Permanent makeup as a business: a service in a beauty salon

The question of the level of quality of permanent makeup and the need to improve it does not lose its relevance. And the ever-increasing demand for permanent makeup removal or correction procedures cannot but excite both specialists and their clients.
Do you want to turn permanent makeup into a source of stable income? How to organize the process in such a way as to reduce the likelihood of low-quality permanent makeup to a minimum and protect yourself from claims from customers? This article is devoted to the answers to these questions.

Legal aspects

The basis of a quality service should always be based on the comprehensive awareness of those responsible for organizing the process, as well as future masters. Salon managers and specialists should know everything about the essence of permanent makeup, the difficulties that may be encountered later, and the “pitfalls”. A lot of work has already been done to describe the standards of training, organization of jobs, algorithms for the permanent makeup procedure, but mistakes still occur. We think that some advice will not be superfluous to warn against wrong steps.
Recall that at the moment there is no regulatory framework that defines the legal status of permanent makeup. You can find only a few documents that mention permanent makeup in one context or another, but without specifics. Having decided to provide the PM service in your institution, we strongly recommend that you contact the state services that monitor compliance with the requirements of the relevant regulatory legal acts. So you will receive the latest information about the legislative framework that regulates the organization of the PM service - does it exist, and what does it include; You will be able to familiarize yourself with the contents of the relevant documents.

Medical aspects

The medical aspects of permanent makeup include: medical contraindications, healing complications, anesthesia.

Medical contraindications in clients are detected only by doctors. Before the procedure, the masters should recommend that clients contact their doctor. The opinion of the doctor or doctors that your client contacted with questions about his contraindications will form the basis of his decision to have the procedure. The opinion of the PM master (even if he has a medical education) cannot sound like the ultimate truth - the master acts here only as an executor and should not take on the powers of doctors from medical and diagnostic institutions. But the PM master is simply obliged to inform both the client and the attending physician about possible contraindications to the procedures.

This will determine how consciously the client approaches the procedure and with what degree of responsibility he signs the client's Informed Consent to the procedure - a document, the execution of which should not be formal. This will help the foreman and the company to eliminate possible conflict situations in the future.

How much the client heeded the warnings of the master, putting his signature under the consent at the end of the pre-procedural consultation, depends on him. But the moral responsibility for bringing the necessary information to the client lies, of course, with the master.

Complications during the healing period occur most often due to the characteristics of the organism or unidentified contraindications. Also, the cause of complications may be the client's non-compliance with the rules of care . As in the case of identifying contraindications, in the event of complications, the specialists of a cosmetology company, even if they are doctors, should not take on the responsibility and functions of specialized doctors - in any case, the client should contact a practicing dermatologist.

The situation with the issue of anesthesia is somewhat different.

On the one hand , anesthesia is not a prerequisite for performing a permanent makeup procedure. On the other hand, quite often on the part of the client there is a wish to anesthetize the area of application of PM. From a legal point of view, each permanent makeup master can only perform those manipulations that correspond to his qualifications. If permanent make-up procedures are performed in an institution whose classification of specialists allows anesthesia, then in this case the PM master of this enterprise, even if he is not a doctor, has more opportunities for an individual approach to each client, taking into account the threshold of his pain sensitivity.
Thus, a beauty salon that does not have doctors on its staff, on the legal side, greatly limits itself in providing permanent makeup services. Analyzing all the medical aspects of permanent makeup (contraindications, post-procedural complications, anesthesia), we state that, in fact, permanent makeup can be technologically performed by a non-medical worker, but in some cases it may require the involvement of specialized doctors.

The solution of the personnel issue is the next organizational moment in the preparation of the enterprise for the provision of permanent makeup services. What is the qualification of a permanent makeup artist? Who can become a real master? We'll talk about this in the next article.