Permanent makeup as a business: master training and equipment selection

The main thing on which the foundation of any business is laid, and, in particular, permanent makeup, is high-quality training. Permanent makeup is an art, both in terms of artistic and in terms of a large number of technical secrets of quality. It is the transfer from hand to hand of the secrets of quality that a particular master owns that can be called real learning. This, unfortunately, is a relatively rare practice when teaching permanent makeup. After all, the transfer "from hand to hand" is possible, firstly, only when choosing an individual approach to learning. Secondly, for this, the teacher must combine extensive experience and long practice, the talent of a teacher, as well as subject knowledge of all the components of high-quality permanent makeup. In addition, the teacher will do his job well only if there is moral and material motivation.

According to the experience of the masters who conduct their own training courses, after setting up the hand and learning various techniques, practice on real models, work on “live skin” occupies the main place in the training program.

Equipment and equipment

Workplace equipment recommendations are part of the training program and should be understood by all masters, both those who teach and those who choose a school or PM guru to master this skill. Performing procedures using outdated technology cannot give good quality, moreover, it is fraught with the appearance of possible errors - skin injury or poor-quality study of the PM zone with all the ensuing consequences.
An unsuccessfully chosen place of training by a novice master will later lead to the need for retraining, as well as the choice of new equipment, which entails significant costs. Re-equipment with professional equipment is impossible without passing the appropriate advanced training.

What features of the permanent makeup master's office equipment should be highlighted?

In the office, a zone must be allocated for consultation and sketch development. There should be a mirror here (as in a make-up artist's office), a height-adjustable chair, and good lighting. During the consultation, the situation should be calm, the master needs to focus the client's attention on assimilation of the information that he provides. If you work in a large salon, a coffee table and two chairs can also be placed in the consultation area.

The master of permanent make-up during the consultation process should find out as accurately as possible what is the image of the result in the mind of the client. You can show the client photos of your work, various options for permanent makeup - photos of finished work greatly facilitate the dialogue with the client. Making a portfolio of your work is an important task, a novice master should make every effort to create it.

Directly in the area of the procedure should be a cosmetology couch. Particular attention should be paid to good lighting: purchase a shadowless lamp, which should be of sufficient power and not heat up the affected area. Ordinary magnifying lamps and office lamps do not meet such requirements.

How to prevent conflict?

Permanent makeup is one of the most potentially controversial services in the beauty business. 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?

When creating a salon, special attention should be paid to the choice of an administrative link and to teach future administrators how to deal with difficult or conflict situations, and even better - to ensure their prevention. Moreover, this applies not only to the shift administrator, but also to the director of the enterprise.
The training program for a permanent makeup master should also include recommendations on legally correct documentation of procedures, which is guaranteed to act as a means of preventing the occurrence of conflict situations, and if, nevertheless, such a situation arises, a correctly documented procedure will become the basis for a successful conflict resolution.

We will talk more about the legal aspects of organizing the service "permanent makeup" in one of the following articles.