the help of permanent makeup, a beautiful lip contour is outlined, clear and symmetrical. In some cases, it may go beyond the natural contour of the red border, increasing the volume of the lips, but not more than 2 mm to avoid the impression of unnaturalness. If the lips are to be corrected further by introducing temporary fillers, then the contour can be increased a little more.
The next step is shading. The cosmetologist with the help of this technique achieves an even color of the lips, shading the edges with a darker color. Thus, the volume increases visually even more. So that lips enlarged with fillers do not attract undue attention to themselves, you do not need to choose a very bright pigment.
So, with the help of permanent makeup, we achieved a beautiful shape of the lips, gave them a more saturated color, restored symmetry. However, it is not worth immediately proceeding to the next stage - volume modeling. After the tattoo, the skin should fully recover, it will take about a month. Only then can fillers be injected.

Working with volume

With the help of fillers, you can achieve a variety of effects: create an appetizing swelling, increase the inside of the lips, fill in the "dips" in the corners, making the facial expression softer. The use of fillers is especially successful when one lip sinks inward. They also allow you to raise the lowered corners of the mouth. Filling the nasolabial folds with these means changes the shape of the mouth: its outer edges rise slightly, the lips stretch a little, and the facial expression changes. The introduction of fillers into the upper lip allows you to smooth out vertical wrinkles, which are often grouped in this area in women in adulthood.
Using this technique, experienced stylists can even form a neat new ridge along the red border around the edge of the upper lip, which will look natural.
The introduction of temporary fillers gives amazing results. However, it is very important not to get carried away and stop in time, so as not to provoke hyper-corrections, when the lips almost turn outward.
As a rule, after applying fillers, the pigment on the lips becomes a little lighter and does not look so dense. This is quite natural, because by increasing the volume of the lips, we stretch the skin a little. If this confuses a woman, then after the introduction of the “gel”, you can again resort to the help of permanent makeup by re-shading.