How To Fix Bad Microblading
By: Ivonne Sanchez | BLOG.IVONNE.CA BY | IVONNE
Published on: October 10, 2019 at 1:49 a.m.
Doing your homework is so important when choosing a microblading artist. But there will always be the possibility that you will not get exactly what you want. Even worse, working with the wrong brow artist could land you in a spot where you need to have correction. Microblading as a semi-permanent treatment is fixable, and there are many options to correct mistakes in both shape and colour.
Red Flags to Watch For
Many beauty shoppers will do their research first, and it is not too hard to find stories about botched eyebrows.
There are usually red flags in these stories. Words like "Groupon", "promo", or "pop-up" will stand out. Ensuring that your artist is skilled and well-trained is so important. Having a brow mistake by an experienced artist means that although mistakes are rare, they have completed enough services and know how to solve them.
How to Avoid Bad Microblading
Avoid Changing Your Brow Position
Avoid changing the shape of your brow. Cosmetic tattoo is not for transplanting your brow to another area of your face. Too often laser tattoo removal requests come in from clients who had their brows lifted high, and way above and outside of their natural position. If you want lifted brows, this is what filler and facial surgery are for.
This usually results in a lifetime of brow waxing as you then always need to wax the natural tails (double tails). In some cases, the technician follows up with an application of white pigment, presumably to work over the old pigment, which makes things even worse.
Can Microblading Be Corrected or Reversed?
Chances are, if your microblading did not go as planned, you would not be comfortable returning to your brow artist. You will most likely be searching for someone else.
Keep in mind that changing microblading artists creates complications. Many microblading artists do not usually perform brow corrections over another artist's work. This is not a territory thing. It is due to two factors:
Liability
Taking responsibility for correcting another artist's work carries significant professional liability. The outcome is less predictable when working over someone else's techniques and pigments.
Complexity
Every artist has their own method, their own colour mixing formula, and their own approach that they have fine-tuned over time. To undo another artist's work requires a lot of effort and patience.
Correction Options
In many instances, there are solutions to microblading gone wrong. Everything from removal, shading, nano brow, or cooling down. These are all great techniques that can help resolve those "happy little accidents." In just a few sessions, you will have your brow game way back on point.
Fixing Brows Is More Than Just a Touch-Up
Fixing microblading is more than just a top-up. Where a new artist has been chosen, your new artist must start from scratch. Brows must be re-mapped, re-drawn, and then approved by you. If the colour is wrong, they may need to be lightened or cooled down first before a new pigment can be applied. In the worst scenario, manual removal may be needed to take out the incorrect pigment. This is why a new artist requires a full microblading or nano service to be performed over just a touch-up.
Will Microblading and Nano Brows Fade Completely?
If it is early on in the healing process and it has been determined that those brows must go, your microblading provider may ask you to do all the things you are not supposed to do in order to stop retention:
Emergency Fading Tactics (Only Under Professional Guidance)
- Get them wet
- Take hot steamy showers
- Exfoliate
- Expose them to direct sun
- Work out
Important Caution
As part of your aftercare instructions, clients are usually encouraged NOT to do these things. Please do not take matters into your own hands and try to resolve your unwanted brows using these steps unless you have been expressly instructed to do so by a professional you have consulted with.
Microblading performed correctly means that those brows should absolutely fade into nothing over time. Nano brows will take much longer and possibly up to three years. But since we are talking about botch jobs, microblading performed too deeply will stay forever and blur out.
Eyebrow Tattoo Laser Removal
If your microbladed brows have healed completely, then you may be a candidate for laser tattoo removal. Laser tattoo brow removal can be done in between 1 and 6 treatments, depending on:
- Depth of the pigment
- Age of the cosmetic tattoo
- Pigment colour
Laser Tattoo treatments are available at IVONNE using a PicoWay device with revolutionary picosecond technology.
Can Microblading Forever Change Your Natural Eyebrows?
When your permanent makeup artist maps and draws your eyebrows, they are ideally finding your natural brow shape. So if that shape is missing, then it can be restored. An unskilled or zealous artist may actually give an incorrect shape to your brows, extending their boundaries far outside of the natural hair zone. This can result in disappointment and require a microblading correction.
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