Permanent Lip Color Healing Process: Everything You Need to Know
While it’s normal to have some initial swelling after having your lip color tattooed, as long as you are in normal health, you should be pleasantly surprised at how easily and quickly your lips heal. Proper aftercare will affect how long your permanent lip color lasts. We’re going to take a look at how your permanent lipstick will look as it’s healing, and the two most common and popular methods of lip blushing aftercare.
Your Permanent Lip Color Healing Should Feel Easy
While it’s normal to have some initial swelling after having your lip color tattooed, as long as you are in normal health and, have chosen the right artist for you, you should be pleasantly surprised at how easily and quickly your lips safely heal. Proper aftercare will affect how long your permanent lip color lasts. We’re going to take a look at how your permanent lipstick will look as it’s healing, and the two most common and popular methods of lip blushing aftercare.
How Your Lip Color Will Heal
Days 1-2: You love your new lip color!
Your lip color will appear brighter than it will heal. Your lips will also feel swollen and tender. Your color will begin to darken temporarily throughout the day as the pigment oxidizes.
Days 3-14: Swelling will have finished.
Your lips will feel dry and start the flaking process. Allow shedding to happen naturally. As your lips flake, it will appear that your lip color is very light and "frosty". This is only temporary as you are still healing. Over the next several days your lip color will reappear until it fully blooms.
Days 28-42: It’s time for your follow up.
By this time your lips are fully healed and it’s recommended that you come back in to touch up any color that might have healed too light or at all imperfectly. Applying a second layer of new color will build off of your previous color, creating a more saturated and longer-lasting lip. During this appointment, you also have the opportunity to further adjust the shape if desired.
Permanent Makeup Lips Healing Aftercare: Wet Heal vs Dry Heal
Here are the two most favored aftercare methods that permanent lip blushing artists are using everywhere:
Wet Heal
Wet healing is how most permanent lip color artists have their client’s heal today. Your artist will have you blot your lips with cotton pads every 15 minutes following your appointment. You’ll do this for 3-5 days depending on your artist’s preference. You’ll also use a lip color healing gel to keep your lips from drying out.
PROS: You’ll have no scabbing and your lip color will heal much more evenly.
CONS: You’ll have some work to do and an aftercare kit to keep on you.
Dry Heal
Dry healing’s been around longer than wet healing. It’s how all permanent lip color artists used to have their clients heal, and some still do. Dry Healing is precisely how it sounds. You don’t get your permanent lip color wet during healing, ever! After your appointment you do not touch your lips. You let them heal on their own with no assistance.
PROS: There’s nothing for you to do and no aftercare kit required.
CONS: You’ll have heavy scabbing during healing and you’ll lose more color.
Dry healing is still a common method even though wet healing has proven to have the most promising healed results. You can speak with your artist about their healing method and what they’d like from you when healing.
Wet healing is the #1 way to achieve your best Permanent Lip Blushing results
What You Will Need For Your Wet Healing Aftercare
Wet healing is the #1 way to achieve your best Permanent Lip Blushing results. Here are the top aftercare items you’ll need.
Cotton Pads
You’ll clean your lip color every 15 minutes immediately following the procedure using cotton pads and water.
Permanent Lip Blushing Cleanser
Safely clean your lip color morning and evening with a permanent makeup approved cleanser.
SPF 30 Lip Balm
Permanent lip blushing will fade if exposed too early to the sun. It is suggested to apply an SPF 30 lip balm for up to 1 month after all flaking has finished.
Permanent Lip Blushing Healing Gel
Permanent lip blushing healing gel is specially formulated to help your lip color heal with longer-lasting and more brilliant color.
