Watercolor lips in permanent makeup: how to achieve the perfect result

Watercolor lips - a variant of nude lip tattooing, in which the contour is not drawn, and the lips are evenly filled with one shade over the entire area.

Of course, fashion is good. But it is also important that with the help of this technique, flaws can be corrected: to restore the clarity of the natural contour or the natural color of the lips with a loss of brightness (for example, with age). With it, you can hide asymmetry, give volume and hide aesthetic appearance flaws (scars).

Pastel shades of lip pigments look different on different types of appearance. The master must take into account the age of the client, her color type. The result of the procedure may also be affected by the presence of aesthetic defects in the client's appearance.

How not to make a mistake with choosing the right tone? There are a number of universal rules that are recommended to adhere to the masters of the permanent.

Bright accents in tattooing are not suitable for fair-haired girls, for them you need to choose delicate pastel colors: coral, poppy, cream, beige, golden, dried rose color, light red.

Brunettes are the owners of a bright appearance, therefore, dark-haired girls and lips should not be too pale. A win-win option in this case are cherry, raspberry, lilac and plum shades.

For red-haired girls, it is not recommended to create additional accents on even brighter lips. When working with such clients, choose coral, terracotta or bronze shades.

Practical recommendations

As in any procedure, when starting to create watercolor lips, do not forget about sterility - before the procedure, be sure to remove all makeup residues with micellar water, then wipe your lips with chlorhexidine.

We start drawing by finding the center point and the two highest points of the "bow". We visually evaluate the contour of the lips, if there are small defects (eaten contour or slight asymmetry), we correct them at the stage of sketching. Never paint over the side area of the closing of the lips, otherwise, with closed lips, such a PM will look like a jam. We work with color to the closure line.

Many masters who used to paint over the lips completely with color while creating a sketch are now limited to a thin contour line, visually outlining only the shape in order to understand what to work with next.

If the client's lips have a pronounced edging, you should never go beyond this border with permanent makeup: it will not look aesthetically pleasing from the side. In addition, the PM on the skin and on the mucous membrane of the lips will come off in different ways, and after a while the shades will be different. If you want to increase your lips - use hyaluronic acid.

How to check the sketch? Ask the client to purse the lips strongly and check the sketch for bumps and line mismatches. Then ask the client to smile. Be sure to view the sketch from the side.

Primary anesthesia is conveniently applied from a syringe with a cut needle. It is not recommended to cover the anesthesia with a film so as not to tan the lips. Don't miss the most sensitive parts - under the lower lip and above the upper lip contour line (above the bow), as a lot of nerve endings are collected in these areas. We leave for 10-15 minutes.

You can start work with a needle 1 RL sharp sharpening. We apply the contour, while not stretching the lips much, we twist them a little so that the sketch line is clearly visible. We hold the needle perpendicularly and with overlapping movements we begin to work out the contour zone. In watercolor tattooing, a clear outline is not needed, so it is enough to pass over it once.

After passing along the contour, we pass the entire surface of the upper lip, make the first light coloring to “open” the skin. We work with shading. After the first pass, we apply secondary anesthesia. We also pass along the lower lip.

The more the master in his work enters the mucous membrane of the lips, the greater the swelling will be. But not going into this zone at all is wrong, there will be an ugly result.

If you “pull” your lips, you can injure the skin and excess ichor will appear. Isolation of a small amount of ichorus is normal, but if you see that there is a lot of it, change something in your technique (reduce skin tension or even out the area being worked on, reduce the max, voltage, change the pressure).

If your client's lips are pinned up with hyaluronic acid, then the swelling in this case may be greater.

At the end of the procedure, apply a thin layer of Vaseline to the lips and recommend it as a care to the client (3-4 days after the procedure).