Permanent make-up is known worldwide for many years and its popularity is increasing, as well as requirements to procedure quality. The days when women, attempting to improve their appearance in a yet unknown way and attracted by low prices, did not pay attention to proceeding conditions, have long gone. Nowadays many clients, schooled in twists and turns of cosmetology, watch the work of the master thoughtfully. They want minimal skin strain, no swelling or deformation, modern equipment, first class pigments, correct selection of anesthesia and expert before- and after care service.

Unfortunately, sometimes clients' claims exceed their competence and they are expressing that by their wish to dictate upon the master their needs, despite their obvious contradiction to laws of make-up design and good taste. In this case the cosmetician cannot fully show his skill and finds himself, as they say, between Scylla and Charybdis: on the one hand, resistance to wishes of the client causes the beauty shop director's indignation, and on the other hand, the professional ambition and ethics do not allow to follow thoughtlessly the ladies' fancies to the detriment of work quality. Momentary financial interest very often wins and insufficient professionalism does not allow to protect the opinion before the client that eventually disserves her - indeed, the hasty decision forms her outlook for the nearest 2-5 years. There are also claims to the masters' work quality that appear to be just. Not unusual are also the cases (discussed in press and influencing public opinion) of bad performance of permanent make-up procedures which are the dim and blurred eyelid lines, incorrectly processed lip contours, sharp change of eyebrow color of down to red or dark blue.

The reasons of these annoying failures are obvious. Most often it is the masters' low professionalism due to their lack of knowledge in make-up design, cosmetology and medicine. Obviously, there's no need of expecting good results in cases of them passing short-term training at unqualified so-called "teachers". Many newly made tattoo-masters aim to earn somewhat quicker money, yet not possessing sufficient practical skills and not suspecting about problems with which inexperienced beginners meet inevitably. Moreover, they try to save on supplies, using the cheapest devices, needles and pigments of Southeast Asian origin.

The most important stages of a permanent make-up are creation of the draft, quality pigmenting and prevention of possible skin reactions. The mistakes of the master, made on any of these stages, can lead to formation of serious problems.The wrong draft of a make-up is the sign of a layman visagiste. Here the talent and skill of the cosmetician are especially brightly shown. Permanent make-up should not look like alien coloring. The master carries out the correction of the contours of the face, considering individual and age features of appearance and using special movements so that it would look naturally.

For example, the make-up of an eyebrow includes working out its form, contour and separate hairs. To keep the volume effect, it is necessary to shade the background moderately. The same can be said concerned the contour of lips, which should be emphasized with a slight brightening, having chosen a suitable color and finished with naturally looking slight shading.For correction of make-up defects in the eyebrow area that cannot be corrected otherwise, the new product is developed - the Remover, which allows removal of a permanent make-up without application of the laser and without residual skin deformations.

If the tattoo-visagiste does not possess sufficient knowledge of pigments and applies the wrong tone, pigmenting defects may occur. The choice of a pigment is defined first of all by natural color of the client's skin. Undesirable changes of coloring can be a result of a nonprofessionally executed procedure. They can be corrected, but to exclude the opportunity of their occurrence, it's better to raise the masters' professionality.

The label of the pigments used should specify their structure, numbers of hygienic safety certificates and color scale index; the pigments should be certified. The pigments made in Germany are most reliable.

The third important problem of permanent make-up is the risk of infection and skin reactions. It appears at the moment of infringement of aseptic and antiseptic rules and use of incompatible products.

The modern hi-tech equipment is usually checked up, has the certificate of safety or is made at the certificated factories of iatrotechnics. It does not allow the pigments' leak, thus avoiding casual contamination. Sterile disposable needles and tips or, even better, completely safe new hygienic modules with integral needle-and-cap unit, should be applied to drawing a permanent make-up. The means of disinfection should be effective against AIDS and A, B, and C hepatitis.

Individual tolerance to the applied means should be most thoroughly checked.

The cosmeticians' experience testifies that combined application of means leads to detecting the pigment by the skin lymphatic system as an alien body and to the attempts to remove it by inflammation. It can cause dangerous reactions: lip peeling, swelling and skin suppuration down to its destruction around the eyes.

To avoid these dangerous phenomena, it is better to use liquid alcohol-based anesthetics.

It is natural that high quality of permanent make-up demands greater expenses. For this reason the services of masters offering these procedures for undercharges can be unsafe.

Thus, the basic problems of permanent make-up are the amateurism of the masters as a result of shallow training, and also the use of cheap bad quality supplies. Constant improvement of professional skill of the cosmetician is necessary for her work, the result of which the client will "carry" for some years, should be valuable in direct and figurative sense. The visagiste sometimes should fantasize whether she'd agree to exchange faces for a while with the client after a permanent make-up. If yes, then the quality of her work is optimum. If this idea is not pleasant to her, then the client will not like the new make-up also.