When we perform microblading, it comes with a sound.
Some people find it very eerie, but the sound is actually an indicator for us as artists
that we are hitting the right layer of skin.
My name is Taelyn Lewis, and I am getting microblading done today.
I initially heard about microblading about two years ago, and it sparked my interest.
I have always had very fine eyebrows, very thin fine hair on my eyebrows,
so I’ve always had to fill it in.
Ugh, doing my eyebrows every morning is definitely a chore.
I just want to wake up and go and still look cute at the end of the day.
Having to rely on my eyebrow pencil, it is, yeah, a little bit annoying.
I have never received any eyebrow treatments before, so it’s going to be very new to me.
I’m obsessed with eyebrows, and I understand a lot of people
also feel the same way about it.
My name is Lindsey Ta, I’m the founder of Microblading LA.
I started my permanent makeup career ten years ago.
Prior to permanent makeup, I was a nail artist and my family owned a few nail salons in LA.
So I really learned to have a steady hand from doing ten perfect nails every day for my clients.
After some time and really perfecting my skill in microblading and really finding my true
calling and the passion in this industry,
not only did I start getting a demand for it from clients, but I also started getting
phone calls from people who wanted to learn to do what I did.
When the demand started picking up, we realized that it was time to open up a studio and academy,
and today we have students coming from all over the world to learn
the art of microblading from us.
Microblading LA is probably the only microblading I’ve researched.
Looking at everyone’s results that I’ve seen thus far, it looks really good.
I’m just excited to get it going.
When we start consultation, I immediately start profiling my clients
when they are talking,
when there is muscle movement, when they smile and laugh.
We have very large muscles in our foreheads, so it’s important to notice if there is
any asymmetry and how much asymmetry is there.
It’s really important that we give them results that they can maintain.
We use a string, and we really start mapping the asymmetry that is there.
Within those perfect lines, we make points, so we connect and create the brow shape.
After our pre-draw session, that’s when we apply numbing cream.
It will stay on for thirty minutes to get maximum effect.
We gently place our needles in the pigment.
We place it on the skin gently to make sure that we are creating fine, thin lines.
It’s really important that we capture the shape that we have pre-drawn.
We do something called a first pass,
which is the first strokes we place throughout the eyebrow.
It’s extremely important that we hit the right layer of the skin for the strokes to
stay one to three years.
Taelyn is so sweet, and she’s just like a glow of happiness.
She definitely had some asymmetry, natural asymmetry with her eyebrows,
and for us it’s more important to create something that comes across very natural
and creating the most symmetry that we can with what our clients come in with.
My experience with microblading was absolutely just fantastic.
It’s everything that I could’ve hoped for.
It was easy, smooth sailing, didn’t hurt.
I’m super, super just happy with my results.
I see what Lindsey meant when she said, “You’re gonna wanna scratch, don’t scratch,”
because I was so tempted to be like, “Oh, just take it off.”
It looked nasty.
Do you know what a caterpillar’s fur looks like?
That’s exactly what the eyebrows looked like.
I just wanted to follow up and see how her eyebrows were healing, and she was ecstatic
and really happy with her eyebrows.
And she even started asking me about being a student and our course outline.
Hopefully I will be a microblading student, because I definitely have
this newfound obsession with microblading.
What I did for aftercare was I basically just used the ointment that Lindsey gave me,
twice a day, in the morning and at night.
I definitely hope to work alongside Lindsey performing microblading.
She’s absolutely amazing, the best microblading technique out there.
I plan to definitely keep up my brows forever, for the rest of my life,
so every two years I’m going to go and get my microblading done.
I’m obsessed.
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