Moisturize your Brows

After a procedure, all patients should receive eyebrow tattoo aftercare advice and support from their permanent makeup professional, and this may include a small kit of supplies and instructions for aiding in healing and some useful products that must be used along with the instructions. Aftercare for eyebrow tattooing is similar to other forms of tattoos and micropigmentation for lips and eyes, but brows often require a little extra attention. Your supplies or kit should include some antiseptic cream that also moisturizes. If you are not given any, then you may want to buy some Bepanthen on your own. Apply this with a sterile cotton swab several times a day. Do not rub or press the area too hard. Avoid pulling off scabs that begin to form, and try not to scratch. What you want to do is keep the eyebrow area clean, free of dirt or dust, out of the sun, and moist at all times.

Don’t Panic about Color for at least a Week

If you get home and look in the mirror and want to scream because your eyebrows are too dark, don’t scream yet. Wait a while. They will be a lot darker than you want for a few days. Give it at least a week. If during the course of healing they lighten to much, then when you go back to the clinic for your post procedure consultation, remember you can have touch-ups.

No Makeup, No Water, No Sun

For a week or so try not to wear any makeup, don’t use cleansers and do not go swimming or take saunas or go the spa. It’s also not a good idea to suntan. Try not to get your brows wet during the first week. To wash, just dab the eyebrow tattoo area. If they hurt, use cold compresses to ease pain and swelling.

Don’t Pull Off Scabs

Don’t be alarmed about anything for a week to 10 days (unless it’s red and infected for many days, then call your cosmetician or doctor immediately). Just add your antiseptic cream to the area about 6 times a day. Gently remove old cream before applying more. If your eyebrow tattoo feels tight and gets dry and scabby that’s normal, but avoid the urge to scratch or pick. Add cream and grin and bear it! Don’t pull off scabs because you may remove part of the pigment with the scab.

The Weeks and Months and Years To Follow

Once you have waited the week or two to ensure the eyebrow tattoo healing process is well underway, don’t forget to continue moisturizing every day, for a while keep them extra moist and if going in the sun, wear sunscreen. With or without an eyebrow tattoo you should never wash your face with soap but use a mild cleanser and warm water. If your new eyebrow tattoos have been done professionally and you have cared for them afterwards, then they should remain for many years without need of touch-ups.

Here some of considerations before getting a permanent eyebrow tattoo.

1. To state the obvious, eyebrows are made of hair and tattoos are ink or pigment. If you have no natural hair at all, the results will be somewhat false no matter how well the eyebrow tattoo is done. You may consider this better than having no brows at all and that will be your decision. For the ladies who have hair but the shape is wrong or the color is too light, or there are bare patches, consider that you are filling in empty spaces with ink and not hair and therefore up close the difference likely will be visible. Once again, remember hair cannot be replaced by pigment no matter how good the color. If you don’t like what an eyebrow pencil does to your brow, you won’t like eyebrow tattooing results either.
2. It’s a tattoo! Tattoos are ink or pigment injected into your skin. It is permanent coloration. The only way to change your brow after cosmetic tattooing is with very expensive laser surgery. If you are unsure, or if your natural brows are not too bad when plucked nicely and cared for with a little tinting, you might want to try a semi-permanent tattoo before going all the way to a permanent eyebrow tattoo.
3. It may not be very frequent but it does happen. Eyebrow tattoos have been known to heal poorly, get infected, damage the hair follicles in the region and leave scarring that cannot be corrected except by surgery. Although healthy women who normally heal well usually have no problems with tattoo eyebrows, if you have diabetes, bleed easily, have herpes simplex or any immune system problems or healing problems at all, getting eyebrow tattoos is not recommended.
4. Keep in mind that although the inks and pigments used for micropigmentation are regulated as if they were cosmetics or food dyes, there is nothing to control the actual tattoo industry and therefore there is no standard other than the one that you research and find to be up to YOUR standard. If you do not know what the standard should be you may not get what you’re hoping to find. Do some research and talk to the professionals in your area. The best advice will come from those who have had a permanent eyebrow tattoo done or are in that line of work.
   Take it slow and don’t rush into having eyebrow tattoos!