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Hey guys, it's Mi-Anne, and this is Beauty With Mi.
There are very few beauty treatments that I love so much
that I would talk about it to literally anyone who will listen,
and microblading is one of them.
Ever since I got my eyebrows microbladed for the first time
a little over a year and a half ago, I've been incredibly thrilled with the results,
mainly because I can wake up in the morning with perfect eyebrows
and not have to spend a ton of time filling them in with
pomades and pencils and powders.
For those of you who may not be familiar, microblading is a form of semi-permanent makeup
that inserts pigment into the upper layers of the skin.
It lasts typically anywhere from one to two years before it starts fading.
I noticed that my eyebrows were starting to fade a little bit about a month ago,
so I decided to book an appointment with my microblader,
Emilia Berry, at PermaLine Cosmetics.
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Okay, on to the microblading.
I went and met Emilia at her studio where she does a lot of different forms of semi-permanent
makeup and also teaches the craft to students through her training program.
If you're happy with what we did before, I'm just going to refresh it.
I actually really like the shape that you did.
I think, if anything, like, maybe just adding one extra hair like, right here.
Because I feel like it's faded a little bit on this side.
We got to work right away.
She slapped on some numbing gel on my eyebrows,
and I sat tight for like, 20 minutes while it seeped in.
Once my brows were sufficiently numbed, Emilia wiped off the excess numbing gel
and took a good, hard look at my eyebrows.
Now, what's kind of nice about semi-permanent makeup is that it does fade after one to two
years, so you do have the option to alter and kind of
change the shape or the opacity of your brows.
I loved my brows so much, though, I was like, "Emilia, just do the exact same thing,
but a little bit deeper," because it had faded some.
Let's double check the symmetry.
You do have one eyebrow that you lift more;
this is your expression eyebrow.
That one?
Yes.
Yeah, I like the shape, maybe, like, a little bit less right here?
Mmhmm.
Just on the bottom.
Not gonna lie, the first round of microblading hurts.
It's uncomfortable, especially when Emilia was gliding the tool over my brow bone.
After the first layer was done, Emilia added more numbing solution to my brows,
and after that, I couldn't feel a thing.
See, round two after the numbing...
Painless.
Once my brows were in a good place, Emilia wiped off the excess fluid
and applied an antibiotic ointment to my eyebrows.
Then she told me exactly how to take care of them
and how to keep them from fading so fast.
According to Emilia, everybody has a slightly different experience to microblading.
But, there are some external factors that can make them fade faster.
One of these things is the products that you use.
Particularly, the stronger, more effective skincare such as Retin-A, vitamin C,
because they penetrate deeper, they work very well.
The problem is if it's applied to the forehead,
not even on the eyebrows itself, it will migrate
and find its way to the eyebrows.
They will fade faster than someone that wouldn't use it at all.
I basically accepted that my eyebrows will fade, and I'd rather continue my skincare
routine than not use it and have perfectly microbladed brows.
That's just how I feel about it.
When it comes to aftercare, it was the exact same procedure
as when I first got my eyebrows microbladed.
I had to keep my eyebrows completely dry for five days.
That means in the shower, when you're washing your face...
I used like, a shower cap and wore it the other way and put it over my face.
When I was washing my face, I used like, a wipe and different washcloths,
so there are definitely ways to do it.
It's not the easiest.
It's not the fastest, but it works.
First, they get dark, right? Yeah.
Because they're drying in, and you're not supposed to put anything on them.
Then, they'll get extremely light after about a week or so.
And then they kind of set in and they get a little bit deeper, right?
Right, so they get light and then they oxidize in the next 5, 6 weeks after they've faded.
And they bloom back in by about 20-30%, so dark-light-dark.
And I remember also, they were warmer and it gets cooler, too, the tone of the brow
gets cooler as it heals?
Right.
I like it.
You can see all the hairs again!
Yay!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
After the five-day mark, you can start applying an ointment to it.
I use the A+D ointment, which is what Emilia recommended.
It is a diaper rash ointment, but it helps keep them nice and moist,
helps speed up the healing.
I'm actually in that process right now, so as you can see...
My eyebrows are shiny, and they're starting to flake a bit.
I got my eyebrows microbladed, at this point it was, a week ago,
so the scabs that had formed have started to peel off,
and I'm just keeping them nice and moist with the ointment.
And I'm going to keep doing that for another five to seven days.
And here we are!
I will insert a photo right here to show you guys what my eyebrows look like
after all the scabs have come off.
According to Emilia, you don't actually see the final result of what the eyebrows are
going to look like until about six weeks after your treatment.
So, that is it, my eyebrows.
I hope that this answered any of your questions
if you have been thinking about getting microbladed.
I obviously love, love, love, love my microbladed eyebrows, but I know it's not for everyone,
so if you have any questions about the process, let me know down below.
But, I will see you guys next week.
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