Post Falls · Coeur d'Alene · North Idaho
Permanent brows
If you over-plucked in the 2000s and they never came back, this is the fix. Mapped to your face while you sit in front of me, tattooed a hair at a time, then healed and refined at a second visit. Brows that look like they grew there, not like they were drawn on.
My prices are on my booking page. Sending a request is not a booking. I confirm each one myself. Opens in a new tab.
Who gets brows done
- People whose brows thinned with age and never came back.
- People who over-plucked in a decade that encouraged it.
- People who lost them to chemotherapy or alopecia.
- People who have simply had enough of drawing them on every single morning.
Is this microblading?
Not quite, and the difference is worth ninety seconds. “Microblading” specifically means hair strokes cut in with a small hand-held blade. My own word for the brow work in my portfolio is a combo nano brow: nano means the hair strokes are laid with a single fine needle on a machine rather than a blade, and combo means those strokes are combined with soft shading behind them, so the brow reads full at a distance and hair-like up close.
On some skin, oily skin especially, a machine stroke tends to hold better and blur less than a blade. Ask me what I would use on your skin, and why. Anyone who answers that with a technique name instead of a look at your face is selling, not planning.
Plan on two appointments: skin does half the work
Skin does roughly half the work. Where pigment settles, how much it holds, and how it softens as it heals is different in every face and cannot be predicted from the chair. So the first appointment builds the shape, and the second, six to ten weeks later, once everything has healed and shown its hand, fixes what the healing changed.
Most artists plan that second pass for the same reason: skin, not the artist, decides how much pigment it keeps.
The mapping matters more than the tattooing
Most of what makes a brow look right or wrong is decided before a needle comes out. I measure and draw the shape on you, you look at it in a mirror, and it is not started until you actually love it. Faces are not symmetrical (yours is not, nobody's is), and the goal is two brows that look as close to twins as possible.
How they heal
The first stretch
They look darker and sharper than the finished result. This is the stage people panic about. It is meant to look like that.
Then the flaking
Light flaking, usually within the first couple of weeks. Some pigment comes away with it, which is normal. Nothing gets picked.
The color settles
Color comes back up as the skin settles over the weeks that follow. Brows often look faint for a stretch and then return.
Six to ten weeks
Your second appointment, once I can see what your skin actually kept.
My written brow aftercare is on my booking page, where you can read it before you ever book. Follow mine rather than something general from the internet.
How long they last
It is a tattoo, so it stays, but like every tattoo it softens and lightens over time. Sun, skin type and what you put on your face all move the timeline. Plan on a refresh eventually rather than treating the first appointment as the last one you will ever need.
If you have never been tattooed
Ask for an ink spot test. A couple of dots of pigment go in, you let them heal, and you watch for a few weeks to see how your skin responds before anything larger happens. I offer it precisely because "probably fine" is not good enough when it is your face.
My prices are on my booking page. Sending a request is not a booking. I confirm each one myself. Opens in a new tab.