What Is Permanent Makeup?
Permanent Makeup, also known as cosmetic tattooing, is a specialized aesthetic procedure that gently deposits pigment into the skin to enhance natural features. It is designed to create the appearance of makeup—such as eyebrows, eyeliner, or lip color—while maintaining a soft,realistic, and timeless look.
Unlike traditional body tattoos, permanent makeup uses custom-blended pigments, refined techniques, and controlled depth, allowing results to fade gradually over time. This ensures the enhancement evolves naturally with your face, lifestyle, and aesthetic preferences.
Why Choose Permanent Makeup?
Permanent makeup is ideal for individuals who want to:
- Save time on daily makeup application
- Achieve symmetry and balance in facial features
- Restore definition lost due to aging, medical conditions, or hair loss
- Maintain a polished appearance during exercise, swimming, or travel
- Enhance features in a subtle, natural-looking way
- People with limited dexterity that have trouble applying traditional make up
- People with limited dexterity that have trouble applying traditional make up
When performed correctly, permanent makeup should enhance not overpower your natural
A Customized, Artistic Approach
Every face is unique, and permanent makeup should never be “one style fits all.” Shape, color, technique, and placement are carefully customized based on:
- Facial anatomy and bone structure
- Skin type and tone
- Lifestyle and personal style
- Existing cosmetic procedures or future treatment plans
This thoughtful approach ensures results that are harmonious, flattering, and age gracefully over time.
Safety, Skill, and Long-Term Results
Permanent makeup is both an art and a technical procedure. Proper training, medical awareness, and experience are essential to achieving beautiful results safely—especially for clients who have had or may consider cosmetic injectables, laser treatments, or plastic surgery.
When integrated thoughtfully with other aesthetic services, permanent makeup can enhance outcomes and provide long-lasting confidence.
Be sure to chose an artist that is properly trained. You can vist SPCP.org to find a CPCP PMU artist, ensuring that they have proper training and knowledge. As Sigrid likes to say: If you think competence is expensive, you should see the cost of incompetence. The cost to correct and or remove bad PMU is far more that choosing a competent artist. As someone that has been in this profession she has seen many regrets. Your face is not an area to shop for price. Often Good work is not cheap and cheap work is not good.
Natural, Refined, and Designed to Evolve
Modern permanent makeup is not harsh, heavy, or permanent forever. Pigments are designed to soften and fade gradually, allowing adjustments as your features and preferences change. Periodic refresh appointments help maintain optimal color and shape.
The goal is simple: to look like the best version of yourself enhanced, but still you.
Permanent Eyeliner and Eyelash Enhancement
Permanent eyeliner enhances your eyes with subtle definition or bold intensity eliminating the daily hassle of makeup. Whether you prefer a soft lash enhancement or a more defined liner, this treatment is customized to complement your eye shape and personal style, leaving your eyes brighter, more expressive, and flawless around the clock.
The eye is an intricate and delicate area, requiring precision, knowledge of anatomy, and expert technique. Sigrid brings decades of experience and has performed thousands of eyeliner procedures, ensuring each treatment is safe, precise, and beautifully executed. Choosing an experienced and well-trained professional is essential for achieving the best results in this sensitive area.
Permanent Lip Color (Lip Blush, Lip Color, Lip Neutralization, and Lip Liner)
Permanent lip makeup enhances color, symmetry, and definition while maintaining a natural, soft appearance.
- Lip Blush: A sheer wash of color that enhances your natural lip tone for a fresh, youthful look.
- Lip Neutralization: Corrects uneven or dark pigmentation to restore a more balanced, natural lip color. (This is a specialized service that requires advanced training and special pigments to achieve)
- Lip Liner: Can subtly restore a faded vermilion border or create a more defined, bold outline for those who prefer a liner effect.
This service can create the illusion of fuller lips, restore natural lip tone that fades with age, and give lips a more even, kissed appearance. Whether you’re looking for a subtle enhancement or a defined, polished look, permanent lip makeup provides long-lasting results that complement your facial features beautifully. Sigrid loves doing lips.
Permanent Eyebrows (Microblading, Nano Hair Stroke, Ombre, Powder, and Combo Brows)
Permanent brow treatments are designed to enhance, reshape, and restore your eyebrows with natural, long-lasting results. Using advanced techniques—such as nano hair strokes, powder brows, ombre, or a combination approach pigment is carefully applied to mimic real hair or create soft, elegant definition.
These treatments are ideal for anyone with sparse brows, asymmetry, or a busy lifestyle. Sigrid works closely with each client to select the technique best suited to their age, skin type, lifestyle, and individual features, ensuring a result that complements their natural beauty.
Beautiful, well-appointed eyebrows can dramatically enhance the face, creating balance and youthful elegance, while poorly designed brows can appear harsh or aging. With decades of experience, Sigrid ensures every brow is meticulously designed, precise, and tailored to highlight your best features.
Beauty Marks (Permanent Makeup)
Beauty marks are a subtle yet striking permanent makeup enhancement, designed to add character and individuality to your look. Each mark is carefully customized in size, shape, and color to mimic natural moles or freckles for a realistic and timeless result. Whether restoring a lost beauty mark or creating a new signature detail, this service provides a low-maintenance accent that enhances facial harmony.
Sigrid personally does not offer all-over freckles, as she believes they often do not age well and can limit future beauty services. She has performed several corrections for clients seeking to remove previous freckle work. Especially cause freckles can be done safely with henna, its a temporary solution (lasting a few weeks) for a fun look that you are not forever stuck with or limited by.
Scalp Micropigmentation (SMP)
Scalp Micropigmentation is a non-surgical hair loss solution that replicates the appearance of natural hair follicles. By depositing scalp specific pigment into the scalp, SMP creates the illusion of fuller hair, increased density, or a clean shaved look. It is suitable for men and women experiencing thinning hair, alopecia, or scarring and offers long-lasting, low-maintenance results.
Scar Camouflage
Scar camouflage is a specialized pigmentation treatment designed to blend scars seamlessly into the surrounding skin tone. Using custom-matched pigments, this technique minimizes the appearance of surgical scars, stretch marks, and trauma-related scarring. While it does not remove scars, it significantly improves their visibility and helps restore confidence.
Sigrid is certified in paramedical tattooing and has extensive experience working with plastic surgeons to blend scars from facelifts, breast augmentations, and tummy tucks. Her skill and dedication have earned her the nickname “The Scar Whisperer,” reflecting her passion for creating natural, life-changing results for her clients.
Areola Restoration & Enhancement (Paramedical Tattooing)
Areola restoration is a specialized paramedical tattooing service designed to recreate or enhance the natural appearance of the areola and nipple. Using advanced color blending and realistic shading techniques, this treatment restores symmetry, definition, and natural pigmentation following breast surgery, reconstruction, or trauma. Each procedure is fully customized with sensitivity and care, helping clients feel confident, whole, and empowered in their bodies.
For Sigrid, areola restoration is one of her most meaningful services. She loves helping women reclaim a sense of wholeness after mastectomy, often serving as the final step in their healing journey and allowing them to move forward with confidence and a renewed sense of self.
Body Tattoo Enhancement
Body tattoo enhancement is a restorative tattoo service designed to revive and refine existing tattoos. Over time, tattoos can fade, blur, or lose definition—this treatment refreshes old ink by re-saturating color, sharpening line work, and improving overall clarity while preserving the original design. Whether your tattoo needs subtle touch-ups or more noticeable refinement, the goal is to restore vibrancy, clean structure, and longevity so your artwork looks crisp, balanced, and renewed.
Most permanent makeup or micro-pigmentation procedures require one initial treatment with a second application in four weeks. Generally, permanent makeup takes between one to two hours to complete. The applications will generally need a touch up refresher any where from three to ten years.
With most procedures, patients may experience mild discomfort and minimal swelling.
Permanent makeup is a good option for women who have allergies to cosmetic makeup. This is often one of the only alternatives they may have to make up.
There may be slight swelling and redness in the skin that will typically subside within a day. Most patients are able to return to normal activities immediately, except gardening, heavy exercise and activities that cause you to perspire the first week. You should also avoid direct sunlight, wearing makeup and contact lenses for a couple days; also, avoid exposure to chlorinated or salt water for 3 weeks post-procedure. End results may be viewed by the end of eight weeks.
The procedures used in permanent makeup are non-surgical, so choosing a qualified practitioner to perform your permanent makeup procedure greatly reduces a number of risks. The delicate nature of many places where permanent makeup is applied requires an understanding of facial structures and anatomy. Visualizing the outcome of a permanent makeup procedure may be easier for individuals with extensive experience in cosmetic methods. Practitioners with a combined expertise as a make up artist and medical aesthetics background are preferred.
*Individual results may vary